Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued) vs. xAssets IT Asset Management Software

For small industries, it can prove to be a better solution as Cherwell offers comparatively affordable costs for small organizations. But for larger companies, there are many other solutions available in the market that are less complex and offer a variety of additional features. It can be a little complex to use because of its high configuration.

Incentivized

We run a large environment where managing agents and clients would be difficult, but this software doesn't require either. We use it a lot from our iPhones accessing the software from anywhere in the office and even from home.

• Automation
• Integrating with other systems
• Full control over how ITSM platform is set up and used

• Network discovery--with no agents to manage is great and its very fast
• Reporting--custom reports, charts and PDFs; the software also emails monthly reports automatically
• Users only see the data and menus they need, so no training needed and the UI is focused
• No clients to install; we can use it from any browser and from our cell phones
• Upgrades are done quickly; we've never needed to get involved, as they do it for us

• Very costly licenses.
• Requires comparatively high amount of configuration.
• Comparatively complex to use other solutions available in market.

Incentivized

• Looking forward to using their full endpoint management system, which is under development

Cherwell support has been excellent! Always available to take our emails and calls and get back to us quickly.

Cherwell Asset Management is a quite known and affordable solution for Asset management for organizations where there are more than 800-1000 users as it provides a complete integrated solution. There are many additional features that are available in Cherwell which is not available in other solution, like tracking of cost, management of procurement, etc.

Incentivized

• Consolidated other systems into a single platform