Every CMMS looks the same in a demo. They diverge in month nine.
That's when the integrator dependency shows up, when technicians start keeping their own parallel notes, when the migration nobody sized turns into rebuilding PM schedules by hand. All of it is visible during the evaluation if you know where to look. This guide shows you where.
The one question about implementation that reorders most shortlists
How to size the migration before you sign — hand each vendor your actual maintenance procedures and look hard at what comes back
Security posture as a gate, not a criterion: what "FedRAMP High" means versus "in process," and how to verify it in minutes
What total cost actually includes once integrators, internal engineering hours, and the adjacent systems are counted
Nine criteria, eleven questions, one decision framework — usable against any vendor, including us