Brightly API
Documented REST APIs exist for Asset Essentials and Assetic with published Swagger, but access is customer and partner gated. Auth is username/password bearer tokens with a 120-minute TTL, not OAuth. No webhooks or sandbox, and custom integrations typically take about two months.
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Brightly scores F on the API Report Card. Documented REST APIs exist for Asset Essentials and Assetic with published Swagger, but access is customer and partner gated. Auth is username/password bearer tokens with a 120-minute TTL, not OAuth. No webhooks or sandbox, and custom integrations typically take about two months.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Brightly Software is an asset lifecycle management and operations software provider, founded in 1999 in Cary, NC as Dude Solutions, rebranded to Brightly Software in March 2022, and acquired by Siemens Smart Infrastructure in August 2022 for approximately $1.58 billion.
Vertical: CMMS / Enterprise Asset Management / Facilities Management. Facilities managers, maintenance technicians, plant operators, and capital planners use Brightly to: receive and dispatch work orders (often via mobile app), schedule preventive maintenance, track assets and warranties, manage space reservations and event scheduling (Event Manager / SchoolDude FSDirect), monitor energy consumption (Energy Manager), plan capital projects and asset lifecycles (Predictor), and intake citizen/staff service requests.
8/10 within facilities CMMS. Named a Leader in Verdantix Green Quadrant: Industrial CMMS 2025 and EAM 2024, listed by Gartner Peer Insights under Enterprise Asset Management.
Brightly is the system of record for facilities and asset operations across its customer base.
Founded 1999 in Cary, NC as Dude Solutions; rebranded Brightly Software in March 2022; acquired by Siemens in August 2022 for ~$1.58B.
Token-only auth (username + password → bearer token, ~120-min TTL), no OAuth2/OIDC, complicates SSO-integrated automation. Per-tenant base URL (`{CompanyName}` in path) makes multi-tenant integrations awkward and discovery non-standard. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include UpKeep, MaintainX, Limble CMMS, Fiix (Rockwell Automation), eMaint (Fluke Reliability), IBM Maximo. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Brightly API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Brightly data. See the Brightly integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/brightly-api.