CA Asset Portfolio Management vs. Symantec Asset Management Suite

CA Asset Portfolio Management

Symantec Asset Management Suite

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CA Asset Portfolio Management	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	CA Asset Portfolio Management, now from Broadcom, aims to help users get more from IT asset investments.	N/A
Symantec Asset Management Suite	Score 5.3 out of 10	N/A	The Symantec Asset Management Suite aims to help organizations get an accurate picture of their assets, ensure compliance during software audits, avoid vendor penalties and fines and uncover savings by eliminating the purchase of unnecessary licenses. This IT Asset Management solution is designed to discover, inventory, and track all hardware and software assets in an organization’s IT infrastructure through a CMDB. The CMDB manages assets’ hierarchical relationships to other…	N/A

Pricing

CA Asset Portfolio Management

Symantec Asset Management Suite

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
CA Asset Portfolio Management	Symantec Asset Management Suite
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	CA Asset Portfolio Management	Symantec Asset Management Suite
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Asset tracking Pro Set up Pro Mobile phones
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Internet explorer Minus Lower cost Minus Look more modern

Features

CA Asset Portfolio Management

Symantec Asset Management Suite

IT Asset Management

Comparison of IT Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
	CA Asset Portfolio Management 6.5 1 Ratings 19% below category average	Symantec Asset Management Suite - Ratings
Software and hardware inventory tracking	4.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
License management	4.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Asset lifecycle monitoring	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Contract management	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	CA Asset Portfolio Management	Symantec Asset Management Suite
Small Businesses	Atera Score 8.9 out of 10	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	KACE Systems Management Appliance Score 10.0 out of 10	Freshservice Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	KACE Systems Management Appliance Score 10.0 out of 10	SymphonyAI IT Service Management Score 8.9 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	CA Asset Portfolio Management	Symantec Asset Management Suite
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	10.0 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CA Asset Portfolio Management	Symantec Asset Management Suite
Likelihood to Recommend	Broadcom Very well suited for a company that [needs] a true asset management process with a process of inventory purchasing. Incentivized Shawn Killeen Sr System Engineer Read full review	Broadcom 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. Incentivized Roberta Jones IT Administrative Specialist Read full review
Pros	Broadcom Tracking of asset through entire life cycle. Updating of asset with mass change utility. Incentivized Shawn Killeen Sr System Engineer Read full review	Broadcom Asset tracking - Very important in a business Reports - Keep track of what programs are installed, who has which computer, etc. Incentivized Brandan Kusser End User Computing Technician Read full review
Cons	Broadcom Implementing with service catalog. Common asset viewer. Incentivized Shawn Killeen Sr System Engineer Read full review	Broadcom 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Broadcom Good tool just needs a few little tweaks and updates to make it better. Incentivized Shawn Killeen Sr System Engineer Read full review	Broadcom No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Broadcom Too expensive and lacks a good user feel. Incentivized Shawn Killeen Sr System Engineer Read full review	Broadcom 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. Incentivized Biswajit Tripathy DGM-IT, IN & VAS Read full review
Return on Investment	Broadcom Been able to refresh PCs with little effort. Verify return of equipment. Incentivized Shawn Killeen Sr System Engineer Read full review	Broadcom Increased productivity by PC Support Faster compliance in a zero day situation Reporting and visibility that lead to tangible action Implementation can be cumbersome and technical support may be required. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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