Because I'm coming from a university, we're really decentralized, and everybody has their own silo where they put their information. Using CA Asset Management is really helpful because it allows one silo, itself, for all this information, where everybody can log in and take a look at it and add resources or whatever configuration items. And then they can also connect it to other tools as well.

We are using CA Asset Portfolio Management for lifecycle asset management for the cloud sets and integrating the solution into our CMDB.

Our primary use case for it is to mitigate risk in relation to licensing management.

In our initial stages using it, we have already found some out-of-compliance situations that we're mitigating.

ITSM management, tracking and reporting on ITSS. Understanding the ownership of IT assets. 

So far the performance has been great.

We track software purchases against what's actually installed in our environments to make sure that we're in compliance.

It preforms very well.

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.

Compliance.

It's a good product.