What is the best IBM Maximo alternative?
A good IBM Maximo alternative keeps what a maintenance team relies on in Maximo (work orders, preventive and condition-based maintenance, spare parts and a full asset history) and makes it quicker to roll out and simpler to buy. Asset Infinity puts maintenance, parts, purchasing, asset tracking with RFID, BLE and GPS, IT discovery and depreciation books in one product, with published prices, and runs in our cloud or on your own servers.
We make Asset Infinity, so we are not neutral. Every claim about Maximo comes from IBM’s own website as of October 2026, and where we could not confirm a feature we say so. This page compares features only.
Why teams look for an IBM Maximo alternative
People usually start looking for one of four reasons:
- The rollout is bigger than the problem. A mid-sized plant, campus or hospital needs work orders and PM running in weeks, without a long implementation project.
- They want to know the price up front. AppPoints are flexible, but some buyers want a price per asset they can read on a page.
- Field teams need an app that just works. Technicians want to scan, close jobs and count stock from a phone, with or without a signal.
- Finance and IT want the same register. Depreciation books, asset tags and IT discovery on the records maintenance already keeps.
If none of these apply, and especially if your organization already runs Maximo at scale, it may well be the right product to keep.
Who each product is for
IBM Maximo Application Suite
IBM describes Maximo as asset management that brings enterprise asset management, asset performance management and asset investment planning together, with AI embedded across maintenance, field work, reliability and planning. Its site lists condition-based and reliability-centered maintenance, AI visual inspection of images from cameras, drones and phones, AI-assisted inventory optimization, and specialized versions for real estate and facilities, renewables, IT assets and data centers. It names manufacturing, energy and utilities, oil and gas, transportation and government. It is sold as client-managed software or SaaS, licensed with AppPoints.
Asset Infinity
Asset Infinity is an asset register and maintenance system in one product. It suits organizations that need enterprise maintenance without an enterprise rollout: manufacturers, hospitals, utilities, facility managers and schools with many sites. Work orders, preventive maintenance, parts, purchasing, contracts and depreciation books sit on the same asset record as its labels and counts, and it runs in our cloud or on your own servers.
How to choose an IBM Maximo alternative
Weigh these criteria against your own work:
- Maintenance depth: work orders, PM on dates, meters and conditions, job plans, and permits.
- Reliability tools: failure codes, root cause analysis, asset health and predictive maintenance.
- Mobile and offline: the app should scan, count and close work without a signal.
- Inventory and purchasing: spare parts across storerooms, reorder points, purchase orders and receiving.
- Locating assets: RFID, BLE and GPS, so an audit doesn’t depend on someone walking every room.
- Finance: depreciation methods, and whether a book and a tax book can sit side by side.
- Deployment: vendor cloud, your own servers, or both.
- Buying and rollout: how pricing works, and how long it takes to be live at the first site.
IBM Maximo vs Asset Infinity: feature comparison
Yes means the capability is listed on IBM’s own Maximo pages, or exists in Asset Infinity today. Partial means a narrower version, explained in the cell. Not listed means we did not find it on IBM’s product pages; Maximo is a large suite that does far more than one page shows, so ask IBM if it matters to you. For our own product, No means it does not do it.
| Capability | IBM Maximo | Asset Infinity |
|---|---|---|
| Work orders and preventive maintenance | Yes | Yes |
| Condition-based maintenance from sensors and meters | Yes | Yes |
| Reliability-centered maintenance and failure analysis | Yes | Yes: failure codes and root cause analysis |
| Asset health and predictive maintenance | Yes | Yes: a health score per asset, and predictive plans that trigger on readings |
| AI visual inspection of images and video | Yes | No |
| Asset investment planning | Yes | Partial: capital planning by asset |
| Mobile app for field teams | Yes | Yes, iOS and Android |
| Mobile app that works offline | Not listed | Yes |
| Spare parts inventory | Yes, with AI-assisted optimization | Yes, across storerooms with reorder recommendations |
| Purchase orders and receiving | Not listed | Yes |
| Depreciation books | Not listed | Yes, several books side by side |
| RFID, BLE and GPS location | Not listed | Yes: RFID labels, handheld and fixed readers, BLE tags, GPS trackers |
| IT asset discovery | Partial: a specialized version for IT assets | Yes: agents, network collectors and connectors |
| Runs on your own servers | Yes, client-managed | Yes |
| Published prices | No: AppPoints entitlement | Yes |
When IBM Maximo is the better choice
Choose Maximo if you run a very large, asset-intensive estate such as a power fleet, a rail network or a refinery, with a reliability team and an IT department to run the rollout. Its asset investment planning and AI visual inspection go further than ours, and its industry versions for utilities, transportation and data centers reflect decades of work in those sectors. If your organization already runs Maximo well, switching rarely pays.
When Asset Infinity is the better IBM Maximo alternative
Choose Asset Infinity if you need the core of an EAM system working at your sites quickly, on a register that finance and IT can use as well.
- Preventive and predictive maintenance: plans trigger on calendar dates, meter readings, sensor conditions, or a date on the asset such as a warranty end.
- Work orders: requests are triaged into jobs that show whether parts, tools and permits are ready.
- Parts and purchasing: stock across storerooms, reorder recommendations, purchase orders and receiving.
- One price list: every price is on the pricing page, and a quote takes a few minutes.
Finding assets without scanning them
Asset Infinity can place an asset without anyone scanning it, which changes what an audit and a search look like.
- Fixed RFID readers at doorways and rooms record where tagged assets were seen.
- BLE tags place assets inside a building on a floor plan.
- GPS trackers move vehicles and mobile equipment on the map and feed odometer and engine-hour meters.
- IT discovery finds laptops and servers on the network and matches them to the register.
What switching looks like by team
A manufacturing plant
Each line’s equipment keeps its hierarchy, meters and PM plans. Run-hour and vibration readings come in from sensors and raise work when they pass their limits, and the job shows whether the parts are in stock before anyone is sent. Spares are reordered from the same system, so maintenance and purchasing work from one list. See asset management for manufacturing.
A water utility
Pumps, valves and treatment equipment across many sites share one register. Technicians close inspections from the app at remote stations with no signal, and the work syncs when they’re back in range. Finance keeps its depreciation book on the same assets, so the register and the ledger agree. See asset management for water utilities.
How switching from IBM Maximo works
- Export from Maximo. Export assets, locations, item masters, PM plans and open work orders to spreadsheets.
- Import into Asset Infinity. Put each list on its own tab of one workbook (Sites, Assets, Parts and so on) and upload it. You see problem rows before anything is saved, and can undo the import as one step.
- Keep your labels. An asset can carry more than one label, so existing barcodes stay valid next to new QR or RFID labels.
- Start with one site. Run its PM plans and work orders in Asset Infinity first, then move the rest.
Asset Infinity’s asset register starts at $130 a month for up to 500 assets with unlimited users; build a quote for your count. Read more about our EAM software, CMMS software, preventive maintenance software and the best EAM software compared, or book a demo with your own export.