CA Asset Portfolio Management vs. KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CA Asset Portfolio Management
Score 7.7 out of 10
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CA Asset Portfolio Management, now from Broadcom, aims to help users get more from IT asset investments.N/A
KACE Systems Management Appliance
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Quest now offers the KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) as an IT Asset tracking and management appliance (also available as a virtual deployment if hardware requirements are met). Beyond discovery, inventory tracking and license management, KACE emphasizes automating software upgrade distribution with minimal end-user disruption, featuring remote replication for multi-site upgrades and rollouts. KACE SMA may be bundled with KACE Cloud Mobile Device Management (MDM) to form a complete UEM…N/A
Pricing
CA Asset Portfolio ManagementKACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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CA Asset Portfolio ManagementKACE Systems Management Appliance
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
CA Asset Portfolio ManagementKACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
IT Asset Management
Comparison of IT Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
CA Asset Portfolio Management
6.5
1 Ratings
16% below category average
KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
8.6
12 Ratings
12% above category average
Software and hardware inventory tracking4.01 Ratings10.012 Ratings
License management4.01 Ratings9.011 Ratings
Asset lifecycle monitoring8.01 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Contract management10.01 Ratings6.06 Ratings
Asset relationship management00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
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User Ratings
CA Asset Portfolio ManagementKACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(12 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
CA Asset Portfolio ManagementKACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA)
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
Very well suited for a company that [needs] a true asset management process with a process of inventory purchasing.
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Quest
I think it has added value for any organization. It reduced our Tech Support cost by: -Supporting users anywhere -Reducing users downtime as well keep them informed with the status of their tickets -Managing software and hardware actively -Processing automation -deploy mass software installs, patching or updates - Provide approved software's to users to install without IT help
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Pros
Broadcom
  • Tracking of asset through entire life cycle.
  • Updating of asset with mass change utility.
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Quest
  • Inventory: KACE provides a ton of hardware and software inventory information that is easy to search, filter, and export. This is critical when we need to find the answers to questions about how many of such and such we have in our fleet.
  • Patch Management: We were using WSUS before and it was altogether too cumbersome. KACE has given us the power, flexibility, and verification we need to feel comfortable our patches are up-to-date.
  • Service Queue: We made KACE our help desk system and it does everything we need it to do. Great improvement over our old system.
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Cons
Broadcom
  • Implementing with service catalog.
  • Common asset viewer.
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Quest
  • The KACE SMA needs a better way to handle different roles in the software so certain users can access or administrate certain parts of the software, but not the entire software installation.
  • The KACE SMA could improve the ticketing process of projects. The aspects of the title and some information do not always flow down from the parent ticket to its child tickets.
  • The KACE SMA could improve the UI of the software with the addition of different CSS color schemes.
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Usability
Broadcom
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Quest
Overall, the software is simple to understand and use. That said, most vendors have been slowly updating their user interfaces to HTML5 so that they have a clean updated look and feel. This is where KACE falls short in that the UI is great for a packaged software 10 years ago. This isn't a major limitation as the software is really meant primarily for technology users.
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Support Rating
Broadcom
Good tool just needs a few little tweaks and updates to make it better.
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Quest
KACE does exactly what you need it to do, it maintains your computer environment. You can set patch schedules, inventory computers, setup software catalogs; basically everything you need to ensure the computers on your network are being actively managed. This is all with little need for constant configuration or updating the setup.
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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
Too expensive and lacks a good user feel.
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Quest
We have selected this software because it rolls several different systems into one. We have a helpdesk system with this and an asset and inventory management system as well. We pay one price for the whole system instead of paying multiple companies different amounts that would have totaled more than we pay for the single system.
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Return on Investment
Broadcom
  • Been able to refresh PCs with little effort.
  • Verify return of equipment.
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Quest
  • KACE has saved us from having to spend several days of employee hours in crafting DVDs and duplicating them (100+ DVDs)
  • KACE has saved us on the postage required to send out those DVDs for every update (monthly) to all of our customers electronically
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