We performed a comparison between CA Asset Portfolio Management and Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about ServiceNow, BMC, Freshworks and others in IT Asset Management."Reduces software cost. Reduces the risk of software audits."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Being able to determine the licensing position for existing vendors and future vendors. Also, visibility into our 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."
"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."
"It's easy to integrate with our system information."
"This product can be customized according to the needs of any company."
"It is stable and scalable."
"We have now automatic and immediate control of assets usage, and we can now better manage our assets pool and get benefits through that."
"I'd like to see end-of-life information on software products."
"I would like to see more control over audit trail features, where you can turn on and off fields."
"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."
"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."
"Needs a stronger reporting component, and more integration with CA Client Automation."
"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."
"There are a lot of things that need improvement. Software recognition, software licensing, software compliance, data inputs, reporting, and support are some of the areas."
"The usability of this product is still out-of-date and could be improved. The interface could be improved."
"The technology used is outdated, the interface is outdated, the database is outdated, everything is outdated."
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CA Asset Portfolio Management is ranked 13th in IT Asset Management with 14 reviews while Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in IT Asset Management. CA Asset Portfolio Management is rated 8.4, while Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] is rated 7.2. 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 Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] writes "A stable and clever solution, but it is very complex and it needs a lot of improvements". CA Asset Portfolio Management is most compared with , whereas Micro Focus Asset Manager [EOL] is most compared with .
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