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    Top Answer:IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is a user-friendly solution that has a good user interface.
    Top Answer:IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is an expensive solution. The solution's licensing cost depends on the number of nodes and servers. Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for the solution.
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    17th
    out of 48 in IT Asset Management
    Views
    177
    Comparisons
    148
    Reviews
    1
    Average Words per Review
    415
    Rating
    7.0
    Unranked
    In IT Asset Management
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    Tivoli Asset Management for IT
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    Overview
    IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is designed to help track and manage your hardware and software IT assets, with particular emphasis on inventory, asset life-cycle management, and license management. Asset Management for IT includes inventory, asset tracking, asset reconciliation, financial management, contract management, procurement management, and, optionally, Service Level Agreement (SLA) management. This asset life-cycle functionality permits the tracking and management of IT assets through initial request, approval, procurement, contract, receipt, inventory, deployment, asset installs-moves-adds-changes (IMACs), and retirement.

    Symantec IT Management Suite enables IT administrators to securely manage the entire lifecycle of desktops, laptops, and servers across Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, and virtual environments including deployment, asset management, and patch management to reduce costs and increase productivity. IT Management Suite 8.0 brings significant new functionality and enhancements to this already feature rich solution. Before covering what’s new in version 8.0, here’s a quick overview of some of the key capabilities of IT Management Suite:

    • Reduce the cost of deploying and managing servers, desktops, and laptops from a centralized location in your environment 
    • Discovers, inventories, and tracks all the hardware and software assets in your IT infrastructure and manages the relationships between them in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
    • Centralizes and simplifies patch management. With this solution you can detect and repair security vulnerabilities for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems as well as Microsoft and over 50 non-Microsoft applications
    Sample Customers
    Migros Zurich, Tyr_ns AB, Port Otago Limited, BTC, Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V., AIG, Swedish Match, DTE Energy
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    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Government15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Computer Software Company9%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is ranked 17th in IT Asset Management with 1 review while Symantec IT Management Suite [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in IT Asset Management. IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is rated 7.0, while Symantec IT Management Suite [EOL] is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT writes "A user-friendly solution that has a good user interface, but its technical support is not good enough". On the other hand, IBM Tivoli Asset Management for IT is most compared with BigFix, ServiceNow, Microsoft Configuration Manager and BMC Helix Discovery, whereas Symantec IT Management Suite [EOL] is most compared with .

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