We performed a comparison between CA Asset Portfolio Management and Samanage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."Being able to determine the licensing position for existing vendors and future vendors. Also, visibility into our environment,"
"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 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."
"It's easy to integrate with our system information."
"Reduces software cost. Reduces the risk of software audits."
"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."
"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."
"The best part is the ability to keep records, especially incident records. It's easy to use the tool to store data and monitor it."
"The solution has a great filtering feature."
"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."
"I would like to see more control over audit trail features, where you can turn on and off fields."
"It needs stronger rebooting components and the ability to develop our own software metrics."
"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 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."
"I'd like to see end-of-life information on software products."
"Needs a stronger reporting component, and more integration with CA Client Automation."
"The system shuts down about once a month which is frustrating."
"The setting up process is not quite easy. It's quite difficult."
CA Asset Portfolio Management is ranked 12th in IT Asset Management with 14 reviews while Samanage is ranked 16th in IT Asset Management with 3 reviews. CA Asset Portfolio Management is rated 8.4, while Samanage is rated 7.6. 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 Samanage writes "Detects incidents quickly, improves our SLA performance and solves issues faster". CA Asset Portfolio Management is most compared with , whereas Samanage is most compared with ServiceNow, SolarWinds Service Desk and Freshservice.
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