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.

It introduces automation, which alleviates a lot of our manual processes, and provides a central repository for our data.

It enables us to make better business and financial decisions.

It helps whenever we get audited; we know where things are. We deal with HIPAA a lot, so we need to know if we can't find a device, or it hasn't been turned on in a while; location of things; know the life cycle of things; when things need to be reset. Those are our biggest three things that from our standpoint are really, really good, which we need to know about.

It allows us to know what we need, what we have, and what to deploy. It helps us with software auditing. All of this helps our bottom line.

It's the ability to make sure that the software that you have installed in your environment is software that you're licensed to have installed. 

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.

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.

Previously, we had a process that was manual and it was impossible to do manually. We tried and it did not work. With the CA Asset Management tool, we have the ability to very quickly find our software compliance. Of course that is after you get the program set up. So now, as an ongoing process, we know exactly where we stand with software and the opportunities that we have in our environment.

Our organization really has improved quite a lot since we've been using this product. It helps us control, in particular, our budget. Every year when we estimate our budget, it just keeps rising. At the very least, this tool helps us prepare and makes it easier to take all our assets -- current and future -- into account.

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.

Reduces software cost. Reduces the risk of software audits.

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