Data Quadrant Awards 2020

IT Asset Management

SoftwareReviews names Micro Focus Asset Manager, IBM Control Desk, and ManageEngine Desktop Central as IT Asset Management Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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IT Asset Management

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Gold Medalists

24Reviews

Micro Focus

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Make better-informed asset decisions, right size licenses, enrich your data, and control costs with Asset Manager, Micro Focus's IT Asset Management Software. Manage your asset portfolio in a comprehensive, balanced way that improves IT process maturity. Make better decisions by combining information on contracts, procurement, asset management, financials, and cloud use cases.

8.4

Composite
Score

+89

Emotional
Footprint

84%

Likeliness to
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to Recommend

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86Reviews

IBM

IBM Control Desk

IBM® Control Desk unified IT asset and service management software provides a common control center for managing business processes for both digital and physical assets. It enables control, governance and compliance to applications, endpoints and assets to protect critical data and prevent outages.

8.1

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

36Reviews

ManageEngine

ManageEngine Desktop Central

Desktop Central is a unified endpoint management solution that helps in managing servers, laptops, desktops, smartphones, and tablets from a central location. Automate your regular desktop management routines like installing patches, distributing software, imaging and deploying OS, managing your IT Assets, managing software licenses, monitoring software usage statistics, managing USB device usage, taking control of remote desktops, and more. It supports managing Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.

8.1

Composite
Score

+78

Emotional
Footprint

87%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Breadth of Features

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Business Value Created

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Ease of Customization

BOSS Solutions

Ease of Data Integration

USU Valuemation

Ease of IT Administration

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Ease of Implementation

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Quality of Features

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Usability and Intuitiveness

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Vendor Support

BOSS Solutions

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Breadth of Features

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Business Value Created

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Ease of Customization

BOSS Solutions

Ease of Data Integration

USU Valuemation

Ease of IT Administration

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Ease of Implementation

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Quality of Features

Micro Focus Asset Manager

Usability and Intuitiveness

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

Vendor Support

BOSS Solutions

Other Evaluated Vendors

26Reviews

USU

USU Valuemation

USU is the leading European vendor for IT and Enterprise Service Management software. With its Valuemation suite, USU provides a comprehensive solution for IT asset and software license management that integrates financial/cost data from the ERP system, configuration data from the CMDB and thus intelligently links business and technical information. Valuemation offers maximum ITIL® compliance and preconfigured processes that are easy to customize. The flexible architecture platform ensures ease of expandability and scalability and so investment security.

7.9

Composite
Score

+81

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
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13Reviews

BOSS

BOSS Solutions

BOSS Support Central and BossDesk takes IT Service Management to a new level that lets you manage, track and keep control of your IT environment. BOSS Support Central is ITIL aligned and includes Help Desk/Service Desk, IT Asset Management, Service Catalog, Mobile Apps and comprehensive reporting.

7.9

Composite
Score

+85

Emotional
Footprint

74%

Likeliness to
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29Reviews

Broadcom Inc.

CA Asset Portfolio Management

Our IT asset management software can help you deliver proven ROI and control IT spending, enable regulatory and policy compliance and improve service delivery. We want you to get the most out of your IT assets while enabling “stock-on-hand-inventory” fulfillment.

7.8

Composite
Score

+80

Emotional
Footprint

79%

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26Reviews

Belarc, Inc.

Belarc BelManage

BelManage automatically creates an accurate and up-to-date central repository (CMDB), consisting of detailed software, hardware, and security configurations.

7.8

Composite
Score

+80

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
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12Reviews

ManageEngine

ManageEngine AssetExplorer

ManageEngine AssetExplorer is a web-based IT Asset Management (ITAM) software that helps you monitor and manage assets in your network from Planning phase to Disposal phase. AssetExplorer provides you with a number of ways to ensure discovery of all the assets in your network. You can manage software & hardware assets, ensure software license compliance and track purchase orders & contracts - the whole nine yards! AssetExplorer is very easy to install and works right out of the box.

7.8

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

80%

Likeliness to
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62Reviews

Symantec

Symantec Asset Management Suite

Symantec Asset Management Suite enables organizations to take control, uncover savings, and ensure compliance of IT assets. With an accurate picture of assets throughout their lifecycle, IT can optimize investments, eliminate the purchase of unnecessary software, and avoid penalties and fines due to non-compliance.

7.7

Composite
Score

+74

Emotional
Footprint

79%

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10Reviews

Flexera Software

FlexNet Manager

FlexNet Manager Suite, a comprehensive hardware and software asset management, license compliance and software license optimization solution.

7.5

Composite
Score

+77

Emotional
Footprint

76%

Likeliness to
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Likeliness
to Recommend

52Reviews

Ivanti

Ivanti IT Asset Management

Gain complete visibility to maximize the performance and value of your hardware and software assets. There’s no more guesswork on where you stand with your effective license position (ELP). ITAM enables you to know what assets you have, where they are, how they’re used, and how they perform for better decision-making at any stage of an asset’s lifecycle.

7.4

Composite
Score

+73

Emotional
Footprint

75%

Likeliness to
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16Reviews

BMC

BMC Helix Discovery

BMC Helix Discovery is a cloud-native discovery and dependency mapping solution for visibility into hardware, software, and service dependencies across multi-cloud environments.

7.4

Composite
Score

+65

Emotional
Footprint

73%

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27Reviews

Micro Focus International

ZENworks Asset Management

Micro Focus ZENworks® Asset Management (formerly Novell® ZENworks Asset Management) integrates inventory, software usage, and license reconciliation to get the most accurate view of software installations and license compliance available. The combination of hardware, software, and purchasing data provides a complete view of your IT assets, ensuring license compliance and eliminating software overspending.

7.3

Composite
Score

+71

Emotional
Footprint

78%

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35Reviews

ServiceNow

ServiceNow Asset Management

ServiceNow Asset Management tracks the financial, contractual, and inventory details of hardware and virtual infrastructure – as well as non‑IT assets – throughout their lifecycle. Asset requests are handled using workflows to obtain approvals, validate entitlements, issue chargebacks, and provision services. Once an asset is deployed, Asset Management records all maintenance activity and enables IT to perform regular audits, right up until asset retirement.

7.0

Composite
Score

+61

Emotional
Footprint

74%

Likeliness to
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26Reviews

Scalable Software

Scalable Asset Vision

Asset Vision is purpose-built for next-generation IT asset management, including mobile devices, cloud services, virtualization, clustering, and cost optimization. Asset Vision is a suite of products built on a unified, Software as a Service (SaaS) platform. All modules in the suite look and feel identical. Data integration between the modules occurs transparently at the database level.

6.1

Composite
Score

+53

Emotional
Footprint

67%

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