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Dear Colleagues,

It depends on what you want to achieve and where you are at present in the asset management maturity level.

Let's assume your plant is more than 10 years old and using sap for more than 10 years .

Senerio 1:
Want to perform RCM as a one time project and implement the recommendations in SAP

Software options: 
There are so many options , the prominent are
A. RCM turbo ( strategic corp)
B. RCM ++ ( reliasoft)
C. Pmo2000 (Nexus global)

You may use a program to upload the recommendations in SAP with templates and physically implement it in your site.

Here the failure history is of no use, you may be able to get a list failure modes derived as part of the analysis itself.

I would be  really glad if you have a failure history that can give you any meaning to be used in the RCM analysis.

Senerio 2:
You want to implement a good asset management framework to increase asset reliability then

You need to implement an asset performance management system (not just RCM alone) which addresses asset criticality, reliability, asset safety and to prevent loss of containment, measure cost, performance, etc

Here you need to start implementing good practices and methods to manage asset performance.

So the APM software should help you define,  implement a set of processes, measure performance, optimise and the cycle goes again and again.

Here you need to have a two way connector to sap to define, measure and optimise strategy.

Again your failure data is of NO use, if you have not implemented a good process of maintaining asset master data and failure data .

Don't be emotionally attached to your failure history unless you are confident of the data availability and its quality.

You should consider 1. Meridium APM 2. Bentley asset wise both have good connectors to SAP.

Also you need to start maintaining good asset master data, good transaction data for failure history from notification to closure of work orders with proper failure codes in order to make the APM system measure the effectiveness of your strategy.

Good luck