Brightly Asset Essentials™ vs. IBM Maximo Application Suite

SchoolDude has been great for us to easily submit maintenance requests, keep them organized for tracking, and simple for staff to view and respond to.

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Maximo is user friendly and a comprehensive maintenance management system. With proper training, it can be customized according to business requirement. All the modules can be easily configured according to the requirement. It can help in Asset management, inventory management, maintenance planning, execution of jobs, maintaining maintenance histories, managing vendors and service providers, managing day to day purchases, purchase histories, inventory costing, manpower management, managing safety and permit system, and many more. With the data in Maximo one can easily track, evaluate the maintenance cost and the failures that are frequent. With this data better future planning can be done to reduce the cost and failures, resulting in increased productivity, cost saving and reduction in asset downtime.

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• For maintenance requests, Dude Solutions Help Desk documents the request and then allows the custodial staff to record updates for the staff member to see. So, the request and solution are available for all parties involved.
• For building use, I find some of the features helpful including the ability to see if what you are looking for is available before you book it.
• Overall, Dude Solutions Help Desk is not difficult to use.

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• Delivers Out-of-Box solutions for various industries without the need for customization and configuration
• Modules and Applications are well developed and linked in an orderly way, with proper documentation and help guides that allow end users to start using the system with ease
• Powerful Work Management, Contracts, Inventory, and Purchasing applications and features that are a better match to other ERP applications today

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• The overall user interface is bland.
• Switching to the IT application takes opens in another tab.

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• Hard to implement. A high number of resources and manpower is necessary to implement and upgrade IBM Maximo due to its robustness and number of functionalities.
• Version fragmentation. Due to the challenge imposed by a version upgrade, it is common to find systems relying on legacy versions of Maximo which might become a challenge for the support team.
• Unfriendly UI. The excess of functionalities and services available might become a challenge for a starting user. Although it is possible to customize the UI to fit the exact needs of each user, it is important to map exactly what each user needs.

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I find the basic concept and use of Dude Solutions Help Desk to be good, but I think it could use an update to look and work more smoothly. The maintenance aspect of Dude Solutions Help Desk is definitely better than the scheduling tool. The maintenance request does have a decent set-up and does offer clear communication between the staff member and custodial staff. The scheduling tool needs a calendar feature and the ability to receive a notification in your calendar. Both tools do have an email service that directly sends updates to your email.

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I have regularly contacted IBM Support to report issues and raise requests for issues we face during project implementations. The response from them has overall been good and to the point, and they get back to us within a day or 2 and guide us through the process of fixing it or providing an interim fix of the product

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I have used a ticketing system through FirstClass that does not come anywhere close to where SchoolDude is in ease of use and quality of a program.

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IBM Maximo stacks up very well against its competitors, as it has the scale to handle any asset management issues and captures everything a business may want to know about what is going on with its assets. Being part of IBM means that it has the power and reliability that comes with being in such a large organisation. It is very safe and secure.

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• We can calculate the need for IT workers based on work orders.
• We can track issues at buildings and what buildings may need more help.
• A simple approach where it makes it easy to get work order information rather than emails and phone calls.

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• Need multiple IT developers and DBA's to run the software at an enterprise level.
• We use it for logging and taking repair work orders, handling of parts orders, and fulfillment and job scheduling.
• The desktop version is very easy to use

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