Maximo Real Estate and Facilities DataConnect

The IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities DataConnect imports data from external systems into the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities system. It is useful for initial loads of data and for batch insert/update of data on a recurring basis. The DataConnect solution employs staging tables and workflow tasks, allowing an external source to write data directly into the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities staging tables and using Maximo Real Estate and Facilities workflow to process this data for insertion into native Maximo Real Estate and Facilities business objects.

The basic steps in the DataConnect process are as follows:

• Create a staging table for each business object that will be populated or updated from the external source.
• Make the job business object. This business object controls the instance of the integration.
• Move data from the external source into the appropriate business object staging table and the DataConnect Job Control table.
• The DataConnect Agent will initiate a process (a synchronous workflow) within Maximo Real Estate and Facilities that reads records from the business object staging tables and either inserts new instances or updates existing instances while validating the input data and executing associated business logic.

More information about DataConnect can be found in Application Building for IBM Maximo Real Estate and Facilities: Data Management.