Alloy Navigator vs Hornbill IT Asset Management

Alloy Navigator is an IT service management solution for incident, change, and problem workflows, service requests, and IT asset management. It includes ITIL processes and configurable workflow components for business processes. Its customizable self-service portal can be set up without coding and can automate repeat requests. Other listed capabilities include approval workflows, SLA management, a knowledge base, an employee portal, and single sign-on. Organizations can run it on premises, as SaaS, or in their own Azure or AWS cloud. Documented integrations include Microsoft Teams, TeamViewer, Microsoft Entra ID, Dell warranty, Adobe licensing, Intune, and SCCM/MECM; connections can also use a REST API. Native iOS and Android apps serve technicians and users, with a separate inventory scanner app. Plans are billed annually: Explorer costs $19 a month for up to 3 technicians, Express costs $49 a month for 4 or more technicians, and Enterprise costs $89 a month for 4 or more technicians. Each plan allows unlimited requesters. Cloud hosting fees are additional to base product prices.

Hornbill IT Asset Management tracks hardware, software, cloud, and on-premise assets through their lifecycle. Automated discovery can identify cloud and on-premise hardware and software. License views show licenses owned and in use, helping teams manage spend and respond to vendor audits; the product also tracks capital and operating costs, including support costs. Drag-and-drop or codeless workflows can automate IT asset processes such as application provisioning and patch deployment. Hornbill says a shared data model supports information sharing between IT asset management, operations, service management, and security teams. It describes hundreds of codeless integrations, including Microsoft Intune as an endpoint management example. Deployment is cloud-based, and personalized pricing is available on request. The included Essential Success Plan provides 24×7 online help for critical service availability issues, as well as community forums, knowledge resources, APIs, and up to three named contacts. Paid Premier and Custom Concierge support plans are also available. Hornbill states that its data centers hold SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Type II certifications.