What is BMC Helix Discovery?
BMC Helix Discovery is a cloud-native discovery and dependency mapping solution for visibility into hardware, software, and service dependencies across multi-cloud environments.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
96 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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+87 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love BMC Helix Discovery?
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Trustworthy
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Data Center Analytics
Analytics and Reporting
Integrated Discovery
Software Usage Metering
Software Recognition Library
Advanced License Management
Decentralized Management
End to End Lifecycle Management
Data Import Export and Aggregation
Cloud License Management
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BMC Helix Discovery Reviews
Vikas K.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2023
Easy to setup & works from day one to discover CIs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BMC Helix Discovery from other similar products?
BMC Helix Discovery work with tight integration with Helix CMDB. Very reliable and accurate software and asset discovery.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Proper dashboard and data export system for hosts.
What do you dislike most about this product?
limited integration scope
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Please review your companies use case for network devices and server discovery. It best works with Helix CMDB and ITSM.
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Fair
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
Alessandro D.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Aug 2023
A useful tool for the IT Infrastructure
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BMC Helix Discovery from other similar products?
It's agentless nature makes the product light and intruitive without "invading" the Infrastructure
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The product is easily scalable, easy to use and to mantain, all in all its a confortable product that gives stability to the end user
What do you dislike most about this product?
The storage capacity can be a limit for infrastructures that needs a large amount of data.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If anyone needs a reliable, light and stable asset discovery product, this is probably his best shot.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
Cons
- Less Performance Enhancing
Mohit S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2023
One of the most powerful discovery & app mapping
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates BMC Helix Discovery from other similar products?
Its ability to plug and play integration with another industry-leading tool where the data can bring more value. Helps to discover all attributes as servers, IPs all related details of servers as ports networks details etc. this is one solution for all the issues where you can compare data from different customers too
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Quick discovery, ci relationship auto discovered. Quick setup. Used in projects during sales phases to discovered client environment for solution design.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Technical Support can be improved. Partner training and demo instances like Servicenow can be useful to evaluate features and demos.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The tku updates on monthly basis does not fix critical issues such as getting the end of license and end of support information
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies
- Altruistic
Cons
- Vendor's Interest First
