Platform landscape

The 2026 EAM / CMMS market is two overlapping product classes, not a ranked list: enterprise suites bought as the maintenance system of record (often enterprise-resource-planning (ERP) adjacent), and cloud CMMS-first products bought first for technician adoption and software-as-a-service (SaaS) go-live. Buyers and analysts mix the labels freely. Cloud CMMS vendors market light EAM; large suites still sell “CMMS” entry stock-keeping units (SKUs).¹²³⁴

Three structural facts matter more than feature tables. First, Infor EAM is not a current product name. The line is Octave Attune EAM after Hexagon completed the spin-off of Octave Intelligence plc on 22 May 2026 (Nasdaq New York OCTV; Nasdaq Stockholm OCTV SDB). Hexagon states it has no continuing ownership interest.⁵⁶⁷ Second, assistants that draft or classify work moved from copilot demos into 2026 release notes on both sides of the split (IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.2, 25 June 2026; IFS Cloud 26R1; several cloud CMMS assistants). Treat vendor accuracy claims as vendor claims: none of the primary pages retrieved for this pack publish an independent accuracy audit.⁸⁹¹⁰ Third, analyst coverage bifurcated. Verdantix’s inaugural Green Quadrant: Industrial CMMS (2025) maps nineteen cloud/mobile CMMS vendors and names seven that “demonstrated the most comprehensive CMMS capabilities.” IDC published two MarketScape studies of AI-enabled asset-intensive EAM. A current Gartner Magic Quadrant for EAM for 2026 was not located as a primary Gartner document; this chapter does not invent quadrant placements.^111213141

This chapter is a landscape. Fit is system-of-record versus technician-execution, ERP gravity, and asset class — not a score.

7.1 Two product classes

Gartner Peer Insights (Enterprise Asset Management Software market, page updated June 2026) treats EAM software as a transactional workflow system for inspections, maintenance and repair of industrial plant and equipment, used mostly by asset-intensive industries, and notes that CMMS is “an alternative term… generally considered to be small-scale, single-site applications with less functionality around parts management and resource scheduling.” SAP, Octave, Fiix and UpKeep publish similar splits, with EAM covering more of the life cycle and CMMS covering day-to-day work execution.¹²³⁴¹⁵

The classes overlap. IBM appears in Verdantix’s industrial-CMMS set and sells Maximo Application Suite as an enterprise system of record. ServiceNow sells “Enterprise Asset Management” on the Now Platform with information-technology asset management / information-technology service management (ITAM/ITSM) gravity, and is a Leader in Verdantix’s commercial buildings CMMS study — a different buyer from industrial plant.^11121617

APM remains adjacent, not identical. Octave’s product frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) page (vendor, labelled): EAM is the system of execution (work orders, inspections, inventory); APM is the system of intelligence (risk, condition, analytics). Several vendors sell both on one platform (IBM Maximo, IFS, Octave Attune EAM + APM, SAP Asset Performance Management) — a product-class observation, not a ranking and not an ISO identity.³⁸¹⁸²

7.2 What changed by late 2026

Ownership of the old Infor EAM line moved twice. Hexagon acquired Infor’s EAM business in October 2021 and sold it as HxGN EAM. Hexagon’s annual general meeting on 24 April 2026 resolved the distribution of Octave Intelligence plc; the record date was 22 May 2026. Octave holds the former Asset Lifecycle Intelligence, Safety/Infrastructure & Geospatial, ETQ and Bricsys businesses; Hexagon’s investor-relations page states Hexagon has no continuing ownership. Octave’s own FAQ: “Attune EAM is the updated, rebranded version of HxGN EAM… core functionality and performance remain consistent.” Infor still sells industry CloudSuites (ERP on Amazon Web Services); it does not currently market a standalone EAM product under the name “Infor EAM.” Historical Infor OS / ION integration to the installed EAM base may still exist; the product owner is Octave.⁵⁶⁷¹⁹

AI moved into release notes. IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) 9.2, announced 25 June 2026, adds Condition Insight, Maximo Assistant on Mobile, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server so customers can attach their own agents to Maximo Manage application programming interfaces (APIs), plus mobile PTW and AI-assisted incident classification.⁸ IFS Cloud 26R1 (May 2026 fact sheet; product blog 30 June 2026) binds permit-to-work and isolation orders to the work tasks they govern and extends Copilot into failure modes, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA).⁹²⁰ Fiix shipped MAX (conversational assistant) and Asset Health with Augury in 2026 (vendor). Almost every cloud CMMS in this map now ships an assistant. Treat “agentic” as a 2026 marketing cluster, not a completed operating model, and treat numeric accuracy claims as vendor claims.¹⁰²¹¹⁵

Analyst coverage split. Verdantix industrial CMMS 2025 is the cleanest public map of the cloud/mobile CMMS tier. IDC’s MarketScapes cover AI-enabled asset-intensive EAM (worldwide 2025–2026, and manufacturing 2026). Gartner Peer Insights for the EAM software market is live (user reviews, not a Magic Quadrant). IFS, as a vendor, cites Gartner Market Share: Enterprise Software, Worldwide, 2024 for EAM-segment share and a 2025 Peer Insights Voice of the Customer “Customers’ Choice.” Those last two are vendor-cited Gartner research; the underlying tables were not pulled independently for this pack.^111314122

Catch-up: MaintainX ownership. Autodesk completed its acquisition of MaintainX on 3 Aug 2026 (Autodesk News). Brand may still appear as MaintainX; ownership is Autodesk / AOS.³⁷

7.3 Analyst coverage — cite the named study

Cite the named study, not a blog that paraphrases it. Vendor press quoting an analyst is marked as such. No scores are restated here.

Verdantix, 25 June 2025. Inaugural industrial-CMMS Green Quadrant. Methodology (Verdantix): live briefings, customer interviews, a 102-point questionnaire, twelve capability and nine momentum categories. Scope: nineteen vendors selected for mobile-first, cloud-native CMMS.¹¹¹²

Actively participating (Verdantix): Accruent, Brightly Software, eMaint, Eptura, Fiix by Rockwell Automation, Fracttal, IBM, Limble, MaintainX, MaintMaster, MEX by TMA Systems, MVP One, PEMAC, Pragma, Redlist, ShireSystem by Elecosoft, UpKeep. Invited but did not actively participate: Siveco Group, SSG Insight from Aptean.¹²

Vendors Verdantix says demonstrated the most comprehensive CMMS capabilities: Brightly Software, eMaint, Eptura, Fiix by Rockwell Automation, IBM, Limble, MaintainX.¹¹¹²

UpKeep was evaluated (Verdantix overview language: “robust CMMS capabilities with a mobile-first approach”) and is not in that seven.¹²¹⁵

Verdantix’s own market reading (not a ranking of ERP-native EAM): a “bifurcated market” in which large vendors lead on scale and integration for asset-intensive industries, while smaller CMMS-first platforms attract mid-market buyers on usability, AI and cost. Drivers named: skills shortages, downtime cost, shift from paper to AI-assisted work.¹¹

Not in this study, by Verdantix’s scope choice: SAP S/4HANA Asset Management, Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance, IFS Cloud EAM, Octave/HxGN EAM as standalone EAM suites. Absence is not a quality judgment.¹²

Verdantix separately published Green Quadrant: Enterprise Asset Management Software 2024 (8 Oct 2024; fact-based comparison of 14 enterprise EAM software providers). Placements are not reproduced here. No 2026 Verdantix Green Quadrant for industrial CMMS or EAM was located as of 5 Oct 2026.³⁹

Verdantix also published Green Quadrant: Commercial Buildings CMMS (2025). Leaders on that report page include Planon, MaintainX, IBM, Limble, Infraspeak, Nuvolo, ServiceNow and Facilio. That is buildings / workplace, not industrial plant. Do not mix the two quadrants, and do not treat a buildings Leader as an industrial-plant ranking.¹⁶

Two distinct documents. Do not collapse them. Leader claims below are vendor-cited. The full MarketScape graphic and remaining placements are behind IDC/vendor registration and are not restated here.

Uncertainty. IDC Leader claims for IBM, IFS and ServiceNow are medium-high as vendor-cited IDC. This pack does not contain the full graphic.

• Peer Insights, Enterprise Asset Management Software. Live category page, “Updated June 2026.” Definition quoted in §7.1. Product listings are user-review based, not a Magic Quadrant.¹
• Voice of the Customer / Customers’ Choice. IFS states it was the only vendor named a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Enterprise Asset Management Software (IFS press, 15 January 2025). Vendor-cited.²²
• Market share. IFS (vendor) states it ranked #1 in the EAM segment of Gartner Market Share: Enterprise Software, Worldwide, 2024. Independent confirmation of the table was not pulled. Treat as vendor-cited Gartner research.¹⁴²²
• Magic Quadrant for EAM. eMaint (Fluke) still cites Visionary placement in a 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant — do not silently update that year.²⁴ Eptura separately announced Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workplace Experience Applications (WEX). That is not an EAM Magic Quadrant.²⁵ Gartner’s 2026 EAM research on gartner.com is a Market Guide for Enterprise Asset Management Software (published 20 May 2026), not a Magic Quadrant.³⁸ No 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant PDF or gartner.com research page for EAM was located for this pack. Search-engine-optimisation pages that “reveal” 2026 EAM Magic Quadrant leaders without a Gartner document identifier are not used.

• No invented Gartner Magic Quadrant 2026 Leaders / Challengers / Visionaries / Niche Players list.
• No partner, reseller, or implementation-count claims for unnamed firms. Twiniti–IBM partnership remains unconfirmed and omitted.
• No “best of” ranking and no numeric scores.

7.4 Enterprise suites (system of record)

These products are bought as the maintenance system of record for large, often regulated, multi-site asset bases. Implementation is a programme. Cloud versus on-premises / hybrid is a live migration issue for every incumbent except Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance (cloud-native) and the newer SaaS SKUs.

IBM’s unified asset and facilities suite: EAM, APM, asset investment planning, inspections, field service, health, safety and environment (HSE). Sold as client-managed software or SaaS, licensed in AppPoints. Industry pages: manufacturing, energy and utilities, oil and gas, travel and transportation, government; plus asset-class packs (real estate/facilities, renewables, IT, data centres).¹⁸

Current line. The product page positions MAS as one place for maintenance, inspections and reliability, with embedded AI. MAS 9.2, announced 25 June 2026 (vendor): Condition Insight (work orders + inspections + meters + reliability strategies); Maximo Assistant on Mobile; Visual Inspection with on-device inference; conversational scheduling; mobile permit-to-work and AI-assisted incident classification; retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lease abstraction in Real Estate and Facilities; MCP Server so customers can attach their own agents to Maximo Manage APIs.⁸

Entry SKU. MAS 8.11 introduced Maximo Essentials SaaS for smaller teams as a migration on-ramp from point CMMS, with Standard and Premium above it. Scheduler, Calibration, Linear, and a reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) library were called out in 8.11 as closing gaps for legacy Maximo EAM users moving to the suite.²⁶

Analyst hooks IBM publishes. Verdantix industrial CMMS 2025 (IBM among the seven “most comprehensive”); IDC MarketScape AI-enabled asset-intensive EAM 2025–2026 (IBM cites Leader). Both are named-study / vendor-cited hooks, not scores.¹¹²³¹⁸

Buying implication (landscape, not a recommendation). Deep configuration, industry content, and a credit model that can add APM/AIP without a second product — at the cost of suite complexity and a non-trivial MAS migration for 7.6 / on-premises estates.

EAM as a line of business inside SAP S/4HANA and SAP Cloud ERP (public and private editions), not a standalone CMMS. SAP’s product page (vendor) groups: enterprise asset management (plan / schedule / execute), asset health and reliability (failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) / RCM, AI-based remaining useful life), Business Network asset collaboration, field service, mobile. FAQ: EAM sits inside supply-chain / ERP; CMMS is the narrower uptime tool.²

2026 releases, SAP-authored. Cloud ERP 2602 introduced the Fiori Asset Overview app (unified functional-location + equipment hierarchy).²⁷²⁸ Private 2025 Feature Pack Stack 01 (FPS01) embeds lockout/tagout (isolation management) in S/4 Asset Management — already used in chapter 2 as an example of the PTW/LOTO join, not as a ranking.²⁹

2608 direction — flagged. Public Edition 2608 highlights (SAP video / partner recap, not opened as SAP Help documentation for this draft): Asset Overview enhancements, Permit to Work flexible approvals, duplicate-notification controls, and an AI direction (Asset Operations Assistant / Asset & Service Assistant). Treat 2608 feature names as direction reported in 2026 recaps, not as a second SAP-authored primary equal to 2602.²⁷

Buying implication. Default choice when finance, MRO procurement, plant-maintenance (PM) orders and settlement must share one SAP ledger. Weak as a “best of breed” for organisations not already on S/4. Intelligent Asset Management / APM and Field Service are adjacent SAP products, not automatically in the core EAM licence.²

Two products. Do not mix them.

Fusion Maintenance is an ERP-gravity play for Fusion Cloud customers (the same argument SAP makes). EBS eAM remains relevant only for remaining EBS estates. Oracle’s public page does not position a mid-market CMMS SKU.³⁰³¹

Lineage (confirmed). Datastream / Infor EAM → Hexagon acquisition of Infor’s EAM business (October 2021) as HxGN EAM → Octave Attune EAM after the May 2026 Hexagon → Octave spin-off. Octave Intelligence plc listed Nasdaq New York OCTV and Nasdaq Stockholm OCTV SDB; record date 22 May 2026. Hexagon IR: no continuing ownership. Principal offices Madison, Alabama.³⁵⁶⁷

What Octave publishes (vendor). Cloud EAM: asset hierarchies and risk, work orders, calibration, inventory/procurement, embedded AI assistant, mobile, 2D computer-aided design (CAD) / 3D digital twin. Vertical stories: fleet, facilities (ASHRAE), critical equipment / RCM, linear / geospatial. Sister products: Attune APM, Databridge Pro, InConcert Core (ex-HxGN SDx). Positioning versus ERP: best-of-breed EAM integrated to SAP / Oracle / etc., not a replacement ERP.³

Do not write “Infor EAM” as a current product. Infor CloudSuite is industry cloud ERP.¹⁹

IFS sells IFS Cloud EAM, IFS Ultimo (maintenance/safety; industrial, fleet, healthcare technology management), and Copperleaf (asset investment planning; IFS acquisition). Plus IFS.ai Operational Intelligence.³²

IFS Cloud 26R1 (fact sheet + 30 June 2026 product blog, vendor): Permit-to-Work and isolation orders linked to the work tasks they govern, conflict checks, controlled permit extensions; Compatible Units and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) cost classification for utilities; Contractor Management extended into EAM; FMECA shared failure data + IFS Copilot assist. Aviation Maintenance and IFS Zero (emissions) are same-release platform items, not core plant EAM.⁹²⁰

Analyst hooks IFS publishes (vendor-cited). Leader in IDC MarketScape manufacturing AI-enabled EAM 2026 (#US54250726); Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice 2025 (EAM); vendor claim of #1 EAM market share in Gartner 2024 enterprise-software market-share report.¹³¹⁴²²

Buying implication. Strongest when the buyer wants EAM + ERP + field service on one IFS Cloud data model (composability is the IFS pitch). Ultimo remains a separate product for certain verticals; Copperleaf is AIP, not a CMMS.³²

EAM on the Now Platform: physical-asset life cycle from planning/acquisition through maintenance and retirement, inventory/stockrooms, work orders, model- or asset-based maintenance schedules (time, use, condition), field-service integration, role-based workspaces. 2026 product page (vendor): AI Agents orchestrating asset processes.³³

Analyst hooks. ServiceNow publishes a Leader claim for the IDC MarketScape worldwide AI-enabled asset-intensive EAM 2025–2026 study (vendor-cited). Also a Leader in Verdantix Commercial Buildings CMMS 2025 (buildings, not industrial plant).¹⁷¹⁶

Buying implication. Attractive where ITAM/ITSM, facilities and industrial assets are being collapsed onto one workflow platform. Not a traditional plant CMMS; depth of linear assets, calibration, and heavy MRO should be validated against Maximo / SAP / IFS / Octave, not assumed from the Now brand.³³

Microsoft Copilot-style conversational access also appears in Eptura’s 2026 story. Do not confuse the two vendors.²¹³³

7.5 Cloud CMMS-first platforms

Verdantix’s 2025 industrial study is the cleanest public map of this tier. All seven “most comprehensive” names plus UpKeep (evaluated, not in that seven) are below. Vendor user-counts, list prices and partner badges are omitted (they date quickly and read as a pitch). Enterprise quotes vary.

MaintainX. Mobile-first CMMS/EAM for frontline work orders, PMs, inspections, parts, chat-on-the-work-order. Verdantix industrial CMMS 2025: among the seven most comprehensive; also a Leader in the commercial-buildings Green Quadrant 2025. AI (vendor): troubleshooting from manuals/history, natural-language reporting, anomaly / labour estimates. Autodesk completed its acquisition of MaintainX on 3 Aug 2026; brand may still appear as MaintainX; ownership is Autodesk / AOS.^34111637

Technician-first cloud CMMS: work orders, PM by time/usage/condition, QR-coded assets, inventory. Lists native ERP connectors (SAP S/4HANA, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, QuickBooks) and IoT (Augury, AssetWatch, VibeCloud, Monnit, AVEVA) — vendor connector list, not an integration test. Verdantix 2025: among the seven most comprehensive.³⁵¹¹

CMMS and EAM from Fluke: work, PM, multi-site/multi-language, audit trail and electronic signatures, offline mobile. Differentiator Fluke publishes: connected reliability with Fluke industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) vibration sensors and eMaint Condition Monitoring; ERP / supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) / programmable-logic-controller (PLC) / building-management-system (BMS) integrations. Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary in 2022 (vendor-cited; do not update that year). Verdantix 2025: among the seven most comprehensive.²⁴¹¹

Cloud CMMS (work, assets, inventory, mobile, Integration Hub) plus a 2026 AI stack (vendor): Fiix MAX (conversational assistant trained on tenant CMMS data + Fiix help), Fiix Foresight (Parts Forecaster, Asset Insights, Work Order Insights — Foresight dated 2022 on the AI page), Fiix Asset Health with Augury (2026 partnership; wireless sensors). FactoryTalk Optix for machine data. Verdantix 2025: among the seven most comprehensive. Natural fit when the plant is already Rockwell / Allen-Bradley; not limited to that stack.⁴¹⁰¹¹

Vendor accuracy claims for the Augury pairing are vendor claims only and are not reprinted as independent results.

Brightly (ex-Dude Solutions) acquired by Siemens in 2022; Siemens now brands the portfolio as Siemens Asset Management Software. Flagship Asset Essentials: work/workflow, mobile, total cost of ownership (TCO), reports, inventory, map view, capital planning. Adjacent: TheWorxHub (healthcare), Maintenance Manager (starter), Origin, Confirm (government/GIS), Predictor (AI health on any CMMS). Buyer mix historically education, government, healthcare, plus manufacturing. Verdantix 2025: among the seven most comprehensive.³⁶¹¹

Siemens-published user and asset-value totals are vendor figures and are not reprinted here.

Cloud EAM/CMMS on the Eptura workplace platform (Microsoft Azure). Vendor FAQ: “EAM built to scale” — CMMS simplicity plus life cycle, inventory, purchasing, condition monitoring, multi-site governance. 2026 product notes (vendor): Eptura Assistant for Maintenance (conversational AI in Microsoft Copilot on live work-order / asset / schedule data), redesigned mobile, fleet telematics. Building-information-modelling (BIM) / digital-twin connectors (Autodesk Tandem, Revit, AutoCAD). Verdantix 2025: among the seven most comprehensive.²¹¹¹

Eptura separately announced Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Workplace Experience Applications. That is WEX, not EAM.²⁵

Mobile CMMS expanding into an “asset operations platform” (vendor): Maintenance, Safety/EHS, Learn, Edge sensors, Fleet, Inventory, plus additional apps (Production, Quality, Procurement, etc.) on one data model. Nova AI: work-order generation, custom apps, voice. Verdantix 2025: evaluated, not in the seven “most comprehensive.”¹⁵¹²

List prices observed on the vendor web at fetch time are omitted here (they move; Enterprise is quote).

7.6 Other names that still appear in RFPs

Not profiled in depth; included so the map is not only the logo wall.

Siveco Group and SSG Insight from Aptean were invited to the industrial Green Quadrant and did not actively participate; that is a participation fact, not a quality judgment.¹²

7.7 Diligence questions (not a scorecard)

Use these as questions, not a matrix with made-up weights. No scores.

1. System of record versus system of execution. If work, costs and asset hierarchy must feed the general ledger and regulatory plant books, start diligence with SAP / Oracle Fusion / IFS Cloud / Maximo / Attune. If the pain is technician adoption and PM compliance, start with MaintainX / Limble / UpKeep / Fiix / eMaint and plan the ERP interface.^121830323
2. ERP gravity. SAP-centric and Oracle-Fusion-centric estates pay a tax for best-of-breed EAM (integration + two masters). IFS sells the opposite (one cloud). Maximo and Attune assume integration.^23032183
3. Asset class. Linear + GIS (utilities, roads, rail): Maximo Linear, SAP Geographical Enablement, Attune geospatial, Siemens Confirm. Plant rotating equipment: Fiix + Augury, eMaint + Fluke, Maximo APM, IFS APM. Facilities / education / healthcare: Siemens Asset Essentials, Eptura, MaintainX. Fleet: Attune, Eptura, UpKeep Fleet, IFS Ultimo. Those pairings are where vendors put themselves, not test results.^{18231024362132}
4. Cloud-migration debt. Large Maximo 7.x and HxGN / Infor EAM on-premises bases are still mid-migration in 2026. MAS Essentials and Octave’s “move Attune to the cloud” content exist because of that. Fusion Cloud Maintenance is only a path for Fusion ERP programmes; EBS eAM is a different product.^2633031
5. AI that touches the work order. Assistants that draft work orders, classify incidents, or attach to MCP / Manage APIs (Maximo 9.2, IFS Copilot, Fiix MAX, MaintainX AI, UpKeep Nova, Eptura Assistant) are now table stakes in release notes. None of the primary pages retrieved for this file publish independent accuracy audits.^82010341521
6. Safety / PTW / LOTO. Material 2026 deltas already used in chapter 2 as examples of the join: SAP isolation management (Private 2025 FPS01), IFS 26R1 permit-task binding, Maximo 9.2 mobile PTW, UpKeep Safety on the same work order. Buyers in energy and process should test this path, not assume the CMMS checklist covers it.^2920815

7.8 Ownership and name map

Datastream 7i  →  Infor EAM (2006)  →  HxGN EAM (Hexagon, Oct 2021)  →  Octave Attune EAM (May 2026 spin-off)
IBM Maximo (on-premises)  →  Maximo Application Suite (SaaS or client-managed; AppPoints; 8.11 Essentials; 9.2 AI)
Oracle eAM (E-Business Suite)  ≠  Oracle Fusion Cloud Maintenance (Fusion SCM)
SAP PM / EAM  →  S/4HANA and SAP Cloud ERP Asset Management (+ SAP APM, Field Service, Business Network)
Dude Solutions  →  Brightly  →  Siemens Asset Management (Asset Essentials, …)
Hippo CMMS  →  Eptura Asset
Fiix  →  Rockwell Automation (FactoryTalk adjacency)
eMaint  →  Fluke Reliability (Fortive)
IFS Applications  →  IFS Cloud EAM; separately Ultimo and Copperleaf
MaintainX  →  Autodesk (AOS), acquisition completed 3 Aug 2026

Sources for the map: Hexagon IR and Octave product/PR for the Datastream→Attune line;⁵⁶⁷³ IBM MAS announcements for the Maximo line;¹⁸⁸²⁶ Oracle product page versus EBS User’s Guide;³⁰³¹ SAP product page;² Siemens Asset Management site;³⁶ Eptura Asset;²¹ Fiix;⁴ Fluke eMaint;²⁴ IFS portfolio.³²