For a 200-employee company, I’d avoid heavyweight enterprise ITAM unless you have unusually complex infrastructure. The sweet spot is something that can automatically discover devices, replace spreadsheets, track ownership/lifecycle, and ideally connect to your help desk/MDM.
My shortlist
| Product | Best for | My take |
|---|
| Snipe-IT | Straightforward hardware tracking | 🏆 Best value |
| Lansweeper | Automatic discovery & inventory | 🏆 Best for eliminating manual spreadsheets |
| Freshservice | ITAM + help desk | 🏆 Best all-around |
| ManageEngine AssetExplorer | Full-featured traditional ITAM | Strong value if you want deeper lifecycle/SAM |
| NinjaOne | Endpoint management + ITAM | Great if you also need RMM/patching |
1. 🏆 Lansweeper — my pick if discovery is the problem
Lansweeper is particularly compelling if your spreadsheet problem is "we don't even know exactly what hardware we have anymore."
It automatically discovers IT, cloud, OT and IoT assets and continuously updates inventory, including hardware specifications, software, ownership and lifecycle information. It can also feed asset data into ITSM/CMDB and procurement workflows.
Choose it if: you have 200 employees but potentially hundreds of endpoints, network devices, servers, SaaS/cloud resources, etc., and don't want IT manually entering everything.
2. 🏆 Snipe-IT — best value for straightforward hardware
Snipe-IT is excellent when the actual problem is:
"Who has this laptop, what's its serial number, when did we issue it, and what happens when they leave?"
It handles check-in/check-out, asset history, locations, custom fields, QR/barcode labels, warranties/licenses, audits, LDAP/SSO/SCIM and APIs.
It's less of an automatic discovery platform than Lansweeper, so you'll typically pair it with your MDM/RMM.
Choose it if: you mainly need a clean replacement for Excel and don't want to pay for a giant ITSM platform.
3. 🏆 Freshservice — best if you also need a service desk
Freshservice makes the most sense if you're also trying to modernize tickets + asset management + employee onboarding/offboarding.
Its current ITAM offering includes automated discovery, hardware inventory, lifecycle management, CMDB, workflows and infrastructure/dependency mapping. Freshservice Freshservice Freshservice substantially expanded its ITAM capabilities in 2026 through integration of Device42 technology.
Choose it if: your spreadsheets are only one part of a broader IT operations problem.
4. ManageEngine AssetExplorer — sleeper choice
ManageEngine AssetExplorer is more traditional ITAM: automated discovery, hardware/software inventory, license management, procurement, contracts, lifecycle workflows and CMDB.
For a 200-person company, that's potentially more functionality than you need, but it's attractive if you're already using other ManageEngine products.
What I'd actually do
For your size, I'd shortlist three:
- Lansweeper — if the priority is "automatically discover everything and kill the spreadsheet."
- Snipe-IT — if the priority is "give me a simple, inexpensive system of record for our laptops and equipment."
- Freshservice — if the priority is "replace spreadsheets and improve our whole IT service operation."
My default recommendation: Lansweeper. At 200 employees, automated discovery is usually more valuable than having another beautifully designed database that someone has to manually keep populated.
One important distinction: ITAM isn't the same as endpoint management. If you're expecting the system to inventory devices and patch them, deploy software, enforce policies, remotely control endpoints, etc., I'd evaluate an endpoint-management/RMM platform alongside the ITAM product rather than expecting Snipe-IT or a pure ITAM system to do everything.
If you tell me what you currently use for MDM/RMM (e.g. Intune, Jamf, Kandji, NinjaOne), help desk, and Google Workspace/Microsoft 365, I can narrow this to a specific 2–3 product recommendation and approximate cost for 200 employees.
Choose it if: you have 200 employees but potentially hundreds of endpoints, network devices, servers, SaaS/cloud resources, etc., and don't want IT manually entering everything.
2. 🏆 Snipe-IT — best value for straightforward hardware
Snipe-IT is excellent when the actual problem is:
"Who has this laptop, what's its serial number, when did we issue it, and what happens when they leave?"
It handles check-in/check-out, asset history, locations, custom fields, QR/barcode labels, warranties/licenses, audits, LDAP/SSO/SCIM and APIs.
It's less of an automatic discovery platform than Lansweeper, so you'll typically pair it with your MDM/RMM.
Choose it if: you mainly need a clean replacement for Excel and don't want to pay for a giant ITSM platform.
3. 🏆 Freshservice — best if you also need a service desk
Freshservice makes the most sense if you're also trying to modernize tickets + asset management + employee onboarding/offboarding.
Its current ITAM offering includes automated discovery, hardware inventory, lifecycle management, CMDB, workflows and infrastructure/dependency mapping. Freshservice Freshservice Freshservice substantially expanded its ITAM capabilities in 2026 through integration of Device42 technology.
Choose it if: your spreadsheets are only one part of a broader IT operations problem.
4. ManageEngine AssetExplorer — sleeper choice
ManageEngine AssetExplorer is more traditional ITAM: automated discovery, hardware/software inventory, license management, procurement, contracts, lifecycle workflows and CMDB.
For a 200-person company, that's potentially more functionality than you need, but it's attractive if you're already using other ManageEngine products.
What I'd actually do
For your size, I'd shortlist three: