We performed a comparison between CA Asset Portfolio Management and ServiceNow based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."They're staying up to date as vendors make changes to how they want to manage the software. CA is usually really quick about getting those updates in the system."
"It's easy to integrate with our system information."
"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."
"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."
"You build the items one time and then you have your discovery that's coming in and the system will let you know whether or not you're out of compliance."
"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."
"Being able to determine the licensing position for existing vendors and future vendors. Also, visibility into our environment,"
"You could also look for software that is no longer being used and you can re-deploy the software, so then you save from a purchasing standpoint because you don't have to buy the software again."
"We can keep track of incidences. There is a bucket where we keep all our information, and it enables communication between stakeholders. It helps us collaborate with each other."
"Some of the valuable features I have found the solution to have are it can serve many different types of businesses, it has strong platform capabilities, provides application development, built-in predictive intelligence, and performance analytics reports."
"It offers ready-built automation and simpler configuration for workflows."
"It's great for keeping everyone informed in the company - not just IT. Everyone becomes aware of change requests and incidents so the entire company is on the same page."
"The product's integration functionality in the change management module has significantly improved efficiency in our organization."
"For the nuts and bolts running of an IT organization, I can't really say there's anything lacking feature-wise."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"It's actually easy to understand."
"I would like to see more control over audit trail features, where you can turn on and off fields."
"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."
"The UI, even though they upgraded the UI, it's still kind of dated, it's a little bit convoluted to use. It's not like something that you can sit down and automatically understand how to use it."
"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."
"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."
"It needs stronger rebooting components and the ability to develop our own software metrics."
"Needs a stronger reporting component, and more integration with CA Client Automation."
"CA SAM is 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."
"Where it could be improved is Discovery. This may sound odd since I just praised the value of ServiceNow Discovery, but improvements to its automatic detection, the breadth of devices, and the depth of devices covered, as well as keeping up with new technologies, are all essential."
"There should be fewer clicks and faster integrations between solutions."
"The contract module is quite rudimentary and doesn't support contract line items."
"When we are using the solution on mobile phones on their networks the performance is reduced with a delay of approximately 8 seconds. There is less delay using the desktop computers connected to the WiFi or to the network directly."
"The solution could improve by being more stable."
"Very expensive."
"There is inherent complexity with this tool because of the number of things that it can do."
"It's not user-friendly by default, but it can be customized to be customer-friendly."
CA Asset Portfolio Management is ranked 13th in IT Asset Management with 14 reviews while ServiceNow is ranked 1st in IT Asset Management with 210 reviews. CA Asset Portfolio Management is rated 8.4, while ServiceNow is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of CA Asset Portfolio Management writes "We have a better view of our hardware, warranties, depreciation; but needs a mobile component". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ServiceNow writes "A stable and scalable solution that has excellent features and is useful for collecting data and building KPIs". CA Asset Portfolio Management is most compared with , whereas ServiceNow is most compared with BMC Helix ITSM, Microsoft Power Apps, Pega BPM, IBM Maximo and Appian.
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