We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Discovery and Qualys VMDR based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of BMC Helix Discovery is it operates well. It is well known and has gained recognition for its software."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"BMC provides great support. As managed service support, they are gold."
"BMC Helix Discovery is very intuitive."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it is easy to install and deploy."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run different capabilities with the same agent. With only one agent, we can have EDR, vulnerability management, compliance and some basic SaaS security capabilities."
"Monitors workstations and servers for vulnerabilities and creates reports."
"The most valuable feature is the certificate management."
"It gives a very good overview of the inventory assessment process, and it can be accessed across our company because it's a global tool."
"I find the most valuable features are the continuous monitoring. Even on premises, there is constant monitoring."
"The solution shows us classic categories, including high, medium, and low risks. It also shows critical items, and that gives us the advantage of prioritizing things."
"The process of defining and discovering scans is organized efficiently."
"It is a stable solution."
"Management of its own application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools."
"There are certain limitations in the mapping feature of the solution."
"The support from BMC Helix Discovery can improve, it takes a long time before we receive any feedback. It can take days to months sometimes."
"A review of end of life data would be nice."
"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 CMDB could be improved. Getting data from the CMDB is the greatest challenge."
"There is still room for improvement in terms of stability."
"I would like to see the ability to scan some of the newer cloud platforms. I know that BMC has them on the roadmap, and they are coming soon, but they can't come fast enough. Being able to scan more of GCloud, Alibaba Cloud, or whatever the public clouds that our customers are buying, we need to make sure that Discovery can find them as well."
"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."
"Qualys VMDR is basically susceptible to false positives, and false negatives."
"The tool needs to improve the adding assets and report generation features. I would like to see the policy scan of offline appliances in the product's future releases."
"Endpoint stability and fault resolution could be improved."
"It's too early for me to say if there is any room for improvement since we're in the first couple of months of using this solution."
"I would like to see this solution simplified to work more easily in a multi-cloud environment."
"Integration could be better. When you think about scanning, it's not used just with this product alone but with other Qualys products. If you think about the bundle, the product itself is good. But integration with other products and packages has space for improvement. They should also offer a better price for bundles."
"It's not very user-friendly at times and requires in-depth understanding. So, a layman or someone new to Qualys won't be able to easily understand it. You need education to use the solution."
BMC Helix Discovery is ranked 2nd in IT Asset Management with 20 reviews while Qualys VMDR is ranked 7th in IT Asset Management with 77 reviews. BMC Helix Discovery is rated 8.6, while Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Discovery writes "Definitely useful but the old technology makes customizations very difficult". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". BMC Helix Discovery is most compared with ServiceNow, Device42, BMC Remedy , ServiceNow Discovery and Lansweeper, whereas Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management. See our BMC Helix Discovery vs. Qualys VMDR report.
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