BMC Helix Discovery vs BMC Track-It! comparison

BMC Helix Discovery and BMC Track-It! are both solutions in the IT Asset Management category. BMC Helix Discovery is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4, while BMC Track-It! is ranked #19. BMC Helix Discovery holds a 4.2% mindshare in IAM, compared to BMC Track-It!’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of BMC Helix Discovery users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of BMC Track-It! users who would recommend it.

BMC Helix Discovery

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88% willing to recommend

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66% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

BMC Track-It! and BMC Helix Discovery compete in the IT management category. BMC Helix Discovery has the upper hand with its advanced asset discovery capabilities offering a comprehensive IT asset and dependency mapping solution.

Features: BMC Track-It! includes capabilities like help desk management, ticketing, and asset tracking, providing control over IT service management. BMC Helix Discovery offers automated discovery of physical, virtual, and cloud environments, insights into asset interdependencies, and the ability to integrate with BMC Helix ITSM and ServiceNow ITSM.

Room for Improvement: BMC Track-It! could improve in areas like simplifying setup, enhancing scalability, and refining user interface design. BMC Helix Discovery might focus on enriching reporting features, increasing integration options beyond current ecosystems, and enhancing cost-effectiveness to better compete with other solutions.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BMC Helix Discovery’s deployment is cloud-based, promoting quick deployment and scalability. Its customer service supports integration and assistance. BMC Track-It! being on-premise might require more deployment time and is appreciated for its support in routine help desk operations.

Pricing and ROI: BMC Track-It! offers lower initial setup costs, making it appealing for smaller businesses focusing on budget. BMC Helix Discovery, despite higher setup costs, provides a greater ROI by improving asset management efficiencies and reducing downtime, making it suitable for businesses seeking extensive IT infrastructure insights.

To learn more, read our detailed BMC Helix Discovery vs. BMC Track-It! Report (Updated: April 2026).

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BMC Helix Discovery vs. BMC Track-It!

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Categories and Ranking

BMC Helix Discovery

Ranking in IT Asset Management

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

BMC Track-It!

Ranking in IT Asset Management

19th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

License Management (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of BMC Helix Discovery is 4.2%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BMC Track-It! is 1.8%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Asset Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BMC Helix Discovery	4.2%
BMC Track-It!	1.8%
Other	94.0%

IT Asset Management

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JonathanPic

Presales Manager at HCLSoftware

Comprehensive discovery has populated our CMDB and provides deep insight into asset relationships

The applicability depends on the customer environment. Usually it is straightforward to apply the policies. BMC Helix Discovery is seamless and has many plugins available. It is a good feature that they offer. I have heard about it, but I am not currently using it, though I know that they have that feature available. BMC Helix Discovery provides a lot of information that can be obtained from discovery, including the relationship between the CIs and how many CIs are orphans. The analytics capabilities are strong.

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reviewer2287086

ICT Manager at a legal firm with 11-50 employees

Provides good stability, but it could be intuitive and easier to use

The product’s current version could be easier and straightforward to work with small IT organizations, similar to the older version. Its asset management feature has been significantly affected since the upgrade. Earlier, it was able to perform skill-based routing automatically. We could set up parameters within the system and view the details of the incident or a ticket. The same functionality needs to be fine-tuned in the new system.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"I like the artificial intelligence and machine learning that it uses in the solution. Because once the solution discovers all the assets, all the infrastructure, and all the dependencies between services, it learns how it works. So, it learns to predict when a problem is going to happen. It becomes predictive in an autonomous way."

"The initial setup is simple."

"The ability of BMC Helix Discovery to save time and money for customers is all about resolution times and first fixes, linking heavily to the CMDB and ensuring that you have good clean data."

"Accuracy and clarity are vastly improved for the service lines."

"The initial setup was quite easy."

"BMC Helix Discovery provides a lot of information that can be obtained from discovery, including the relationship between the CIs and how many CIs are orphans."

"The data models are the most useful aspect of the solution."

"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."

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"We can manually capture the assets available within the location."

"Our efficiency has improved drastically due to a massive reduction in phone calls."

"Track-It! has many features that help make us more efficient and cost effective as a department."

"The solution is quite stable, and we've found it to be reliable and free from bugs and glitches that affect its usability."

"As a department, we have been able to identify problems and resolve them faster because of the centralized database."

"Using their problem management process, we can use parent/child tickets and set up public views for our problem work orders."

"Using the Help Desk and Purchasing modules, they let us keep track of all the issues in our organization and analyze them for trends."

"Our efficiency has improved drastically due to a massive reduction in phone calls."

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Cons

"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."

"The interface is quite old and can be outdated."

"BMC is agentless discovery, followed by hybrid discovery, which performs discovery across clouds, on-premises, and then dynamic service modeling."

"The query language is somewhat challenging to learn. It uses a Berkeley database, and the query language is not easy to master for performing complex queries."

"It would be nice to see more updates to the solution."

"It is very complicated to use."

"What would make BMC Helix Discovery better is if it had more client-side discovery features, for example, printers and desktops."

"While I consider the solution to be good, it should better be able to integrate with other solutions."

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"Track-It! works great for a mid-size company, but anything over 700 employees, and trying to use Track-It! for any other areas of the business is difficult."

"Currently, if you go and check the reports in the packet, the reports are useless; reporting is really bad."

"The area where we would like to see improvement is in the asset management module."

"Track-It! works great for a mid-size company, but anything over 700 employees, and trying to use Track-It! for any other areas of the business is difficult."

"There are a few items that I would like changed or extra features that could be added to our current version of this software, but those are all going to be addressed in a future software update."

"The product’s current version could be easier and straightforward to work with small IT organizations, similar to the older version."

"Their self-service is not user friendly."

"There are a few items that I would like changed or extra features that could be added to our current version of this software, but those are all going to be addressed in a future software update."

More BMC Track-It! cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are on a three-year agreement with BMC Helix Discovery to use the solution. There are not any additional fees other than the standard license."

"I've heard that the solution was expensive earlier but is now much cheaper than its competitors."

"The solution offers yearly licenses."

"We have a perpetual license for the solution."

"The licensing fee is very low."

"The price was fair compared to competitors. BMC is very affordable. There are optional consulting services to assist with implementation."

"You need a license to use BMC Helix Discovery. The license is paid yearly, though I have no idea how much it costs."

"The licenses are very complex and quite costly."

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"BMC Track-It!’s price is reasonable compared to other products."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	14

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC Helix Discovery?

I like the artificial intelligence and machine learning that it uses in the solution. Because once the solution discovers all the assets, all the infrastructure, and all the dependencies between se...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Helix Discovery?

The setup cost is on the expensive side.

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What needs improvement with BMC Helix Discovery?

The interface is quite old and can be outdated.

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Also Known As

Discovery, ADDM, Atrium Discovery & Dependency Mapping

BMC Numara Track-It!, Numara Track-It!, Numara

Overview

BMC Discovery, formerly ADDM, is a digital enterprise management solution that automates asset discovery and application dependency mapping to build a holistic view of all your data center assets and the relationships between them.

BMC Helix

Help Desk Automation

Eliminate the manual triage of issues that leads to stacks of sticky notes and emails, problems falling through the cracks, and overworked IT technicians with no way to track or prioritize work.

Knowledge Base

Centralize the documentation of known issues and use keyword search to find solutions. Technicians no longer waste time searching the web and troubleshooting issues that have already been solved by others.

Improved Efficiency

Keep track of how productive the help desk is, identify who needs more training, get feedback on the work technicians perform and justify resource needs to management.

BMC Helix

Sample Customers

Windstream Communications, News UK, Mercator Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)

Florida Hospital, Mitchell International

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