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BMC Helix Discovery Overview

What is BMC Helix Discovery?

BMC Discovery (formerly BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping, or ADDM) creates a dynamic, holistic view of all data center assets and the relationships between them, giving IT crucial visibility into how the assets support the business. Each scan delves into the information and dependencies for all software, hardware, network, storage, and versions, providing IT with the context needed to create an application map from any piece of information about it. A lightweight footprint allows IT to map applications with up to 100% accuracy in 15 minutes or less.

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Product Description

BMC Helix Discovery is a cloud-native discovery and dependency mapping solution for visibility into hardware, software, and service dependencies across multi-cloud environments

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BMC Discovery has over 10 years of experience offering remarkable discovery and dependency mapping capabilities. With research conducted by IDC which found 470% ROI in 5 years with a payback of 8 months, we are certain you will be impressed and delighted with the value that comes from having BMC Discovery.


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BMC helps customers run and reinvent their businesses with open, scalable, and modular solutions to complex IT problems. BMC works with 86% of the Forbes Global 50 and customers and partners around the world to create their future. With our history of innovation, industry-leading automation, operations, and service management solutions, combined with unmatched flexibility, we help organizations free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead.


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4.5 out of 5
"A highly integrated tool with easy to use and advance features."
It is very user friendly and easy to you.
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4.5 out of 5
"More for less"
- Data modeling is one of the most important features - Very fast deployment - Very stable - Quick upgrade and transparent for the final user ...
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"BMC Discovery is the most powerful discovery & application mapping tool"
Businesses can optimize resources and costs along with managing compliance & security of the overall estate.
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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

BMC Discovery is very easy to set up compares to its competitors and it has really user friendly and intuitive interface. It identifies the changes in software and hardware components really quickly. Very little effort is required after set up initial set up. Also, the integration with BMC CMDB is very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

It sure is a bit expensive that its competitors. Also Data storage capacity could be improved. 2TB might not be suitable for big companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BMC Helix Discovery:

It is the right product for you if what you are looking for is the highest grade of ease of use and if it is affordable for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were able to track all the servers and components through a single interface. We also used it for Asset management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

The UI is user friendly and I love it. Application Modeling and its Reporting Features, Scalabilty and ease of installation. Its ability to secure the discovered data. The asset discovery process, ease of integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

Licencing, add-on prices, The coding part, Charts availability. Disk Storage is less. There's a room for improvement there. Also, whenever a new software comes, the support to that is minimal. Apart from this, I believe its perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Support can be impoved substantially.. The application infrastructure and integrations with other BMC tools can also be improved. In addition to that, I think the pricing can be reduced a little and be more realistic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Software Modeling for security operations, asset management. Helped us in automating the process and save the time and labor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

Best way to gather data at one place and with it's multi cloud services and their relationships makes it way more easier to access it. Hope to see more such updates from this tech savy team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

Well, sometimes at a very few times there are connectivity issues which makes it hard to access its features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

I being a software professional places codes and flow diagrams on BMC and our team members at globalised locations can easily access them, which is simply wow !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

Agility and speed are the key features provided by BMC Discovery. Provides multi-cloud management features for IT services. UI is very intuitive. AN extensively inexpensive tool available in the software market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

Nothing much that I disliked about this product. Sometimes generates useless emails which are of no use to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BMC Helix Discovery:

It's agility and speed makes it highly recommended for IT industry and its people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Meets and implements my business requirements. Pretty much happy with this software till now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

It is User friendly. Gives a clear representation of the relationships between the services. Have good security options.

Also the setup is easy to maintain. Eliminates a lot of manual effort in configuration. Found it suitable for mainframe,mobile, cloud. Very good integration policy with other agile devops solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

Support and Integration with other BMC tools can be improved. Rest everything works in pace and in an orderly fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BMC Helix Discovery:

Strongly recommends BMC to other oraganizations as it is a highly scalable platform which divides the bridge between legacy and new IT. Suitable for market changing innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

For prioritizing and routing tickets based on application's business impact. Also one of the benefit is asset maagement and it saves time and labor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

The fact that BMC gives the holistic view of all the data clusters, it’s relations, it’s ability to track ci’s cmdb makes it easier for the user. Also, it's awesome for the asset and incident management. Setting up is a lot easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

There’s nothing much dislike about it. I haven’t faced any issues and i think it does meet all the user requirements. Also, the GUI isn't that great. It isn't that user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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There are some flow of control issues and its tough to understand the workings of particular systems. If you guys can work on it, that would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Incident and Change Management. Application Modeling, CMDB and BPPM for event monitoring. and Asset Management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

I like the way the BMC allows you to track the CI's with no hassles and the reporting features. The user interface is definitely a plus. We were surprised to see how easy it is to setup , configure it and and maintain it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

Cost!! Its way more expensive. The add-on licencing and I believe that you guys should focus of customer support to the new softwares. With these exceptions, I would say its a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering BMC Helix Discovery:

If you are looking for scalability, reduced time and labour and if pricing isn't an issue, you should definitely consider using this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asset Management, data modeling, automating the entry process,modeling applications and monitoring the applications, licencing management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

Asset management is by far best handles by BMC Discovery. Change tracking, event monitoring can be done without much admin intervention Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

It is a fantastic product and not easy to dislike something in there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

So with a large enough customer base, traditional databases for handling credential based account posed us severe challenges. We implemented discovery to make it easy and smooth. We have saved a lot of time and resources with this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

It is used for multiple cloud, fast in speed, data are accurate and also secure. Best thing we can store up to 2TB that is huge. The user interface is too cool and easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

There is nothing bad about this product. But it requires license and also adding on price for new updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asset Management and also I can able to store more than 2TB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about BMC Helix Discovery?

The user interface is very easy to use and once its set up, the data managements and can effectively done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about BMC Helix Discovery?

The backend or the recognition of custom applications could be made simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is BMC Helix Discovery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing assets and their dependencies and managing our organisation's servers. And once it is set up, it doesn't need much management and can sufficiently run on its own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.