5 Best Government Asset Management Software of 2026 (Reviews)

OpenGov (formerly known as Cartegraph) is specifically designed to help local government agencies manage their infrastructure, facilities, utilities, fleet and public works assets. It helps you consolidate your asset inventories, work orders, inspection histories, warranties, GIS location data and condition status into one platform. 

OpenGov also provides mobile and offline field capabilities. These help your team update work orders or asset status from the field without returning to their office.

There are also several ways that OpenGov can improve citizen service. For example, the asset management solution helps minimize service interruptions by reducing unexpected breakdowns of public infrastructure (facilities, utilities, roads, etc.) through preventive maintenance. It also helps forecast and plan capital improvement projects with its scenario modeling feature, enabling your agency or department to deploy limited resources more effectively.

Asset Panda offers extensive asset management features, including leased equipment tracking. We like the overall feature set as well as its mobile app. Your team of technicians can use a mobile device to scan a QR code to check assets in or out, update asset information and perform audits. They can do all of this even when offline. Once the device connects to the internet again, the app syncs data to the cloud to update records across the organization.

We appreciate that Asset Panda also offers customizable fields and layouts. They allow you to tailor the experience to your specific asset tracking needs. However, we did find it annoying that our session kept timing out rather quickly while using Asset Panda.

IBM Maximo’s asset management system is built to handle more complex enterprise asset management (EAM) workflows. If your department or agency handles large-scale government operations, IBM Maximo’s extensive capabilities for procurement, maintenance, decommissioning and more could be useful.

We believe the platform’s most valuable offering is IBM watsonx. It’s an AI feature that helps analyze data, detect recurring failures, recommend best actions and make decisions related to both preventive and predictive maintenance.

Your technicians also get on-the-go tracking via the mobile app. They can access real-time asset data, inspection history, work orders, parts inventory and more from a mobile device. They can even capture data while working in the field, including images and voice notes, and use barcode or RFID scans to identify assets in the system.

Brightly Asset Essentials offers greater visibility into your physical assets inventory and control over maintenance processes. But it also offers multiple advanced features. For example, we like that Brightly Asset Essentials offers GIS/map integration. This lets you locate assets spatially, reducing windshield time by guiding technicians to precise asset locations.

While locating assets is only possible when your device is online — which is fine — the mobile app does offer offline functionality for most other tasks. Whenever the device goes back online, it syncs data to update all records.

Brightly Asset Essentials also offers condition monitoring through a feature called “Smart Assets.” In addition to real-time alerts for anomalies, data collected during asset condition monitoring is also used to enrich your reports and dashboards, providing a comprehensive view of asset health.

The platform’s Citizen Portal is an especially useful feature for government agencies and departments. It allows citizens to submit work requests using a map-based interface. They select a location, choose a work category, provide a description, attach photos and include all the necessary details required to create a work order.