We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool's accuracy of the results we receive looks promising in general. Its values are more than 95 percent accurate compared to other clients or different tools. I would say that Discovery offers a valuable mechanism to discover information."
"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"Accuracy and clarity are vastly improved for the service lines."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the automated service mapping."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"The solution is very stable and powerful."
"Detects new hosts along with vulnerabilities."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"I like Qualys because it is a very complete product, more so than Tenable."
"Technical support is fantastic."
"I am impressed with the VMDR feature."
"The biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities."
"Qualys VM's best feature is vulnerability management."
"Great web application security for scanning."
"An area that can be improved is the IoT."
"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."
"The improvement which we require is to delete the Internet service. Till some of the features are coming, like, internally side. If you are taking one server to model, there are a lot of usages like three structures per diagram is coming, and we have to do the man lot of manual work. Instead of that, whatever our requirement, we should be able to provide the servers and get the structure. So this is what we want to implement with such data."
"The product falls short compared to storage discovery mechanisms offered by Tenable or ServiceNow ITOM. In the market, there are various applications available that provide different sets of features. Its drawback is that it doesn't give the database configuration customers need out of the box. Additionally, the classification of storage virtualization is relatively lacking. Therefore, there is room for improvement, particularly in the database areas."
"The solution's scalability is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are needed."
"A review of end of life data would be nice."
"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"The IoT scan is not great."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"The reporting and the GUI need improvements."
"The disadvantage of working with Qualys is that the graphical interface is quite outdated."
"Qualys should improve their customer experience. They need to improve the tech support experience and the turnaround time."
"Could use additional security for the app."
"There seems to be a lack of easy onboarding into Qualys."
"I would like to see more accuracy in detections, better reporting capabilities, and better dashboard download capabilities."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 4th in IT Asset Management with 77 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Discovery writes "Very stable, fast, and powerful with valuable inventory management features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, BMC Remedy , Device42, ServiceNow Discovery and ManageEngine IT Asset Management, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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