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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    eMaint CMMS

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AeMaint offers computerized maintenance management software with features for inventory management, asset management, maintenance scheduling, etc. eMaint is now owned and supported by Fluke Corp since the September 2016 acquisition.

    $69

    per month per user

    IFS Assyst

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AIFS Assyst (formerly Axios Assyst, acquired by IFS March, 2021) is an ITSM product in both SaaS and on-premise configurations - the SaaS version is called assystSaaS. This product competes with BMC Remedy, IBM SmartCloud, Cherwell Service Management, and FrontRange ITSM (now Heat Service Management).N/A

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management.

    $0

    (free for 1-5 Seats)

    Pricing
    eMaint CMMSIFS AssystSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $69
    per month per user
    Professional
    $85
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $120
    per month per user
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    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    eMaint CMMSIFS AssystSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    eMaint CMMSIFS AssystSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Multiple Products
    Fluke Corporation
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    IFS
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    eMaint CMMSIFS AssystSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of eMaint CMMS and IFS Assyst and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    eMaint CMMS
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings10.01 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings9.01 Ratings5.548 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings4.943 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.01 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings00 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings00 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of eMaint CMMS and IFS Assyst and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    eMaint CMMS
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Configuration mangement00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of eMaint CMMS and IFS Assyst and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    eMaint CMMS
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    8.7
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    -
    Ratings
    Change requests repository00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of eMaint CMMS and IFS Assyst and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    eMaint CMMS
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.5
    53 Ratings
    17% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.449 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of eMaint CMMS and IFS Assyst and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    eMaint CMMS
    -
    Ratings
    IFS Assyst
    -
    Ratings
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings00 Ratings9.847 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings00 Ratings4.512 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings00 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings00 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    eMaint CMMSIFS AssystSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    eMaint CMMSIFS AssystSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fluke Corporation
    eMaint is well suited to larger facilities with dedicated scheduler/planners. Learning to navigate the database and create reports requires a dedicated resource. Part-time users often forget the process for entering data and navigating the database. In smaller organizations where multiple users enter assets, planned maintenance (PM) tasks and vendors, keeping standardization in the system formatting was difficult.
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    I would suggest that in this product class, you get what you pay for. Although it is was sold as SAAS with a nearly 'plug and play' implementation, at least one full time highly trained admin is needed for ongoing support. I would advise a team implementation strategy.
    Incentivized
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.
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    Pros
    Fluke Corporation
    • We like that eMaint is highly configurable. You can customize fields to meet your needs
    • You can store and track documents and photos assigned to your assets
    • You can run custom reports.
    • Great customer service
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    IFS
    • IT Asset Management and IT Service Management in one product
    • ITIL framework
    • Highly customisable service catalogue and processes
    • Mature mobility product
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
    • We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
    • Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
    • Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Fluke Corporation
    • Functionality not delivered as promised - on usage of tab.
    • QR code functionality.
    • Friction between implementation team and marketing team that sold this to us.
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    • Service requests, incident, problem, and change management
    • Knowledge mgmt is not-existent - the product uses a WIKI for it's own knowledge base.
    • Axios help desk does is not knowledgable and does not follow up on reported incidents
    • Training is incomplete - no real resources available except billable by the hour.
    Incentivized
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
    • It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
    • Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fluke Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    IFS
    At this point, we are stuck with it. We can't afford a change at this point.
    Incentivized
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Fluke Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    IFS
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out
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    Reliability and Availability
    Fluke Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    IFS
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Fluke Corporation
    Customer support was always readily available, even when natural disasters were taking place.
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.
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    Implementation Rating
    Fluke Corporation
    No answers on this topic
    IFS
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fluke Corporation
    eMaint was by far most the most comprehensive and customizable solution we looked at. The eMaint team was also extremely responsive and available during the selection process. The product training and conferences were very helpful for new user orientation and best practice learning. The customizable reports also allowed us to provide data to management in an easy to digest format
    Incentivized
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    IFS
    Axios assyst outperforms JIRA in every aspect, JIRA is a good job system but when it comes to complex processes and configuration management then JIRA is simply not the right system.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.
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    Return on Investment
    Fluke Corporation
    • We easily track service events over multiple locations so we are able to save on costs
    • Able to run asset lists for inspections
    • Able to keep up with contracts' renewals and service costs
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    IFS
    • Replacement of 3 systems with Axios assyst
    • Integration with other enterprise systems
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
    • Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
    • Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
    • Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.
    Incentivized
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