Asset Panda vs Symantec Asset Management Suite

Likelihood to Recommend

Asset Panda I believe is well suited for even the smallest environment. The pricing for the software is very competitive and worth the value that it brings to solve a lot of problems that normally a lot of companies run into regarding inventory. This product has helped us save money on keeping track of assets that may of otherwise gotten lost and written out. We now know where everything is.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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If your organization has more than 50 computers and you have a dedicated IT Staff to manage the software then Symantec Asset Management Suite would be a great fit for your organization. The IT Staff can customize and configure the software and console to fit your organization's direct needs. It will speed up software installations and help to keep your computers running smoothly by applying patches and other necessary software updates in a timely manner. It will also help you manage your asset inventory so you know exactly where each computer is located, its IP address, and the users logging into the machine. If your organization is small and only has around 20 computer users then I would not recommend investing in the Symantec Asset Management Suite. Managing 20 computers is a task that is pretty easy to manage even if you do not have a dedicated IT Staff within your organization.

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Roberta Jones

IT Administrative Specialist

Missouri Botanical GardenNon-Profit Organization Management, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

It is great for a non profit organization because you can add any columns you need to the asset. For example, I have added a funding source column to sort different grants that have paid for our assets.
Asset Panda provides the depreciation calculation for you.
The software is easy to maneuver. It can be easily searched and sorted by type of asset/date or any category you create.
You can add and track non depreciable items as well. Reports can be ran for just depreciable assets when needed so this will not interfere with you depreciable asset listing.

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Professional in Finance and Accounting

Law Practice Company, 11-50 employees

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Asset tracking - Very important in a business
Reports - Keep track of what programs are installed, who has which computer, etc.

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Brandan Kusser

End User Computing Technician

SmartPakSporting Goods, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Time-out settings on the website should be increased.
Image structure on the way they organized photos could be improved.
Barcode scanner on a mobile device could be improved.
Photo editor could be improved.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 10,001+ employees

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Ability to tie into and be supported by RHEL, CentOS, and any other Unix based OS. I know that they could tie into some different systems, but weren't truly supported.
Altiris was how we deployed to multiple computers all at once, Altiris Agent sometimes stops, and can be an issue to have it update in the Console.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 201-500 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Asset Panda is great for fixed assets or small businesses. I have also used inventory in a retail environment where product coming in and out need to be tracked. I wouldn't recommend it for an extremely high volume business.

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Professional in Finance and Accounting

Law Practice Company, 11-50 employees

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We compared a lot of products Pulseway, Asset Panda, GoCodes, Service Now, BMC TrackIT, Sysaid, Landesk. After checking all these, found Symantec is the only one which fulfills all my organization's requirements. Glad to find a great choice by doing a proper survey. I would suggest others to go for this too.

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