The process automation component is incredibly valuable. It cuts down on the workload of teams, organizational and clerical work, and allows employees to be more efficient.
I would like to see not having such strict compatibility requirements when working with other applications. This is just limited to certain parts of the application, though, such as email and how it interacts with certain servers.
This solution doesn’t always work in the real world with company and security requirements.
To clarify further, there are some parts of the application that have some inflexible settings, i.e., for the Maileater feature, you can only specify certain ports, encryptions and 1 certificate. This doesn’t always play nice with the email servers. For example, what happens if the settings that CA SDM send, are not the recommended settings that the email server is expecting? Maileater is the biggest issue we’ve had recently, and I’d provide another example, if I could. It is an issue to keep Java up to the latest security level, as it makes working with CA SDM also a little slow, but that seems to be a universal issue with many applications.
The company has had the product for a while. I have only been using it for a year.
They have two setup options. I can only comment about the advanced availability setting, which is stable.
There have been no issues with scalability.
The support staff is amazing and if they weren’t, I would have given this solution a lower rating.
I was only involved in performing a reinstall on our development environment. The setup was easy. The documentation could have been better for a couple steps, but support was able to help.
The product works very well when using all the recommended apps with it. I suggest using the recommended or preferred hardware and OS for the product so your life will be a lot easier.
The use of KPIs when it comes to Ticket Management and the use of Knowledge Base brings several benefits in decision making. Customizations, if well documented and managed, may not have as much impact if built with SDM features such as the Web Screen Painter. In most cases, the lack of knowledge in the product generates a customization, where a native resource could already attend. It is also good to remember that support for these cases is only through the CA service team and is paid for.