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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

    Oracle BPM Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Oracle Business Process Management Suite is an integrated environment for developing, administering, and using business applications centered around business processes.N/A
    Pricing
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    Editions & Modules
    BMC Helix ITSM
    Contact Sales
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    Considered Both Products
    BMC Helix
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    Oracle
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    80 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    83 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    54 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    60 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.5
    114 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1112 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.881 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.693 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.3102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.682 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.599 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.7102 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.1
    101 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement8.297 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard8.293 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement7.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    8.8
    103 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Oracle BPM Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository8.9103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar8.697 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.098 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    5 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Standard reports00 Ratings6.05 Ratings
    Custom reports00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Process Engine
    Comparison of Process Engine features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.4
    6 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Process designer00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process simulation00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Business rules engine00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    SOA support00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Process player00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Support for modeling languages00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Form builder00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Model execution00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Collaboration
    Comparison of Collaboration features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    6.0
    4 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Social collaboration tools00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Content Management Capabilties
    Comparison of Content Management Capabilties features of BMC Helix ITSM and Oracle BPM Suite
    Feature
    BMC Helix ITSM
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle BPM Suite
    7.0
    3 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Content management00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Process Street
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    TIBCO® BPM Enterprise
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
    IBM Business Automation Workflow
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (121 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (9 ratings)
    6.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (72 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (10 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.6
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BMC Helix ITSMOracle BPM Suite
    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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    Oracle
    Oracle BPM is well suited to organizations and environments that have a good understanding of their business processes and organizational structures. Trying to introduce a tool such as Oracle BPM into the organization without a good grasp on how the business operates is a recipe for disaster as the implementation will uncover all of the dirty secrets of an organizations business processes and bring them to light. BPM is not to be utilized for smaller service orchestrations or technical service implementations, these should be handled by the Oracle SOA Suite using the BPEL process manager, leaving BPM to handle the organizational business processes, referring to and including lower level services and BPEL processes as needed.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM [Suite] can support unlimited number of cases. No limitations in cases raised.
    • Oracle Weblogic can handle multiple traffic. [It] can handle lots of heavy load[s].
    • Oracle BPM has extensive integration with database[s]. Huge number[s] of customization can be created.
    Incentivized
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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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    Oracle
    • Oracle BPM is left behind by other tools more modern in terms of user experience, usability and ability to integrate with everything else.
    • To really harvest the potential of Oracle BPM you need to do it in JDeveloper and with ADF. This restricts its usage to very technical people.
    • The administration of the Oracle BPM tools has really put a burden on our team. It is running on Weblogic and we experience issues very often either with performance or with a bad configuration of the system.
    • As with all Oracle products, the price can be an issue for smaller shops.
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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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    Oracle
    In many scenarios it should have provided more features. It took a lot of effort while debugging, making it difficult to maintain.
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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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    Oracle
    Not easy to debug errors.
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    Reliability and Availability
    BMC Helix
    for now we are satisfied. first two months 😉
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    Oracle
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    Performance
    BMC Helix
    could be faster. db is slower from introducing postgresql
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    Oracle
    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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    Oracle
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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
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    BMC Helix
    Satisfied because I didn't have to do it!
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    Overall satisfactory
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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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    Oracle
    We evaluated Bonita and found that it might fit a smaller-sized company better; we found that Oracle BPM Suite scaled much more evenly. We almost went with one of the competitors, but in the end chose Oracle BPM Suite after we factored in the cost of VMware licensing. There are literally tons of analytics on the back end which are great for upper management, but not so much for average users, but this fits our business model quite well.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    BMC Helix
    unclear. lot of for less
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    Oracle
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    BMC Helix
    Again, always room for improvement, but a very stable product none-the-less.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Oracle
    • You'll most certainly need a deep dive and extensive training before your users can even think of using the product and they are very expensive.
    • Lack of documentation makes it very difficult to manage the application if any error is encountered which will result in you ending up hiring a dedicated person to look into the application once it's deployed.
    • For a very large org., if properly implemented and used, it can help identify the cost-intensive and inefficient processes.
    Incentivized
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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.