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What is BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)?
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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- Self-service tools (43)8.989%
- ITSM collaboration and documentation (43)8.181%
- Organize and prioritize service tickets (44)7.575%
- ITSM reports and dashboards (43)6.363%
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What is BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)?
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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What is BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)?
BMC Helix ITSM combines the
latest in digital and cognitive automation technologies to transform
best-practice ITSM principles on a cloud-native platform, enabling users to provide superior service management across multi-cloud environments that is
intelligent and predictive.
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BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) Technical Details
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
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| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
ServiceNow IT Service Management, IBM Control Desk, and Cherwell Service Management are common alternatives for BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy).
Reviewers rate Configuration mangement highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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November 05, 2021
Enhance your support service
- Clear and intuitive interface
- Customer facing portal integrating different products
- Reporting capabilities
- Tickets handling between modules
July 01, 2021
Best tool to manage business services easily
- It is designed on a very much modernized module and best for management and service tracking for all types of enterprises to streamline the operations and create effective workflows for multiple processes within the organization.
- The best feature that BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) has that its support team is top-notch.
- It is helping me to track tickets, track different tasks, request to different departments and report on the business operation area.
- The only possible error that I find while using the platform that it gets slow sometimes for no reason which is tiring and resulting in a loss of time and effort which leads to less productivity at the workplace.
- Secondly, some features are based on the Java language and do not supports new and updated web browsers and platforms which needs attention.
June 30, 2021
BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) for your IT management pains
- You can customize BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) to suite your specific needs.
- Supports ITIL out of the box.
- Reliable, able to serve our entire business units with thousands of users concurrently with not issues.
- Can be extended further through integrations with other systems and applications.
- Expensive compared to other alternatives.
- We use the on-premise version of the product due to regulatory requirements, so we have to maintain the system ourselves. BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy) is not the easiest system to maintain DIY.
- While the system is highly customizable, it is sometimes very complex, which also adds additional headaches when it comes to maintenance and upgrades.
- Very stable component in the form of CMDB
- The problem management workflows are very structured
- The new Insights section with the latest release is far superior than the legacy reporting tools
- Knowledge management section is highly intuitive as compared to some other competing platforms
- Multi Cloud broker although seems user friendly but has a few integration challenges
- Asset Management section needs more advanced training for Tier 1 users in order to use it effectively. Still better than competing products
June 29, 2021
Remedy is great for an MSP
- Separate Clients
- Allow Tracking of issues
- Communicate with separate password storage applications
- Searching can use some help
- Sometimes can be a little bit sluggish
- Occasionally the web interface will crash out
June 25, 2021
Helix as a great ITSM tool
- Assign your tickets
- Following up of tickets
- Give a clear explanation of the problem
- Nice use of screenshots and other information
- Some details are a little bit fuzzy
- Not clear directly where to adjust settings
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Change Management
- Incident Management
- Integration with southbound and northbound tools and systems
- Service Request Management
- Configuration Management (CMDB)
- Highly Customisable - two edged sword
- Ease of use - learning curve
- Set up and configuration is very complex
- Highly Customisable - two edged sword
March 28, 2021
BMC Helix Review
- User-interface and operations can be defined as per your companies requirement.
- Request/response time is faster and the whole ticket status can be viewed and modified at any point in time.
- End-to-end tracking and follow up makes it easy for the user to prioritize the incident.
- Duplication of incidents/requests.
- Stage by stage updates should be provided to the incident raiser.
February 18, 2020
BMC Helix ITSM: As easy as 1-2-3
- User-friendly and customizable user experience.
- CMDB to build knowledge base
- Ready templates for easy customization
- Integration with other solutions ( Operation management and monitoring solutions)
February 13, 2020
Ultimate Remedy Review
- The ability to customise the tool to suit business needs.
- The range of options available within each ticket to relate others tickets, CI's and knowledge articles.
- Service Level Management console does not allow us to configure all SLA's in our complex environment.
- Reporting and dashboards could have additional options.
January 24, 2020
BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy)Makes My Job So Much Easier!
- Create report templates in Smart Reporting Console for faster access to data.
- Quickly and easily search for incidents.
- Larger reports take a long time to complete and even longer to export.
- The smart reporting database fails over, but that's on the server and not a problem with the software.
December 03, 2019
OOtB ITIL for Large Organisations
- ITIL Process OOtB
- Process compliance
- Scalability
- Integration with Event Management and Infrastructure Monitoring
- Zero Downtime Upgrades
- CMDB UI
- Reporting
May 01, 2019
BMC Remedy tool for ITSM
- Remedy tool is used for incident management and there are several categories bound with SLAs(Service level agreement) which ensures the closures.
- It is also used for change management across the organization for different environments which make sure all the processes are followed.
- It has a knowledge article section where KBs are generated for known issues which are handy for Business as usual.
- Sometimes it is hard to mention details when several other activities are happening and we need to refresh the page as by that time we lost the data we entered.
- It could use a light version like Angular JS or React JS so the server load gets reduce.
- There is no chat facility provided, if it is possible,I reckon it will better facilitate the incident management.
- It helps in reduce ticket volume and faster resolution of tickets with a lot of integration
- It helps create proper hierarchies and helps categorize the tickets properly
- It helps take advantage of all of our existing best practice reports, KPIs, and other artifacts
- I have found it to be a little slower in performance with some minor glitches sometimes
- Configurations can be complicated and to use it to the max, very good knowledge of tool integration is needed
- Support can be better at times (but has been good mostly)
February 23, 2019
BMC helps faster resolution of issues
- Automated assignments are very helpful.
- Reporting is very good.
- I don't see any major improvements, but having more flexibility in ticket auto assignments would help.
- Integration with monitoring software like SolarWinds. where Remedy can transform notifications to work orders and assign to respective teams.
- Detailed Customization capability to fit the exact needs of the organization.
- Change management calendar, which integrates change orders from all organization departments and facilitates the scheduling process of project managers.
- It can be offered as a cloud-based service, where you don't need to worry about server maintenance or database backup.
- Customization can be lengthy due to the numerous features included in the software.
- New staff members require some sort of hands-on training to get to know all the use capabilities.
- The analytics can be improved to include forecasts and trend analysis.
- Expensive compared to competitors.
October 18, 2018
BMC Remedy is Your Ticket
- Again, the ability to have all of the information (changes, incidents, problems, etc.) in one place is paramount.
- The built-in ability to run simple reports is quite valuable.
- The ability to interact with Crystal Reports makes BMC Remedy an even more data mining and reporting tool.
- Once users are trained properly, it allows for the quick and easy creation of new issues.
- Sometimes it takes a long time to get reports from the inventories.
- Complicated reports, or those that pull a lot of data, can bog the system down. Some of that is due to proper user training.
- Customizing the application to meet your exact needs can cause it to become difficult to upgrade when future versions are released.
August 20, 2018
BMC Remedy: A first look at an ITIL Implementation from an IT professional who uses it constantly
- Remedy is great for housing much of the ITIL process in one System: if you want a complete package with every bell and every whistle, Remedy is for you
- Remedy breaks down the functions of ITIL into "consoles": separate areas of the System, that allow one to focus on Changes, Incidents, Assets, etc
- The interface is VERY compatible with legacy web browser tech: The last surviving member of the browser wars is still the favorite for remedy users: IE 11
- The interface (ironically). My company has made an attempt to replace the "classic" Remedy interface with some more functional, modern, but Remedy set to a particular look and feel (and consequently, functionality)
- The API is hidden from the user: There exists an API for Remedy, that would make my job TONS easier, as I like to perform actions on Remedy in bulk (and therefore - programmatically). Exposing a user API is very much mainstream these days, so Remedy relying on its interface to perform ITIL is very limiting
- By extension- the result of Remedy's interface is that it becomes very "click-happy": little buttons, and links stuffed into every corner of the screen, with options API logically together. API is old, but it still feels very rushed.
- The primary tool for most of my ITIL operations is: searching. API of searching goes into finding assets, checking in equipment, finding users, tickets, etc. What Remedy could very much benefit from a "Google" -like interface
March 16, 2018
ITSM Senior Consultant
- Applications aligned to ITIL best practices with many of the most common needs covered out of the box.
- Integration between applications (Incident, problem and change management) makes it really easy create the relationships between these entities.
- Using the Action Requests (AR) system the application is highly customizable , assuming an appropriate level of knowledge of developing applications using AR System.
- In Remedy you can do many things but you need to built them first. Many of the Integrations depend on external components and the architecture used to implement the solution.
- The cloud-based solution should be improved to work in the same way as the on-premise solution.
- To accomplish minor changes on the appearance of the forms you need a lot of training.
November 30, 2017
BMC for Change Managment/ITSM
- Management of change requests including approvals, scheduling and completing the related tasks
- Ability for users to approve items via email and mobile devices
- Allow users to view data/reports easily
- Expandability is limited and once you make certain customizations the upgrade process can become difficult or impossible
- Relationships between Configuration Items and Changes is clunky and difficult to setup/maintain
- Service Desk functionality is not as robust as other tools and does not allow for easy configurations/customizations
November 27, 2017
Remedy Force is a Ticketing system for Work
- I like the auto update, the information in the ticket when we respond to the email looks and feels really good. And there are many different sections like, Incident details, Client details, Status details, Assignment details, date details and so on, which you can go to directly instead of searching within the whole page.
- It is easy to implement our business requirements In BMC Remedy.
- On the integration side, the implementation of the REST api has simplified integration to other systems like Salesforce CRM and Apttus CPQ...
- There is no advanced case management in BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite, like auto closer and escalation process like we have in Salesforce, which needs to improve.
- BMC Remedy IT Service Management Suite is missing some key features that would make life easier, such as being able to more easily copy tickets and search for tickets.
- Technology is slow.
November 07, 2017
BMC/Remedy means it has the solution
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Notification of new ticket, group notifications and individual are of great helps to support personnel. Depending on ticket volume notifications need to be tweaked with a simple config change to reduce the amount.
- Ticket visibility/tracking by management/group leads for trending or volume down to groups or individual.
- Ease of modification of any ITSM module on the needs of the company or group or between modules for any functional need.
- Ease of integration with most third party vendors and external databases.
- Ease of creating standalone BMC applications for application need within extremely tight schedules.
- Part of the setup for Asset and CMDB is hard and time-consuming. But, is worth it.
- Most companies do not use the tool correctly as they do not want to go through the steps to set up CMDB, they say it is too hard and takes resources.
- Because of the openness of the system, it allows you to not use the system correctly. Example, many companies I have dealt with only want to use the Asset/CMDB as a placeholder for Assets, sort of like an expensive Excel document. BMC allows this.
July 28, 2017
I'm happy wirh BMC
- Incident reporting
- Incident reassignment
- Easy incident creation
- Incidents track
- Capability of being adapted
- Price
- Usability
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Owner / other relationship values for hardware
- Great integration into the CMDB, Discovery, and other CI tools
- Audit log for hardware and configuration changes
- Poor interface, takes multiple clicks to manage simple things, looks like it was designed in late 90s
- CMDB takes years to learn / master, not a great amount of training available online (poor documentation on vendor site)
April 04, 2017
BMC ITSM Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- .Very customizable
- Based on ITIL so correct processes are there OOTB.
- Easy enough to implement with very little effort.
- Support can be a little slow at times.
- Some errors are very vague.
- Still very clunky look and feel but this is slowly being rectified with SmartIT.