BMC Helix ITSM vs. Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BMC Helix ITSM
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
BMC 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
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Splunk supports IT operations analytics with the Splunk IT Service Intelligence premium offering, a software application available to subscribers to Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise log analytics and SIEM platforms.N/A
Pricing
BMC Helix ITSMSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Editions & Modules
BMC Helix ITSM
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BMC Helix ITSMSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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BMC Helix ITSMSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Features
BMC Helix ITSMSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
BMC Helix ITSM
8.6
109 Ratings
4% above category average
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1107 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.777 Ratings00 Ratings
Service restoration8.789 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-service tools8.696 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.178 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.493 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM reports and dashboards8.696 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM asset management
Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Product A and Product B
BMC Helix ITSM
8.3
95 Ratings
1% above category average
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
-
Ratings
Configuration mangement8.691 Ratings00 Ratings
Asset management dashboard8.487 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy and contract enforcement8.070 Ratings00 Ratings
Change management
Comparison of Change management features of Product A and Product B
BMC Helix ITSM
8.7
98 Ratings
1% above category average
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
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Ratings
Change requests repository8.997 Ratings00 Ratings
Change calendar8.592 Ratings00 Ratings
Service-level management8.793 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BMC Helix ITSMSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(110 ratings)
10.0
(28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.5
(9 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(61 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
3.0
(10 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
6.6
(2 ratings)
-
(0 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 ITSMSplunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Likelihood to Recommend
BMC Helix
BMC Helix ITSM it is all round platform for any size enterprise offering every capability you would need with a high level of customization capabilities offering the possibility to align the tool to your processes. The platform leverages AI in multiple places improving the overall experience and efficiency. Unfortunately some parts of the platform are still running on old technology, holding back the rest of platform from evolving even faster
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Cisco
Splunk ITSI is a great tool (and toolbox) for combining together numerous and varied monitoring regimes to bring more holistic analysis and reduce alert fatigue. By leveraging the Splunk ITSI service and KPI modeling regime, ecosystem telemetry can be turned into a more reliable, clearer, high-level perspective on the current state of your components and services.
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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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Cisco
  • Monitor hundreds of IT services by continuously tracking thousands of KPIs in a scalable way.
  • Quickly identify problem areas by a combination of default visualizations and ability to create custom dashboards.
  • Extremely configurable to effectively monitor nearly any KPI imaginable from Splunk.
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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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Cisco
  • ITSI really needs a robust splunk log ingestion infrastructure at its core
  • ITSI requires a great engineering team to build out the automated discovery and topology
  • Unless you use an API to build the topology, the view can quickly become static
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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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Cisco
We have replaced our monitoring platform with Splunk & ITSI, and with the success, it's seen at our organization thus far we would be hard-pressed to pivot to another tool. Frankly, our business partners and application teams love Splunk & ITSI.
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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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Cisco
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a platform with extended functionality and provides various functionalities which can be utilized to improve the efficiency and accuracy in analyzing the data and detecting the attacks.
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Reliability and Availability
BMC Helix
for now we are satisfied. first two months 😉
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Cisco
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Performance
BMC Helix
could be faster. db is slower from introducing postgresql
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Cisco
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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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Cisco
During POC, pre-planning, and implementation, we have had interactions with numerous folks at Splunk. Everyone from sales & engineering to markets analysts to specific IT component SMEs, and a small professional services engagement to get started. They have all been exceptionally helpful and go above and beyond the call of duty. They actively reach out to ensure success is being realized and find ways to help proactively, instead of having to simply open support cases with the vendor.
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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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Cisco
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Implementation Rating
BMC Helix
Satisfied because I didn't have to do it!
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Cisco
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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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Cisco
Splunk has raised itself as a platform not just as a tool unlike other products in the market. If I talk about Moogsoft it also has similar capabilities but Splunk ITSI has more visibility and its GUI is making a different impact on the users. ServiceNow and Splunk are equally capable products however Splunk seems to have more tech-savvy people tools than ServiceNow.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
BMC Helix
unclear. lot of for less
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Cisco
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Scalability
BMC Helix
Again, always room for improvement, but a very stable product none-the-less.
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Cisco
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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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Cisco
  • Splunk ITSI has reduced the number of alerts exposed to our Network Operations Center by 100x while increasing the context around outages.
  • Splunk ITSI has increased the accuracy of our incident detection by leveraging the Event Analytics system to weigh the behavior of the many characteristics of each component together instead of independently.
  • Splunk ITSI has reduced our incident MTTR (mean time to restore) by detecting issues faster, presenting them more clearly, and surfacing the salient details about the underlying issue.
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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.