Hi Jerry, Has Asset Management improved in SCCM 2012? We had used it in SCCM 2007, but last I remember, it wasn't so complete and not all applications appeared correctly.
Thanks, Edward From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bradnan, Jerry Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 6:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: Opinions on System Center Service Manager, Software Asset Management, and Integration with SCCM We've helped clients implement both, and the 2012 iteration has a lot of benefits. The Change Management data is great and over all incident management, tracking and reporting is good. I'm not sure it will rationalize the application data any better, however, you may want to look in to SCCM Asset Intelligence. Implementing Asset intelligence will help normalize a lot of the application inventory data that's feeds SCSM. As Tom points out, the Provance add-in is a nice addition. Jerry From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aguero, Tom Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 8:10 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Opinions on System Center Service Manager, Software Asset Management, and Integration with SCCM We've been running ServMan for just over a year now and have loved it. We're very small so we've only deployed Incident management so far but it has worked great for our needs. The integration with ConfigMan is painless and full featured. As for asset management I am currently in the midst of setting up Provance asset management add-in for ServMan. So far everything looks great in my test environment. Tom Aguero Technical Support Shared Services | Information Technology 900 N Garver Rd, Monroe, OH 45050 Phone: 800.834.8001 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Woo Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 7:09 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Opinions on System Center Service Manager, Software Asset Management, and Integration with SCCM Hi All, I wanted to see if others in the community had tried/implemented System Center Service Manager in their environment and wanted to see if they would recommend implementing SCSM for change management, help desk ticketing, and software/hardware asset management tracking. We have an existing help desk software that is somewhat tied into our SCCM data with some custom coding on the help desk software to retrieve the data, but the asset management data is frustrating our administrative staff as the data isn't very accurate because of the way applications are installed. (Eg. Some have Add/Remove Program entries, some are based on files installed, etc) What I've found in SCCM is that it collects a lot of data, but sometimes it requires customized queries to specifically identify executables, installed paths, and Add/Remove Programs and associate it with certain applications. If I was to implement SCSM, does it integrate with SCCM's inventory data easily and how accurate are the results? Does SCSM have the smarts to figure out what software is installed based on Add/Remove Program and inventoried EXEs automatically, make use of those custom queries from SCCM, or do we need to purchase additional 3rd party products that integrate with SCCM/SCSM to get accurate results. Just trying to get feedback in case SCSM can do the job better and has better integration with SCCM. Thanks, Edward Woo
