CA Asset Portfolio Management pros and cons

4.2 out of 5

14 reviews
100% willing to recommend

747 followers

Pros & Cons summary

CA Asset Portfolio Management enhances visibility into environments and licensing, facilitating optimal software deployment and purchase management. It tracks asset lifecycles and offers detailed hardware insights. Integration with the Service Desk supports lifecycle management, though audit control and mobile management need improvement. Users report CA SAM's maintenance challenges, slow batch uploads, and require better reporting and integration with CA Client Automation. Competing solutions like Micro Focus are mentioned favorably by users.

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PROS

Enables determination of licensing positions for existing and future vendors, offering visibility into software environments and preventing vulnerabilities from unsupported software.

Facilitates re-deployment of unused software, saving costs by eliminating unnecessary re-purchasing.

Automatically informs users of compliance status with vendor updates incorporated quickly.

Tracks asset information throughout its lifecycle, including age, ownership, and location details.

Integrates fully with Service Desk, enhancing lifecycle management by combining asset data with service processes.

CONS

Users had more preparation work for the installation than anticipated.

Keeping the catalog updated and having more titles can speed up the process by eliminating the need to manually build entitlements.

There is a need for more control over audit trail features and the ability to toggle fields.

Stronger reporting components and more integration with CA Client Automation are needed.

Support is difficult as CA SAM is distributed by CA but developed by Aspera.

CA Asset Portfolio Management Pros review quotes

it_user779124

VP Purcimilor Operations

Nov 26, 2017

Also, the software you have, you can monitor for end of life. If you have software that is end of life, then you can have it uninstalled and buy the new software, so you can make sure that you're not running into vulnerabilities with unsupported software in your environment.

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it_user779001

SVP Of IT Services at State Employees Credit Union

Nov 26, 2017

Being able to determine the licensing position for existing vendors and future vendors. Also, visibility into our environment,

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Ahmed Issawi

System Architect ITSM application at Michigan State University

Jan 7, 2018

My organization now understands what type of products they have: warranties, how long the warranties last, depreciation. We never really knew what our depreciation values were, so it was really nice to have that on hand as well. It gives us a better view of our hardware, which is really beneficial.

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reviewer1998918

Enterprise systems management team lead

Oct 26, 2022

The most valuable feature of CA Asset Portfolio Management is the full integration with our Service Desk. It allows us to work both sides of life cycle management.

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it_user779247

ITSM Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

Enables me to know where an asset is at any point during its lifecycle: How old it is, who it belongs to, and where it's at within that lifecycle.

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it_user779313

Software Asset Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

Reduces software cost. Reduces the risk of software audits.

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it_user779301

IT Governance Manager at a financial services firm

Nov 26, 2017

It's easy to integrate with our system information.

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CA Asset Portfolio Management Cons review quotes

it_user779124

VP Purcimilor Operations

Nov 26, 2017

Keeping the catalog updated and having more titles in the catalog is helpful, because the more items that are in the catalog, your process goes faster because you don't have to manually build all the entitlements.

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it_user779001

SVP Of IT Services at State Employees Credit Union

Nov 26, 2017

There were a lot of things that we had to prepare for that we weren't thinking about with this installation. I think from a CA standpoint, the software was good. But us preparing for that, we had a lot more work to do.

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Ahmed Issawi

System Architect ITSM application at Michigan State University

Jan 7, 2018

I'd like to see more mobile. I'd like to have it actually manage mobile devices. It really doesn't, and I'd like to have a mobile application just for asset management.

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reviewer1998918

Enterprise systems management team lead

Oct 26, 2022

CA Asset Portfolio Management can improve the uploading of batch information. I have to upload large amounts of information and it can take a long time to finish. There are some other solutions that are better, such as Micro Focus.

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it_user779247

ITSM Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

I would like to see more control over audit trail features, where you can turn on and off fields.

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it_user779313

Software Asset Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 26, 2017

It needs stronger rebooting components and the ability to develop our own software metrics.

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