Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management vs. Tivoli Asset Management for IT (Discontinued)

What is your organization trying to achieve? What is the skill level of the staff using the software on a regular basis? What organizational support is available for the software? What are your asset management success factors? What do you want to see from the software?

Incentivized

Tivoli Asset Management for IT can be used very well in a big datacenter to easily manage assets. For linear assets there are other Tivoli Asset Manager products available such as for transportation domain, oil and gas. For a small scale industry, Tivoli Asset management solution is not a big help.

Incentivized

• Manages preventative maintenance with the flexibility to assign tasks to single or multiple assets without adding unnecessary computer effort.
• Has a very robust work management module with easy to understand schedules.
• Assigns costs to functions and assets to assist with identifying the most financially intensive portions of the operation.

Incentivized

• The first and foremost is Tivoli Asset Management has a rich set of software catalogs available in the market. On top of it IBM, publishes the latest and greatest often to add/include in the catalog bucket.
• Easy to integrate with any asset management solution.
• Can take benefit of all asset module solutions such as procurement, invoicing, PO, receivables, asset lifecyle, vendor and contract management using Tivoli Asset Management.

Incentivized

• Configuration of approval limits and document routing can be challenging.
• Oracle Forms restricts some functions. A little flexibility in displaying different information would be helpful. Functionality is available in the HTML portions of the software.

Incentivized

• Software bundling can be handled in a better way
• Should eliminate rotating/non-rotating items concepts or should have an easy way to receive assets
• Asset Topology can be introduced to see the dependencies between related assets

Incentivized

Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management is a fully functional software with numerous capabilities. Job Plus is intended for smaller operations with minimal requirements. It really depends on what the organization needs and desires from its asset management software.

Incentivized

Tivoli Asset Management is comparatively cheap and easy to implement with a rich set of complementing modules. It can also be integrated easily with other asset management solutions and act as a single source of truth for other PMP processes

Incentivized

• We have been able to apply preventative maintenance to a list of assets easily without significant computer effort.
• Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management clearly tracks what maintenance has been completed for a given asset and what needs to be completed.
• Its web architecture allows support staff to quickly and easily address questions and issues without having to be at the project site.
• Purchase order integration allows seamless transfer of costs directly to assets and functions without additional computer effort.

Incentivized

• By tracking software assets, we are able to easily manage the license compliance
• By getting the over/under allocation metrics we are able to get full control on asset procurement
• Recycle/Reuse asset procedures made simple

Incentivized