BMC Helix ITSM vs Zendesk comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC Helix ITSM
Ranking in Help Desk Software
3rd
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
75
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zendesk
Ranking in Help Desk Software
11th
Ranking in IT Service Management (ITSM)
8th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (4th), CRM (19th), Sales Force Automation (7th), Reporting (14th), Knowledge Management Software (2nd), Community Platforms (2nd)
 

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Help Desk Software category, the market share of BMC Helix ITSM is 13.2% and it decreased by 2.2% compared to the previous year. The market share of Zendesk is 3.3% and it decreased by 30.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Help Desk Software
Unique Categories:
IT Service Management (ITSM)
14.3%
CRM Customer Engagement Centers
5.0%
CRM
1.2%
 

Featured Reviews

TB
Jan 25, 2023
Stable and scalable with good capabilities for analytics
I use the solution as an end user to log calls and get updates from my resolver groups.  My company is in mining and has 4,000 employees, but not all employees use the solution.  The solution has not improved functions within our organization. We are not sure if it's the tool itself or the…
BharatR - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 15, 2024
An cloud-based customer service platforms sold on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model
My use case for Salesforce Essentials is focused on gathering market insights for new feature releases and product launches. I utilize Zendesk to collect information from customer tickets regarding changes in features, new feature requests, and customer feedback helping me understand customer…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Reports have helped us to improve our IT processes. The main benefit is providing the right information to our decision makers."
"Smart Reporting makes it easy to create/publish views for tables, so our customers can easily create their own reports."
"The solution is already aligned with the framework, so it is easy for us to proceed with any ISO 27K certification."
"We find the incident management module the best. The reporting part is also useful. We use a feature called smart reporting, and it is very beneficial for us."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Helix is more lightweight than these tools. It's a traditional tool that was developed more than 10 years ago. Ease of use is the operative word."
"It has the power to automatize several different tasks in the ITSM world."
"The mobile features are the best part of the new version. It is easy to be notified and update your work from a mobile, which is great."
"The product offers very good management. It has a great ability to assign tickets based on content."
"The feature to move over my customer experience team tickets for different specialists is very valuable for my team."
"We rarely had issues with Zendesk."
"It's very convenient to use."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use. If you take the standalone product, it is so easy to use, but if you want a tailor-made Zendesk Guide, you can't do it yourself. However, you can use a template that already exists—they have a lot, and they're very cheap, around 300-400 euros—and use it on all your brands. It's a very easy product to use."
"I found the user experience with vendors on Zendesk to be straightforward, especially when it comes to understanding and searching for specific tickets. The search and navigation tools are easy to use, and I haven't encountered any issues with delays or communication gaps in ticket resolutions."
"Its agility and simplicity are the most valuable features. This tool is very user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features is that Zendesk gives you a lot of configurability, and a lot of leeway in terms of customizing the look and theme. Zendesk offers you the facility to design your own landing page, as well as the look and feel of the entire knowledge base. At the same time, they offer themes that you can simply purchase and implement. Either way, it can really be turned into the right look and feel of the knowledge base required by our company, which is very important—if you have a bland-looking page, most of the time, people will lose interest. Zendesk also allows you to test the customizations before you publish it. It gives you a sandbox location where you can test everything new that you're trying to create and publish, which is very interesting."
 

Cons

"Encountered issues with scalability and stability."
"I would also love to see consistency across all consoles."
"The documentation could improve in BMC Helix ITSM."
"There are some limitations or restrictions to using BMC Helix. For example, when we do some reporting, the reporting interface should be more user-friendly from my point of view."
"Helix needs to enhance some of its functionality with the latest technology. For example, Helix could improve its chatbot automation to automate more use cases."
"Support could be more skilled. We are wasting too much of our time debugging.​"
"The reports need improvement, it is not a good functioning tool."
"Some parts of the solutions are using the old interface."
"Sometimes if there was a way to just flag the actual issue out of those email chains - that would be really helpful."
"There is always a network issue with Zendesk. But we don’t know whether it is managed. The network issue is that when I call, it does not let us."
"It wasn't easy to set up so we're only using a third of all of the features,"
"The data you get when logged in to Zendesk Support differs from the data you get when you programmatically query Zendesk Support through its API because of a sync time delay."
"Zendesk Guide could be improved by allowing us to put our assets in one location. What happens now for each article, for example, is we have to upload the images for that article to that location, so the image reuse is still not something that they have perfected. If they could allow us to update all the images in one location, and then pull the image from there, it would be easier when working on Multibrand projects. There are no Multibrand updates available—we have to update each brand manually. For my company, I have come up with an API tool which allows me to push the content to multiple brands together, but if you don't have something like that, you have to manually do it."
"The price of the solution should be reduced."
"The support team is time-consuming, and they don't find the answer to our problem."
"It needs to improve in terms of its flexibility, price, and installation."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not very expensive and not very cheap. It is somewhere in-between. Some of the features are more expensive. There are also additional costs. If you want to use most of the features, you need to pay more."
"BMC is a little bit cheaper than ServiceNow, but BMC doesn't have the same capabilities in its entry-level product at the moment. The basic version does not have the DWP features that most of our customers are requesting."
"It is costly, but it is well worth it."
"It is too expensive for a small business."
"The price of BMC Helix ITSM is expensive."
"The price of BMC Helix ITSM could improve their price."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The solution is expensive."
"We did not compare the price of BMC Helix ITSM to other vendors. However, it has a mid-range price."
"We pay for the solution on a yearly basis and my understanding is that the cost is about $30,000. That's the cost for 24 to 25 agents."
"You have to pay extra for better support. So it's not only the license that you pay for, but you have to pay extra for the support as well."
"Zendesk's licensing is not cheap. For Enterprise, we are paying $200 per agent. It's a per-month cost, so it's pretty steep. There are some services you need to pay extra for. For example, with Zendesk Guide, we had to buy the most expensive offering in order to get Multibrand and everything. We also had to pay a lot of money for themes."
"The price is very competitive."
"There are different plans that are offered. We are using the entry-level plan. The overall price of the solution should be reduced. The price is too high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
22%
Educational Organization
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC Helix ITSM?
If we consider major players like Ford or BMW, their core focus is manufacturing products like cars. To ensure smooth operations, any arising issues, be it security concerns or issues within depart...
What needs improvement with BMC Helix ITSM?
The tool needs greater customization flexibility, particularly concerning notifications and the progressive view web page. This is significant because it encompasses various aspects like incident m...
What is your primary use case for BMC Helix ITSM?
We used to support VMware applications, focusing on distributed applications such as data from ETW, Snowflake, and SAP. Our role involved processing critical data systems through internal mechanics...
What do you like most about Zendesk Support?
I found the user experience with vendors on Zendesk to be straightforward, especially when it comes to understanding and searching for specific tickets. The search and navigation tools are easy to ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zendesk Support?
You have to pay extra for better support. So it's not only the license that you pay for, but you have to pay extra for the support as well. The pricing is expensive. Back then, we were paying $51 p...
What needs improvement with Zendesk Support?
As per me, there arent much significant issues or areas for improvement with Zendesk, as my usage of it is limited. I appreciate its ability to organize tickets effectively based on tags, allowing ...
 

Also Known As

Remedy ITSM, Remedy, Helix Remedy
Zendesk Support, Zendesk Guide, Zendesk Sell
 

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Sample Customers

Brookfield, HealthSouth Corporation, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Mercator, SAP, Stanford University
Mailchimp, Tesco, Vimeo, Instacart, Mediaocean, Slack, Uber
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