SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON

CompareHexagon HxGN EAMvsIFS Ultimo

Review features, pricing signals, strengths, and trade-offs before choosing.

Generated from current catalog profiles Catalog profile signals Use-case comparison

Quick decision guide

Choose based on your workflow

Hexagon HxGN EAM may fit better if...

  • Asset Records
  • Work Orders
  • Materials Module

IFS Ultimo may fit better if...

  • EAM Core
  • Safety Integration
  • Inspection Workflows

Overview

How each tool is described

Hexagon HxGN EAM

Hexagon HxGN EAM is an Enterprise EAM platform from Hexagon.

It helps maintenance, operations, and reliability teams handle repeated work with a clearer process, so the tool is easier to judge even for non-technical buyers. Instead of looking only at feature lists, focus on whether it improves the everyday tasks your team already repeats: planning work, creating outputs, reviewing quality, and keeping information organized. For most teams, the right test is simple: try it with real workflows, real data, and real team expectations before treating the score as the final decision.

  • Best fit: Asset intensive operators using Hexagon products.
  • Check first: mobile adoption, asset data quality, integrations, reporting depth, and rollout effort.

Bottom line: Hexagon HxGN EAM is most useful when its core strengths match the work your team repeats often.

View full Hexagon HxGN EAM profile

IFS Ultimo

IFS Ultimo is an EAM with strong safety features.

It helps maintenance, operations, and reliability teams handle repeated work with a clearer process, so the tool is easier to judge even for non-technical buyers. Instead of looking only at feature lists, focus on whether it improves the everyday tasks your team already repeats: planning work, creating outputs, reviewing quality, and keeping information organized. For most teams, the right test is simple: try it with real workflows, real data, and real team expectations before treating the score as the final decision.

  • Best fit: Mid market maintenance plus safety teams.
  • Check first: mobile adoption, asset data quality, integrations, reporting depth, and rollout effort.

Bottom line: IFS Ultimo is most useful when its core strengths match the work your team repeats often.

View full IFS Ultimo profile

Side-by-side

Key differences

Criteria
Enterprise EAM SoftwareHexagon HxGN EAM
Enterprise EAM SoftwareIFS Ultimo
Best for
Enterprise EAM Software
Enterprise EAM Software
Score
8.3/10
8.2/10
Pricing
Contact sales
Contact sales
Category / audience
AI Maintenance, CMMS & Asset Reliability Software › Enterprise EAM Software
  • asset management
  • enterprise eam
  • hexagon
+2 more
AI Maintenance, CMMS & Asset Reliability Software › Enterprise EAM Software
  • cmms
  • asset management
  • eam
+2 more

OVERLAP

Where Hexagon HxGN EAM and IFS Ultimo are similar

Both tools cover similar catalog signals. The deciding factor is usually workflow fit, implementation needs, and ecosystem fit.

1 capabilities0 workflows

Shared capabilities

Capability overlap

  • Mobile AppField execution for technicians and supervisors

Feature check

Side-by-side feature check

Feature
Hexagon HxGN EAM
IFS Ultimo
Asset RecordsDetailed hierarchy across sites and equipment
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Work OrdersPlan execute and close maintenance jobs
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Materials ModuleInventory parts and procurement workflow tools
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Reliability AnalyticsReports on costs reliability and asset KPIs
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Industry EditionsConfigurations for transit manufacturing and energy
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EAM CoreAsset records work orders and PM scheduling
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11 capabilities compared.10 differentiating rows are shown first.

Use cases

Who they're built for

Hexagon HxGN EAM

  • Operate transit and rail networksRun rail bus and metro maintenance with proven EAM
  • Manage manufacturing operations across plant sitesTrack work orders inspections and reliability across plants
  • Operate oil and gas assetsCoordinate complex asset maintenance in upstream and downstream
View full Hexagon HxGN EAM profile

IFS Ultimo

  • Combine maintenance and safety in oneRun permits inspections and work orders on one platform
  • Operate utility asset programs across regionsTrack distribution generation and water utility maintenance work
  • Manage manufacturing maintenance work across plantsRun PM and corrective work across many plant sites
View full IFS Ultimo profile

The trade-offs

Pros & cons of each tool

Trade-offs

Hexagon HxGN EAM

Pros
  • Mature EAM platform with broad functional coverage
  • Strong references across transit manufacturing and energy
  • Connects with the wider Hexagon industrial portfolio
Cons
  • Heavier than basic CMMS for small teams
  • User experience can feel less modern overall
  • Implementation needs a structured program and partners
Trade-offs

IFS Ultimo

Pros
  • Combines maintenance work with integrated safety processes
  • Useful when EHS and reliability share teams
  • Strong references across European industrial customer base
Cons
  • Mid market footprint smaller in some regions
  • Heavier than the basic mobile-first CMMS tools
  • Roadmap now closely tied to IFS portfolio

Final verdict

Best fit depends on your workflow

Catalog verdict · low confidence

Current catalog data shows meaningful overlap between Hexagon HxGN EAM and IFS Ultimo. Use the signals below to decide based on workflow, ecosystem, pricing, and implementation fit.

Shared catalog overlap

Hexagon HxGN EAM and IFS Ultimo share 1 catalog signal, so the decision should focus on fit rather than broad capability alone.

Differentiators available

Hexagon HxGN EAM has 4 visible decision signals and IFS Ultimo has 4.

Score signal

Hexagon HxGN EAM has the higher SoftFinders Score in the current catalog data.

TRY THEM YOURSELF

See which one fits your workflow

Both tools have their strengths, the best way to decide is to spend a few minutes inside each.