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BMC Remedy vs ServiceNow comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 12, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

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
216
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 January 2025, in the IT Asset Management category, the mindshare of BMC Remedy is 6.3%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow is 24.3%, down from 26.8% 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.
Somnath Kand - PeerSpot reviewer
Custom integration and reporting lead to efficient ticket management
There is a need for bug or error tracking in ServiceNow. Although there are child incidents or tickets, tracking primary issues or bugs within enhancements is not present. The reporting features in the new portal could be more user-friendly. While it provides options to minimize chart and image sizes, actual implementation doesn't always reflect these changes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"BMC Remedy Asset Management is pretty easy for quite a lot of functions."
"You can develop plugins in different languages, and the workflows can be easily developed depending on the user's needs."
"The solution helps to manage the operational flow in our organization."
"The most valuable feature of BMC Remedy is to take administrative access of a user."
"The solution helps us manage, escalate, and solve incidents."
"This product is good because it allows us to receive proper responses to business emails anywhere and anytime. It helps in effective communication with employees. The solution is stable. The product is scalable. The initial setup is straightforward. I recommend BMC Remedy, especially for its automation capabilities."
"The product has excellent support for remote and hybrid environments."
"The most valuable feature of the solution includes all of its components since they act as the authentication system of the product."
"Easy to implement and consolidate different platforms and users with useful functionalities."
"ServiceNow is a very powerful tool that can perform a lot of different functions."
"The most valuable feature is the flexibility of development for customization."
"It's easy to integrate. For instance, yesterday we closed the integration with SAP for the IP business management module to manage the forecast of projects. We created an interface between ServiceNow and SAP to control projects for accounting and on the forecast of the project. It was really easy. We don't have any problems with ServiceNow at the moment. As a company, they are improving constantly."
"It enables us to meet SLAs, track issues across the environment, and report those issues."
"I recommend ServiceNow due to its stability and good security."
"I have found that sorting and grouping functions are particularly useful."
"I think ServiceNow is highly stable. These kinds of tools are used in a big company, and I haven't seen any issues in terms of the core platform."
 

Cons

"I would like to have more customized reporting because the management team loves customized reports with graphs."
"Continuous improvement is recommended."
"There is room for improvement in integration with various platforms. The support services should be improved. The response time from the support team should be faster."
"Could be more user friendly for admins to manage."
"BMC Remedy's change management module needs enhancement."
"One area that requires improvement is the prevention of duplicates or data inconsistencies in the system."
"BMC works through intermediaries or vendors for support, so you don't always interact with BMC directly. The quality can vary depending on the specific vendor."
"The interface is obsolete."
"It's missing monitoring capabilities."
"Loads slower than expected, and its user interface needs improvement. Support for this product also needs to improve on their response time."
"The standard UI is very restricted. It doesn't look as good, compared to Remedy. Building your own UI requires some additional coding..."
"There should be greater integration with other enterprise applications. We're using Microsoft, Oracle, and other applications, and it would be good to have a greater integration on some of the immediate hiccups that you have with these services. It doesn't mean that when we have a problem with using another application, ServiceNow should be able to fix it, but ServiceNow should be able to alert us to things. There should be a bit more automation or integration."
"It should have more artificial intelligence for business and work capabilities. The community is not so active. There must be initiatives to make the community talk more and share more information."
"I do not like the user interface."
"For healthcare, which is a pretty audited environment, there are no concrete solutions for digital signatures, apart from our license with Adobe, so it requires orchestration."
"It should include information on navigating various user interfaces for creating diverse requests directed to different teams."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an expensive tool."
"The pricing is on the expensive side."
"The pricing is in-between. It's not too cheap, and it's not too expensive. For a large organization, it's worth it. But for a smaller one, it might be a bit costly."
"BMC no longer sells Remedy separately. They've transitioned to selling the BMC Helix platform. Remedy itself is nearing end-of-support."
"BMC Remedy is worth its price."
"Pricing is expensive compared to lower-end solutions, but it's on par with ServiceNow."
"I find the pricing to be reasonable."
"The product is costly. On one to ten points, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the product's price as nine."
"The mandatory minimum is US$ 20,000 for licensing."
"The price could be a little lower for the solution. Many of my customers have issues with the licensing process, they have to make it easier and straightforward."
"ServiceNow tends to be a little bit more expensive as compared to BMC Helix ITSM."
"The solution is priced for medium to enterprises sized businesses. However, it is expensive compared to competitors."
"There are licensing fees."
"The CapEx version is great."
"Getting the solution up and running is expensive."
"It has a higher cost compared to local/regional solutions."
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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
48%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
27%
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.
 

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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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