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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    atSpoke (discontinued)

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AatSpoke was a ticketing and request management app designed to support IT help desks, HR, or management with handling employee requests and assistance needs. It was acquired by Okta in 2021, and is no longer available.N/A

    BMC Helix ITSM

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ABMC Helix ITSM replaces Remedy. It is a broad suite of ITSM, tools with strong integrations to other BMC tools and in-built ITAM. The product is used mainly by global brands and is offered in on-premise and SaaS configurations.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    96%
    Would buy again
    80 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    76 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    83 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    60 Answers
    Features
    atSpoke (discontinued)BMC Helix ITSM
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of atSpoke (discontinued) and BMC Helix ITSM
    Feature
    atSpoke (discontinued)
    8.4
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.5
    114 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets7.34 Ratings9.1112 Ratings
    Expert directory8.32 Ratings8.881 Ratings
    Service restoration10.01 Ratings8.693 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.63 Ratings8.3102 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.43 Ratings7.682 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.23 Ratings8.599 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.02 Ratings8.7102 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of atSpoke (discontinued) and BMC Helix ITSM
    Feature
    atSpoke (discontinued)
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.1
    101 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Configuration mangement9.01 Ratings8.297 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement9.01 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings8.293 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of atSpoke (discontinued) and BMC Helix ITSM
    Feature
    atSpoke (discontinued)
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    2% below category average
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.8
    103 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Change requests repository8.63 Ratings8.9103 Ratings
    Change calendar8.32 Ratings8.697 Ratings
    Service-level management8.02 Ratings9.098 Ratings
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    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    atSpoke (discontinued)BMC Helix ITSM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (4 ratings)
    8.8
    (121 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (72 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (10 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    atSpoke (discontinued)BMC Helix ITSM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Spoke is well suited to ingesting the myriad questions and requests I get throughout my workday. If I receive requests directly, they make it easy to change those requests into tickets, which helps my team track and demonstrate the work that we do. Spoke is also great for auto-answering common issues and questions. It only takes three of the same general question for it to start recognizing and offering the answer from our KB. Spoke has also been a great partner in helping our team be more efficient and more effective, something we never got with our old provider. I can’t emphasize enough that Spoke is NOT for external-facing helpdesks. It’s just not. It works best for teams that are supporting their own colleagues. I would also say that, at the moment, it doesn’t scale well past a few hundred users. They’re implementing features this year that will be more helpful for that sort of thing. But it does work great for remote support!
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    BMC Helix
    BMC Helix ITSM fits our environment particularly well, where standardized, auditable processes are already in place: Incident and Problem Management can be structured cleanly, with clear ownership, escalations, and fully traceable documentation—crucial in a highly regulated banking context. Through the customer platform/portal, users can log incidents and requests consistently, track their status transparently, and use a single central communication channel across service boundaries. This supports a service-oriented setup spanning multiple business services and locations. It becomes less suitable—or at least more effort-intensive—when core foundation data is not yet stable: an immature CMDB, insufficient ITAM data quality, and an unstructured knowledge base limit the value of automation and self-service. In addition, heterogeneous integrations and strict authorization models can increase implementation and ongoing maintenance efforts, especially when SLAs are not harmonized across different customer environments.
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    Pros
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    • Routes questions to the right team or person via Slack, email or text
    • Obtain status updates on current job requests
    • Allows IT to follow up more efficiently on the job requests from employees
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    BMC Helix
    • AI drive incident correlation leading to identifying problems and major incidents quickly.
    • Digital Workplace gives end-users a modern and personalized UI to submit requests, monitor service health, and receive self-help.
    • As an enterprise ITSM, it is critical that Request, Incident, Problem, Asset, and Change Management are integrated and flow together. BMC Helix is built on this principle.
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    Cons
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    • Newer company, a lot of features on the road map that aren't yet available.
    • A few bugs with the Slack integration.
    • Filtering/searching tickets is not intuitive.
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    BMC Helix
    • Service Level management configs can be lengthy, and when changes are needed to specific SLA, it does take a long time to configure. Templates work but only for certain things, lots of manual work is still required.
    • The Online product documentation can be confusing or in same cases not correct.
    • BMC products are sometimes expensive. When partners try to resell licenses or increase their own allotment, it becomes very expensive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    BMC Helix
    It provides the tool we need and is able to be customised to meet new requirements. Cost to change in training and integrations would be considerable.
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    Usability
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    BMC Helix
    Overall the product enhances the capability of incident management, problem management and change management. The AI based framework helps generated better visibility and reports. The effectiveness of enhanced service desk suuport improves end user experience as the incidents are handled well in time and aged incidents are highlighted at the right time.
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    Reliability and Availability
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    BMC Helix
    for now we are satisfied. first two months 😉
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    Performance
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    BMC Helix
    could be faster. db is slower from introducing postgresql
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    Support Rating
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    Any questions we've had were fielded in a very timely manner and their staff have been very helpful in our launch and ongoing inquiries. Internally, it has been very well received amongst staff and has increased efficiency, company wide
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    BMC Helix
    Their tech support is top notch. They respond and get back to us, even on lower level incidents and issues, very quickly. It is rare that we deal with a support technician who does not know what they are doing.
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    Online Training
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    BMC Helix
    the trainers dont have so much practical experiences. its mostly follow up and reading existing documentation withou own input. of course experiences people are on shore or have no free time. sad truth
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    Implementation Rating
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    BMC Helix
    Satisfied because I didn't have to do it!
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Spoke is just... easier. Easier to set up and easier to use, for both admins and users. We already have asset management and didn’t necessarily need our ticketing system to be directly connected to it. We wanted a product that was friendly to use, not crazy expensive, and didn’t require us to purchase an implementation package and/or a multi-day training package to roll-out. It’s not rocket science!
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    BMC Helix
    I believe Remedy's performance and market share exceeds its competitors. But it is worth mentioning that Microsoft's SCCM has excellent integration with Microsoft enterprise solutions and has is less expensive and not efficient. The IBM solution has better analytics but lacks the wide features and capabilities of Remedy. HP & CA are the real competitors for Remedy but lacks the stability, maturity, and effectiveness in Remedy
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    BMC Helix
    unclear. lot of for less
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    Scalability
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    BMC Helix
    Again, always room for improvement, but a very stable product none-the-less.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Spoke has been very cost efficient, more than paying for itself in gained productivity hours.
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    BMC Helix
    • Positive: an introduction to ITIL and viewing Asset, User Management from the perspective of ITIL, and how BMC has implemented those processes
    • Negative: The development team needs to communicate better with the sales and support side, and they need offer an open API
    • Negative: Currently the Asset Management side has little security and validation of Asset input: anyone can make API (mostly), at any item, which is a problem that I am apart of solving.
    • The UX needs updating, badly. Its quality is poor: it functions, but it is cumbersome, click-heavy and requires several hours to understand how to function with it. Also, it needs to ditch IE11 support, altogether.
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    ScreenShots

    BMC Helix ITSM Screenshots

    Screenshot of BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker. This is where users can deliver a secure service experience across multi-cloud environments.Screenshot of Knowledge Management, available with intelligent recommendations to help bring the right information to end-users and agents to quickly and accurately resolve issues.Screenshot of the incident and problem management interface, used to create and resolve incidents faster with intelligent, context-aware, and proactive incident matching.