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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CA Service Management

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/ACA Service Management, including CA Desk Manager, is a fully-featured ITSM platform, now from Broadcom. It competes with BMC Remedy, ServiceNow, FrontRange ITSM, Cherwell Service Management etc. It is based on technology acquired by CA in 2010 with Nimsoft, and is now supported by Broadcom since the 2018 acquisition.N/A
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    CA Service Management
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
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    CA Service Management
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CA Service Management
    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
    Chose CA Service Management
    CA is easier and faster to implement than Service Now, BMC Remedy/ITSM etc. It is more costly than off the shelf solutions, however much more worth it for large enterprises.
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    We are using CA for past 7 years we have evaluated BMC, HP & Microsoft. W12345e have selected CA because of its easy to use screen for the end user and ability to build different processes easily.
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    We have never used any other product, we do not have to because this works great.
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    We are too integrated with CA Service Desk Manager to disassociate anytime soon. We found the more we used the product the more we needed to customize it in order to better integrate with our business processes. There are other alternatives that have many built-in features that …
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    iSupport and ServiceNow have much simpler interfaces and more easy-to-use customization tools built in. I was not available when the selection to use Service Desk was made.
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    • Comprehensive, integrated service support
    • Modern, collaborative consumer experience
    • Mobile-optimized capabilities
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    Service Now
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    We used the old version of Symantec which was altriris. We chose Service Desk because CA had the best grasp of EITM at the time (2009). The integrations for ticket creation and cmdb with Spectrum and event monitoring tools was very attractive.
    Incentivized
    Chose CA Service Management
    I have worked with many solutions. I believe CA Service Desk Manager is overall better then Front Range HEAT and BMC Remedy and BMC Footprints. However there are newer products out there offered as cloud / Saas that may suite your needs better then CA Service Desk Manager. I …
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    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CA Service Management
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.76 Ratings
    Expert directory8.75 Ratings
    Service restoration8.46 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.66 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.96 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation9.76 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.55 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    9.2
    6 Ratings
    Configuration mangement9.76 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard10.03 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.03 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    9.1
    6 Ratings
    Change requests repository9.06 Ratings
    Change calendar8.64 Ratings
    Service-level management9.55 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CA Service Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.1
    (6 ratings)