OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB vs Qualys VMDR comparison

OpenText and Qualys are both solutions in the Configuration Management Databases category. OpenText is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0, while Qualys is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. OpenText holds a 12.4% mindshare in CMD, compared to Qualys’s 4.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Qualys users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 13, 2025

Qualys VMDR and OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB compete in the IT security and management category. Based on the comparison, Qualys VMDR appears to have a slight edge in vulnerability management and flexible deployment options.

Features: Qualys VMDR provides excellent vulnerability assessment and continuous monitoring. It integrates well with various cloud environments, offering automatic detection and detailed reporting. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB excel in infrastructure discovery and mapping, supporting a wide range of ITIL processes with robust CMDB capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Qualys VMDR could enhance endpoint stability and user-friendliness in reporting. Expanding support for more operating systems and improving IoT and SCADA assessments would also be beneficial. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB need a more user-friendly interface and simpler infrastructure setup. Enhancing mobile support could improve overall user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qualys VMDR offers flexible deployment options across various cloud environments, though customer service experiences vary. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB are on-premises solutions requiring significant IT resources, and their technical support is responsive but involves complex implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Qualys VMDR is perceived as expensive but offers flexible licensing and good ROI through time savings in vulnerability management, suited for large enterprises. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB require a significant upfront investment but are noted for providing good ROI through comprehensive asset management, intended for medium to large enterprises.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Universal Discover...

Ranking in Configuration Management Databases

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Qualys VMDR

Ranking in Configuration Management Databases

2nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Asset Management (6th), Vulnerability Management (2nd), Container Security (9th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Configuration Management Databases category, the mindshare of OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB is 12.4%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qualys VMDR is 4.5%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Prajwal Kewat

Junior Technical Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.

The UCMDB Tool is easy to manage IT assets and is auto-discovery features; But for ease of use the tool proper it needs to be documented in detailed fashion.

Based on my experience with the UCMDB tool, I have faced challenges while discovering servers (nodes). We need to define the IP list for discovery in RTSM and run jobs. However, over time, whenever new assets are added, we must manually add the new IPs in RTSM and run the jobs again. From the agent's perspective, we need to provide the Data Flow Probe IP. This can be done in one of two ways: we install the agent at the server (node) level, define the IP of the Data Flow Probe, and then our Data Flow Probe will capture the data from the agent and send it back to UCMDB. This method allows us to eliminate the step of manually adding the IPs in RTSM. In a dynamic production environment where changes are continuous, we need to stay updated on new servers (nodes). Ideally, the auto-discovery feature should automatically detect the new CIs (nodes/servers) in the environment and notify the IT personnel. This process could be achieved without the need for agents, or with a one-time agent setup.

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Ankesh Raj

Information Security Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Real-time responses and reporting streamline vulnerability management

Qualys VMDR provides a real-time response and reporting feature, which is excellent. It allows us to see real-time graphs and reports for every asset, server, and more, which is very user-friendly. Our clients have given good feedback, and they are satisfied with the tool. We use it daily to fix vulnerabilities by connecting with infrastructure to remediate. The feedback from the client side is very good.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product is easy to set up."

"It can discover almost everything and creates relationship among discovered CIs, along with creating topology modeling."

"It can discover various pieces from hardware, software, custom applications, and tie them together to create a map using ASM."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the discovery."

"Precision, trustworthiness, reconciliation, and user-friendly presentation are the key features I value most."

"The auto-discovery feature is great."

"It scales easily with future expansion."

"Qualys VMDR provides a real-time response and reporting feature, which is excellent."

"The most valuable feature is that this solution is very lightweight."

"Qualys VMDR provides us with a quick response to threat findings through regular scheduled scanning, which improves our security operations."

"Qualys VM had a recent upgrade and the newer version is supporting the cloud."

"Intuitive and easy to use."

"Qualys VM has allowed us to know the vulnerabilities we need to prioritize based on the threat levels and the possible impact if there's an intrusion."

"The best features of Qualys VMDR are its patch management capabilities and the ability to mitigate vulnerabilities automatically."

"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."

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Cons

"Improve the GUI and documentation."

"Making it simpler to set up and understand would be a big improvement."

"The page loading is very slow."

"When we work in an environment, the production environment continuously changes and at that time we should have knowledge about the new server (node). However, the auto-discovery part should automatically discover the new CI (node/servers) in an environment and inform the IT person."

"The implementation could be simplified."

"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."

"They can tweak their UI since the new version seems a bit jumbled up, and the old UI was more user-friendly."

"Reports were lacking somewhat on the customization side."

"Qualys does have an on-prem solution, but it is very expensive."

"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."

"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."

"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."

"The solution is a bit expensive if you do not have access to discounts."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Compared with other solutions, I would say that it's more expensive especially since we have an on-premise version and an older implementation."

"It is competitive."

"The solution is reasonably priced for the value it provides."

"The price is very reasonable."

"Qualys VM is quite expensive. It's a subscription-based license, and it's yearly. Right now, it's open for me, and I don't have any limitations or caps on the licenses. They are seeing if the product is viable for 4500 users. I can add as much as I want, and at the end of the subscription, they'll let me know how many licenses were actually used and bill me accordingly. On a scale from one to five, I would give their pricing a three. It's still expensive."

"An annual license for a single scanner costs around $3,000."

"Qualys is a pay-as-you-go model, so there's flexibility to the pricing."

"In Nigerian Naira, we spend about roughly four to five million to use this solution and this is expensive compared to solutions like Nessus."

"Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance isn't expensive right now. But the price for their product bundles could be better."

"The license is on a yearly basis."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Wholesaler/Distributor

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Universal CMDB?

OpenText's pricing is fine. It is not too expensive. I would rate it a six out of ten in terms of costliness.

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What needs improvement with Universal CMDB?

Based on my experience and what I have heard from clients, there are two main areas where Universal CMDB could get better. First, the way it shows results to users could be more user-friendly. Seco...

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What is your primary use case for Universal CMDB?

I use Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB for two main tasks: first, to discover what is happening in our IT system, like finding out what devices and software we have. Then, we use Universal CM...

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What do you like most about Qualys VMDR?

I like that we have many scanners and channels that don't overload. It helps us scan and track easily. Also, the tagging system is good for tagging. We can still use QualysAgent task ID tools even ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys VMDR?

Qualys offers better pricing and is feature-packed compared to other tools.

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What needs improvement with Qualys VMDR?

There were some issues later with Qualys VMDR regarding security, specifically with numerous false positive reports.

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Also Known As

Micro Focus Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB, Micro Focus Universal CMDB, UCMDB, HPE Universal CMDB

Qualys VM, QualysGuard VM, Qualys Asset Inventory, Qualys Container Security

Overview

OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB discovers, maps, and manages your IT configurations. Increase your IT visibility and reduce your IT service disruptions with robust discovery, service dependency mapping, and proactive impact analysis.

OpenText

Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response (VMDR) is a cornerstone product of the Qualys TruRisk Platform and a global leader in the enterprise-grade vulnerability management (VM) vendor space. With VMDR, enterprises are empowered with visibility and insight into cyber risk exposure - making it easy to prioritize vulnerabilities, assets, or groups of assets based on business risk. Security teams can take action to mitigate risk, helping the business measure their actual risk exposure over time.

Qualys VMDR offers an all-inclusive risk-based vulnerability management solution to prioritize vulnerabilities and assets based on risk and business criticality. VMDR seamlessly integrates with configuration management databases (CMDB), Qualys Patch Management, Custom Assessment and Remediation (CAR), Qualys TotalCloud and other Qualys and non-Qualys solutions to facilitate vulnerability detection and remediation across the entire enterprise.

With VMDR, users are empowered with actionable risk insights that translate vulnerabilities and exploits into optimized remediation actions based on business impact. Qualys customers can now aggregate and orchestrate data from the Qualys Threat Library, 25+ threat intelligence feeds, and third-party security and IT solutions, empowering organizations to measure, communicate, and eliminate risk across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.

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Sample Customers

China Merchants Bank, NNIT, Alfa-Bank, Sprint

Agrokor Group, American Specialty Health, American State Bank, Arval, Life:), Axway, Bank of the West, Blueport Commerce, BSkyB, Brinks, CaixaBank, Cartagena, Catholic Health System, CEC Bank, Cegedim, CIGNA, Clickability, Colby-Sawyer College, Commercial Bank of Dubai, University of Utah, eBay Inc., ING Singapore, National Theatre, OTP Bank, Sodexo, WebEx

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