BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB) vs. OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB

Lets you run more effective CABs with accurate configuration and dependency data. Understand the impact of change on other assets applications and services. Detecting potential underlying issues [when multiple] changes are made. Provides very adaptable and highly reliable data quality and integrity engines configured through rules [to] ensure normalization, data source prioritization, and deduplication.

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Micro Focus Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB is well suited for medium to large IT operations after a careful review and strategy definition of all support tools that will be integrated. When it comes to deciding on a set of tools for IT operation management and its different processes like Incident, event, and change management; a good approach would be to create a roadmap with the integrated suite of tools to create a native ecosystem and reduce complexity on the integration and adoption.

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• Incredible with cloud migration of servers.
• Efficient with getting audit reports on systems.
• Terrific with compliance management.
• Fabulous with optimization of business operations.

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• Management and organization of Configuration Items
• Ensures a single and uniform source of database to avoid any ambiguity between departments.
• Proper delivery of services

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• The best IT services management that helps to increase overall service management does deliver business value.
• Great change manager.
• Service desk agent.

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• When getting started the Cloud deployment may be not that easy.
• To manipulate the system deeply requires a professional operator.
• Working on large data project.

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Once you have an understanding of the many use cases that this software can meet, you will be able to tightly integrate this into a ticketing system which increases the ROI of the product tremendously.

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Old versions which do not support CMS have a luck of user experience and performance for reports and service modeling.

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Some complex issues regarding performance and platform upgrades have been difficult to address and have short time solutions.

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Upgrades from old versions were really hard to handle.

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I didn't even know there was competion with BMC Atrium CMDB. I have been in the tech industry for sixteen plus years and I have never seen another product accomplish the task that BMC Atrium CMDB performs on a daily basis. Also BMC Atrium CMDB has been around longer than anyother product which means it has been tested over time.

Quite competing products but short learning curve and fitment in our IT Landscape were main differentiators.

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• Moving towards a fully chargeback model would help non-IT departments help curb their spend. However, a company needs to be fully mature in order to do this. Without an iron tight process, the CMDB will be quickly filled with garbage. It'll require experienced asset admins to continuously monitor the system.

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• ensured proper service delivery which helped organizations to grow
• It was a little expensive for the company.
• Mainly had a positive impact especially in the cases of risk assessment and analysis.

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