It's July?  Really?  Nooooooo!!!  What happened to January, February, March, April, May and June?   If your year is speeding by,, you may have missed some of the incredible new features and information on Maximo Asset Management.   To make sure you are up to date -- check out the latest information below   Maximo SaaS  Interested in exploring alternate ways to deploy Maximo?   Maximo is now available in a SaaS (Software as a Service) offering!   This hosted solution model frees you for installing... [More]

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The record set totals 143.   Ranging from jazz, country and rock and roll, the 143 records commander a prime, comfortable spot in our attic.   Your  Maximo record set may or may not have the same historical grooves.  However, understanding how a Maximo application record set can be applied in Maximo Ad Hoc reporting is critical.   Maximo Ad Hoc reporting enables your Power users to create their own reports - for their unique business needs.   One of the key components of creating their report is... [More]

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How long have these been here?  A jar of mustard, a bottle of pineapple juice and a wedge of unidentifiable cheese in the back corner of our refrigerator?  While I scratch my head trying to remember the day of their last usage - I know that these items are extremely obsolete . Likewise, you may have a number of items in your Inventory which are obsolete or inactive .  To help you identify issues like these,  new Inventory Management content for Maximo is now available!   This content is contained within the BI... [More]

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  It was an incredible time!  Clients, Business Partners and IBMers from around the world gathered during the last week of February 2014 for the annual IBM Pulse Conference.  Pulse is an amazing opportunity to network and exchange best practice information, as well as catch up on the latest and upcoming product features.   Numerous technical sessions were lad by Maximo Clients, Business Partners and IBMers on all aspects of Maximo including upgrades, integrations, best practices and more!   The solution expo with its... [More]

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I forgot.   I had my headphones on.....and I forgot what a terrible singer I was when I let my voice escape.   I also forgot what summer feels like, who won the superbowl in 2003 and how to make a mouth-watering Reuben sandwich.  But I haven't forgotten what  a report resource file is. Resource files are .gif or .jpg images used in report designs.  Within the Maximo delivered reports, two resource files are used.  These are IBM_logo_black.gif and tivoli.gif, which are the two logos displayed at the... [More]

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MORE Maximo BI Pack Content!   Supplementing the existing Work Order Management and metric reports, the Maximo BI Packs have been further enhanced with the new Asset Management and Asset Failure workspaces and reports.    The critical assets in your business often define the health of your operation.  These assets may be vital to production processes, reliability of your operation, or safety processes.    If these assets are not properly maintained, your business processes may be severely impacted.    ... [More]

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Sometimes TWO is better than one.  Speeding Tickets Noooooooo.  Red Velvet Cookies , Coins and databases – YES!.     You may want to configure your Maximo environment to use TWO separate databases.       The first database is your production, transactional database that your Maximo UI servers utilize.   The SECOND database can be configured for your reports to execute from.  This second database is a snap-shot of your production, transactional database, and is sometimes referred to as a... [More]

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I can’t decide.   Some days I want a pie.  Other days, I only want a bar.   The new Maximo BI Workspaces are perfect for my indecisiveness.  I can change the display of the metrics from a pie, to a bar or from a wide range of other graph types.   Using the Work Order Metrics by Classification workspace as an example, I initially view the Backlog work order metric in column format.     This column format is very clear, but I want to re-structure this metric so I can view the data differently.  Within... [More]

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Do you have a pair of these on your desk?   Even if yours aren’t fire engine red with cubic zirconia sparkles…glasses enable us to see things more clearly.   Likewise, the Maximo Business Intelligence (BI) Packs enable you to view Maximo data in a much clearer format.      Frequently, your users export the results of an application query to Microsoft Excel to view and analyze Maximo data.  However, as shown here, the results of that data can be overwhelming, and tedious to sort, group and perform... [More]

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They are not for everyone.   Some people cringe or run away quickly when seeing them – while others embrace the beauty of these amazing succulent plants. Likewise, the new Maximo Business Intelligence (BI) Packs introduced here are not intended for every user in your environment.  Its functionality targets a specific segment of your users.  And giving this tool to that segment of users will enable them to dynamically and efficiently analyze Maximo data. As detailed in these BiLogs earlier, we often place Maximo users... [More]

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The view is very different at the bottom than the top of the Grand Canyon.  Both are magnificent, but offer incredible, varying perspectives on one of the 7 wonders of the world. The view of your data is very different in Maximo than it is in Cognos .   Maximo’s very effective Business Intelligence tools, including KPIs, Application Exporting and Reporting, enable operational insight on your data.   Cognos offers a very different analytical view on that same Maximo data. Highlighting Cognos’ analytical... [More]

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X is misunderstood.    It can drive some to hold up a plane’s takeoff.  Others may celebrate with unusual sounds or squirm in agony when faced with it on their tile board.   Second only to Q and Z with its 8 point value, X should be recognized as a critical alphabetical character.   Report request page xml is also often misunderstood.  Misconceptions exist on what the request page xml is, when it needs to be generated and when it doesn’t need to be generated.   To minimize that confusion, a listing... [More]

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I didn’t see any faces on my toast this morning.  But the tall oak outside my kitchen window gave me a very inquisitive look as I left the house.   Really?  Yes.  Seeing is believing!   In the last few BiLogs, we’ve been talking about the metadata used in the Maximo-Cognos Report Integration.  These discussions have included -      1. Defining the meta data, as a pre-joined, hierarchal collections of database object here    2. Capitalizing on the integration functionality to... [More]

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Some rules are hard to follow.  Not eating dessert  before dinner.  Always walking inside of the crosswalk.  Not bringing my favorite Diet Raspberry Ice Tea to a movie theatre.      Business rules in Maximo specify product functionality.  In the Maximo Cognos report integration, there are some key business rules to be aware of for the metadata publishing process we’ve been reviewing the last few weeks.   As noted in the last entry, you can publish Report Object Structures (ROS) in... [More]

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