Elastic vs BMC Helix
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NYSE-listed (ESTC) Elasticsearch creator at $1.42B revenue with search, observability, and SIEM; 21,000+ customers competing with Splunk and Datadog while powering AI RAG vector search infrastructure.
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Elastic N.V. is an Amsterdam-based enterprise search and observability company — the creator and primary commercial distributor of Elasticsearch, the world's most widely used open-source search engine — providing the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch distributed search, Kibana visualization, Logstash data pipelines, Beats lightweight data shippers) for enterprise search, application observability, SIEM security analytics, and vector search for AI applications. Listed on NYSE (NYSE: ESTC), Elastic was founded in 2012 by Shay Banon and generated $1.42 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2025, serving 21,000+ customers including Microsoft, Verizon, and Spotify.
Houston enterprise ITSM and AIOps platform at ~$800M ARR from BMC Software split (Oct 2024); KKR-owned serving 92% Forbes Global 100 with AI incident correlation and ITOM competing with ServiceNow for enterprise IT service management.
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BMC Helix is a Houston, Texas-based enterprise IT service management and AIOps platform — operating as one of two independent companies created from the October 2024 BMC Software strategic split, focusing on Digital Service and Operations Management with approximately $800 million in annual recurring revenue, while remaining owned by private equity firm KKR (which acquired BMC Software for $10 billion in 2018) and Access Industries — providing enterprises and managed service providers with AI-driven IT service management (ITSM), IT operations management (ITOM), AIOps, and service desk solutions serving 10,000+ customers globally including 92% of the Forbes Global 100. BMC Helix's platform delivers intelligent incident management, change management, problem management, and service catalog capabilities — with AIOps that correlates events from multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure to provide root cause identification and automated remediation. The original BMC Software was founded in September 1980 in Houston by Scott Boulette, John Moores, and Dan Cloer.
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