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."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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Reduces software cost. Reduces the risk of software audits."
"I think ServiceNow is highly stable. These kinds of tools are used in a big company, and I haven't seen any issues in terms of the core platform."
"The flow designer for application development is the most valuable. The newest version of flow designer allows us to develop applications quite fast. We can have custom and mobile applications. It has an interface for mobiles, and it also has a good reputation."
"In my experience, ServiceNow's most valuable feature is its flexibility. If you have a DevOps or development team, you can customize it to meet your specific needs. The tool's dashboard categorizes incidents, making managing it much easier."
"The solution is stable, scalable and easy to use."
"I find almost all the features valuable. It can do nearly everything except make your coffee, as my colleagues always say. It's got pros and cons, like every software, but the good thing about it is that it has a very structured approach."
"This solution is a single-storage for our user community to submit help desk tickets."
"It has more extensive features as compared to the other competitors."
"The biggest feature is that it is cloud-based, so it's always updated, it's always current. We don't have to worry about patches, revisions. We're always working with the latest version."
"I would like to see more control over audit trail features, where you can turn on and off fields."
"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."
"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."
"I'd like to see end-of-life information on software products."
"It needs stronger rebooting components and the ability to develop our own software metrics."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Creating service catalog forms could be made easier."
"Before implementing this solution, you should have the ITSM model in place for chain management requests. That is a prerequisite because you cannot perform tasks without it."
"I do not like the user interface."
"The biggest complaint I have is that the ServiceNow search engine is not very robust."
"One thing I don't care for is the reporting and the way it functions."
"If you have advanced questions, technical support often doesn't know the answer."
"We are struggling with the scheduling part, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it is a ServiceNow issue. It could be the way we have configured it. We don't have it configured in a way where you can schedule a support call with our end users. We are looking for more automation in the box and the chat feature."
"The solution’s pricing is expensive and could be improved."
CA Asset Portfolio Management is ranked 13th in IT Asset Management with 14 reviews while ServiceNow is ranked 1st in IT Asset Management with 211 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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