We performed a comparison between BMC Helix ITSM and Cherwell Service Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Automatic orchestration is the most valuable. The feature for designating some cases or incidents to the right PM for resolution, first call resolution, and change management are also important. The self-service feature and knowledge base resolutions are helping the customers in resolving issues rather than opening tickets."
"We find the incident management module the best. The reporting part is also useful. We use a feature called smart reporting, and it is very beneficial for us."
"The most valuable features of BMC Helix ITSM are its customization ability and the addition of new features. As a built-in Suite, it covers all that is needed in the IT guidelines, which is good. Each customer has their own needs, and the customization the solution provides is beneficial."
"I like the single sign-on and that administrators can customize."
"The solution has good capabilities for analytics."
"Having all the processes, fields, and settings already setup out-of-the-box, thus minimizing implementation time."
"It's a very integrated solution."
"Provides a clean front-end for our users to log requests and has rich ITSM functionality."
"The most valuable features are problem management and change management."
"The dashboard and the reporting functionality are the solution's most valuable features."
"The dashboard is very useful to get a quick overview of current tasks."
"Clear processes with transparent responsibilities led to more efficiencies within the teams."
"Its integration features, orchestration features, and discovery tools are the most valuable. It is also pretty stable, and it can be as scalable as you want."
"All our activities are carried out in the one place."
"In the next release, I would like to see AI used for classification or categorization."
"We found that there was numerous issues upgrading from 8.1 to 9.1 in that all our licenses were broken for almost a year and a half. We chased down a total of 14 hotfixes, patches, and service packs before things were finally resolved. During that time, said "fixes" also broke other things, so it was quite the sore spot with management for some time."
"Helix needs to enhance some of its functionality with the latest technology. For example, Helix could improve its chatbot automation to automate more use cases."
"We have experienced outages, because some other customers did something on the same cluster that we share."
"Encountered issues with scalability and stability."
"The Approval Central system needs to be refreshed."
"Needs to make customizable/configurable article templates in the Knowledge Management."
"It would also be beneficial if there was a text-based editor for the workflow rules instead of using the developer studio, which adds a lot of time when developing quick solutions to problems."
"Application service mapping, GRC, SecOps, and things like that need improvement."
"Access is only available if we're on VPN."
"Areas for improvement would be the service catalog and customer catalog, which is not very user-friendly. The shopping cart experience is also terrible - you submit and go straight to the cart, you can't continue shopping or see your overall cost."
"The stability, specifically in the on-premises deployment model, could be improved."
BMC Helix ITSM is ranked 3rd in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 75 reviews while Cherwell Service Management is ranked 13th in IT Service Management (ITSM) with 6 reviews. BMC Helix ITSM is rated 8.0, while Cherwell Service Management is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of BMC Helix ITSM writes "The leading service management platform for delivering intelligent, user-centric experiences". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cherwell Service Management writes "Having everything in one location has significantly improved our efficiency and reporting". BMC Helix ITSM is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Freshdesk and IBM Maximo, whereas Cherwell Service Management is most compared with ServiceNow and Ivanti Neurons for ITSM. See our BMC Helix ITSM vs. Cherwell Service Management report.
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