We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and ServiceNow 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."I've used other discovery tools, but I found BMC Helix Discovery to be more UI-friendly, and that's the most valuable feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the automated service mapping."
"A valuable feature concerns the ability to integrate with different solutions."
"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"The data models are the most useful aspect of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software."
"There are many expansions available."
"The solution has very good automation tools."
"The thing that I like most about it is the easy integration with the CMDB. I'm able to look at the CMDB for applications and develop my assessments and attestations based on the application and point them at that application owner. So, I can really automate the whole thing."
"It has more extensive features as compared to the other competitors."
"I don't have to look through a whole bunch of other incidents that aren't relevant to me. It's very useful in that sense."
"If you stick to the out-of-the-box solution, it's an easy setup."
"We have found change management and CMDB to be very useful."
"Will give us better control over asset management and technical debt once we can centralize all contract information."
"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."
"The monitoring tools could be more stable."
"The support from BMC Helix Discovery can improve, it takes a long time before we receive any feedback. It can take days to months sometimes."
"What would make BMC Helix Discovery better is if it had more client-side discovery features, for example, printers and desktops. Right now, it's focused more on data center discovery, so if it had additional features focused on the client-side discovery, that would be great. In the next release of BMC Helix Discovery, I'd like more client-side discovery features such as desktop discovery, printer discovery, and other IP-based client-side discovery features. The solution can discover desktops and printers, but there's still room for improvement on the client side."
"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."
"The CMDB could be improved. Getting data from the CMDB is the greatest challenge."
"The solution could improve by being more stable."
"When it comes to changing some of the features, I would like a little more leeway."
"There's always a room for improvement in terms of the ServiceNow UI. For customers, the UI is something that is a continuous improvement."
"It would be nice if we could, with some specific access rights, move histories from one squad to another, as they generate dependencies or duplicate or flag them."
"It is annoying that ServiceNow keeps on changing back to Quebec every six months."
"It's a great platform, but there's still room for improvement. As the solutions stands now, you do need a lot of previous experience to use it. It would be great if they could develop some use case templates. This would be beneficial for a small and medium-sized businesses."
"One thing I don't care for is the reporting and the way it functions."
"The level of complexity and the level of discovery are the two areas that can be improved. Its UI needs to evolve. They focus a lot on cool colors and other little things, which don't bring value in terms of functionality. They need to focus less on presentation and more on the functionality within the UI. Its discovery mechanism should be improved. There is a component in ServiceNow that discovers the assets, but it doesn't do an immediate discovery, and there is a lag. If I want to open a ticket for a laptop or an asset, that asset needs to exist within ServiceNow for me to be able to say that I need to have its disk space or memory increased. It is referred to as a CI or configuration item in ServiceNow. Sometimes, ServiceNow doesn't discover these items, and as a result, I cannot open a ticket and tag that system or asset. If a system was introduced to the environment last week and it is still not listed, it becomes a problem. I will either have to wait or manually enter that system or asset. So, if I have a laptop with only 8 GB of memory and I want to request 16 GB of memory, I won't be able to do that in ServiceNow because my system or asset hasn't been discovered yet. Discovery is not immediate, and there is a lag."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 3rd in IT Asset Management with 6 reviews while ServiceNow is ranked 1st in IT Asset Management with 67 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 9.0, while ServiceNow is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Discovery writes "Stable with good data modelling and excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow writes "Solid, highly scalable, and has got all the features, but needs better reporting, a graphical interface for resource management, and the ability to turn on and off portions of Project Management". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with BMC Remedy Asset Management, Device42, BMC Track-It!, Lansweeper and Qualys Asset Inventory, whereas ServiceNow is most compared with Microsoft Power Apps, BMC Helix ITSM, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Appian and PagerDuty. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. ServiceNow report.
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