Brightly Asset Essentials™ vs. Simpro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Brightly Asset Essentials™
Score 6.5 out of 10
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Brightly Asset Essentials is a facilities management application and the flagship component of the company's IWMS technology suite for educational institutions and other industries.N/A
Simpro
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Simpro, headquartered in Brisbane, provides business management software for the trades and services industry. The solution combines field service management with asset tracking and maintenance, project management features with resource scheduling, and invoicing. For enterprises, Simpro helps manage business complexity such as franchises, multiple companies or multiple locations with a tailored Simpro framework that aims to handle complexity while maintaining the simplicity of working with one…N/A
Pricing
Brightly Asset Essentials™Simpro
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Pricing Offerings
Brightly Asset Essentials™Simpro
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAsset Essentials™ is a cloud-based work and asset management platform that empowers operations professionals to reduce maintenance costs, improve productivity and make smarter operations decisions. Ensure nothing comes between your team, the people you serve and the critical work you do by trusting a solution built for your specific needs and a strategic industry partner – for now and the future. Unlike other work and asset management tools, Asset Essentials can connect with the rest of your software ecosystem, including other Brightly products, to save time and solve complex problems with a 360-degree view of your operations.
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User Ratings
Brightly Asset Essentials™Simpro
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
5.8
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Brightly Asset Essentials™Simpro
Likelihood to Recommend
Brightly Software
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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Simpro Software
Simpro is well suited for job and team management, tracking inventory and the workflow is very logical. The mobile app for our field technicians works very well to clock on and off and then being in a position to report to a customer based on factual information has made invoicing a breeze! Reporting can be a bit frustrating especially on materials used on different cost centre numbers as you can only specify a job number, but not a cost centre number.
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Pros
Brightly Software
  • 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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Simpro Software
  • Billing: straight from a closed, complete job. Carries overall equipment, hours, takes one click to bill.
  • simPRO retains notes on all emails; notes can be entered by anyone to track communication with clients.
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Cons
Brightly Software
  • The overall user interface is bland.
  • Switching to the IT application takes opens in another tab.
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Simpro Software
  • Ability to create leave forms for the employees (to my best knowledge, this doesn't exist).
  • Ability to color code jobs, quotes by criticality.
  • Assign status to equipment (e.g. "ordered"; "arrived").
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Usability
Brightly Software
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Simpro Software
As mentioned before, materials reporting could use some work as one cannot report by cost centre number, only by job number. It makes it difficult with large jobs with multiple cost centre numbers to easily extract information for reporting. Other than that the system is user friendly and easy to understand.
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Support Rating
Brightly Software
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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Simpro Software
It is a great option for solar project management. It needs some improvements for real-time one-page reports, inventory management, scheduling and custom views. I believe these will come because they listen to their customers. I would also like to see some better training and not be expected to pay out of pocket for it.
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Alternatives Considered
Brightly Software
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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Simpro Software
monday.com was easier to set up and you can create boards with loads of subtasks which helps manage a project. Also, the ability to integrate with google was much better as we could link it to the calendar and also store documents that the engineers could see easier onsite. Overall we could make monday.com work better for our business based on how we are set up but simPRO will be great for other businesses with more specific needs.
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Return on Investment
Brightly Software
  • 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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Simpro Software
  • Increased team collaboration.
  • Increased inventory awareness.
  • Decreased down time between jobs.
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ScreenShots

Brightly Asset Essentials™ Screenshots

Screenshot of Mobile requestScreenshot of GIS Map