In these austere times, every cent in the IT budget has to be justified with vigor and non-critical investment is rarely considered. The long-term savings and efficiencies of integrating asset management and financial systems have to be balanced against the short-term costs and cash-flow implications. The Maximo Enterprise Adapter for SAP Applications enables you to integrate Maximo Asset Management with SAP ERP. The standard configuration uses SAP NetWeaver Process Integration as the middleware component that manages the transactions... [More]

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Ever explored the various ways of changing status of Mbos using the Integration framework. The Integration framework provides 2 kinds of services - Object Structure Services and Standard Services which allows a client to change status of a stateful Mbo using XML/HTTP or SOAP invocation. All these can achieved with configuration and no coding work is needed on the Maximo/Tpae platform side. For more details about how to do this please select this link or access this url... [More]

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Let Maximo Asset Management software provide insight into all of your enterprise assets, their conditions and work processes, for better planning and control on a single platform! The following nine presentations and seven demonstrations about Maximo Asset Management V7.1 are available on IBM Education Assistant . Watch them today! System Installation and Deployment Components of the Maximo 7 installation Deployment engine overview Building and deploying the Maximo EAR file System and Application Management How to edit screens in... [More]

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I have a love-hate relationship with office printers.   Our relationship flourishes when I remember its access code, and my printout waits patiently for me to pick it up.  But our relationship plummets, when I hear beep…beep…beep,  and the words ‘printer jam’ display.  As I loudly disassemble the printer’s drawers and toner cartridge in a fruitless search of a mangled crumb of paper, my frustration and choice of vocabulary skyrockets. You may also have a complex relationship with your... [More]

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Maximo Asset Configuration Manager (ACM) allows a complete history of the components which make up a complex a Asset to be maintained and easily viewed for any given point in time. The ACM 7.5.0.1 patch introduced the ability to use the Maximo Integration Framework (MIF) to perform many ACM functions and load data into associated tables.   One of the most common functions used within (ACM) is the and removal and installation of sub-assembly Assets. These operations are now achievable via the MIF and three separate transactions are possible:  ... [More]

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March Madness – two marvelous words with multiple meanings.  It may have you rooting for your favorite team in the NCAA Basketball Tournamen t or waiting impatiently for your iPad 3 to arrive.   It may have you joined in mass with others celebrating St Patrick’s Day , or  anxiously waiting for Spring to finally arrive.   Whatever your March Madness may involve, let's take a step back and review another March event - Pulse 2012.   During the Reporting presentation at Pulse, we delved into the details of BIRT and Cognos reporting functionality,... [More]

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 8,000 individuals from around the world gathered at IBM's Pulse 2012 conference the first week of March.   It was an exciting, energetic conference where information and best practices were exchanged among clients, business partners and IBMers.   Numerous technical and client sessions were held on Maximo including Upgrades, Integration, Archiving, Mobility and Industry Solutions.  Additionally, numerous 'Meet the Expert' Sessions were held on Implementations and System Tuning, Scripting, Planning and Scheduling.   Throughout the week, there... [More]

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