Our story...

AssetHUB was conceptualized by Asset Management practitioners working in the consultancy field, basically in response to the questions “Why do our jobs suck so much?” and “Why do we even have these jobs?”

With decades worth of experience in executing projects on behalf of clients in asset identification and verification, drawing up and updating asset registers, developing asset management plans, and helping our clients comply with regulations and standards, we found that these projects were getting tougher and tougher – the demand for quality asset data was increasing exponentially, but at the same time, the quality and completeness of available asset data was getting worse in these organizations. The data that was available, was managed in siloed systems, often containing conflicting information about assets. And the asset identification, verification and condition assessment fieldwork component of these projects were getting larger and more burdensome every time.

Gustav Brand

Louise Roesch

Jaco Roesch

“Why do our jobs
suck so much?”

As consultants helping owners of large, and often distributed, infrastructure and asset portfolios, we realized we maybe didn’t have access to the right tools. We could get the job done with spreadsheets, mobile phones, clipboards and cameras, but there was a constant struggle around data management.

We identified 5 key hurdles that were slowing us down:

When we needed to do asset identification and data collection, we wanted that data to seamlessly flow to a central repository, so we could work with the data in a structured environment.
When we did asset verification and condition assessments, we wanted to assign asset inspections to field teams and keep track of progress so we can get the job done on time and ensure completeness.
When we had to capture asset data in the field, we wanted flexible mobile tools so we could capture all the data on a variety of asset types, to required standards.
When we got asset data from the field or our clients’ systems, we wanted to visualize the data by functional location or view it spatially on a map so we could make sense of it.
Once we had quality asset data we needed drill-down analysis tools so we could identify assets that are at risk and help clients formulate effective asset management plans.

Over the years we found that asset and infrastructure owners were putting out the same work year on year. Our asset audits were turning up beautiful technical and financial data - the vast amount of data that we make available is valuable in its own right as a business asset - but these organizations just didn’t have the tools to work with it.
In the same way we were frustrated by the lack of tools, our clients had 5 similar challenges:

When they received updated asset data from audits, they wanted a suitable repository for it so their people could access it to extract full value. Consultants’ reports and spreadheets was not getting the job done.
If the asset data was available in a repository, they needed the data to flow automatically to their other systems so that all systems’ asset-related data was up to date.
Similarly, when asset-related data was updated in other systems, they needed those changes to automatically reflect in the asset register and be published to other systems so that a consistent view of asset data could be maintained throughout the organization.
Once they had brought their asset data up to date, they needed means to keep it up to date through their operational processes so that the value of the data did not deteriorate.
With quality asset data in hand, they needed aggregation and drill-down analysis tools so they could measure the effectiveness, and update their asset management and capital deployment plans.

The absence of these tools resulted in the updated asset data being largely left unutilized and rapidly deteriorated in terms of relevance as it was not maintained. This, in turn, led to organizations requiring asset data interventions almost annually, for which they have to rely on consultants or expensive internal projects to update their asset registers and asset management plans.

AssetHUB was designed to address these challenges for asset management consultants and asset owners, not by replacing ERP-system components, but by filling the critical operational gaps with the right tools and integration capabilities.