Open Source Asset Manager Project

[samtayuk]

I have been looking for an Asset manager (open Source and Paid) and I can not find anything that fits our school just right. I have looked and tested a good few. I have used GPLI for a year and its just to hard to track information and compile reports. I have tested Spiceworks and it work well but have core missing features like bulk edit and import/export.

 

I have been thinking of writing something open source in python.

 

Have you found software that fits right?

 

Would any developers like to help out?

Edited November 10, 2010 by samtayuk

[CyberNerd]

OCS Inventory NG - Welcome to OCS Inventory NG web site !

[glennda]

I use my fog inventory for the information i require on PC's - simple excel spreadsheet for projectors/whiteboard models

[rh91uk]

We use Spiceworks and it works fine for us .... thinking of using the equipment register in FMS for this.

Some library systems can be useful asset managers too. I know a school who uses AccessIt for this. Think it can be done with eclipse.net too.

[samtayuk]

@rh91uk: I didn't know about equipment register in FMS, I'll have a look in the morning.

 

Spiceworks worked really well apart from no bulk edit, I just can't believe that it doesn't have that feature. Importing just a pain and has killed my data a few times.

[rh91uk]

Obviously the FMS equipment register will take a while to set up, but it again has a pro of having a central store of data again (one of our reasons for moving all Assessment and Registration to SIMS as we are very luddite..!)

[samtayuk]

rh91uk: Just been looking at FMS equipment register, looks great and can import! Yay!

[irsprint84]

Can use sharepoint as well