CA Asset Portfolio Management Reviews

The most valuable features are asset assignment and reconciliation.

This product has added value to our organization by our increased ability to track assets, status, and lifecycle as well as being able to monitor assets when they are active.

The Gold Brick assignment access is only performed though the catalog. I would like to see this as a standalone feature in “unassign”.

We have used this product for seven years.

Accessing from roles can be effected adversely if searches are created and incorrectly assigned to roles.

CA Support has really improved in the last few years. They have a great knowledge base and response rate .

The new CA Service Management installation is straightforward. We were able to install all apps with the same installation media. The system does the integration between the apps during the installation.

You might find a less expensive cloud version, but you are charged for all of the add-ons and customization. CA provides this for free.

We evaluated HP and ServiceNow before selecting this product.

I would suggest that other companies use an inventory control tool and implement a process to document the correct asset/configuration item (CI) for your company.

We use two solutions. Client Automation for hardware and software discovery. And CA SAM for compliance. Between, we have a CA Interface and the difficulty is this interface is not integrated in the product.

Reduces software cost. Reduces the risk of software audits.

Stronger rebooting components and the ability to develop our own software metrics.

No problem.

No problem. I upgrade this product one or two times per year.

No problem for the first product, Client Automation. For the second product, CA SAM, it's not a CA product. The vendor is Aspera and CA is the distributor, so support is difficult. It's more difficult to get a good response.

When selecting a vendor, what's most important are the specifications, the functionality.

I give it a seven out of 10 because the interface between the two products is not a good solution. But I would recommend the product.

Compliance.

It's a good product.

Gives better control over software and licenses and reduces risk from a software audit.

Very easy to use.

It's easy to integrate with our system information.

A stronger reporting component, and the ability to develop metric software. It also needs more integration with CA Client Automation.

It's stable. It's robust.

We've been able to make many changes needed.

Technical support is good. We'd rather not have to contact them, but they get back to us quickly.

Easy.

IBM products. We chose CA because IBM was too difficult to use and install. Also, the software catalog was very poor at IBM. CA was more solid.

I would recommend CA IT Asset Manager.

• IT Asset manager is a centralized stock list and inventory application for computer hardware and software resources of the company. • Helps to make better cost control, license conformity, and gives a precise revived planning for desktop computers. • Resilient and takes into account tracking and recording of resources and software applications. • IT Asset Manager makes certain that you do not have to buy on hand resources again, or that out of stock resources are not purchased, by assuming that they are existing. • Cost, time, and risks that relate to auditing of compliance are greatly reduced with the use of IT asset manager.

• Composite and complicated software to comprehend at start. Users have to integrate with each and every computer for inventory. • Very complex to setup with Human Resource, help desk, procurement, and supply chain systems. • Complexity of setup makes management and maintenance of these systems complex and protracted.

Usually manual inventory is done in companies for resources, but buying this IT Asset software makes enterprises free from asset management.

IT asset manager helps improve cost control, license compliance, and provides an accurate refresh planning for desktops.IT asset manager is very flexible and allows for tracking and recording of assets as well as metering of software.It also ensures that available assets are not re-bought or unavailable assets not bought by assuming that they are available.Cost, time and risks that relate to auditing of compliance are greatly reduced with the use of IT asset manager.

IT asset manager is very complex when integrated with other systems like HR, help desk, procurement and supply chain systems. This makes management and maintenance of these systems difficult and time consuming.

IT asset manager simplifies the management and administration of the life cycle of IT assets thus lowering the capital and operational expenditure. Tracking of software, hardware and licenses not only limits spending, but also allows for accountability of the assets. This can either be on-premise or virtual, thus improving efficiency and decision making.

IT Asset manager is centralized inventory software for computer hardware and software asset of the organization. It’s quick help to organize for baying new asset and investment in IT material. Once the new purchase request generated by anyone it will automatically follow prefix flow chart of management for approval. You can get total detail about how many asset you have and what is market value for that. All software detail easily managed per computer in IT Asset Manager. You can take decision for new software purchase and which software outdated in a computer. You can export asset data with just one click in csv format. It’s really save cost on unnecessary purchase of IT material.

Complex software to understand the beginning. The client needs to setup with every computer for inventory.

Normally manual inventory done in company for asset but after purchase this software you become free from asset management.