BMC Helix CMDB Reviews & Insights

Strives to enrich ecosystem workflow with a business-aware and single source of references for your assets and services. Lets you [to] combine and federate data [from] multiple sources. Automatically populate and update CMDB wjrb BMC Helix Discovery. Provides the best quality data to an organization via KPI-driven user experience. The best leasing configuration management database.

Lets you run more effective CABs with accurate configuration and dependency data. Understand the impact of change on other assets applications and services. Detecting potential underlying issues [when multiple] changes are made. Provides very adaptable and highly reliable data quality and integrity engines configured through rules [to] ensure normalization, data source prioritization, and deduplication.

It strives to enrich ecosystem workflow with a business-aware, single source of references for your assets and services. Combine and federate data from multiple sources. Automatically populate and update your CMDB with BCM Helix Discovery. Provide the best quality of data to your business via a KPI-driven user Experience. Manage your assets and services with accuracy.

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.

If your corporation has less than a 500 employees this may not be the solution for you but then again it may be depending on your business. Does your business require that you have a direct pulse on your environment? and exactly how valuable to you that your business remains available to you and your customers as well as the true reflection of your environment?

We currently only use it to store information on our servers for our IT departments. However, we are looking at expanding this to include more non-IT type information such as creating assets for locations and things which would help assist with our IT Service Desk such as mobile phones and computer workstations.

Atrium CMDB is very flexible and can meet needs both small and great. If you're looking to have a central location for all asset information, regardless of type (hardware, software, people, phones, location, etc), Atrium CMDB provides a great value. Especially if you are looking at tying this information into a ticketing system for affected assets. It can also be tied in with BMC Discovery, which will auto update the CMDB with its own discovered data. This is where the product really shines.

We are using the BMC Atrium CMDB to keep track of our assets primarily from the parent host system to individual components such as CPU, software, memory, processor etc. The CMDB is quite easy to customize and thus, this is why I really support the BMC's edition of the CMDB. This helps us track our IT assets, how much they cost, and helps us plan for future upgrades.

Discovering all of an org's assets is very well suited and associating each asset to other assets. This helps IT get a visual picture of the topology of the company.

Manual updates however, are less suited. I heard that a computer manufacturer used Remedy to help track each component that is used in their computer manufacturing process. However, without an iron tight process, the chance of failure would be high and this would be a highly manual process.