BMC Helix ITSM

Former RAC and BMC Accredited Administrator AR System

Using the BMC ITSM you can consolidate in a Suite the major task of the ITSM support staff based on ITIL best practices.

Set the record straight!

Once installed/upgraded it is super easy to develop, manage and it is very easy to have to tool fit your processes. The automation and ability for it to assign, push workflow to other systems and automatically close is awesome. The intelligent integration for event management (off the shelf and event management system that can consume WSDLs or REST, can take advantage of this two-way BSR utility; it’s a game changer!

Remedy Review

Overall, I wouldn't recommend Remedy for IT Service Management. I believe there are better solutions available that are user friendly while also being visually appealing.

After 5+ years i still dont like it

Neutral, it works stable when you give the system enormous resources. System is quite complicated from licencing perspective, user handling, reporting, creating autoassigments, maintaing knowledgebase, problem management handling etc.
Actualy when you try alternatives you figure out that system is not that bad. But in 2020 it looks like it's from last decade from perspective of resources, flexibilty and integration posibilites.
Support forum is the worst. You are basicly on your own. When you implement any kind of improvement you often create 3-4 problems that you have to solve. Mobile aplication exist only on paper. It is abandoned by vendor i thing from version 1.
Last updates still have part of system based on Adoble Flash so beware of Decembar 2020 when Microsoft, Mozilla drop support.
After 5 years of using i'm still puzzled by database structure that creates so many problem for integration with 3rd party reporting systems.
Smart Reporting and Birt reporting are basicly the worst reporting system ever. Slow, unresponsive, require enormous resources just to run basic reports.
Personaly i would never choose it as solutin if you have any requirement for custimization. To expensive, to complicated.

Complete Helpdesk and IT service management solution

It is a single repository/database for incidents, assets, change requests and knowledge
You can easily track old tickets as well as you can figure out the approval chain, pending tickets and followup on tasks done and has to be done.

One of best tool that tracks the status of the tickets that are being raised as part of request

All-in-one asset management under a single app

We have consolidated all our ITOM operations under a single app, readily accessible across the organization.

incident management tool

All the demands of you, which need to be met by technicians, are registered in ars remedy, there are two ways to perform the registration. Via the web, having access to the tool, or contacting the helpdesk, the first level technician records the customer demand, this demand is received by the responsible area that continues the service. The process is correct and follows the itil methodology, but the tool is outdated and problematic.

Great ITSM Tool!

Remedy ITSM has been great to implement our Service Desk Service from Scratch.
With it we can keep track of the ticket´s progress, and improve our Support Platform 100%.

Works OK, but has some flaws

I used Remedy in the last 3 years to process automatic generated incidents and changes. Overall it was a good experience, but you always have the feeling that you are using an older, obsolete software.

Remedy Service Desk Review

It suited us fine as an ITIL centric Incident, Problem, Change Management tool. We considered other options to add Config and Asset management but all were similarly hard to implement on an established nationwide network.

BMC Helix ITSM, One of the best tools for Ticket Management.

In my point of view, BMC Helix ITSM is an exceptionally useful for managing our ticketing tasks.

Overall Adequate Functionality

Remedy enables our organization to track incidents and change requests in a single system of record.

incident management tool

Review of Remedy

it allows us to obtain statistics on the number of tickets opened in the different groups created in the software.

Industry Standard for a reason

Used this in the Air Force and as a Civilian and the program has been the best at tracking tickets and assets by far.

Nice product, however out of the box options are not ready solutions available

I use it for Ticketing sytem of IT services,

Remedy Service Desk

Especially in an organisation that involves customers and a back office, this is a must have.

Decent SD tool

Room for improvement for User experience and interface for making it simple to new or non technical work force

I have used Remedy to track Tech Help Desk requests for years.

automation of documentation and communication from my help desk. They have resolved with the new versions what complaints I had about scalability between multiple help desks and user groups, and the reporting required.

Remedy ITSM - Kelly's view point

Pros -
* Consistent UI makes it easy to navigate.
* Fully ITIL Compliant and easy to explain how using SMPM
* Easily customizable to meet company needs and business processes
* Data driven configuration/business rules allows for less customization to need to be done
* Data load capabilities are getting stronger
* Default configuration of system variables works for 90% of companies
* Continues to add new sizzle in each release

Cons -
* No end to end data model so when you do have to do a configuration or customization change you don't know all the places impacted
* Limited Mobility solution - ability to show reports/charts on mobile devices. I think Smart Reporting in 9.0 will help with this. Ability to work tickets - you have Smart IT for the Service Desk. We need it for the resolvers.
* Upgrade is a bear if you have done any customizations.
* No support for multiple overlays. Unisys has done a lot of overlays for our improvements. If a customer wants to change something then it goes in our overlay, not a second level overlay. Consequently, when we do an update to our overlay, their customization goes away.

Overall General Impression -
Remedy ITSM is the most feature complete yet flexible tool on the market. Time to implement is far less with Remedy than the competitors. The open ability to integrate is a huge plus because in today's world everyone wants all the tools form multiple vendors to work together.

ITSM out of the box or tailored, Remedy will get you there.

BMCs Remedy platform has long been a core in service desks everywhere. "Platform" is the proper term, not "application". Most people hear Remedy and think 'help desk tickets'. While this is certainly the heritage and one of the strongest things Remedy does, it barely scratches the surface. Remedy ITSM provides an out of the box ITIL based solution ready to run by any organization that needs or wants to employ full lifecycle management for services. It is not just 'tickets' any more. Everything from baseline (Change) management, Problem Management, Release Management, to full Asset Management can be done in the ITSM suite out of the box. Just fill in the basics of your organization and you are good to go (this isn't a small task mind you, thinking out how to layout the organization in the beginning will leverage even more from the platform in the long run - a smart plan would be 3 months at least). Add to it BMC discovery (ADDM) and you have live asset data to feed Incidents, Change, and Assets.

As your organization matures, customization to do just about anything you can think of in a 'ticket' fashion is possible. Recent updates in the core of the platform have made preservation of customization much easier - something that had been very difficult in the past. So whether you need ITIL from the start or have custom ideas to develop, the Remedy platform can handle it all.

Easy to navigate interface but lags in load and search.

Great backend and with MyIT/SmartIT a better product

Having played with ITSM since the 5.x days, and the 7.x release since the beta, I have always felt that this product is the leader that other companies would rip off.
The backend of ITSM cannot be beat by any vendor, one can almost make it do anything and captor any data, any manager could use in a report.
For example we have BPPM and BAO, tied to our ITSM system. So we auto-create, auto-rout and even auto-close incidents. ADDM populates our CMDB, so can keep track of what is in our environment. I wonder what is out there that can do all of that seamlessly.
However, the long standing issue with ITSM is how complicated it was and still is. Not just to install, but to use.
The first versions had mutable pages of data that needed to be entered, just to create an incident. As the product matured the number of data items reduced, however, not to the degree that our customers needed or wanted.
The first attempt to reduce this was SRM. However, way too many SRD (service requests) were created without thinking of the end user. This is where MyIT (for the end user) and SmartIT for the support user came in.
Having been playing with MyIT for a few months and a much shorter time on SmartIT, these two items will be what now gives a great backend a face one could love.

Please Run.

This is probably my least favorite program. Our office adopted it as a ticketing system, and I couldn't wait to get off. It's less than user-friendly, crashes constantly, and ran slower than bearable. Maybe it was built to support much smaller offices, but it was nothing short of a headache most days.

Great IT Support Tracker

We are using this tool to manage all report for each user that is requesting assistance from IT support by creating a ticket. They are are to copy all relevant information about the issue that users is experiencing with the device and any of the peers from IT support can go directly to the users that is facing the problem and provide the correct support. We already know what we need to have in order to solved users issue since there is an initial description for that. We can also track who has resolved previous ticket and easily provide report and have a history for each of electronic product we internally provide support on the company.

Good Ticket management tool

A decent alternative in ITSM domain

Enterprise Incident and Change Tracking Software

Prior job, used this in high level gov agency.

I missed it, once we migrated to a different system. I still do. Great software!

Work satisfaction and quality in performing daily tasks.

Used it for 3 years in our corporation now and it has been great for tracking change and...

Enterprise level, very powerful software which is very easy to use. As of Remedy 7.6x, you can make your own customizations to the application or even create applications of your own with their customized Eclipse tool.

While a lot of OOTB features worked very well for us, we still needed the ability to customize and create our own forms and processes or even the ability to perform automation and self-service with other applications. Some items the learning curve is not bad at all and customizations can be added with little to no effort. Whereas others have taken quite a long time to develop and troubleshoot.

One such customization which we developed was the ability to have placeholder templates for Change, Incident, Work Order and Tasks where we pass through variables via the SRM and it dynamically generates and populates the ticket with this information. We have full date automation, dynamic Task generation and the ability to dynamically modify the template on the fly based on the answers that the user passes through via SRM. So instead of multiple templates which are served based on "if-then" answers in the Process Definition, we have a single template which then gets massaged based on the user's answers. This customization took a decent amount of time to complete, but it reduced the amount of time of SRM and template rework to almost nothing.

Of course with such customization, there are always risks of breaking existing workflow or failure during an upgrade. So when we upgraded fro 7.6.04 to 8.1, it took a solid month of work to check each and every form, active link, filter, etc to make sure that things worked with the new upgrade. But BMC's tools helped reduce both the time and work it took to get the kinks worked out and we had all of our environments upgraded and without the need to call in expensive consultants to assist with it.

As with any piece of software, there are always going to be issues. However, we have found that 9.5 out of 10 times we contact BMC for support, their staff is more than knowledgeable and have us up and running again in short order.

BMC's Remedy ITSM Suite is a great piece of software and VERY flexible to meet the most demanding of situations. After being a Remedy Administrator for 3 years, I can say without hesitation that it is well worth the price and would be a welcomed addition to any I.T. department.

Essential and User Friendly Tool used for ticketing purpose

Best Ticketing tool for business purpose. Gives us wide range of options to customize from.
breadth of services.
Easily understandable
Can generate reports according to requirement
Able to link tickets to one another easily

Remedy as a tool for change request and incident management is useful

Organization has adopted ITSM Remedy tool a few years ago. It was difficult in the initial few months. However, experience members are use to this tool now. New team members take time to understand the tool.

Remedy - crashing and burning constantly

We use the Remedy Ticket system for helping with customers. However, there is a lot more we could be utilizing for what we're paying.
Remedy is great - when it works.

Remedy Review

Remedy hasn't been the best service management software I have used, but it's also not the worst. Cluttered, very unfriendly to new users, slow, and overall lacking features that other software provided

One of the Best Incident Trackers!

I worked 3.5 years for 1-800-WAL-MART and used this software to track every single customer incident that happened in Walmart stores in the U.S. and beyond.

Love Remedy ITSM 8.1.01

I have been a Remedy developer since 1998. I was an early deplorer of 7.6 and 8.0 AND love ITSM 81.01.

I deployed 8.1.01 in January 2015. Installing email to use Outlook was missed because the install was not clearly understood. The same happened with Web Services. Correcting these deficits caused an outage shortly after Go Live.

Incident, Change, Knowledge, Asset & Release Management are deployed. DMT worked well for the foundation data with one exception - it is no longer possible to import Categorizations as Global; all categorizations are Company specific. SRM deployed quickly using the export/import method; painless and a big win for my customer. Incident, Work Order & Change Templates were created using data mining were included in IOC deployment. I love the People Management Console; it too, was a standard customization I added to previous apps. Multi-tenancy was simple to configure and deploy.

While Work Orders are now a stand-alone form, the app is not as well structured as Incident or Change Management, i.e. there is no "Print" button on the WOI:Work Order form.

With the ITSM Email Engine & Rules of 8.x, Remedy has nailed it! This used to be a huge development effort that took several months to complete, often delaying application deployment. The incoming email rules are well written and meet most customer needs.

We have all of our tickets create Service Requests. We had to add some customizations because when the "Requested For" user is changed, all of the new customer info does not write to the SR completely. This is a big deal when the customer has access to the Request Entry Console because the new customer does not have access to the REQ.

The Survey is confined to tickets created using SRDs which does not work for my customer. A custom Survey is in the works because the customer for every resolved Incident must receive a survey solicitation.

The TMS:Task form still uses the "Classic" view. It would be nice to have this view updated to match the "Best Practice" view of other ITSM forms. The same for CTM:People.

It would be great to have the option of having the last Task close a Work Order or Change Request part of application rules. This is a big issue with customers who always get caught unaware of the behavior.

Enterprise ITSM solution

Remedy is an enterprise solution that scales with the size of the company. It offers a lot of options to comply to the services and processes within the company.

BMC was many years the market leader regarding ITSM. However they are by passed by there competitors. Due to this BMC is moving to their new Helix platform. That is future ready and offers a modern look and feel.

Good ITSM tool

I use this software withing ITSM and we use it to track tickets, problems and trends within service and its impact on business.

Robust but Ruthless

Feature rich, but only if you're experienced with it

Easier ticket tracking and management, makes IT helpdesk job a lot more manageable.

Great Tool

Best tool for Resolving Dockets - Customer support

We are using Remedy on a daily basis to resolve customer tickets...very easy to keep track of the issues, customer can revert back as well , so that we can provide optimum solution to the issues raised through remedy dockets..

Government contract

Great Tool for Large Datacenter

we use Remedy incident and change management every single day as my team is a the datacenter support staff. It's crucial that we get notified immediately about incoming tickets and can access them quickly. Remedy does this for us and keeps our response time very low!

You need a better designer

Mercator review of Remedy IT Service Management

PROS:
- big community of users,
- generally lots of best practices are incorporated into the tool,
- listed as ITIL compliant (but see below coment...),
- offers lots of ITIL processes,
- well-connected OOTB with CMDB, BPPM, ADDM, other BMC tools,
- mostly well accepted among users (if we ignore product defects).

CONS:
- very difficult to understand process steps in Remedy and SMPM and relate them to ITIL process steps. SMPM, Remedy and ITIL have 3 different versions of the process, with not obvious relationship between them. None of the consultants knew the answer to this...
- the tool has lots of issues, some of them are very serious (e.g. server hangs and crashes every 2-3 days, some of our users cannot log onto SRM console, ...)
- support by BMC is generally poor. Very difficult to get people who understand what the problem is and even more difficult to find the ones able to resolve it. Unsatified almost 100%.
- Remedy is generally very slow for people doing lots of updates in the tool. I have seen 2 different installations and both have slow response times
- some easy things are actually a science in Remedy. E.g. how to add a column to Overview or Incident Console.
- old and clumsy interface, looks like it was built at the beginning of internet
- unpredictable system, sometimes works nice for days, and then it just starts behaving strangly (flush-cash becomes a regular thing to do, both server-side and client-side)
- there is practically no support nor consultants in our area, which makes us dependent on near-shore consultants, which is not practical
- upgrade is a nightmare, even with small amount of customizations that we had. It took us 2 months to perform it, and we still haven't resolved all the issues occured during upgrade

OVERALL IMPRESSION:
- good tool, but that volume of bugs leaves a really bad taste in the mouth...

Support tool for acting demands and sla compliance

We use to receive incidents identified by customers or other T.i teams

Use of remedy

its useful for the team to efficiently place tickets without the hassle of going through paperwork