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Brightly Event Manager Overview

What is Brightly Event Manager?

Event Manager™ by Brightly is an all-in-one, cloud-based facility scheduling platform that helps teams schedule, organize, and promote organization's events, ensuring teams have the right tools in place to centralize and automate the process from start-to-finish. In a world where budget dollars are scarce and cost recovery programs can have a big impact on a school's bottom line, Event Manager makes it easy to track and monitor event-related revenue. From request initiation to cost recovery analysis, Event Manager takes control of event organization, ensuring a positive community and attendee experience.

Brightly Event Manager Details
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Product Description

Use our event scheduling software to streamline every step of your event planning process, from the initial request to event prep to invoicing. You'll have the tools track maintenance, costs and more to ensure you're getting the most out of events at your facility.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Powered by the world's smartest operations engine of 18+ years of operations data, our Event
Management software is both easy-to- use and robust enough to make a difference in your daily
operations, long-term planning and overall operational efficiency. Join our growing community
of 10,000+ clients supported by 500+ dedicated employees.


Seller Details
Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
Cary, NC
Twitter
@brightlysw
1,151 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
956 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Brightly, a Siemens company, is a leading provider of asset management and maintenance solutions designed to help organizations optimize their operations. Their innovative software offerings focus on enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of asset management, ensuring better decision-making and improved service delivery. Brightly serves a variety of sectors, including education, government, and healthcare, through its comprehensive suite of tools that streamline workflows and drive operational excellence. For more information, visit their website at [brightlysoftware.com](https://www.brightlysoftware.com/).


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Ricky W.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Informative"
I like the ease of use and information provided.
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sally m.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Dude Solutions for Facility rentals"
I like the calendar and that all the rentals are in one place
PF
Paul F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Comprehensive and necessary."
It is user friendly and works along with all of your platforms.
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Brightly Event Manager Media

Brightly Event Manager Demo - Event Manager Dashboard
Event Manager Dashboard
Brightly Event Manager Demo - Event Manager Social Sharing
Event Manager Social Sharing
Brightly Event Manager Demo - Event Manager Simple Scheduling
Event Manager Simple Scheduling
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RW
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

I like the ease of use and information provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

I haven't found any issues to dislike!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DS
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

Very good overview to see all the events going on in your buildings, it gives the people setting up the events all the information they need to have everything really for the event Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

editing an event, you can cancel an event pretty simply, but the event even thou not active is still there. I want to delete it completely I do not need to save in any form a canceled or deleted event Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightly Event Manager:

They have many other programs to choose from like energy management, maintenance direct and fs direct are the ones we use here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is really good for showing you all your event and happenings in so spot, It been easy to show just the event in just certain building too. it is user friendly when setting up your event with all the options to chose from Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DS
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

This product really includes almost every scenario. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

1. Community Users have the option to opt out of emails during the signup process. This makes no sense because all communications happen through email. Although I believe an opt-out option should not occur in Facilities Direct, I know it should happen at the beginning of the process.

2. I have had several new account managers during our implementation. Everyone has been very helpful but it would be nice to deal with just one person until fully implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightly Event Manager:

FSDirect is the only software I have experience with but I would absolutely recommend it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are/will solve many issues with FSDirect.

Double booking

Inconsistent billing

Ensuring insurance coverage

Tracking payments

Tracking rentals and costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MD
Director of Buildings, Grounds and Transportation
Education Management
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

These folks are some of the best in the business. Patient with the novice and in depth with those of us who use the product regularly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

There is nothing to dislike about this organization. Our only issue with this product is the volume of information that can be tracked. I need to hire at least 1 FTE to input all the information the program can track, thus I am using only a small amount of the services available to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightly Event Manager:

These folks are especially helpful if you are starting with no existing program in place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Currently working with The Dude on PM schedules and data collection. We are in the beginning stages of this project, just now scheduling the data collection portion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

Coming from a completely paper based system, the fact that platform is totally electronic and that information can be immediately recalled is mind blowing. The time saved is immeasurable.

Data at your fingertips with the immediate reports is so important to our internal stakeholders and staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

The number of days in a schedule has to exceed the current 100! As a school system, 180 days is standard. We could be much more efficient if we were able to have 1 schedule per organization which would then make our data and number of events/schedules spot on instead of "ball park".

The basic search function could work a little better. It pulls way too much data or too many organizations using a single key word.

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Recommendations to others considering Brightly Event Manager:

It saves time and makes you more efficient.

The amount of time spent on events is cut in half. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving issues such as insurance expirations, invoices due, electronic system alleviates paper and allows for quick recall.

Benefits:

Reporting

Data

Instant Recall

Historical Information

Saving paper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MM
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

I like to have all events within one location. This prevents double booking and also allows us to generate more money by seeing which rooms and locations are available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

I dislike the setup of all the locations but understand that I must in order to achieve greatness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Events are being planned and things are not double booked Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JW
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

The best thing was having all of our events on one calendar instead of each department having their own calendar. Uploading to one google calendar was a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

It seemed too complicated at times and not very customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping all departments on the same page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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AE
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

user creates own log in credentials - though not being able to help them with password is frustrating Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

submittal password is unnecessary - why do users need to use 2 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightly Event Manager:

Find out what is included up front - seems every time I want to update/clean up my users or inventory it will cost extra for Dude to help Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

District wide access to all info, helps to keeps bookings organized and we have less conflicts with duplicates Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BA
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

Our schools are able to manage their own schedules for after-hours air conditioning. It is easy to use. It has a simple user interface that does everything our users need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

The ability to customize the documentation and/or screen descriptions would be good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the schools scheduling their own events, last minute calls for a late day event have been eliminated. This allows our HVAC techs to concentrate on repairs instead of rescheduling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SB
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightly Event Manager?

The ease of approving requests, and the time saved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightly Event Manager?

Having to go to each event to approve. Would like to be able to mass appove Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightly Event Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.