OpenText Asset Management vs uControl Asset Management
OpenText Asset Management
opentext.comuControl Asset Management
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| Figure | OpenText Asset Management | uControl Asset Management |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | £833.33/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 5 |
| Spec score · IT Asset Management Software | 8.2 (#36) | 9.1 (#7) |
| Contract tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Deployment | The page lists off-cloud, public-cloud, and private-cloud deployment options. | The government listing supports public-cloud, private-cloud and hybrid deployment, with each customer receiving its own instance. |
| Discovery | OpenText Universal Discovery and CMDB can scan IT hardware and software inventories, while other assets can be added from procurement processes or repositories such as Microsoft System Center, Intune, Jamf, and BigFix. | Agentless discovery covers IT, OT and cloud environments and automatically populates the asset base. |
| Intended users | The page identifies CIOs and vice presidents of infrastructure and operations as leaders focused on IT asset management. | The maker describes use by CIOs and IT directors, IT asset managers, software and licensing teams, IT operations, finance, and security and risk teams. |
| Named integrations | The product page lists Cisco Catalyst Center, IBM License Metric Tool, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Configuration Manager, and Jamf integrations. | Listed integrations include ServiceNow, BMC Helix, Atlassian JSM Assets, Lansweeper, EasyVista, HaloITSM and Microsoft Teams. |
| Purpose | OpenText Asset Management provides enterprise IT hardware and software asset management to help reduce compliance risk and optimize IT costs. | uControl asset management combines hardware lifecycle management and software licensing in one asset record fed by discovery, integrations and an endpoint agent. |
| Software license tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Software licensing | It tracks license consumption using agreements, contracts, and actual utilization to help manage compliance and license costs. | Software management includes recognition, entitlements, effective licence position, usage-based reclaim and vendor packs. |
Plans
OpenText Asset Management
- OpenText Asset ManagementPriced on request
uControl Asset Management
- CommunityFree
- SMB£10,000 a year
- Professional£40,000 a year
- CommunityFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
OpenText Asset Management
OpenText Asset Management has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
uControl Asset Management
uControl Asset Management combines hardware lifecycle management and software licensing in asset records assembled through discovery, integrations and an endpoint agent. Agentless discovery covers on-network IT, OT and cloud assets; the Windows and macOS agent captures devices that do not connect to the network. Hardware records can track warranties, end-of-life, refresh, depreciation, assignment and contracts. Software capabilities include recognition, entitlements, Effective Licence Position, usage-based reclaim and vendor packs. Usage telemetry flags software installed but not launched within 90 days, with a confidence grade; software in active use is not flagged. Integrations bring ITSM, procurement, ERP and other data into mapped and reconciled asset records. Named integrations include ServiceNow, BMC Helix, Atlassian JSM, Lansweeper, EasyVista and HaloITSM. The Community plan is free forever, covers up to 10k servers and is on-premise only. SMB costs £10,000 a year and Professional costs £40,000 a year; annual prices exclude VAT. Those plans allow unlimited users and, like the other listed editions apart from Community, include on-prem, cloud or appliance deployment.