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BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 3, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC Helix Operations Manage...
Ranking in AIOps
14th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (5th)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Ranking in AIOps
12th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (11th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the AIOps category, the mindshare of BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps is 3.2%, up from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AIOps Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud2.0%
BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps3.2%
Other94.8%
AIOps
 

Featured Reviews

Rafael  Pinto Ferreira - PeerSpot reviewer
Impressive automation capabilities, predicts problems, and even find unseen vulnerabilities across your infrastructure
The biggest challenge is ensuring the customer has sufficient ITSM maturity to get the most out of the solution. BMC Helix is very sophisticated, and some clients lack that internal process maturity. There's sometimes a gap between the solution's capabilities and the client's readiness. We have to bridge that gap, bringing the customer up to the level where they can fully use all the features and benefits. Otherwise, they're investing in a powerful tool they don't fully utilize. It's crucial for vendors like us to assess client maturity before the project starts. We need to do the consulting work to show them the solution's potential and help them evaluate if it truly makes sense. Sometimes, the client might not be ready for the way BMC does things, for that level of automation and AI. BMC's automation is like nothing I've seen. You can even deflect 30% of IT service desk tickets with an intelligent chatbot – that's a number from BMC. Imagine the reduction in human agents! It's a robot doing the work, but in a way that feels human... that's the impressive part. You can integrate with WhatsApp, Teams, etc. It's game-changing.
JeremyEmmett - PeerSpot reviewer
Centralized alert management with customizable routing and superior scheduling
Everything can always be better. Operations are somewhat limited by their integration package. For example, integrating with Jira was problematic until they updated to a better plug-in. The ability to build customized modules would be advantageous, allowing organizations to define their own integration modules. It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps deserves a ten out of ten."
"It is evolving more and more into artificial intelligence."
"BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps' predictive analytics positively impacted proactive problem-solving capabilities. It has been the most interesting part of the solution! It provides detailed analytics that gives you a deep understanding of your infrastructure and recurring issues/problems. It really predicts the problems."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that BMC Helix Monitor is an agentless tool, because of which you don't need to deploy agents on each and every system in your IT environment."
"The service operations monitoring features are valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"The initial setup is a simple process."
"Alert deduplication and noise reduction for alerts are the major features that I found useful."
"The product has valuable on-call scheduling, escalation, and incident workflow management features."
"PagerDuty's best features are the dedicated application that allows me to reach my engineers immediately and the ability to directly assign specific tasks to individuals and have them report back."
 

Cons

"The biggest challenge is ensuring the customer has sufficient ITSM maturity to get the most out of the solution. BMC Helix is very sophisticated, and some clients lack that internal process maturity."
"I feel that the tool's stability has some scope for improvement."
"The product must provide more information and dashboards."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"The solution's GUI and some patching-related information are areas with shortcomings where enhancements are needed, though I believe they are areas that fall under BMC's roadmap for the future."
"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."
"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"I am not a direct end user of PagerDuty. It's hard to consider its shortcomings in that sense."
"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."
"I would like the UI to be more intuitive. I would like to be able to group or color-code the discoveries. When you create a system, you have a listing of all the different configurations. You can list them by teams, but some additional color coding would be helpful. I would break it down by incident controls. In other words, it should be broken down it into response teams and engineering divisions."
"The solution's analytics are okay. I don't think the features, at this point, give you a lot of insights. We have actually been trying to get insights from it but it hasn't really given us a lot of extra points to explore. We were looking at the number of alerts to see where many of the alerts were coming from. We never managed to get many insights on this."
"They could include incident merging and alert grouping features in the product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"BMC solution is cheaper than ServiceNow, its main competitor. So, I'd rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with ten being expensive."
"The product’s price could be improved."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"The cost is based on the package you select."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
9%
Retailer
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Performing Arts
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise19
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps?
BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps' predictive analytics positively impacted proactive problem-solving capabilities. It has been the most interesting part of the solution! It provides detai...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps?
The pricing is on the higher end due to the extensive features and delivery quality. However, it is worth the investment.
What needs improvement with BMC Helix Operations Management with AIOps?
From my perspective as a customer, especially from tool administration, what would be beneficial is having end-to-end visibility all on a single page. This is challenging to achieve with any tool, ...
What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The solution was expensive, but if all its features were utilized, it was considered worth the cost. The tier-based pricing model was cumbersome, and there was a desire for a service-based catalog ...
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
Everything can always be better. Operations are somewhat limited by their integration package. For example, integrating with Jira was problematic until they updated to a better plug-in. The ability...
 

Also Known As

BMC Helix Monitor
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Sample Customers

Grupo Moura, Goodman, Aspect, Telefónica Colombia, Fujitsu
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