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BMC Helix ITSM vs UserVoice comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Automation Anywhere
Sponsored
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
668
Ranking in other categories
Business Process Management (BPM) (2nd), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) (2nd), Process Mining (1st), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (1st), Agentic Automation (1st), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (2nd), AI Legal & Compliance (1st), AI Finance & Accounting (2nd), AI Procurement & Supply Chain (1st)
BMC Helix ITSM
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
78
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (7th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (9th)
UserVoice
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Customer Feedback Management (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

IT Service Management (ITSM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
BMC Helix ITSM5.1%
ServiceNow12.3%
JIRA Service Management6.3%
Other76.3%
IT Service Management (ITSM)
Customer Feedback Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UserVoice4.4%
Qualtrics XM Platform11.8%
Alchemer Mobile7.5%
Other76.3%
Customer Feedback Management
 

Featured Reviews

Venkat Sivaprakash - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at Accenture
Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions
Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.
KN
Senior Application Developer BMC at Balfour Beatty
Self-service portal significantly reduces resolution time and transforms service process with advanced features
We initially had a lot of tickets generated via the service desk through calls and emails. Now, we have almost moved out of email creations by introducing the DWP features on the Studio pages, with about 90% of the tickets coming in via our self-service portal. Recent upgrades offer different types of views for particular business lines, which was missing earlier. The new landing pages have allowed us to add banners, images, and internal videos, encouraging most customers to use these DWP self-service features. Resolution time has decreased significantly since implementing the self-service portal. Additionally, the availability of knowledge articles, chatbots, and the new Helix GPT feature has improved service processes.
it_user494850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Client Support at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The knowledge base was instrumental in elevating our self-help tools for clients. We took all of our user guides to the cloud, as well as other client-facing documents.
I would like to see more flexibility in UserVoice when it comes to content sharing / privacy. We have clients with custom builds, and I would like to have an easy way to host all of their custom content in the same KB and maintain those articles that are only visible to those clients. When I was with ReadyPoint, we had public content (applicable to every client) and private content (applicable only to one client's customizations, etc.). We were told by UserVoice that there was not a way to control who could see what content on a KB at the article level, and so parts of the information available on the KB (for example, the article about logging in and password setup) was not applicable to a large section of our clients (who had a custom login screen), and therefore caused lots of confusion.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The customer engagement is really deep, and they work with the “gemba”. They work with operations very closely. I also believe they have a good product roadmap."
"It really does have a great dashboard. It has Bot Insight, it has MetaBots, and IQ Bots. It has so many features where it can read a file and loop."
"Time-wise: We have saved hundreds of thousands of hours."
"Because it reduced the time duration of our processes, our costs went down."
"Automation Anywhere is one of the most popular RPA vendors offering powerful and user-friendly RPA capabilities to automate the business processes that are performed by humans. AA is a web-based management system that includes a control to run end-to-end automated business tasks for companies."
"I would rate this solution a ten out of ten."
"We've saved a lot of time. How much time we save depends on the process. It's likely at least 50%. Sometimes, it's up to 70%."
"By using its AI & ML capabilities, we have solved many problems for our clients."
"From what I've read BMC Helix ITSM has a lot of features and far more than the CA Service Desk."
"It has centralized all work orders and help desk ticket tracking."
"Currently, the Service Catalog has the most value to it. Mainly, because we are able to offer IT functionality to non-IT people."
"The valuable feature for me is that it's a tool that allows me to track processes right from the initial user request."
"The solution is already aligned with the framework, so it is easy for us to proceed with any ISO 27K certification."
"Smart Reporting makes it easy to create/publish views for tables, so our customers can easily create their own reports."
"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, and each customer has their own needs, and the customization the solution provides is beneficial."
"Provides a clean front-end for our users to log requests and has rich ITSM functionality."
"It has helped us to improve our response time to users, thus giving them a better experience from support."
"I can respond to customers extremely fast, which helps reinforce our company's image and culture as a friendly and responsive startup."
"If your core team of support and content managers adopts this platform and works within its structure, they'll benefit from a clean, easy-to-handle interface that grows quickly and makes their lives much easier!"
 

Cons

"In the next release, I think it has to be more compatible when deployed with the Citrix environment."
"When it comes to Citrix automation, AA should improve or add more features in such a way that all the commands should work when automating a Citrix application."
"The solution should include an analytics dashboard. As the space is maturing, many vendors sell functionalities as separate components so this is not unique to the solution."
"They continue to release new features, but end users struggle to adapt to them."
"I would like to see extensive OCR capabilities in the next release."
"Automation Anywhere can improve the product in potential areas of improvement with respect to automation and AI."
"They should consider being more multi-platform."
"The IQ Bots need more out-of-the-box models to lessen the time required for model training. Their competitors provide more built-in models, which enhance capabilities in document processing."
"It needs to be web based."
"The User Interface still has the appearance of being clunky and not user friendly."
"Its 50-50, sometimes its great, and other times, not."
"There are certain functions, such as status, which changes based on the email and last action taken by individual. Anyone can easily manipulate this functionality."
"BMC Helix ITSM could improve by having a cloud version. They are working on it which is a good thing because their competitors, such as ServiceNow, already provide cloud services."
"All products can be improved. For this solution, the customization could be improved."
"Adding additional fields does not work very well."
"Functionality-wise, it falls short of our expectations."
"We were told by UserVoice that there was not a way to control who could see what content on a KB at the article level, and so parts of the information available on the KB (for example, the article about logging in and password setup) was not applicable to a large section of our clients (who had a custom login screen), and therefore caused lots of confusion."
"The idea forum is lacking in features, it doesn’t allow you to attached files when commenting on an idea."
"Right now, I can only respond to customers. I really want the ability to compose and send a message to individual customers prior to them contacting us."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing needs to be made simpler or shortened."
"The price for Automation Anywhere is reasonable."
"My understanding is that the license cost of Automation Anywhere is more reasonable than UiPath and Blue Prism."
"Although the initial implementation cost of Automation Anywhere is relatively high compared to other options, its annual subscription cost is lower than UiPath's, which has the opposite pricing structure."
"The solution itself is free unless we want to add the support option but we have to pay for the bots we use."
"The pricing is a bit higher."
"It costs up to $1,200 per license."
"The licensing fees are approximately $10,000 USD for between five and ten users."
"Please always get the latest quote from a BMC partner or from BMC. Check for the latest offerings."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The solution is expensive."
"It is costly, but it is well worth it."
"The solution's pricing should come down."
"It is too expensive for a small business."
"If you are looking for some kind of professional services form the OEM then you would have to purchase that."
"There are licenses to use this solution."
"It is not very expensive and not very cheap. It is somewhere in-between. Some of the features are more expensive. There are also additional costs. If you want to use most of the features, you need to pay more."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business162
Midsize Enterprise86
Large Enterprise565
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise54
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Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...
How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?
It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.
What needs improvement with BMC Helix ITSM?
Although BMC Helix ITSM is a strong enterprise platform, there are areas where it could be improved. One key area is ...
What is your primary use case for BMC Helix ITSM?
My main use case for BMC Helix ITSM is validating and automating core ITSM workflows, such as incident, change, and s...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC Helix ITSM?
My thoughts on the pricing and licensing cost of BMC Helix ITSM are that it is flexible.
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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)
Remedy ITSM, Remedy, Helix Remedy, BMC Helix IT Service Management
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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics
Brookfield, HealthSouth Corporation, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Mercator, SAP, Stanford University
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