Shelf – open-source asset management software
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Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software
#2Hopefully someone can gain value from this!
Re: Shelf – open-source asset management software
#3Hopefully someone can gain value from this!
I will definitely use this to manage both my personal and business assets. Thank you for sharing, this is great work.
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#4Seems interesting. It would be nice if a user could record maintenance events. For example: rotate tires, change oil. Also, I would like to upload user manuals - not just hyperlinks.
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#5Visually, it looks GREAT. Thanks for sharing this. I do care more about the feature set than the UI tho', so I have some questions.
AM to me is the foundational part of any security management. I care about 3 main things:
1) API support (for custom tooling)
2) Integration with other tools (Jira, Salesforce, etc)
3) Relationships/Dependencies with other assets (to determine the blast radius if there is an incident, or if this asset can be deco'd and what the impact would be)
The feature set looks like it steps into EDM, which is a totally different problem space to AM IMO.
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#6This looks great - I was looking for something like this and other solutions are split into pretty much a) way too expensive for a small business using it casually b) very basic systems without mobile support. Ended up just using Airtable directly with the mobile app - not amazing, but also not bad at all.
One thing I couldn't figure out from the website/GitHub - can I attach more than one image to the item? For example I'd like to save both the photo and the pdf of the invoice.
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#7Another great open source asset management system to check out is Snipe-IT. https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it
I have used it for years both self hosted and with them hosting and it's been a great low cost solution for asset management.
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#8Unfortunately, both shelf and snipe are limited asset management systems that do not cover the broader asset management situations and issues.
Having worked in asset management at one time, the field has some quite difficult aspects that are often missed by these relatively simple systems.
I am not disparaging what either of these systems do. There is a lot of time and effort that has been put into them. However, full blown asset management is a much bigger area than most people understand or have built systems for.
One asset class that can act as a test case for any asset management system that you might like to try your hand at building is a multi-story multi-use building. Once you get into the weeds on this one, you begin to see just how complex asset management is.
One feature of asset management is the oft forgotten maintenance sequences and forecasting of maintenance and refurbishment.
A number of other comments here have commented on such aspects
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#9The other day I was looking for a Windows desktop app for managing home assets (Where is this tool? What is inside my box A1 located in room B?)
There is very little software like that. Everything is a website or a smartphone app. I want a Windows desktop program.
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#10IT wise, It's been a fair few years since I've been in a department that does asset management, we used to use GLPI with it's warts and all, which got replace with https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox