Atomicwork vs BMC Remedy

Stop looking for a Remedy. Elevate your IT health with Atomicwork.

Don’t retrofit a legacy platform for modern enterprises. Leverage the power of AI-driven service management for seamless IT support.

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BMC = Big Maintenance Costs

Once a market leader, BMC Remedy (now Helix ITSM) is frustrating modern IT teams with its unwarranted complexities and overhead.

Outdated and clunky UI

BMC is often criticized for its complex, clunky interface that can drain valuable time, making even basic tasks unnecessarily challenging for IT admins.

Extensive customization

Despite offering a breadth of features, organizations find the initial deployment (and future upgrades) quite difficult to implement—often paying and relying on specialized expertise to use the platform.

Traditional licensing and pricing

BMC’s licensing model is complex, with additional costs for extra modules and concurrent licenses. This makes it unreasonably expensive for companies to scale their IT infrastructure unless they have a large ITSM budget.

And we are not the only ones who think so

u/jbm2017
Jira is not a service desk, but a system built for software development. They're shoehorning other use cases into the system, but it is obviously not designed as a service desk.
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u/Zenie
It’s been a few years since I’ve used it. But I remember their support being quite lackluster. If you needed to build a report or something you were basically on your own to figure it out.
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u/InitializedVariable
If you use the Atlassian stack, it’s okay. It you don’t use Jira for anything else, then it’s the wrong choice. Use a solution that is common to your ecosystem.
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Why modern IT teams prefer Atomicwork?

AI-first service management

Unlike legacy ITSM tools that try to manage existing processes, Atomicwork uses agentic AI for faster, smarter, and self-improving systems.

Simple, user-friendly interface

Designed with the admin and end-user experiences in mind, Atomicwork has an intuitive UI that is easy to navigate and use.

Service delivery in the flow of work

Empower end users to access IT support instantly on their preferred channels—whether its Slack, Teams, email, or browser—without switching apps.

Talk to our team
Our journey with Atomicwork to transition our ticketing systems to their AI-based Microsoft Teams Interface has been remarkable. The product has transformed how we manage our IT and business workflows, offering a seamless enterprise integration to meet our needs efficiently.
Chad Ghosn
Global CTO and CIO,
AMMEX Corporation

Atomicwork is a valuable partner in our journey towards World-Class IT Operations.  We were able to deploy and replace a number of incumbent solutions within 6 weeks. We have already seen <span style="color: #F33F32">significant improvements across ticket deflection, self service</span> and most importantly <span style="color: #F33F32">employee experience. </span>Moving across to the Atomicwork solution also reduced our TCO by consolidating 3 different solutions into one platform.

Before
20%
Ticket
deflection rate
After
65%
Ticket
deflection rate
Ryder Hampton
Head of Technology - Enterprise Services

With Atomicwork’s modern service management and Agentic AI platform, we are <span style="color: #F33F32">transforming the digital workplace experience</span> at Zuora. Our employees now enjoy instant support, seamless information access, and automated service workflows—all via Slack. This partnership is driving<span style="color: #F33F32"> faster resolutions, enhanced productivity,</span> and a smarter, more connected workplace.

Before
20%
Ticket
deflection rate
After
65%
Ticket
deflection rate
Karthik Chakkarapani
SVP, Corporate Operations & CIO

Atomicwork improved visibility into our operations and helps us see where we’re overstretched or underutilized, identify performance gaps, and plan resources with confidence. With Atomicwork, everyone—whether in HR, IT, or Finance—is finally<span style="color: #F33F32"> speaking the same language,</span> using the same workflows, processes, and tools.

Before
20%
Ticket
deflection rate
After
65%
Ticket
deflection rate
Syachfri Tjhia
Head of IT

The ROI on deploying Atomicwork across our teams has been incredible. Unlike Jira Service Management, Atomicwork allowed us to <span style="color: #F33F32">maintain our IT team without adding a single headcount </span>in six months. The product has transformed how we manage our IT and business workflows, offering a seamless enterprise integration to meet our needs efficiently.

Before
20%
Ticket
deflection rate
After
65%
Ticket
deflection rate
Chad Ghosn
Global CTO and CIO

Hear from customers who switched to Atomicwork

Ryder Hampton
Head of Technology - Enterprise Services
Switched from ServiceNow

Atomicwork is a valuable partner in our journey towards world-class IT operations. We were able to deploy this new platform and <span style="color: #F33F32"> replace a number of incumbent solutions within 6 weeks.</span> We have already seen significant improvements across ticket deflection, self-service and most importantly employee experience. Moving across to the Atomicwork solution also reduced our TCO by <span style="color: #F33F32"> consolidating 3 different solutions into one platform. </span>

Chad Ghosn
Global CTO and CIO
Switched from Jira Service Management

<span style="color: #F33F32"> The ROI on deploying Atom across our teams has been incredible.</span> Unlike Jira Service Management, Atom allowed us to maintain our IT service team without adding a single headcount in six months. It handles simple queries that used to interrupt our Finance team, and it  provides our CEO with <span style="color: #F33F32"> real-time updates </span> on shipments and orders - questions that would normally require a phone call or an email or a meeting, disrupting someone’s day.

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How Atomicwork transforms your enterprise service management

Atomicwork vs. Jira Service Management

Bring service management to where your end users are

Unlike legacy ITSM software that are heavily portal-centric and ticket-focused, Atomicwork is built with the modern employee at the centre. Atom, our intelligent AI assistant, brings service management to end users on common collaboration tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams. You can add different knowledge sources like Sharepoint, Notion, or Confluence to help employees find accurate answers and request support instantly.
Atomicwork vs JSM incident management

Contextual service delivery for all enterprise teams

Different service teams in your enterprise like the HR, Finance, or IT teams can use Atomicwork to drive service management from one place. You can manage incidents, assets, requests, changes, and problems from a single platform effectively with smart employee context.
Atomicwork leverages native enterprise AI capabilities to identify end-user intent, categorize requests, and help agents with troubleshooting steps for faster issue resolutions.

Integrate and simplify common enterprise workflows

Bring employee data from different enterprise systems like Workday, Okta, or Intune to automate complex enterprise-level workflows like employee onboarding or invoice processing. Atomicwork also makes it easy for IT teams to service common employee requests like password resets, user provisioning, or software access by integrating seamlessly with Azure directory and Okta.
Enterprise integrations

Scale service management with secure and responsible AI

Atomicwork is designed with all the security considerations from the ground up. We adhere to top enterprise compliance standards, including HIPAA, SOC2, ISO 27017, and ISO 27001. Atomicwork adopts responsible AI methods to deploy LLM models safely with our natively built TRUST framework.
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Atomicwork vs. BMC at a glance

Criteria
Core focus
To manage traditional ITSM processes
AI-native, user-first service management platform
Incident management
Process-oriented approach to manage the incident lifecycle
AI-powered incident resolution with automated triaging
Change management
Process-oriented method to manage changes
Lightweight, AI-driven automated change management
Catalog management
Flexible but requires extensive customization
Simple, AI-discoverable service catalog and fulfilment
Asset management
IT assets can be tracked with another BMC platform
Built-in asset tracking and discovery capabilites
Workflow automation
Rule-based and rigid, requiring a lot of set up and maintenance efforts
Agentic workflows that are self-healing, flexible, and autonomous
Self-service options
Portal-based + basic bots that need conversational flows at the backend
Autonomous AI agents that proactively support end-users on Slack, MS Teams, email, portal, or browser
User experience
Complex UI resulting in a steep learning curve
Simple and intuitive interface for quick adoption
Implementation
Complex, needing expert consultants and intricate customizations
Rapid, agile deployment with pre-built workflows and quick implementation support
Customer support
Traditional tiered support model
24*7 support focused on user-friendly assistance
Total cost of ownership
High due to licensing, consulting, and maintenance costs
Lower TCO with AI automations
reducing manual efforts
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Best-in-class enterprise-ready security and compliance

CCPA
GDPR
ISO 27001
ISO 27018
M365
SOC 2
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One comprehensive AI platform for end-to-end service management

Our unified service management platform combines an AI assistant, a modern service desk, and intelligent workflow automation to simplify enterprise processes without a bloated budget.

Conversational AI assistant

Our AI-powered assistant, Atom, can fetch answers instantly for employees so that they don't get stuck dealing with everyday support.

Smart request management

Atomicwork allows you to prioritize, route, and assign incoming requests, for effortless service fulfillment.

Smart incident management

Leverage AI to classify, prioritise and run a proactive incident management system and accelerate issue resolutions.

Modern IT asset management

Atomicwork gives IT admins the ability to get an overview of an asset’s entire lifecycle, from purchase to decommissions, so they can optimize spend.

AI-powered automation

Use out-of-the box AI workflows to free up your IT team’s time spent on manual tasks like user provisioning and password resets.

Enterprise IT integrations

Integrate with your existing IT tech stack for seamless information flow and contextual enterprise workflows.

Frequently asked questions

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