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BMC Helix ITSM

Score8.9 out of 10

301 Reviews and Ratings

What is BMC Helix ITSM?

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.

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BMC Helix Multi-Cloud Broker. This is where users can deliver a secure service experience across multi-cloud environments.
Knowledge Management, available with intelligent recommendations to help bring the right information to end-users and agents to quickly and accurately resolve issues.
the incident and problem management interface, used to create and resolve incidents faster with intelligent, context-aware, and proactive incident matching.

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Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 8.9

  • Change requests repository

    Single repository of all planned changes and releases

    Category average: 8.4

  • Service-level management

    Process for negotiating agreements regarding service level expectations, and ensuring these are met

    Category average: 8.4

Areas for Improvement

  • Asset management dashboard

    Dashboard showing organization's software portfolio

    Category average: 8.1

  • Policy and contract enforcement

    Ensuring that requesters have eligibility before fullfullment

    Category average: 7.7

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 8.3

Thank you BMC for the great job you do.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BMC Helix ITSM as our central ITSM suite within an IT service provider serving the banking sector, with approximately 650 employees. The scope covers Incident Management, Change Enablement, IT Asset Management, CMDB, and a customer portal supporting over 36,000 workplaces and more than 700 business services. Helix primarily addresses our challenge of consistently mapping and demonstrably managing regulatory-compliant IT processes (DORA, EBA Outsourcing Guidelines, ISAE 3402 Type 2). Planned next steps include Autodiscovery, AIOps, and Helix-GPT to improve data quality in CMDB/ITAM and to relieve the service desk through AI-driven automation.

Pros

  • End-to-end ITIL 4 workflows (Incident, Change, Service Request) with full audit trail – essential for ISAE 3402 Type 2 and DORA compliance in the banking sector.
  • Centralized customer portal for multi-client operations: client-specific handling with standardized processes – supporting 36,000+ workplaces and 700+ business services.
  • Integrated CMDB and ITAM on a single platform – delivers the regulatory transparency required across 5,200+ servers and enables DORA-compliant asset documentation.

Cons

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Return on Investment

  • Operational efficiency (Incident/Problem): Standardized workflows and clear ownership improved triage, escalation, and root-cause tracking across a large service landscape (~700 business services / ~36,000 workplaces). This reduced coordination effort and improved consistency of handling and communication.
  • Customer experience via the customer platform/portal: A single entry point for users, increased transparency (status, updates, responsibilities), and enabled more structured intake. This supports the objective of “empowering users” and reduces back-and-forth communication.
  • Governance & compliance impact (positive + limiting factors): Helix supports auditable processes needed in a regulated environment (DORA/EBA/NIS2, ISO/ISAE context). ROI is constrained where foundation data is still maturing (CMDB build-up, ITAM data quality) and where strict permissions and heterogeneous integrations increase implementation and ongoing maintenance effort; non-harmonized SLAs add additional overhead.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow IT Service Management and Atlassian Jira

Comprehensive and powerful tool for overall IT Service Management - BMC Helix ITSM

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company uses BMC Helix ITSM to improve our processes used in incident, problem, and change management enhancing accuracy, reducing downtime for our users, tracking incidents faster, and improving service delivery. The product we use will assist us with a set of challenges such as fragmented workflows, resolution times, and visibility across support processes. We cover the organization's IT support, asset management, and automated workflows ensuring promptness, compliance, and higher user satisfaction across the organizations many business units.

Pros

  • AI powered Incident Management
  • Change Management
  • Release Management
  • Asset Management

Cons

  • UI can be improved
  • Complex configurations
  • Reporting can be improved
  • Timeline based visibility

Return on Investment

  • Improved ROI by using automation and reduced manual workloads
  • Better service desk team efficiency
  • Initial investment may look higher
  • Alerts are prompt

Usability

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow Enterprise Asset Management and Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira, SAP LeanIX Enterprise Architecture, ServiceNow IT Asset Management

BMC Helix ITSM the best tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I restructure IT services, providing clear SLA measurement and helping to improve processes.

Providing an accurate inventory with the help of the CMDB.

Having a single platform for all processes. Improving service quality and enhancing customer service.Clear graphs of support processes were obtained for executive reports.And decision-making was automated based on the change management offered by the tool.

Pros

  • BMC Helix CMDB
  • BMC Helix Dashboards
  • BMC Helix Digital Workplace
  • BMC Helix Knowledge Management

Cons

  • Development within the Helix console

Return on Investment

  • The company-wide service level could be measured using the SLAs.
  • have a single product that can solve all types of problems for the customer
  • To efficiently measure the workload of each management team

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zoho Desk and ServiceNow IT Service Management

Looking forward to the Future

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BMC Helix ITSM for Incidents, Workorders, CMDB, Knowledge Management, Change Request CRQ and Discovery. We use extensively accross our organization globally. Our service desk uses BMC Helix ITSM as well

Pros

  • Up time
  • Simple to use
  • Roadmap and new features

Cons

  • ServiceDesk Support
  • Supporting new features for go-live

Return on Investment

  • Must improve on ServiceDesk support as I have mentioned from Day1
  • Roadmap is well established and great tools for automation
  • Discovery tool is great

Usability

Other Software Used

CoPilot AI, Microsoft SharePoint

BMC Helix ITSM still one of the best

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use BMC Helix ITSM for managing incidents, changes, problems and service requests. We have service targets for incidents but not for service requests. All modules are consuming data from CMDB and we also have a major incident management module. We have integrations with Active Directory, asset discovery, remote access control, monitoring events, security events and HR platform.

Pros

  • Customizable around process.
  • Integration capabilities.
  • Usage of AI.
  • Reporting.

Cons

  • Reduce the number of defects.
  • Remove legacy technology.
  • Easier process for activating new features.

Return on Investment

  • Reduced cost through automation.
  • Improved efficiency through integrations.
  • Speed up resolution through ticket auto-routing detection.

Usability

Other Software Used

BMC Helix Digital Workplace, BMC Helix Business Workflows, BMC Helix Discovery