OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB vs uControl uMap

OUOpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB9.3Visit uControl uMap8.9Visit

Higher score OU OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB #2 in Application Dependency Mapping Software 9.3/10 Pricing on request ✓ 3 of 3 features Visit OpenText

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uControl uMap #6 in Application Dependency Mapping Software 8.9/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 3 of 3 features Visit uControl

• OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB fits best

  Hybrid enterprises needing broad discovery coverage

• uControl uMap fits best

  Organizations wanting no-code dependency modeling

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Side by side

Feature	OUOpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB 9.3/10 Visit ↗	uControl uMap 8.9/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.3	8.9
Ranking	#2 in Application Dependency Mapping Software	#6 in Application Dependency Mapping Software
Best for	Hybrid enterprises needing broad discovery coverage	Organizations wanting no-code dependency modeling
Pricing model	Paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	Pricing on request	£10,000/yr
Free plan	Not checked yet	✓ (best)
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Support	Community, Docs	Email, Phone
Integrations	20 integrations	8 integrations
Built for	Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB 3/3 · uControl uMap 3/3
Real-time updates	✓	✓
Impact analysis	✓	✓
Business service views	✓	✓
Specs
Discovery approach	Hybrid	Hybrid
Deployment model	Hybrid	Hybrid
Mapped entity limit	Not checked yet	Not checked yet
Our review
Pros	Four discovery approaches cover agentless, agent-based, change-driven, and API sources Maps application and service dependencies across multicloud and infrastructure Connects with major ITSM, ITAM, monitoring, security, and endpoint platforms	No-code models application, service, hardware, software, and network relationships Live topology, drift monitoring, and upstream/downstream impact analysis Publishes services and relationships to CMDBs and BMC Discovery
Cons	Pricing is tailored through a contact-sales model Its broad enterprise scope may exceed smaller, narrowly focused environments No open-source edition is available	Community is limited to on-premises deployment Cloud or appliance deployment begins with the £10,000 SMB plan High availability and multiple environments are Enterprise-tier features
Our verdict	OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB is vendor-neutral discovery and configuration management software for enterprise IT teams. It discovers and manages configuration items across on-premises, network, multicloud, container, and endpoint… Read the review →	uMap is TekWurx uControl’s no-code service-mapping capability for IT operations, service owners, architects, and risk teams. It automatically detects relationships across hardware, software, and networks, then builds single- and multi-tier… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB — where it wins

  • Four discovery approaches cover agentless, agent-based, change-driven, and API sources
  • Maps application and service dependencies across multicloud and infrastructure
  • Connects with major ITSM, ITAM, monitoring, security, and endpoint platforms

  Where it doesn't

  • Pricing is tailored through a contact-sales model
  • Its broad enterprise scope may exceed smaller, narrowly focused environments
  • No open-source edition is available

• uControl uMap — where it wins

  • No-code models application, service, hardware, software, and network relationships
  • Live topology, drift monitoring, and upstream/downstream impact analysis
  • Publishes services and relationships to CMDBs and BMC Discovery

  Where it doesn't

  • Community is limited to on-premises deployment
  • Cloud or appliance deployment begins with the £10,000 SMB plan
  • High availability and multiple environments are Enterprise-tier features

• OUOpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB9.3/10 · Pricing on request

  Broad hybrid discovery, service mapping, and impact analysis for complex enterprise environments.

  Visit OpenTextFull verdict →
• uControl uMap8.9/10 · Free plan

  A no-code mapper for live application dependencies, impact analysis, and business-service views.

  Visit uControlFull verdict →