Overview

CA APM provides asset portfolio management capabilities to help you manage technology assets that you own, lease, or license. The product helps you optimize your IT asset investments and avoid overspending by enabling a portfolio view of your IT asset costs, contracts, and licenses. This view allows you to manage and control costs to make more informed business decisions. The product helps you identify unused and under-utilized assets to help you increase and optimize asset use and reduce overpayment on invoices. CA APM helps you manage your IT assets throughout their lifecycle, from initial planning and purchase to retirement and disposal.

CA APM unifies and simplifies the management of assets and helps you in the following ways:

Understand the assets that you own and lease, and the cost of owning the assets so that you do not purchase assets that you do not need. You can optimize your assets, fully leverage existing usage rights, and redeploy unused licenses.
Understand who uses the assets, and the total number of available assets.
Understand your maintenance contracts for hardware and software assets. You can review and cancel unnecessary contracts, and revise existing contracts to control costs.
Understand when an asset reaches the end of a lease to help control costs and negotiate better contracts.
Monitor your vendors and contracts to improve vendor negotiations.
Improve asset approvals and fulfillment, and increase efficiency by automated processes.