Integration of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM)
Hardcat’s enterprise asset management software provides the specialist capabilities you need for efficient asset management, supporting your business practices. It integrates seamlessly with your existing business applications within your Enterprise IT ecosystem.
Designed with integration and sociability in mind, our software is inherently open, ensuring smooth connections with other systems. Interoperability and integration are inherent in the DNA of the product suite. Hardcat utilises our Integration Framework to map-out suitable business automation and implement solutions with capabilities that work in harmony and complement our client’s existing IT applications.
Choosing the right EAM software: key features to consider
Selecting the best Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software requires evaluating multiple factors to ensure it meets your organisation’s needs. Here are the essential features to look for:
Comprehensive functionality
An effective EAM solution should provide end-to-end asset management, enabling complete oversight of asset reliability, quality, and performance across the entire organisation. Our centralised system ensures all assets are visible from a single vantage point, streamlining data integration with maintenance processes. By predicting and modelling asset behaviour from acquisition through depreciation and replacement, organisations can make data-driven decisions and meet key performance indicators (KPIs) more effectively.
Seamless integration
The Hardcat EAM platform integrates effortlessly with existing enterprise systems, including ERP, HR, financial systems, maintenance monitoring systems and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms. In addition, strong integration capabilities enhance data sharing, automate workflows, and streamline business operations.
Scalability and customisation
As your organisation grows, your EAM software should scale with it. Our solution adapts to increasing complexity, offering flexible configurations to meet diverse use cases across industries and operational needs.
AI-Powered analytics
A robust EAM system should leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance data analytics, providing insights that drive efficiency and cost savings. AI-powered tools help identify optimisation opportunities, allowing small adjustments to yield significant operational improvements.
User-friendly design
Our EAM system features an intuitive interface that accommodates users with varying levels of technical expertise. Additionally, pre-built reports, dashboards, and visualisations simplify data interpretation. While our mobile-friendly application ensures technicians can access real-time asset data and perform field service tasks seamlessly.
Expert support and continuous improvement
Enterprise-scale asset management requires more than just software—it demands a strategic partnership. Our EAM solutions offer hands-on implementation support, industry-specific expertise, and a commitment to continuous product development. Regular updates, a strong user community, and dedicated customer service ensure that your organisation stays ahead of evolving asset management challenges.
Hardcat’s EAM solutions are built to deliver all these capabilities, empowering organisations to optimise asset performance, enhance decision-making, and drive long-term efficiency.
Digitising asset and equipment management
Digitising asset management offers several advantages that enhance efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making. Here are the key reasons why businesses should digitise their asset and equipment management processes:
- A centralised platform provides the capability to track assets in real time, comprehensively monitoring their location, status, and condition. Moreover, this enhanced visibility helps prevent loss, misplacement, or theft of assets.
- Eliminate errors associated with manual processes, such as data entry mistakes or misfiling paperwork. This is because automation ensures that records remain consistently accurate and up to date.
- Enable automated scheduling and tracking of maintenance activities, reducing downtime and extending the lifespan of equipment. Maintenance history and performance data are easily accessible, aiding in proactive decision-making.
- Facilitate better compliance with industry regulations by maintaining accurate records and generating audit-ready reports. They provide reminders for certifications, inspections, and other compliance requirements.
Organisations stay competitive in their industry by leveraging digital tools to embrace modern, efficient practices. Companies with integrated digitised systems can respond more effectively to market demands and technological advancements. In summary, digitising asset and equipment management improves operational efficiency, enables smarter decision-making, reduces costs, and strengthens competitiveness in a digital world.
Interoperability: an integral element of the enterprise ecosystem
System interoperability has always been embraced by Hardcat software and is enabled by several useful tools and techniques. Right out of the box, Hardcat solutions provides users with a powerful import and export feature. Imports/exports can be scheduled to meet data synchronisation requirements. All components of Hardcat software are designed to provide superior asset management capabilities which can stand alone or complement wider-reaching ERP and finance systems such SAP, Oracle, Technology One, Dynamics and Maximo, among others.
Application import/export capabilities
Application import/export capabilities provide robust flexibility, allowing data to be seamlessly consumed by the Hardcat solutions and, equally important, enabling data to be delivered in a format that is highly portable and compatible with external systems. Furthermore, for organisations requiring specialised access, read-only database querying becomes possible, such as through SQL Server Reporting Services.
The Hardcat team remains consistently proactive, always ready to attend to requests related to data relationships and ensuring that desired outcomes are achieved with maximum efficiency.
Application programming interface
For more sophisticated integration requirements involving complex data transformation, interpretation, or interpolation or more real-time responsiveness, Hardcat has a Professional Services Team ready to assist with integration or interface development via its comprehensive REST API.
Integration with Hardcat
Hardcat recognises that, in today’s complex technological landscape, an entire solution often consists of many different systems. Moreover, we are fundamentally dedicated to ensuring that the user experience remains seamless, regardless of the systems involved.
To support real-time activities, the Hardcat Professional Services Team can strategically tailor an interface to meet an organisation’s exact requirements. Additionally, the team collaborates closely with the customer and their (potentially numerous) product partners to address the following key questions:
- What systems need to ‘talk’?
- Why do they need to ‘talk’?
- Who will be performing the integration?
- What technologies are available to ‘talk’ to the other systems?
- What data transformation needs to take place between systems?
- What information goes in?
- What information goes out?
For complex integration exercises with fairly closed systems, Hardcat ensures that only the necessary information is shared and the most appropriate integrators and vendors consume the data by using an Information Broker—a set of tables or files that facilitate data exchange between systems and various parties.
Linking business critical systems – our integration experience
Hardcat has experience integrating to the largest and smallest packages, from ERPs to small, bespoke accounting systems and even hardware auto-discovery tools. For more complex, tighter integrations, Hardcat provides a number of seamless integration options via any combination. In terms of past successful interface implementations the following are jus a few of the systems we have worked with:
- Command/Records Management Systems
- Human Resource Systems
ERP:
- SmartStream
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- SAGA
- BAS
- SAP Business One
- SAP HRAssist
- Omya
- Greentree
- IBM Tivoli Access Manager Authentication (TAM)
Auto Discovery Interfaces:
- LANDesk
- Centennial
- Express Metrix
- Gasp
- Microsoft SCCM/SMS
Hardcat also provides a number of seamless integration options via any combination of:
- Third party integration tools such as Microsoft Biztalk or IBM’s WebSphere
- Message queuing (MSMQ)
- XML, Excel, text files i.e. comma-delimited
- RESTful/SOAP web services
Maximise ROI with smarter asset management
Hardcat’s software solutions provide the specialist capabilities you need for efficient management of assets, buildings, tools and equipment. Our solutions complement your existing business applications within your enterprise IT ecosystems. Utilising proven combinations of enterprise asset management software, services, hardware, and hosting, leveraging offerings from Hardcat and our partners.
We are happy to work with customers to ensure their Hardcat enterprise asset management solution produces the required results and leverages existing software investments maximally.
