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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    BMC Helix Remedyforce

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ABMC Helix Remedyforce is a cloud-delivered SaaS solution for IT Helpdesk and Ticketing Management.

    $67.90

    per user/per month

    Front

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Editions & Modules
    BMC Helix Remedyforce
    $67.90
    per user/per month
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.
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    Community Pulse
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Considered Both Products
    BMC Helix
    No answer on this topic
    Front
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of BMC Helix Remedyforce and Front
    Feature
    BMC Helix Remedyforce
    7.7
    7 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.07 Ratings8.26 Ratings
    Expert directory6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.06 Ratings6.74 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of BMC Helix Remedyforce and Front
    Feature
    BMC Helix Remedyforce
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of BMC Helix Remedyforce and Front
    Feature
    BMC Helix Remedyforce
    9.0
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Front
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of BMC Helix Remedyforce and Front
    Feature
    BMC Helix Remedyforce
    -
    Ratings
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of BMC Helix Remedyforce and Front
    Feature
    BMC Helix Remedyforce
    -
    Ratings
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.3 out of 10
    Kustomer
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BMC Helix RemedyforceFront
    Likelihood to Recommend
    BMC Helix
    [BMC Helix Remedyforce] is probably best suited for an MSP who needs to keep multiple clients separated. If you were an internal IT department I think the additional features it has would be lost. When dealing with an MSP who needs to know what software and what issues have effected specific clients it is very well suited to do that.
    Incentivized
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    Front
    I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    BMC Helix
    • An admin user is able to quickly create a request definition with all of its components from one screen. We use to have to go to the 7 or 8 different screens to create each piece of the request definition.
    • Ability to update multiple Incidents/Service Requests at once with the update button. This allows essentially an inline edit functionality within Remedyforce.
    • Change management schedule is a great feature as well to be able to see how changes align and what there expected start dates/times are.
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    Front
    • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
    • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
    • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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    Cons
    BMC Helix
    • The ability to monitor/regulate the volume of tickets when you integrate with your monitoring software. We have so many items that trigger alerts, creating a ticket for each is somewhat overwhelming. Would like to be able to better control when an incident should be created.
    • Being able to report on Service requests and tasks together would be nice. Right now I have to do it separately as they are in different buckets, so to speak.
    • Remedy console is an improvement from where it started but can still be a cleaner interface for a tech to be able to work out of for their day to day work.
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    Front
    • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
    • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
    • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    BMC Helix
    The total amount of time spent from installation to configuration for a minimal ticketing system was 2 hours. Maintenance and customization for the application can be completed with a great amount of ease. In addition having a customer portal is an added benefit that pays for itself
    Incentivized
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    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    BMC Helix
    No answers on this topic
    Front
    It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    BMC Helix
    They care about your success.
    Incentivized
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    Front
    The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    BMC Helix
    Learning industry best practices or gaining insight on them from either BMC or an implementation partner would have saved some headaches we faced after roll-out.
    Incentivized
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    Front
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    BMC Helix
    I previously worked with tools like Service Manager which were difficult to configure, administer and maintain. The support options were very limited. Remedyforce has local US support, dedicated reps, and a more developed infrastructure to work from to support an organization. This runs on the Salesforce platform so worrying about server failures and unscheduled outages was no longer going to be an issue for us. Self service, knowledge base, and change control were just a few highly utilized features that helped employees support themselves and automate very manual processes.
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    Front
    This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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    Return on Investment
    BMC Helix
    • Remedyforce has allowed us to eliminate other solutions that provided similar features. By now using one true ITSM we have been able to save money which in higher education is always a concern.
    • The reports and dashboards allow for a birds-eye view of our daily operations and provide managers and executives the information they need to make important cost saving decisions.
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    Front
    • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
    • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
    • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
    Incentivized
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