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Hi All

I'm looking for a little advice on asset management software / solutions to keep track on our companies estate. I've had a look at a couple of things but nothing seems to tick all of the boxes, so I thought I'd ask the wider community if you've come across anything.

What I am looking for is something to handle the follow as a basis,

  • Log assets with unique number, must be able to enter basic information, description, make, model, serial etc.
  • Create relationships between assets, i.e. link a certain monitor with a computer for example
  • Track depreciation and provide current value, i.e. an assets purchase price of ?3600 over 3 years CAPEX would be ?100 depreciation per month, six months later its current value would be ?3000

The second and third requirements seem to be the stumbling block, either I?ve been looking at the wrong thing or simply the product don't work in that manner.

Any suggestions

Thanks

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Another vote for Spiceworks. we use it across multiple sites but I dont use it to its full capacity. I dont think it will track depreciation but take a look at the bolt ons you can get for it. Perhaps there is something there that will add this.

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[edit] just noticed you want requirements this software wont full fill.. that will teach me to skim over the post.

I'm in the process of doing this now at the company i work for.

We're using http://www.seton.co.uk/asset-tags-labels.html

Duraguard tags, come with company name, number and bar code, tracking software and a bar code scanner.

You literally scan the bar code, and have the option to enter the following:

status

manufacturer,

model,

location,

site,

department,

user,

id type,

responsibility,

other id,

notes,

reg date,

value,

loaned,

description,

disposal date,

disposal notes,

audit date,

checked by,

missing,

audit notes,

date of PAT test,

tster name,

date of text test.

I think it costs ?1000 for 1000 tags and was a couple of hundred for software and bar code scanner which i thought was a bit of a rip of as it is extremely basic, so if you could find something free/cheap you might be able to save on a couple of quid.

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+1 for Spiceworks!

Spiceworks is good and we use it globally. It does to depreciation as it keeps nagging me that machines in foreign offices are old. It does pretty much everything but in term's of monitors, It detect's them but it's only really as good as the driver on the system.

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[edit] just noticed you want requirements this software wont full fill.. that will teach me to skim over the post.

I'm in the process of doing this now at the company i work for.

We're using http://www.seton.co....ags-labels.html

Duraguard tags, come with company name, number and bar code, tracking software and a bar code scanner.

You literally scan the bar code, and have the option to enter the following:

status

manufacturer,

model,

location,

site,

department,

user,

id type,

responsibility,

other id,

notes,

reg date,

value,

loaned,

description,

disposal date,

disposal notes,

audit date,

checked by,

missing,

audit notes,

date of PAT test,

tster name,

date of text test.

I think it costs ?1000 for 1000 tags and was a couple of hundred for software and bar code scanner which i thought was a bit of a rip of as it is extremely basic, so if you could find something free/cheap you might be able to save on a couple of quid.

Hmm. Couldn't you just buy a gun and write your own sql database with everything you want?

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For those using Spiceworks, I've just been playing with it, and I got an email back from them saying I've just completed my first network scan, and it found x amount of clients. Does this mean they now have the details of our equipment?

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