BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB) vs. Device42

BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Device42

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BMC Helix CMDB	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	The BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB, formerly known as Atrium CMDB) is a configuration management database.	N/A
Device42	Score 6.5 out of 10	N/A	Device42 is a comprehensive, agentless discovery system for Hybrid IT. Device42 can continuously discover, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, in order to provide an accurate views of the IT ecosystem. Device42 intelligently groups discovered workloads by application affinities, so as to reduce the effort required to create move groups, capturing all communications. The vendor boasts customers in more than 60 countries including Global 2000…	$1,449 1-1K IPs

Pricing

BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

Device42

Editions & Modules

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Core 1-100 Devices: $1,449
1-1K IPs
Core 101-500 Devices: $2,999
1K-5K IPs
Core 501-1000 Devices: $4,999
5K-10K IPs
Core 1001-2500 Devices: $9,999
10K-25K IPs
Core 2500+ Devices: Request Quote
25K+ IPs

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BMC Helix CMDB	Device42
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Pricing for each customer requesting a SaaS installation/deployment is negotiated on a case by case basis, and depends on many factors

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Community Pulse
	BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)	Device42
Considered Both Products	BMC Helix CMDB Malik Austin Senior Information Technology Project Manager Chose BMC Helix CMDB Let's detect potential conflicts when multiple changes are scheduled for the same time. Understand what services are affected by the ticket you're working on. Automatically route tickets to the potential solver based on CMDB data. Retrieve detailed configuration data for the … Incentivized Helpful? Lucas Michael Project Manager Chose BMC Helix CMDB Run more effective CABs with accurate configuration and dependency data. Understand the impact of a change on other Infrastructure, applications, and services. Detect potential conflict when multiple changes are scheduled for the same time. Track and manage hardware, software, … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Etienne Senior Remedy Developer/Architect Chose BMC Helix CMDB I didn't even know there was competion with BMC Atrium CMDB. I have been in the tech industry for sixteen plus years and I have never seen another product accomplish the task that BMC Atrium CMDB performs on a daily basis. Also BMC Atrium CMDB has been around longer than … Incentivized Helpful? Gordon Yeh Remedy Architect Chose BMC Helix CMDB The number of workflows, escalations, processes built in the out of the box Remedy is outstanding. Trying to mimic/customize an open source, or even Remedyforce would cost more than implementing a vanilla Remedy. We reviewed ServiceNow but we felt that in terms of an end-to-end … Incentivized Helpful?	Device42 Verified User Anonymous Chose Device42 When we compare both Nlyte & Device42. The below are the advantages of Device42 which helped us to choose it. 1. Support is very much good in Device42. 2. It has lots of advanced features CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM etc. Incentivized Helpful? AC Andry Campos Soporte Técnico Chose Device42 The mean features that we can talk is that Device42 is agentless, and the another software requires the agent instalation in every assets. Incentivized Helpful? Veronicah Rodolfo Project Manager Chose Device42 Device42 is very easy to use, It's affordable, It's accessible making it the easiest to be accessed by majority of the clients. Incentivized Helpful? Hannah Sandoval Team Lead Manager Chose Device42 What I appreciate and love about Device42 is how everything links together from room layout,to server rack organisation,down to all VMs and Business applications. We are also able to get full value of our money and full visibility of our assets management process. Incentivized Helpful? Douglas Carter Technical Manager Chose Device42 I like the availability of highly trained support team,Simple and easy-to-use interface with a lot of pre-defined reports available to use and built-in dependency mapping diagram and topology. Its cost effective and more so time saving tool. I also love all the licencing … Incentivized Helpful? geeta pillai Production Specialist Chose Device42 Brilliant for making informed decisions on the database. Excellent with SSL certification management. Terrific and fabulous with data warehousing. Impressive to collect and configuration of data from storage devices. Incentivized Helpful? darshana rajput Database Administrator Chose Device42 It's super terrific with SSL certification management. Great to track cost on assets Excellent with data visualization. Incentivized Helpful? greg thompson Database Administrator Chose Device42 Impressive and incredible with automatic discovery of storage devices. It's easy to deploy and migrate to the cloud. Fantastic with making informed decisions through real-time reporting and data collection. Incentivized Helpful? DP Deepak Pund Technical Support Engineer Chose Device42 1. Device42 provides Free Trial 2. Device42 has 24x7 support 3. Device42 has less price Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)	Device42
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BMC Helix Configuration Management Database (CMDB)	Device42
Likelihood to Recommend	Track and manage hardware, software, and cloud service configuration and relationship. Measure the success of your configuration management process and policy with predefined KPIs. Automatically populate and update CMBD minutes with BCM Helix Discovery, BMC Helix Client Management, and other connectors. Import and federate data from other sources with powerful Integra tools using a rich set of API. Incentivized Lucas Michael Project Manager Read full review	Device42 is very easy to use, configure and install on multiple devices without experiencing any technical or difficulty errors. Simple and effective User Interface that is very attractive and easy to navigate in search of any asset management data. like it offers variety of licensing models from which we can choose what we want. Incentivized Douglas Carter Technical Manager Read full review
Pros	Atrium CMDB integration with Remedy and SmartIT are great! It's very simple to select an asset which is affected by a work ticket. The storage capacity of information which can be saved into the CMDB is vast. It's not limited to IT based assets only. Incentivized Shayne Froelich Analyst Read full review	Device42 can discover physical and virtual servers as well as your network devices Device42 can give resource utilization details like CPU, Memory and Storage Device42 can give dependency mapping Device42 can give inbound and outbound communication details Device42 can create Affinity Groups (Move Groups) Device42 can recommend the Cloud platform to which you can migrate your infrastructure. Incentivized DP Deepak Pund Technical Support Engineer Read full review
Cons	Better financial systems, depreciation, chargebacks, etc Easier time to customize the forms Incentivized Gordon Yeh Remedy Architect Read full review	UI/UX is not up to the standards. Can't mass update everything. No export option for the sub components that have changed linked to the device they are assigned to Plugins options are limited Sometimes randomly times out my login forcing me to log in again. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Once you have an understanding of the many use cases that this software can meet, you will be able to tightly integrate this into a ticketing system which increases the ROI of the product tremendously. Incentivized Shayne Froelich Analyst Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Let's detect potential conflicts when multiple changes are scheduled for the same time. Understand what services are affected by the ticket you're working on. Automatically route tickets to the potential solver based on CMDB data. Retrieve detailed configuration data for the assets you are troubleshooting. Resolve tickets faster. It is highly scalable. Incentivized Malik Austin Senior Information Technology Project Manager Read full review	When we compare both Nlyte & Device42. The below are the advantages of Device42 which helped us to choose it. 1. Support is very much good in Device42. 2. It has lots of advanced features CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM etc. 3. It helps in documenting unlike manual & tedious process. 4. It helps us to remove the spreadsheet method for tracking with advanced reporting Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	A properly maintained CMDB can save you large dollar amount when it comes to compliance, theft and replacements. Richard Etienne Senior Remedy Developer/Architect Read full review	We use it for the mass updates. Because of which we save lots of time It helps in making everything documented With this system you can get any information about the location of the device, connected cables, additional information and statuses. Inventory Management Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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