OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB vs. Snow ITSM Enhancer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Formerly from Micro Focus, OpenText™ Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB discovers, maps, and manages IT configurations and can be deployed on-premises or via SaaS. It is used to increase IT visibility and reduce IT service disruptions with robust discovery, service dependency mapping, and proactive impact analysis.N/A
Snow ITSM Enhancer
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Snow's ITSM Enhancer can automatically build and maintain a CMDB, providing a single source of trusted asset information to support some of the most critical ITIL and service management processes. The vendor states that with this data, service desks can better focus on providing service.N/A
Pricing
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDBSnow ITSM Enhancer
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Offerings
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OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDBSnow ITSM Enhancer
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDBSnow ITSM Enhancer
Considered Both Products
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Chose OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
There are no relevant differences between the most well-known CMDB tools in terms of their features and user experience; however, one of the critical facts to select a specific CMDB product is its capacity to integrate it with all IT operations management tools for ITIL …
Chose OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
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Chose OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Microfocus is less expensive than IBM. Also, IBM's user interface is more complex than Microfocus's User interface as Microfocus is more friendly. Also, Microfocus allows the user or system engineer to navigate the UI, search records and service manager, etc. providing the user …
Chose OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
Quite competing products but short learning curve and fitment in our IT Landscape were main differentiators.
Chose OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDB
It's fabulous software with asset tracking. Magnificent for minimizing cost. Excellent with managing virtual servers. Intuitive user interface.
Snow ITSM Enhancer
Chose Snow ITSM Enhancer
Let's you significantly improve in the efficiency and effectiveness of IT service teams. Automatically builds and maintains the CMDB by providing a single source of trusted asset information to support important ITIL and service management processes. With actionable data at …
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Small Businesses

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Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDBSnow ITSM Enhancer
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8.0
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Usability
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Support Rating
7.0
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Implementation Rating
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User Testimonials
OpenText Universal Discovery and Universal CMDBSnow ITSM Enhancer
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for its responsiveness to customer service. Excellent with data replication. Impressive with workflow management. Great with the discovery of new network points.
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Well suited to maintain large asset details to automatically map it to CMDB.
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Pros
  • Management and organization of Configuration Items
  • Ensures a single and uniform source of database to avoid any ambiguity between departments.
  • Proper delivery of services
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  • Get visibility of all hardware, software and applications
  • Let's you validate licensing and entitlement.
  • Capacity to augment work detailed usage statistics.
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Cons
  • When getting started the Cloud deployment may be not that easy.
  • To manipulate the system deeply requires a professional operator.
  • Working on large data project.
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  • None as of now
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Usability
Old versions which do not support CMS have a luck of user experience and performance for reports and service modeling.
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Support Rating
Some complex issues regarding performance and platform upgrades have been difficult to address and have short time solutions.
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Implementation Rating
Upgrades from old versions were really hard to handle.
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Alternatives Considered
Microfocus is less expensive than IBM. Also, IBM's user interface is more complex than Microfocus's User interface as Microfocus is more friendly. Also, Microfocus allows the user or system engineer to navigate the UI, search records and service manager, etc. providing the user complete management platform making it a completely accessible platform.
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Let's you significantly improve in the efficiency and effectiveness of IT service teams. Automatically builds and maintains the CMDB by providing a single source of trusted asset information to support important ITIL and service management processes. With actionable data at it's fingertips,the service desk can so what it does best in delivering IT services.
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Return on Investment
  • Improved our infrastructure operations supporting well our business.
  • Improved the lifecycle management of infra and software components.
  • Timely identification of obsolescence and helps maintaining an up-to-date IT landscape supporting well our business operations.
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  • Positive outcome as we could capture the CI using our ITSM tool
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