Charlotte,
I haven't seen suite recognition for Adobe products within ZAM yet. To identify those products I have used (as you referenced), the software collections. It is a very tedious process to do this with Creative Suites, especially if you deploy many of the collections from Adobe. Making the distinction between the various suites will be your challenge.
Without knowing more about your deployments, etc here is a broad brush recommendation that might help get you started. It is by no means complete. Use the collections feature of ZAM and start with this url
Adobe - Creative Suite 4: Compare editions to distinguish one suite from another. If you are able for example to control your suites down to say 3 of these, then you might be able to identify the suite by what is unique in that grouping and name it accordingly. Insist that when one of our 3 example suites are installed that the full complement of components are installed or just declare to yourself that if the unique product is found you will consider it to be suite "A". Work with your desktop group to only permit those specific suites to be installed to help control the quality of your assumptions.
The issue I found with using the collections is once you have pulled one component into your collection view, you can not reuse it for inclusion in an different collection even though another suite may share that same relationship. Maybe others here have found a way around that ??
It is not a perfect process by any stretch but with ISO standards in developement to help with Software recognition I am optimistic that this one will be addressed in the near future.
Thanks, Bryant
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