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Brightly Asset Essentials vs Hippo CMMS

Brightly Asset Essentials logo

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
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Full reviewWebsite
Hippo CMMS logo

Hippo CMMS

Manufacturing

Straightforward maintenance management, now part of Eptura

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.; Hippo CMMS no longer sold as a standalone product, so a new evaluation is really an Eptura evaluation with a different scope and price
  • They diverge on capability: Brightly Asset Essentials covers Work orders and requests, Hippo CMMS covers Interactive site maps.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

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

Attributes where Brightly Asset Essentials and Hippo CMMS differ
AttributeBrightly Asset EssentialsHippo CMMS
CategoryField ServiceManufacturing

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated).

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
  • Asset registers
  • Capital planning
  • Inventory
  • Mobile app
  • Energy and sustainability
  • Reporting

Only in Hippo CMMS

  • Interactive site maps
  • Work order management
  • Equipment records
  • Vendor management
  • Mobile access

Both cover

  • Preventive maintenance

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 Hippo CMMS
  • A municipal public works department that must justify replacement capital to a council with condition-based evidencenot Hippo CMMS
  • A healthcare estate tracking statutory compliance tasks and producing audit evidence on demandnot Hippo CMMS
  • A senior living operator standardising preventive maintenance across sites with a mobile app technicians will actually opennot Hippo CMMS

Hippo CMMS

  • Facilities teams wanting a CMMS that a non-specialist can operatenot Brightly Asset Essentials
  • Sites where locating an asset on a floor plan is the natural way to find itnot Brightly Asset Essentials
  • Existing Hippo customers evaluating whether to stay within Epturanot Brightly Asset Essentials
  • Organisations wanting maintenance inside a broader workplace management suitenot 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.

Hippo CMMS

  • No longer sold as a standalone product, so a new evaluation is really an Eptura evaluation with a different scope and price
  • Pricing is not published, which makes it hard to compare against MaintainX or Limble without a sales process
  • The simplicity that was its selling point becomes a ceiling for organisations with complex asset hierarchies
  • Reporting is basic against competitors that have invested heavily in analytics
  • Product direction now follows Eptura workplace strategy rather than maintenance-specific needs

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

Hippo CMMS

On request
  • Eptura Asset$undefined/month
    • Work order management
    • Preventive maintenance
    • Asset records

Which should you pick?

Choose Brightly Asset Essentials if

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

Choose Hippo CMMS if

  • You need interactive site maps.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want work order management.
Hippo CMMS review

Questions people ask

Is Brightly Asset Essentials or Hippo CMMS better?
Neither clearly leads. Brightly Asset Essentials starts at On request and Hippo CMMS 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 Hippo CMMS?
Brightly Asset Essentials starts at On request and Hippo CMMS at On request.
Does Brightly Asset Essentials or Hippo CMMS run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
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 Hippo CMMS is typically brought in for.
What can Brightly Asset Essentials do that Hippo CMMS cannot?
Brightly Asset Essentials covers Work orders and requests, Asset registers, Capital planning, Inventory. Hippo CMMS covers Interactive site maps, Work order management, Equipment records, Vendor management. Both handle Preventive maintenance.

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.

Hippo CMMS: Is Hippo CMMS still available?

Not as a standalone purchase. It was acquired by Eptura and its capabilities are part of Eptura Asset. Existing customers are still served.

Brightly Asset Essentials: What does Asset Essentials cost?

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

Hippo CMMS: What was distinctive about it?

Interactive facility maps. Placing assets on a floor plan and raising work orders from the drawing is a genuinely different way to navigate a site, and it is why it retained users against slicker competitors.

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.

Hippo CMMS: What does it cost?

Not published. Eptura quotes, which is a change from Hippo, whose pricing was easier to establish.

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

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

Hippo CMMS: Should a new buyer consider it?

Evaluate Eptura Asset on its own terms, against MaintainX and Limble. Choosing it because of Hippo reviews written before the acquisition is a mistake.

Hippo CMMS: What happens to existing customers?

They continue to be supported within Eptura. The practical question is whether the broader workplace suite fits, since that is where the product roadmap now points.

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