BMC Helix Discovery vs Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] comparison

"The solution is definitely useful."

"It now comes with a very flexible deployment solution, whether you want to keep it inside your data center or want to have the cloud, depending on if you're cloud forward or not."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its application dependency mapping."

"Weekly reports to management really make our life simple."

"The speed at which it's able to collect a wide-range of information, then make it useful for you, like asset management, knowledge management, and incident management."

"The most valuable feature is the automated service mapping."

"The most valuable feature is Windows proxy. We now need to install an additional link proxy server in Windows. The proxy is available as an outpost in the Elastic store. That is the advanced feature is added. There are many other features which can be used once we discover them. One time I was scanning the servers and all, going to data from additional based on the additional features, including advanced data like score upper display data successfully discover servers. There are many things good things that can be implemented using it while we haven’t installed those yet."

"It immediately understands which component it is, and it provides the exact API details with all the components."

"This product can be customized according to the needs of any company."

"We have now automatic and immediate control of assets usage, and we can now better manage our assets pool and get benefits through that."

"It is stable and scalable."

"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 license model could be more flexible and cheaper pricing."

"The improvement I want to see is a reduction in duplicate records."

"The improvement which we require is to delete the Internet service. Till some of the features are coming, like, internally side. If you are taking one server to model, there are a lot of usages like three structures per diagram is coming, and we have to do the man lot of manual work. Instead of that, whatever our requirement, we should be able to provide the servers and get the structure. So this is what we want to implement with such data."

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

"There isn't much that could be improved. The solution is pretty thorough, very easy to implement, and very easy to operate."

"The solution should have different portals and logins for each customer so only that customer's assets show."

"BMC Helix Discovery is a bit tough to use and administer."

"The technology used is outdated, the interface is outdated, the database is outdated, everything is outdated."

"The usability of this product is still out-of-date and could be improved. The interface could be improved."

"There are a lot of things that need improvement. Software recognition, software licensing, software compliance, data inputs, reporting, and support are some of the areas."

"The solution offers yearly licenses."

"It's not a cheap product. But the benefits it delivers is that it's a fair price."

"We have a perpetual license for the solution."

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

"Operating cost is actually high compared to other products, actually. It's a little expensive only, but it's very good than other products."

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten. All BMC products are expensive."

"The licensing fee is very low."

"The licenses are very complex and quite costly."

"From my experience, Asset Manager is expensive."