NEXGEN Asset Managementvs
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NEXGEN Asset Management
Combined EAM and CMMS for utilities and municipalities with Esri GIS at the centre of the asset register
As of 1 September 2026, NEXGEN Asset Management's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Priced on assets under management rather than users, which suits a public works department with fifty staff and two hundred thousand assets and penalises the opposite shape of organisation. Softwr lists it under Government. NEXGEN Asset Management is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What NEXGEN Asset Management does
NEXGEN Asset Management is an enterprise asset management and CMMS product aimed at water and wastewater utilities, cities, counties, airports and school districts. It combines a GIS-linked asset register, work order and preventive maintenance management, risk and criticality scoring, condition assessment, capital planning and a mobile field application. It is an Esri partner solution, so ArcGIS layers act as the asset map rather than as a bolted-on view. The distinguishing commercial detail is the pricing unit. NEXGEN prices on the number of assets under management rather than per named user. For a municipality with a small maintenance team and hundreds of thousands of pipe segments, hydrants, valves and signs, that is either an advantage or a trap depending on how granular your GIS layers are, because the same physical network can be modelled as ten thousand assets or two hundred thousand depending on segmentation choices made years ago by someone in the GIS team. Nothing is published, so the only way to find out is to be quoted. Who buys it: North American public agencies, particularly water and wastewater utilities, that need condition-based capital planning defensible to a board or council alongside day-to-day work orders. The trade-off is that NEXGEN is a small vendor with a regional footprint, its user interface shows its age against newer CMMS products, and the asset-based pricing makes cost forecasting awkward when GIS remodelling changes your asset count.
What people use it for
- A water utility that must show a board why a specific main is being replaced this year rather than next
- A city public works department consolidating a GIS asset inventory and a paper work order process into one system
- An airport authority tracking condition assessments across airside and landside assets with capital forecasting
- A district that needs citizen service requests to become tracked work orders with an auditable history
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Where it falls short
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- Pricing keys off asset count, so a routine GIS resegmentation that splits mains into more records can raise your subscription without adding a single user or work order.
- Nothing is published and the vendor is small, so the reference set you can call is limited and mostly Californian and North American public agencies.
- The interface is dated compared with modern CMMS products, which hurts adoption among field crews who compare it to consumer apps on their own phones.
- GIS integration is the product strength and also its dependency; agencies without a maintained ArcGIS asset layer face a data preparation project before NEXGEN is useful.
- As a small vendor it carries acquisition risk, and in this segment acquisitions have repeatedly meant a product frozen while it is folded into a larger portfolio.
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Pricing
What NEXGEN Asset Management costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
NEXGEN Asset Management
On request
- Tiered pricing based on the number of assets under management
- Implementation, GIS integration and data migration quoted separately
- Mobile module licensed alongside the core platform
- Annual subscription, quoted per agency
Capabilities
Features
Esri GIS integration
ArcGIS layers form the asset register with attributes, layers and base maps in the mobile app
Risk and criticality
Scoring models that rank assets by consequence and likelihood of failure
Condition assessment
Inspection programmes feeding condition scores and remaining useful life estimates
Capital planning
Multi-year renewal forecasting driven by condition and risk
Work orders
Preventive, corrective and service-request driven work management
Mobile field app
Map-based work execution with offline support
Service requests
Citizen and internal request intake routed to work orders
Inventory and purchasing
Parts, stores and purchase order handling tied to work orders
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Questions people ask
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How is NEXGEN priced?
On a tiered model based on the number of assets under management, quoted per agency. Nothing is published.
Do we need Esri ArcGIS?
Not strictly, but the product is designed around it and most of the value assumes a maintained GIS asset layer.
Does it handle capital planning?
Yes. Risk, criticality and condition scores feed multi-year renewal forecasts intended for board and council submissions.
Is there a mobile app?
Yes, a map-based field application with offline capability, licensed alongside the core platform.
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