October 27, 2021

To:         CA IT Asset Manager (CA ITAM) – Software Asset Manager (SAM) Customers

From:     The Broadcom IT Asset Manager Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for CA ITAM – Software Asset Manager 4.6.0

On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that CA ITAM – Software Asset Manager 4.6.0 is now available. 

New features for CA ITAM – Software Asset Manager 4.6.0 include: 

• Management of Active User Sessions – Active user sessions can be managed now. Sessions can be canceled, e.g. to log out all users before starting an application update.
• Classification of Licenses – The new table “License Classes” allows the classification of articles. Classes like “Full version”, “Update”, “Upgrade” or “Add-on” offer a better overview.
• Grouped view for Expenditures – A new grouped view of expenditures offers more transparency and allows for eased evaluation of the expenditures.
• Automated Catalog Update – The “Service Exchange” interface now allows the possibility to regularly perform an automated catalog update.
• Further Changes
• It is now easier to select products in forms. The hierarchical selection has been replaced by a table selection that offers all product properties.
• In addition to the support of German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Hungarian, the Russian language is now supported. The multilingual user interface can be licensed separately.

You can download your copy of CA ITAM – Software Asset Manager 4.6.0 from Broadcom Support Online https://support.broadcom.com/. If you have any questions or require assistance please contact Broadcom Customer Care online at https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://ca-broadcom.wolkenservicedesk.com/web-form?_ga=2.205828371.1432263889.1590607313-713014253.1588711301.  You can also call Broadcom Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact for the local number in your country. 

Should you need any assistance, our Broadcom Services experts can help.  For more information on Broadcom Services and how you can leverage our experience, please visit https://www.broadcom.com/support/ca/services-support/ca-services.

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

To review Broadcom Support lifecycle policies, please review the Broadcom Support Policy and Terms located at: https://support.broadcom.com/.  

Thank you again for your business.