Snipe-IT

"A little gem"

Kommentare: It fit a niche perfectly for us.

Vorteile: This tool seems to fit us well. We have wanted to do asset management for a while and we get hung up with the complexity of other tools. This one got us going quickly and easily. It is the right fit.

Nachteile: The reporting interface to powerpivot was more complex to set up than we'd hope. I would like to have an easy button to push it out to nontechnical people quickly.

"My first approach in asset management"

Kommentare: I could inventory my companies (about 100 employees) assets without having to pay a heavy license fee.

Vorteile: I like the interface very much. It is slick, quick, and works well. It is available as selfhosted opensource and hosted opensource with business support. It is easy to setup and easy to update. It needs next to nothing in performance and space.

Nachteile: It was not quite obvious on how to use it in the beginning. I personally would have loved to get some sample data to feed into the system to see how to use it. Also, I think it is a bit confusing to have two search fields on one page. They can interefere with your search, which is confusing for my users.
Also I miss an easy way of allowing filetypes to upload to the system.
These are all minor problems and no dealbreakers.

"Robust Open-Source Asset Tracking - What's Not to Like?"

Kommentare: A night and day improvement over manual asset tracking for my company which has no budget for a commercial option.

Vorteile: Snipe-IT is a huge improvement from anyone attempting (and likely failing) to do any type of significant asset tracking through spreadsheets but without much (or any) budget for a commercial option. It makes it trivial to see which assets are assigned, to whom, and their physical location. Has one-click check in, custom asset models (to group common features), custom fields, and robust history and audit options. Because it's self-hosted (or a paid hosted service for those who don't want / aren't able to set up self hosting) it's also easy to set up individual user accounts who can log in directly and check what assets they have assigned (or request requestable items). It also has a built-in QR code label generator to allow easy creation of tracking labels that will work with most handheld scanners - or even turn mobile phone QR reader apps into devices for easy check-in / check-out. It's *highly* configurable to be a useful tool for all manner of different situation. The developers tread security very importantly - which is key for any web-facing application.

Nachteile: Like all open source software there are some weird quirks and bugs - and because of the odd mix of features, it's unlikely that the default setup will be perfect "out of the box" solution for anyone (although it allows a rich flexibility to adapt the program to fit many different environments). Like many Open Source projects - some areas (of particular interest to individual developers) are heavily developed (there's a rich consumable tracking and re-ordering system), and some other (seemingly basic) functionality underdeveloped (there's no way to manually specify a location to an asset that contradicts the "default" locations of the asset owner, or assigned user). Automatically generated labels are almost impossible to align properly - as far as I know almost all users just "print" them as local PDF files and then re-layout in other graphics programs (which works well... just an extra step). Finally the upgrade process can be a little cumbersome (although changes to the most recent major version should simplify this going forward). Like many Open Source projects - some level of network/server/IT knowledge is required to install and maintain as a self-hosted application (obviously not needed for the paid-hosting offerings).

"Awesome Free Asset Management"

Vorteile: Free
Multi Platform
Satisfactory Default Templates
No limitations on the free version
Clean UI
Reporting Features

Nachteile: The initial setup took a few tries. Documentation on the setup was pretty minimal. I must have started and retried the installation process a few times before it finally "worked".

"A Great Way to Manage a Small Business Inventory"

Kommentare: It's been a great and fast way to get our inventory on track and keep people accountable when it comes to using software and hardware.

Vorteile: It's open source and self hosted. We have an instance running on a server at our business. The Docker image they offer makes set up even easier. From the very start it is super easy to get going. You can begin entering inventory and even use a barcode scanner to label things. There is also a well designed license inventory that helps us keep track of who is taking up seats for various products. The UI is modern and very easy to navigate.

Nachteile: The default fields throw a lot at you and we don't use even close to all of them, but I see how they may be useful to other organizations.