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BMC Remedy vs ServiceNow comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.1
BMC Remedy improves efficiency significantly, reducing task time from 24 to 3 hours, but high costs in Greece limit adoption.
Sentiment score
6.9
ServiceNow generally delivers high ROI, boosting efficiency and productivity, though initial adoption challenges and costs exist for some users.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
BMC Remedy's customer service is generally satisfactory but criticized for slow response times and variable ticket resolution quality.
Sentiment score
7.1
ServiceNow's support is praised for responsiveness but inconsistent with complexities; community aids, yet customization support needs improvement.
 

Scalability Issues

No sentiment score available
Sentiment score
7.4
ServiceNow scales effectively, accommodating larger user bases, though cost and performance issues may require closer attention during implementation.
 

Stability Issues

No sentiment score available
Sentiment score
7.7
ServiceNow is highly stable and reliable, with minimal downtime and excellent performance, despite occasional minor issues.
 

Room For Improvement

ServiceNow faces challenges with high costs, complex usability, limited support, and needs improvements in flexibility, integration, and documentation.
 

Setup Cost

BMC Remedy's high cost and complex licensing may deter smaller businesses, but larger firms value its comprehensive features.
ServiceNow's pricing is high, often per-user, with variable costs needing negotiation for better transparency and flexibility.
 

Valuable Features

ServiceNow provides flexible, customizable IT solutions with integration capabilities and intuitive design, enhancing workflows and departmental collaboration.
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC Remedy
Ranking in IT Asset Management
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
License Management (1st)
ServiceNow
Ranking in IT Asset Management
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
214
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (1st), IT Service Management (ITSM) (1st), Rapid Application Development Software (2nd), No-Code Development Platforms (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of BMC Remedy is 6.6%, down from 6.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow is 24.9%, down from 26.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Asset Management
 

Q&A Highlights

it_user96999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 21, 2014
 

Featured Reviews

Ameet Darole - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers automation, orchestration, service level management but lacks AI-based rules
BMC Helix is the upgraded version and incorporates many new ways of working for service operations. It's a significant improvement. Helix offers analytics, AI-based rules, a smart digital console, and workflow management. Remedy doesn't have these features. That's a significant difference. BMC Helix seems to be a strong competitor to ServiceNow, while Remedy wasn't at the same level.
Fabio QUINTANILHA - PeerSpot reviewer
A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs
As much as possible, we use the out-of-the-box features. We do very few customizations. We follow the schedule to refresh the versions when they come up. As an end-user, I am not happy with the scalability. We have to wait a long time to buy more capacity. It is not an issue with the tool. Our team must manage it better. ServiceNow is a powerful tool. As long as we have enough users, it works. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
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Answers from the Community

it_user96999 - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014
Thank you everyone ... we have select Cherwell as their customer service seems to be on top of things... Will post a review soon enough
2 out of 5 answers
it_user84762 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2014
Hi Lawrence. I work at Agiloft, and we use our own Service Desk solution. We have several customers successfully using Agiloft for higher education IT service management, including Texas A&M and Cal Poly. Agiloft is completely customizable with no coding required - all customization is done using an easy drag-and-drop GUI. It's available as both an on-premise solution and SaaS, and includes modules for Asset Management, Customer Support, Integrated Chat, and more, with no additional per-module cost. You can learn more at www.agiloft.com, or google "Agiloft reviews" to find plenty of thorough, 5-star reviews of our product, including several from our higher education customers. Hope this helps! Good luck!
it_user104424 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 8, 2014
1. Which software are you using and how do you find the software? Service Now, very useful. Is it easy to use and customizable? Yes. If so, how can we customize it? Forms, fields are easy to setup; business rules – java scripts, api. 2. What software did you use before the one you are currently using and did it offer a way to import existing tickets from your old system to your current one? CA and BMC. We did not import old tickets into the current systems. We imported assets. Change, Incidents, Request start from fresh. Old data was exported and kept as retention. 3. What about/How does licensing costs/work? Only IT roles are payable. As educational institutions face financial pressures, what are the costs and flexible options for payment? Cloud based subscription – based on usage. 4. Is your software on-premise and cloud/hosted/SaAS models? SAAS 5. Are you using any other of their modules/product offerings? If so, which ones? Catalog, Service Desk – incidents, problem, request, Change, Asset, CMDB, Discovery, KB, SDLC 6. What is it about the software that you like? Easy to use What is it that you dislike? Ease of version upgrades are managed but require testing for many hotfixes, some issues are moved to enhancement request within the platform and needs to move to the next version for resolution. Reporting is not as good for trending etc. However, OOB reports can be easily created with existing views. More scripting solutions should be made available to provide greater functionality. 7. What is it that you like about their company and support? Have timezone support with ease of ticket creation. What is it that you dislike? Some problems moved as next release enhancements; manual creation of MIBS / updates for discovery creation of correct models. No able to detect stack switches out of the box 8. Does your software have asset management (desktop, mobile, app and network), a solutions wiki? a help/chat ticketing system? etc. ITAM yes but has not moved onto SAM. Mobile not captured; workstations, servers, applications, business services, network are captured. Service Now discovery is very good as it is agentless but still need to be tweak to ensure proper creation especially on newer equipment and stack switches. 9. Has anybody used Cherwell? ServiceNow? FrontRange? BMC Track-IT? Service Now
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
47%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
26%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with BMC Remedy Asset Management?
Maybe the network automation aspects need improvement. They should have adopted cloud technology earlier. Also, improvements in pricing, particularly the licensing models, which weren't dynamic and...
What is your primary use case for BMC Remedy Asset Management?
In the case I was involved with, the customers appreciated the user-friendliness and the integration capabilities of BMC Remedy.
What do you like most about BMC Remedy Asset Management?
The service management features are beneficial – very good.
Which solution is better for developing non-ITSM applications: OutSystems or Service Now?
The short answer is that OutSystems is far better for 2 main reasons. Firstly, with Service Now you are locked into that platform for good. The business model is to lock in and then keep pumping th...
Would you choose ServiceNow over Microsoft PowerApps?
Hi Netanya, I will choose ServiceNow because ServiceNow is a very good tool compared to Microsoft PowerApp. Because ServiceNow has a very strong module (Performance Analysis) reporting which will ...
What do you like most about ServiceNow?
The solution has a user-friendly interface.
 

Comparisons

 

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Remedy Asset Management
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Sample Customers

Scripps Networks
AAA, AstraZeneca, Becton, Dickinson and Company, Broadcom, Christus Health, Epicor, Equinix, GE Capital, Intuit, KPMG, Loyola Marymount University, OshKosh, Quantas, RedHat, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss Re, U.S. Department of Energy, Safeway, Yale University, and Zillow    
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