Almyta Control System vs. BarTender

If you are looking for a one-stop solution, or you can easily migrate to one system, then I'd recommend Almyta. I would say and have heard it is much more beneficial when you just go all in. If you have a lot of organizing to do, it's a very useful one-stop tool for inventory solutions, purchasing, etc...

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Bartender may well be suited for larger companies who have people with Bartender experience, but it is an unnecessarily complex suite of apps that takes some getting used to. Smaller IT shops looking for something more user-friendly, slightly less expensive, and more streamlined should look for alternatives. Some applications are built specifically to use Bartender template files, and in those cases, you may not have an alternative.

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• Good customization.
• Intuitive to use.

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• Can create macros to test ranges of serial numbers
• can be linked to electrical test stations in assembly of electronic modules

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• Sometimes troubleshooting is cumbersome.
• Forecasting seems to have a few bugs.

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• Resource Intensive - Can use a lot of resources
• Pricey - But you get what you pay for
• Licensing can be quite difficult to understand

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Easy to renew and update the license

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Their customer support people are very detail-oriented and helpful. I talk to them more than I would like, but they do a great job. Sometimes with software, the customer support can be very stuffy, but these guys are pretty committed to customer service and I appreciate that. They typically can solve an issue within 15-30 minutes.

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I often have to try to troubleshoot printing issues for other team members, but I have never reached out to a BarTender support network. I’ve always just tinkered within the app to figure it out.

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IBM Order Management is a good product but is on the expensive side. Additionally, I like to use MacOS and Almyta Control Systems is a little easy to use on a Mac. Almyta also has a broader range of support products. Personally, I really prefer Almyta's customer support and find them very helpful and responsive.

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We do use Zebra label designer, a free product, in circumstances where we don’t need a complicated label, such as no serialization, no connection to a dynamic database, etc. If we were to pull those instances into BarTender, we would need more licenses, which are expensive

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• Helped increase efficiency by 15% in 2019.
• Is streamlining internal communication.

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• Increased accuracy and consistency
• Improved speed of batch printings
• Customization permitted adapted features for our unique applications saving time and efforts

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