CA Asset Portfolio Management vs Qualys VMDR comparison

Broadcom and Qualys are both solutions in the IT Asset Management category. Broadcom is ranked #14, while Qualys is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.6. Additionally, 100% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Qualys users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Qualys VMDR and CA Asset Portfolio Management are tools that compete in vulnerability management and asset management, respectively. Qualys VMDR often has an advantage in pricing and support, attributed to its straightforward cost structure and comprehensive support.

Features: Qualys VMDR offers cloud security posture management, real-time asset discovery, and integrated patch management, enhancing organizations' risk mitigation. In comparison, CA Asset Portfolio Management supports extensive asset lifecycle management and resource optimization, crucial for detailed asset tracking and financial analysis.

Room for Improvement: Qualys VMDR can refine its reporting capabilities and enhance flexibility for custom reporting setups. Additionally, further integration with other IT systems could improve workflow. CA Asset Portfolio Management might benefit from simplifying its user interface and improving scalability for larger organizations. Enhanced automation features could also provide incremental value.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Qualys VMDR is preferred for its quick cloud-based deployment and prompt support services, minimizing setup time. CA Asset Portfolio Management, although requiring a more complex initial setup, offers robust customer service and comprehensive guides to aid deployment, benefiting more sophisticated asset management needs.

Pricing and ROI: Qualys VMDR typically incurs lower setup costs and delivers faster ROI concerning automated vulnerability management. On the other hand, CA Asset Portfolio Management requires a substantial upfront investment but promises long-term value via its detailed asset management features. The decision between the two hinges on whether immediate vulnerability management results or extensive asset performance insights are the priority for an organization.

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Automation Anywhere

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Enterprise systems management team lead

Integrates well, highly stable, and scalable

CA Asset Portfolio Management can improve the uploading of batch information. I have to upload large amounts of information and it can take a long time to finish. There are some other solutions that are better, such as Micro Focus. We have approximately 10,000 PCs that we are busy processing and we have to upload information to them but when we use this solution it is complex. When we use Micro Focus it is better.

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Vaibhav Ghule

Soc Lead & Edr Administration at Persistent Systems

Continuous risk-based monitoring has strengthened incident response and vulnerability prioritization

I haven't explored Qualys VMDR's vulnerability lifecycle automation yet. One of my analysts mentioned that queries lack grouping operators in Qualys VMDR. From my experience, I would appreciate improvements in the query options in Qualys VMDR, specifically in the query-building process where I would need more features and operators. Additionally, we have been facing issues with Qualys on the cloud level. We cannot download the configuration profile from the cloud agent, and it is showing a pending action for download. During 2025, we noticed outages of Qualys a couple of times. I want to mention that there is an issue with receiving timely RCA deliveries. While this is not necessarily about the tool, it relates to support. The support has not been very responsive, and we are receiving RCAs a little delayed whenever we raise support cases or communicate with the TAMs. Additionally, the UI has a slight latency, which I and my team have experienced. They have also reported this latency issue when navigating through different pages.

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Pros

"Automation Anywhere is very easy to use; it's a low-code platform that a person who doesn't have any technical knowledge can use."

"We have leveraged automation to increase economies of scale and value-added work while reducing operating costs."

"Automation is going to become a new area we will certainly encourage a lot of people to pursue because of the lasting dividends it provides, including saving time and manpower."

"The valuable features that I see for automation with enterprise RPA are IQ Bot and Bot Insights."

"The product has improved our organization cost-wise and bank savings in transactions. Everything has been changed for the better."

"Automation Anywhere's most valuable feature is its seamless integration into procurement software, allowing for the automation of purchase orders, billing, employee travel details, and other tasks."

"Automation Anywhere has helped our organization to save human efforts on mundane tasks and shifted it to more analytical and interesting tasks."

"Our onboarding process was pretty good. We got access to all software that we needed to learn and utilize. The Automation Anywhere University is really good. In our business, the person who was onboarding us helped us to understand how to create a center of excellence and what verticals we needed to improve. So, the support was there. We are gradually becoming a center of excellence ourselves."

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"IT Asset manager is centralized inventory software for computer hardware and software asset of the organization."

"With the CA Asset Management tool, we have the ability to very quickly find our software compliance, so now, as an ongoing process, we know exactly where we stand with software and the opportunities that we have in our environment."

"You could also look for software that is no longer being used and you can re-deploy the software, so then you save from a purchasing standpoint because you don't have to buy the software again."

"IT asset manager simplifies the management and administration of the life cycle of IT assets thus lowering the capital and operational expenditure."

"It's easy to integrate with our system information."

"Being able to determine the licensing position for existing vendors and future vendors. Also, visibility into our environment,"

"My organization now understands what type of products they have: warranties, how long the warranties last, depreciation; we never really knew what our depreciation values were, so it was really nice to have that on hand as well, and it gives us a better view of our hardware, which is really beneficial."

"You build the items one time and then you have your discovery that's coming in and the system will let you know whether or not you're out of compliance."

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"The most valuable features are vulnerability detection and the scanning capability to enable identification of vulnerabilities across our network."

"There are fewer false positives when using this solution, and we are also cutting the need for news monitoring with this solution."

"The reporting is fine."

"I strongly recommend that you use this solution."

"If you are comparing Nexpose and Qualys, I would prefer Qualys."

"In a world of the hybrid workforce and work from home, if you're looking for a more effective vulnerability management tool, you have to go to the agent-based vulnerability management tools that are out there, and we've been extremely happy with Qualys."

"I find Qualys VM very robust, and it's very useful for vulnerability management and patch management."

"The integrations for this solution are very good, as I use a different product for virtual patching of vulnerabilities and Qualys integrates well with that product."

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Cons

"Automation Anywhere can be improved by working on the next step with GenAI process automation and the agents."

"Additionally, the user interface is quite outdated and could be more user-friendly. The licensing cost is also too high, which means many small-scale industries may not choose this product."

"IQ Bot is pretty good, but we can only run a maximum 150 documents."

"The learning curve for Automation Anywhere is steep, especially for advanced features like IQ Bot and API automation, which require technical expertise."

"I would like more with OCR and data capture. We are partnering with IBM to help bridge this gap, but Automation Anywhere should continue to expand on their product line and provide these capabilities, as well."

"In the A2019 community edition, while running its taking time to run RPA bots and having few bugs related to IQ Bot server connectivity and other things."

"More structured and unstructured data collection will be a challenge. While we have the IQ Bot tool, the success rate at the beginning will be lower. It will be around 20 to 30 percent at the start because you need to train the bot at regular intervals. Of course, this depends on the data. This area could use be improvement."

"The IQ Bots have a lot of room for improvement in terms of accuracy level. We need to improvise a lot. I'm facing another big challenge with one of the use cases. We raised a ticket and did multiple follow-ups with support, but the accuracy still isn't up to the mark."

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"Initially, each upgrade, the process for it was a little different. Having to go, this upgrade was going to be different from this one, going to be different from that one, that was a bit of a headache."

"IT asset manager is very complex when integrated with other systems like HR, help desk, procurement and supply chain systems."

"Very complex to setup with Human Resource, help desk, procurement, and supply chain systems."

"I'd like to see more mobile. I'd like to have it actually manage mobile devices. It really doesn't, and I'd like to have a mobile application just for asset management."

"It was much more complex than we were anticipating. Definitely a complex and very resource-involved setup."

"Needs a stronger reporting component, and more integration with CA Client Automation."

"Accessing from roles can be effected adversely if searches are created and incorrectly assigned to roles."

"I'd like to see end-of-life information on software products."

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"Qualys VM should improve its methodology."

"The reporting needs improvement. It should generate much more stuff like field reports."

"The IoT scan is not great."

"Qualys VM's vulnerability scan could be improved, especially the number of CVE numbers it can manage at a time."

"There needs to be better documentation. Maybe their price scheduler could be made simpler. It's expensive."

"The user interface (UI) is quite complicated."

"Solution for fixing problems need to be better documented, such as in a step by step way."

"There are scenarios where a vulnerability is reported once yet not in subsequent scans, even if we have not fixed it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing and licensing are definitely moderate to costly but easily recoverable by achieving ROI quickly."

"It's justified because we have saved quite a bit of money at the company and many manual hours. Overall, it justifies the cost."

"It is affordable for us."

"It looks like it will be right around $115,000, not counting IQ Bot, which we won't renew until later."

"The pricing and licensing of Automation Anywhere plays an important rule in the Indian market because in the Indian market $10,000 USD is too much. Hence, the pricing tends to go down depending on the customer relationship with the partner: A starter pack is $10,000 and an enterprise pack is $100,000. If you go through an implementation partner, you can get good deals. They can save some money."

"On a yearly basis, our licensing costs are about $80,000. There are no additional costs beyond the standard licensing fees."

"We are not receiving the right information about their features, e.g. Automation Anywhere University, or anything that they are selling. They need to improve their documentation."

"The initial setup and licensing fees are high, and although it saves costs in the long run, reaching the break-even point can take at least six months."

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"In Nigerian Naira, we spend about roughly four to five million to use this solution and this is expensive compared to solutions like Nessus."

"Qualys VM is reasonably priced."

"The tool's pricing is expensive and I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten."

"They have recently changed the pricing model, which is now better than it was before."

"Qualys is cheaper and more affordable than other solutions."

"The price is very reasonable."

"An annual license for a single scanner costs around $3,000."

"When you want to cover yourself for scalability, you will be charged for the number you place on the scan itself."

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

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Financial Services Firm

11%

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16%

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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

CA IT Asset Manager, CA Asset Manager, ITAM, IT Asset Manager, CA SAM, CA Software Asset Manager, Asset Portfolio Management, Asset Portfolio Manager

Qualys VM, QualysGuard VM, Qualys Asset Inventory, Qualys Container Security

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

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CA Asset Portfolio Management integrates with Service Desk, automates asset discovery, and offers centralized inventory, enhancing cost control and license compliance while reducing audit costs and risks for organizations managing assets across multiple locations.

CA Asset Portfolio Management is designed to simplify asset tracking, enhance decision-making for new purchases, and ensure precise lifecycle tracking. It provides significant value by reconciling inventory with licenses and producing compliance reports, making it ideal for organizations operating in decentralized environments. Users can consolidate information efficiently by integrating it with their CMDBs. While it performs strongly, there is room for improvement in integration with HR and other systems, initial comprehension, financial reporting, and cloud cost management. Enhanced mobile management and batch information uploading are also desired, along with a unified inventory and compliance system.

What are the key features?

Service Desk Integration: Aligns asset management with IT service management for streamlined operations.
Automated Asset Discovery: Automatically identifies and tracks hardware and software assets.
Centralized Inventory: Provides a consolidated view of all assets for better oversight and control.
Lifecycle Tracking: Monitors asset lifecycle stages to optimize resource allocation.
License Reconciliation: Matches inventory with software licenses to ensure compliance.

What benefits should be sought in reviews?

Cost Reduction: Enhanced cost control and lowered audit-related expenses.
Improved Compliance: Mitigates compliance risks through precise license tracking.
Efficient Decision-Making: Supports informed purchasing decisions through comprehensive asset tracking.
Risk Mitigation: Reduces audit-related risks and enhances compliance reporting.

In industries like IT and cloud management, CA Asset Portfolio Management is utilized for tracking software purchases versus installations, ensuring efficient lifecycle asset management, and supporting compliance efforts. It is integrated into CMDBs to consolidate resources and manage decentralized environments. Users pair it with tools like Client Automation and CA SAM for effective hardware and software discovery, making it a robust choice for asset management.

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Qualys VMDR is a comprehensive cybersecurity tool offering vulnerability management, patch management, and continuous monitoring with real-time asset discovery. It delivers scalable, cloud-based solutions that enhance security operations without additional infrastructure.

Qualys VMDR provides a robust platform for enterprise security, integrating vulnerability management, compliance, and asset inventory for full visibility across cloud and on-premises environments. It features a comprehensive dashboard with threat intelligence-driven prioritization and remediation capabilities. Users benefit from accurate assessments via agent-based scanning and appreciate the intuitive, customizable scanning and reporting interface. However, there's room for improvement in false positive reduction, UI simplification, and integration capabilities, along with enhancements in asset management for large-scale deployments and the vulnerability database. Enhancing technical support speed, patch management, compliance standards, and inter-module navigation would further enrich user experience.

What are the key features of Qualys VMDR?

Vulnerability Management: Identifies and manages security vulnerabilities across environments.
Patch Management: Ensures systems are updated with the latest patches.
Continuous Monitoring: Offers real-time insights into security posture.
Asset Discovery: Provides up-to-date asset inventory and visibility.
Threat Intelligence: Enhances prioritization and remediation processes.
Customizable Dashboard: Facilitates easier scanning and reporting through an intuitive interface.

What benefits can users expect when evaluating Qualys VMDR?

Scalability: Cloud-based deployment offers easy, cost-effective expansion.
Accurate Assessment: Agent-based scanning keeps security data current.
Enhanced Security Operations: Comprehensive features streamline vulnerability management.
Advanced Reporting: Facilitates detailed insights for better security decision-making.

Qualys VMDR is widely used in industries needing stringent security and compliance measures, offering comprehensive vulnerability and compliance management. It is deployed to secure web applications, servers, and crucial assets, supporting a wide range of sectors by ensuring policy adherence and vulnerability tracking through its powerful cloud platform.

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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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