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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BMC Helix ITSM

    Score8.7 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

    Forcepoint DLP

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AForcepoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP) protects sensitive data everywhere it resides and moves, across endpoints, cloud apps, web, email, and on-premises environments. It delivers unified policy management and centralized control from a single console.N/A

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management.

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    Pricing
    BMC Helix ITSMForcepoint DLPSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    BMC Helix ITSM
    Contact Sales
    No answers on this topic
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BMC Helix ITSMForcepoint DLPSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BMC Helix ITSMForcepoint DLPSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Multiple Products
    BMC Helix
    Chose BMC Helix ITSM
    BMC Remedy is the whole package where all of your ITSM operations can be managed. It is a reliable product on which the whole organization can depend on as ITSM is highly critical for any organization. Nobody thinks of using any other tool if they are using this tool. Nowadays, …
    Incentivized
    Chose BMC Helix ITSM
    Although Spiceworks appeared to be easier to set up and use, we felt that BMC Remedy was more robust. We noticed that the user base for BMC Remedy was huge. Although this should never be the single deciding factor, it was definitely a big plus. The ability to have cloud-based …
    Incentivized
    Forcepoint
    No answer on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    A lot of the competition starts with some free options, but bare minimum or "paid only modules" etc. And their support is often either non existent or convoluted while Spiceworks Help Desk is both great and responsive as well as having an open community and forums. You can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Spiceworks has all of the features we would require. It matched up well in features and definitely price!
    Incentivized
    Chose Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Besides the advanced SLA and change management features in CA and BMC, Spiceworks does everything they can do, but with a little more spice! Most of the bigger brand ServiceDesk softwares do just that - servicedesk. Whereas, Spiceworks does servicedesk and IT management tasks …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    83 Answers
    91%
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    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    100%
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    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
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    85%
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    BMC Helix ITSMForcepoint DLPSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of BMC Helix ITSM and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.5
    114 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1112 Ratings00 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Expert directory8.881 Ratings00 Ratings5.548 Ratings
    Service restoration8.693 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.3102 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.682 Ratings00 Ratings4.943 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.599 Ratings00 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.7102 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings00 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of BMC Helix ITSM and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.1
    101 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement8.297 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard8.293 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement7.974 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of BMC Helix ITSM and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.8
    103 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.9103 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar8.697 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.098 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of BMC Helix ITSM and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings6.32 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of BMC Helix ITSM and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.5
    53 Ratings
    17% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of BMC Helix ITSM and Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings00 Ratings9.847 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings00 Ratings4.512 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    Score9 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Symantec Data Loss Prevention
    Score7.4 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    Score7.4 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BMC Helix ITSMForcepoint DLPSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (121 ratings)
    7.8
    (35 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (9 ratings)
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (72 ratings)
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (10 ratings)
    5.3
    (12 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    BMC Helix ITSMForcepoint DLPSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Forcepoint
    -Where companies need to secure their attachment, which goes outside, means from their company to outside -Where companies need to ensure their client's personal information -Where companies need DLP. They need to look for Forcepoint only, as they have the upper hand over the rest of their competitors.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.
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    Pros
    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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    Forcepoint
    • It has predominantly protected us from unauthorized parties and has provided us with better visibility and control over our data.
    • This software has also successfully prevented us from both malicious and accidental tasks, which are quite flexible actions when it comes to the violation of data loss prevention policies.
    • This product has been successful in improving compliance and even mitigating compliance violations, which further facilitated IT security.
    • I think there is room for improvement, as the user interface is slightly rough and difficult to adopt in the beginning. The software also hangs up at a few instances, which leads to some wasting of time and annoyance, but other than that, this software is good. The technical staff should work on the complexities for a better user experience.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
    • We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
    • Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
    • Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.
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    Cons
    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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    Forcepoint
    • Forcepoint technical support--specially for users who go with essential support--is challenging to get support on time. You need the ticket to be raised long beforehand to get support from TAC. However, in the case of enterprise support, its is not like this technical person will come on a priority basis.
    • However it comes with higher prices, especially for SMB, it is allowed to pay that amount for support only.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
    • It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
    • Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Forcepoint
    We have been fairly happy with the product and how it has worked. We have looked at other vendors for url filter and such and have not found one that meets our needs or does what we have been doing with Websense. The product has been fairly stable and we have only had a few issues in the past. We have all seen that it was one of the highest leaders from the Gartner Group Magic Quadrant for Web Gateways.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.
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    Usability
    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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    Forcepoint
    For us, Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention was difficult to administer, did not work well when it did work, was incredibly expensive for the feature set you get, and was difficult to uninstall when we moved on from the software. Once it was fully set up, it worked occasionally for us.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out
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    Reliability and Availability
    BMC Helix
    for now we are satisfied. first two months 😉
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    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.
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    Performance
    BMC Helix
    could be faster. db is slower from introducing postgresql
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    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    Forcepoint
    Support from Forcepoint has been lacking. When calling in with a high priority issue we rarely are able to work with a technician immediately. The queue waits are very long and when you get through there are no support engineers available and we need to wait for a call back for hours it seems.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.
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    Online Training
    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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    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    BMC Helix
    Satisfied because I didn't have to do it!
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    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Forcepoint
    User friendly solution that makes it easy to deploy and manage. Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention very effective to protecting our valuable data on endpoints and where data lives like in the Cloud, server and on-premises disk drives and its valuable to just set policies once and start utilizing Forcepoint Data Loss Prevention solution.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    BMC Helix
    unclear. lot of for less
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    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    BMC Helix
    Again, always room for improvement, but a very stable product none-the-less.
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    Forcepoint
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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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    Forcepoint
    • The exchange of financial documents with customers creates extreme risk as data loss could result in financial and reputation damage to the customer. The cost of deploying Forcepoint is fractions of pennies compared to the potential financial impact of data loss.
    • There is some administrative overhead associated as false positives are inevitable, requiring a manual review and a potential loss of productivity.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
    • Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
    • Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
    • Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.
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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.