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    Overview
    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

    NinjaOne

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ANinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, delivering visibility, security, and control over endpoints. The NinjaOne endpoint management platform increases productivity for IT teams and managed service providers, and comes with unlimited onboarding, training, and support.N/A
    Pricing
    CA Service ManagementNinjaOne
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CA Service ManagementNinjaOne
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—NinjaOne is a subscription service with a charge rate per month. For more detailed pricing information, contact NinjaOne directly to request a demo or to start 14-days free trial.
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    Community Pulse
    CA Service ManagementNinjaOne
    Considered Both Products
    Broadcom
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    NinjaOne
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    36 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    38 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    33 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    CA Service ManagementNinjaOne
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and NinjaOne
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    8.6
    6 Ratings
    6% above category average
    NinjaOne
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service restoration8.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and NinjaOne
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    9.2
    6 Ratings
    11% above category average
    NinjaOne
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and NinjaOne
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    9.1
    6 Ratings
    8% above category average
    NinjaOne
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management9.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and NinjaOne
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    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    -
    Ratings
    NinjaOne
    8.9
    41 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings8.838 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings7.536 Ratings
    Activity Monitoring00 Ratings8.424 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager and NinjaOne
    Feature
    CA Service Management, with CA Service Desk Manager
    -
    Ratings
    NinjaOne
    8.6
    40 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings8.939 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings8.840 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CA Service ManagementNinjaOne
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.4
    (47 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CA Service ManagementNinjaOne
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    It is a suitable tool for a large organization with extensive user needs. It is not for a small shop as it may be over-engineered for smaller organizations that don't have teams that can manage a solution of this size. It does have some significant hardware and configuration needs, but that should not deter customers from deploying it in-house. I've seen it deployed in the cloud as well as in-house; the downside to deploying it as a hosted solution is you're forever at the mercy of the vendor for customizations, and they cost an arm and a leg. The simplest things take a long time and cost much more money than necessary, so you can't truly get a custom solution and end up with mostly vanilla services (unless you have very deep pockets.)
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    NinjaOne
    I think it is appropriate to use NinjaOne for Medium sized businesses. We feel like it can handle our environment of 300 machines. The ticketing system integrating with devices and monitoring is a plus for us since we don't need another third party integration to connect the two. NinjaOne patching could use improvement but they have built up a lot of other pieces of their infrastructure.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • A large community where, if help is needed, is usually very helpful and quick to respond.
    • Various sites with good information on various issues. If you have a problem, there's a good chance some else already had it and documented it.
    • Fairly easy installation of the product if recommendations are followed and prep-work is done.
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    NinjaOne
    • Remote connections: the NinjaRemote client is spectacular and very easy to use and navigate. It quickly connects to customer systems so my engineers are able to work. As a bonus, they also offer a really good mobile app to connect to client systems.
    • Antivirus: Bitdefender Endpoint Protection is built directly into the NinjaOne portal. This makes deploying and maintaining AV very easy.
    • OS Patching: NinjaOne makes it very easy to handle patching across multiple clients and locations. It is very easy to use and doesn't take long to set up.
    • Support: NinjaOne support is always very prompt and helpful.
    • Documentation: the NinjaOne Dojo is a one-stop shop for all of your FAQs, guides, and forum needs. You can find almost anything here to help you deploy and maintain NinjaOne.
    • Automation Library: NinjaOne comes preloaded with a large number of ready-to-go automations. They also provide you with a scripting module to create your own.
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • The right-click feature is disabled in this application and users are unable to copy and paste with mouse or touchpad.
    • The application also freezes quite a bit and a user will have to quite often close and reopen browser to get it functioning properly.
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    NinjaOne
    • NinjaOne does support Mac, however I would like to have more options for automation and scheduled task on Mac devices.
    • I would like it if NinjaOne also provided an MDM solution.
    • It would be nice is NinjaOne could integrate a PAM solution as well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
    While the concepts of Service Desk and EITM were solid. The user interface, tool capabilities, and integrations fell behind the rest of the industry. Too often it seemed like CA bought and rebranded products without fully integrated them with their other products. It was a coat of paint, without the parts under the hood being updated. The overhead for administration was too high and the reporting capabilities were absolutely amongst the worst I've seen.
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    NinjaOne
    We already did. After evaluating many platforms, we found the cybersecurity of the company, its development direction, and the performance of the platform to be far superior at its price point.
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    Usability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    Ninja's interface is clean and simple. Overall usability from an interface perspective is good. Some items, policies and scripting for instance, are a bit cumbersome and it's really not clear how to implement with a best practice mind-site. Ninja RMM got the job done for us but as we pushed our needs more into automation and efficiency we felt it wasn't keeping up with our speed of growth. There is definitely usability in the product, and it will get the job done, but there are other RMM's out there that fit better in our business.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    Availability is very good
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    Performance
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    The software loads quickly for the most part
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    Support has been very responsive and my account rep Brian K. has communicated with me continuously making sure we had everything we need. Not like other MDMs where they sign you up and that's the last you hear from them. NinjaOne makes sure you use the product to its best application and you are successful and continue as the product features grow.
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    In-Person Training
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    Easy to learn and all of the functions and features were easy to learn. Once I started learning all of the features and functions, it made my everyday tasks much easier and more productive. The user interface is very easy to use. If I did have any questions, the Ninja Dojo was a big help.
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    Online Training
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    It was nice and self paced learning. The sections were easy to understand and the functionality was very worthwhile. The online training was very easy to learn and intuitive. I did not feel the need to ask for any clarification or assistance with any of the sections. I am still learning a lot of the functions but fined it very easy to use.
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    Implementation Rating
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    Use of Organizations and locations
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    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 had we have foreseen our future requirements... would have chosen ServiceNow or Remedy as our "go-to" ticketing product.
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    NinjaOne
    NinjaOne's user friendly interface was immediately appealing to a team that that needs to be able to pickup a tool and know how to run with it at first exposure. From the moment we started using it, we would often be able to navigate the platform with a common sense approach and be able to navigate to exactly what we were looking for without requiring documentation or guidance. Customer representatives that we have worked with have all been outstanding, and have not been pushy like some other vendors teams tend to be when you are initially debating between multiple offers.
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    Scalability
    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    NinjaOne
    Overall the software is very reliable
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • Having CA Service Desk Manager within the company has increased the satisfaction of customer service from 68% to 95%. Teams are getting better customer survey scores and making better efforts to meet their SLAs.
    • CA Mobile app has provided agility and collaboration among IT Users and Customers.
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    NinjaOne
    • Windows patching as we cannot get employees to do it themselve so that alone is making an impact
    • having data about our pcs all the time which we did not have before
    • remote access to pcs in a variety of ways vs hoping remote desktop would work
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    Screenshot of the NinjaRMM dashboardScreenshot of the NinjaRMM mobile appScreenshot of NinjaRMM automationScreenshot of NinjaRMM device detailsScreenshot of NinjaRMM network monitoring - NetFlowScreenshot of NinjaRMM virtual machine monitoring