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Brightly Asset Essentials vs FaciliWorks

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Brightly Asset Essentials

Field Service

CMMS and asset management for schools, local government, healthcare estates and manufacturing, now part of Siemens

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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FaciliWorks

Field Service

CMMS from CyberMetrics that still sells a perpetual on-premise licence alongside subscription

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Brightly Asset Essentials nothing about the pricing is published, the official pricing page has been removed, and quotes are per organisation, so buyers cannot benchmark and negotiating leverage depends entirely on running a competitive process.; FaciliWorks the interface is dated by cloud CMMS standards, which matters most for occasional users such as production supervisors raising a request, who will need training that a modern mobile-first tool would not require.
  • They diverge on capability: Brightly Asset Essentials covers Work orders and requests, FaciliWorks covers Perpetual or subscription licensing.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Brightly Asset Essentials and FaciliWorks actually diverge.

Attributes where Brightly Asset Essentials and FaciliWorks differ
AttributeBrightly Asset EssentialsFaciliWorks
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWindows, Web, iOS, Android, On-premise

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Field Service).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Brightly Asset Essentials

  • Work orders and requests
  • Preventive maintenance
  • Asset registers
  • Capital planning
  • Inventory
  • Mobile app
  • Energy and sustainability
  • Reporting

Only in FaciliWorks

  • Perpetual or subscription licensing
  • Concurrent seat option
  • Preventive maintenance scheduling
  • Calibration alignment
  • Parts and purchasing
  • Mobile work orders

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Brightly Asset Essentials

  • A school district consolidating maintenance requests from fifty buildings into one queue with a portal teachers can usenot FaciliWorks
  • A municipal public works department that must justify replacement capital to a council with condition-based evidencenot FaciliWorks
  • A healthcare estate tracking statutory compliance tasks and producing audit evidence on demandnot FaciliWorks
  • A senior living operator standardising preventive maintenance across sites with a mobile app technicians will actually opennot FaciliWorks

FaciliWorks

  • A regulated manufacturer that must evidence both equipment maintenance and gauge calibration in one audit and wants both from one vendornot Brightly Asset Essentials
  • A defence or utility site on an isolated network where a cloud-only CMMS is not permitted by policynot Brightly Asset Essentials
  • A maintenance department that wants a capital purchase rather than a recurring subscription that grows with headcountnot Brightly Asset Essentials
  • A plant with many occasional users where concurrent licensing costs far less than a named seat for every techniciannot Brightly Asset Essentials

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Brightly Asset Essentials

  • Nothing about the pricing is published, the official pricing page has been removed, and quotes are per organisation, so buyers cannot benchmark and negotiating leverage depends entirely on running a competitive process.
  • Implementation and data migration are quoted separately and commonly add five figures to a mid-size deployment, which is not visible when comparing headline subscription numbers.
  • Siemens ownership has pointed the roadmap at building and infrastructure integration, so industrial maintenance features compete for attention with Siemens Smart Infrastructure priorities.
  • Capability is split across separate Brightly products, so functionality shown in a demo may require an additional module and an additional line on the contract.
  • Reporting is fixed-template heavy and getting a non-standard report often means exporting to a spreadsheet, which undermines the case for consolidating on one system.

FaciliWorks

  • The interface is dated by cloud CMMS standards, which matters most for occasional users such as production supervisors raising a request, who will need training that a modern mobile-first tool would not require.
  • A perpetual licence still carries an annual maintenance and support fee, so the one-off purchase framing does not hold; without that fee you lose updates and support while keeping the right to run old code.
  • Integration options are thin, with a limited API and few prebuilt connectors, so linking FaciliWorks to an ERP or a condition monitoring platform usually means custom database-level work.
  • No pricing is published for any edition despite this being a mid-market product, so buyers cannot compare it against published per-user rivals without entering a sales process.
  • CyberMetrics is a small independent vendor, which means responsive support but also a thin partner ecosystem and no realistic second-source implementation help if the relationship goes wrong.

Pricing, plan by plan

Brightly Asset Essentials

On request
  • Asset Essentials$undefined/year
    • Priced by named users and modules, quoted per organisation
    • Implementation, data migration and training quoted separately
    • Multi-year agreements are the norm for public-sector buyers

FaciliWorks

On request
  • FaciliWorks Essentials$undefined/year
    • Core CMMS: assets, work orders, preventive maintenance
    • Perpetual or subscription licensing
    • Concurrent or node-locked seats
  • FaciliWorks Pro$undefined/year
    • Adds advanced reporting and analytics
    • Parts inventory and purchasing
    • Mobile access
  • FaciliWorks Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Multi-site and multi-currency
    • All Pro capability
    • Extended integration and administration options

Which should you pick?

Choose Brightly Asset Essentials if

  • You need work orders and requests.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want preventive maintenance.
Brightly Asset Essentials review

Choose FaciliWorks if

  • You need perpetual or subscription licensing.
  • You work on Windows, Web, iOS, Android, On-premise.
  • You also want concurrent seat option.
FaciliWorks review

Questions people ask

Is Brightly Asset Essentials or FaciliWorks better?
Neither clearly leads. Brightly Asset Essentials starts at On request and FaciliWorks at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Brightly Asset Essentials or FaciliWorks?
Brightly Asset Essentials starts at On request and FaciliWorks at On request.
Does Brightly Asset Essentials or FaciliWorks run on more platforms?
Brightly Asset Essentials runs on Web, iOS, Android. FaciliWorks runs on Windows, Web, iOS, Android, On-premise.
What is Brightly Asset Essentials best used for?
Brightly Asset Essentials is most often used for a school district consolidating maintenance requests from fifty buildings into one queue with a portal teachers can use, a municipal public works department that must justify replacement capital to a council with condition-based evidence, a healthcare estate tracking statutory compliance tasks and producing audit evidence on demand, a senior living operator standardising preventive maintenance across sites with a mobile app technicians will actually open. Of those, a school district consolidating maintenance requests from fifty buildings into one queue with a portal teachers can use and a municipal public works department that must justify replacement capital to a council with condition-based evidence are not what FaciliWorks is typically brought in for.
What can Brightly Asset Essentials do that FaciliWorks cannot?
Brightly Asset Essentials covers Work orders and requests, Preventive maintenance, Asset registers, Capital planning. FaciliWorks covers Perpetual or subscription licensing, Concurrent seat option, Preventive maintenance scheduling, Calibration alignment.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Brightly Asset Essentials: Who owns Brightly?

Siemens, which acquired it in 2022 for around 1.58 billion USD. It sits within Siemens Smart Infrastructure.

FaciliWorks: Can I still buy FaciliWorks outright?

Yes. Perpetual on-premise licensing is still offered alongside subscription, which is unusual in CMMS today.

Brightly Asset Essentials: What does Asset Essentials cost?

Not published. It is quoted by user count and modules, with implementation priced separately.

FaciliWorks: Does a perpetual licence mean no recurring cost?

No. Annual maintenance and support is a separate ongoing fee, and dropping it costs you updates and support.

Brightly Asset Essentials: Is it suitable for manufacturing?

It can run a plant, but the product heritage and roadmap are estates and infrastructure, so plant-specific features lag purpose-built industrial CMMS.

FaciliWorks: Is there concurrent licensing?

Yes. Concurrent seats let a large pool of occasional users share fewer licences, which is often cheaper than named seats.

Brightly Asset Essentials: Is there a free tier or trial?

No published free tier. Evaluation is through a sales-led demo.

FaciliWorks: Is pricing published?

No. All editions are quoted, so you must engage sales to get a comparable number.

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