# BMC AMI Ops Reviews **Vendor:** BMC Software **Category:** [Workload Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About BMC AMI Ops BMC AMI Ops is an AI-driven mainframe operations management solution for IBM Z environments. It helps enterprises monitor, automate, and optimize the performance and availability of mission-critical systems while reducing operational complexity and manual effort. BMC AMI Ops uses real-time monitoring, intelligent automation, and predictive analytics to detect issues early, prioritize actions, and resolve problems faster across z/OS, Db2, IMS, and supporting infrastructure. The solution enables operations teams to shift from reactive monitoring to proactive, service-focused operations. Key capabilities include: - Real-time and predictive monitoring of mainframe workloads and resources - Intelligent automation to reduce manual intervention and operator dependency - Root cause analysis and anomaly detection to accelerate problem resolution - Service-level visibility aligned to business outcomes - On-premises execution that keeps operational data on the mainframe By modernizing mainframe operations with AI and automation, BMC AMI Ops helps organizations improve system reliability, reduce downtime, and operate IBM Z environments more efficiently at scale. ## BMC AMI Ops Reviews ### 1. Fast, Proactive Monitoring with BMC AMI Ops Once You Master the Dashboards **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nijat I. | Full-stack Developer, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2026 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** My experiences with the BMC AMI Ops were mostly related to monitoring system activities and monitoring for stability. This tool allowed me to detect anything suspicious without having to wait for customers to start reporting about their issues. As a result, the system provided an opportunity to act fast and be able to prevent things from going wrong instead of always being in the recovery phase. The thing that I enjoyed is the speed at which you can analyze any data once you get used to the dashboards. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** The initial reaction was really that the platform seemed daunting. There is an enormous volume of operational data available, and initially, I had some difficulty in distinguishing between the data that is essential and the data that is not. It took some time before the displays became meaningful. Additionally, I found out that customizing and optimizing the platform requires more effort than anticipated in order to turn the monitoring process into something productive rather than something that feels daunting. The final problem is that it may become difficult to troubleshoot since the issue is usually system behavior related. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** The use of BMC AMI Ops allowed a greater reliance on manual monitoring and a reactive approach after an incident had impacted system operations. This resulted in slower troubleshooting processes since there were limited means to view what was taking place at the system level. Using this tool, however, allowed for continuous monitoring of activity and an earlier reaction to changes in performance or operational behavior. In this way, response time was decreased while decreasing the number of assumptions that needed to be made during an incident. ### 2. Best tool for Monitoring performance but complex configuration. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2026 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** It gives us a deep visibility into system performance, workloads and resources utilisation through a centralised dashboard. UI is very simple to handle complex data. It has very intelligent alerting and analytics for better management **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Initial setup is very complex and complex configuration. Customisation and Integration is very complex and should be specialized for particular integration to integrate. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides real time visibility into work loads,CPU Usage, storage and application performance. It reduces manual monitoring efforts and speed up troubleshooting. ### 3. BMC Compuware Storage Migration: Streamlining Data Transition with Precision and Efficiency **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zahoor Ahmad M. | Business Development Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2024 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** One of the best features we've experienced is the automation of the migration process. It’s incredibly efficient, reducing the need for manual intervention and minimizing the risk of errors. This automation has not only sped up the migration but also made the entire process more reliable. The real-time monitoring and detailed reporting are other highlights. Being able to track progress and receive instant updates gave us complete visibility and control over the migration. It was reassuring to know we could quickly address any issues that arose and ensure everything was on track. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Overall, the flexibility and efficiency of the platform have made a significant positive impact on our data management. The migration was completed faster than anticipated, and the cost savings have been a pleasant surprise. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** BMC Compuware Storage Migration has been a game changer for us. It has effectively solved the problem of complex and disruptive data migrations by providing zero-downtime capabilities. This has allowed us to transition to new storage systems smoothly without interrupting our daily operations, significantly boosting our operational efficiency. Additionally, the platform’s automated migration processes have minimized manual errors and sped up the entire process, saving us valuable time and improving data accuracy. Moreover, the real-time monitoring and detailed reporting features have given us much-needed visibility and control throughout the migration. This has made it easier to track progress, address issues promptly, and ensure everything runs smoothly. With enhanced data integrity and security, we’ve been able to handle sensitive information with confidence, maintaining compliance and protecting our data effectively. ### 4. Optimization, automation and speed. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo G. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2024 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Something unique and that all data migration systems should have is the automatic troubleshooting and BMC has it, any problem that you present or are presenting at the time of migrating your data the BMC system will solve it and send you messages in real time and once you have all your data safeguarded in the BMC servers the system will be sending you reports to optimize manually the infrastructure and analysis of them and thus avoid making extra expenses and maintain a data in optimal conditions. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** The only thing is that it is necessary to go through many security and implementation protocols which is tedious but necessary. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** BMC servers are optimal and have state of the art protocols that make it even better, the ease and speed with which you can navigate and extract the data you need is amazing compared to other services that offer the same and in this sense it certainly saves a lot of time, everything flows in a positive way once you implement and configure everything in its entirety. ### 5. Best Solution for Storage with Seamless Migration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi K. | Senior Vice President - Principal Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2024 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** It makes life of all stakeholders easy by providing this relaibale and effective solution. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** It involves some complexities which are addressable however require efforts and bandwidth to address them. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's beneficial in file migration, by providing platform and features that are extremely user friendly. ### 6. Excellent tool for automating AI/Ml Solution **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sweta S. | Data Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The codeless feature of BMC AMI automation takes it way ahead and helps improve the throughput and performance of any AI/Ml solution. Built-in artificial intelligence and its recommendation feature is a significant asset compared to its competitors. It's an excellent replacement for the Mainframe system. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** The ability to tune a few of the AI/Ml features is not available because of its codeless framework, which makes it a bit dependent and relies on the tool itself. Reasonable pricing and cost information is not available easily. **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Ops:** Highly recommended for AI/Ml deployment and solution **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** We tried automating our AI/ML solution.It helped increase customer satifaction,through improved performance.The deployemnet of the solution was very quick and we started using the result and its inbuild AI capability to drive campaign and better product recommendation to end users. ### 7. BMC to structure and manage multiple resources **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Thanks to BMC Compuware Storage Migration we could effectively connect and integrate multiple data sources and allocations, allowing us to create an extended network while reducing the risk of data loss. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** To effectively use BMC Compuware Storage Migration, it is necessary to plan and kick off a dedicated implementation process that requires from 1 to 8 months according to the project entity. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the use of BMC Compuware Storage Migration we could simplify data collecting and data restores while minimizing the risk of data damages. Additionally we extremely appreciated the reporting features. ### 8. Creating Dynamic Storyboards to present full service management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepika . | Teaching Professional, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 01, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** you can access a library of more than 90 out-of-the-box ITSM performance **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** as of now nothing could figure out that i dislike **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Ops:** Highly Recommended for all industries, especially e-learning **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** This software is Industry Leading and Predictive Service Management that is really going to benefit people around ### 9. Best for monitoring operations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The UI looks good. Easy to monitor the jobs and easy to use the tools. One of the best operation monitoring tool **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Sometimes it acts weird like the slowness of the application **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use to monitor the jobs. It is easy to use but sometimes takes time to load ### 10. My review on BMC AMI Cost management product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert P. | Content Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** I am responsible for the management of the MSU usage for my team. With this tool, I can easily manage the MSU I have available for my team to use. I can see the MSU usage per month, and how it compares to my plan. I can also see the cost I am paying for each MSU, and the overall cost. This helps me track my usage and cost, and make sure I am within my limits. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** i think price can be a little more cost effective. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** i realized with BMC AMI, there's alot more potential and areas that can be tapped and discovered which our current tool does not provide. ### 11. It's good to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Afroz A. | P, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The Ui interface and the monitoring easiness **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** The UX experience could be better with lineage type view **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** We monitoring 1000s of jobs everyday prior to bmc monitoring , we were using appworks which wasn't great ### 12. It's very useful for operation support department **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sureshh V. | Senior Network Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Its tools and features are very helpful for engineers **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Some time it's taking to long time to open any tab or features **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some time it's taking to long time to open any tab or features ### 13. Best tool for optimization for big iron **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sushil A. | Software Development Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** It helps in the manages the capacity of the mainframe storage which eventually results in the optimise of the day to day task and increase the performance of the machine. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** The manuals for the software shouldbe less complex and easily available so that it tool can be more easy for the new user to understand the functionality. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** It will optimize the daily batch by managing the capacity and increasing the performance of the process which eventually results in gain of business by completing the batch in the SLA time ### 14. The best Automation tool for capping **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** BMC AMI Ops provides powerful and intelligent automation to find and fix issues before they occur proactively. No need to have your experienced personnel write time-consuming code because BMC AMI Ops automation is rules-based and codeless, making it easier to set up and manage. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** I don't find any significant dislikes,everything looks good **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are doing POC of this tool in our project ### 15. Modernization of Mainframe management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The best automation available for optimizing resource utilization **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Proprietary and limited people in the market with product knowledge **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better capacity management and minimal risk during the implementation of gradual automation It optimized resource usage across LPARs and WLM groups ### 16. Authentic tool for visibility into software spend **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** varsha S. | Cloud Tech Support Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The integration between System and management make the platform truly valuable. The ability to consolidates data to show where spend vs utilisation in a single dashboard is great tool **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Utilization for product that could have Google authentication it would be great. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can organize all our contracts and manage all of our subscription and spend all in one palce. ### 17. Resiliency explored and renovated **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohan T. | Senior Mainframe Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** It helped me a lot to automate the DR activities while moving into a more resilient architecture. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Nothing to be specific that i dislike about the OPS **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have utilized optimal utilization of the available resources and tried to identify solutions. ### 18. Best for data center automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giridharan U. | Technical Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** codeless and the best customizable modern graphic interface **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Need more references in the documentation **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greater level of monitoring and automation functionality ### 19. Good to go with this technology for administrative efficiency **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Migration technique and handling error. Disk management tech **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Actually not gon throw hole datasets here so can not say about dislike **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Ops:** Mainframe soft market **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mean if I am playing with data set or in simple word efficiency to play with migration then it's top quality shot form bmc ### 20. BMC AMI Ops Automation Review **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 17, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Granularity of Details captured by BMC Ai Ops solutions for Data Centre **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Integration with host OS running in the Data Centre **Recommendations to others considering BMC AMI Ops:** Proper knowledge Transfer & better documentation to the work force in Data Centre **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems witnessed so far. ### 21. Intelligent batch processor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The improved throughput and way of intelligent handling of batch processing **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Nothing which I have found out so far, there might be few, not sure. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used it for the batch processing of our jobs. Realized that it solves many manual errors we do which is best. ### 22. BMC review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Very User friendly, quick to adopt,optimization **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** So far haven't faced anything to dislike. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping me to mitigate issues before they become business problems. To detect issues , any anomalies and diagnosing the problems ### 23. Good product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Easy to use and cost effective, suitable to all needs. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** None, could have been more diverse in use. Needs more user friendly tips. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in solving more user problems , solves storage issues , allows automation. ### 24. Great experience easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** The user friendliness which is awesome. Complete package for automation. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Nothing much. Had a good experience with it. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data flow between the application. ### 25. Must Try **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Ease of use Power reporting automatic rule retention **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** GUI is too naive Performance could be improved **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** automatically and intelligently optimizing our batch processing system to resolve hidden problems in manual batch processing. ### 26. Awesome product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 16, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Best in class service and storage compared to alternatives. **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Price can be a little more economical for easy affordability. **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage and mainframe solutions ### 27. Storage Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** very good product for using for storage accounts **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** nothing, the product works absolutely fine **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** storage issues ### 28. BMC COMPUWARE THRUPUT MANAGER **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021 **What do you like best about BMC AMI Ops?** Helpful and guidance managers with proper overview on employees **What do you dislike about BMC AMI Ops?** Should take suggestions from ground team **What problems is BMC AMI Ops solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helpful is managing nature of work ## BMC AMI Ops Discussions - [What is BMC AMI Ops Automation for Capping used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bmc-ami-ops-automation-for-capping-used-for) - [What is BMC Compuware ThruPut Manager used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bmc-compuware-thruput-manager-used-for) - [What is BMC AMI Ops Monitoring used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bmc-ami-ops-monitoring-used-for) - [What is BMC AMI Capacity and Cost used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bmc-ami-capacity-and-cost-used-for) - [What is BMC AMI Cost Management used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-bmc-ami-cost-management-used-for) - [View BMC AMI Ops pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/bmc-ami-ops/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-23+20%3A46%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=53b01fdd-a928-475c-be7d-9c46eb53905b&secure%5Btoken%5D=df400a9999be95c3ef9475c036bde13c58f2042f0be5d1a82dc1241a48ef2cc2&format=llm_user) ## BMC AMI Ops Features **Automation** - Workload Processing - Scalability - Intelligent Automation **Compatibility ** - File Server Backup - Database Server Backup - Virtual Machines - Repository Models **Functionality** - Asynchronous Messaging - Language Support - Cloud-based Messaging - Latency **Performance Management** - Workflow Automation - Change Management - Real Time Reporting **Network Management** - Activity Monitoring - Asset Management - Log Management **Management** - Disaster Recovery - Remote Backup - Storage Formats - Scheduled Backups - On-Demand Restoration **Analysis** - Threat Detection **Administration** - Administration Console - Workflow Management - IT Issue Identification - Proactive Workflow - Error Alerts - Service Management **Management** - Continuous Backup - Disaster Recovery - Storage Capacity - Remote Backup - Activity Monitoring **Integration** - Application Integration - Data Integration - Plugins and integrations **Monitoring** - Server Performance - Energy Consumption - Space Planning **Incident Management** - Event Management - Automated Response - Incident Reporting **Reporting** - Activity Monitoring - Documentation - Alerts/Notifications **Platform** - Unified Communications Platform - Remote Access - ITIL Policy Compliance - Asset Tracking - IT Knowledge Management **Functionality** - Job Scheduling - API / Integrations - Integrations **Compliance** - Security Standards - Cloud Data Protection - Data Deduplication **Management** - Policies and Controls - Security Monitoring - Activity Monitoring **Security Intelligence** - Threat Intelligence - Vulnerability Assessment - Advanced Analytics - Data Examination **Security** - Data Encryption - Security and Compliance - Deduplication **Security** - Endpoint Protection - Patch Management - Disaster Recovery - Service Management - Workflow Management **Agentic AI - Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Workload Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Server Backup** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Agentic AI - Message Queue (MQ)** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance **Agentic AI - Enterprise IT Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top BMC AMI Ops Alternatives - [NinjaOne](https://www.g2.com/products/ninjaone/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (4,263 reviews) - [Tines](https://www.g2.com/products/tines/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (394 reviews) - [TeamViewer](https://www.g2.com/products/teamviewer/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (3,839 reviews)