IBM Maximo Spatial overview

Asset and service managers use IBM® Maximo® Spatial to visualize the spatial relationships among managed assets and other mapped features.

On the Map tab, or in map windows that are opened from application records, content from the production geographic information system (GIS) and from linked Maximo Manage records is displayed.

You can view assets in a geospatial context to visualize the spatial relationships between your assets and the roads, buildings, pipelines, and other mapped features around them. You can also use Maximo Spatial as your master address system to set standards so that address information is consistent across your organization. The address data can be used for assets, locations, service requests, and work orders to provide an extra layer of geospatial context to these records. The full range of asset-related data is available to GIS users to enrich their ability to analyze assets and determine action, if necessary. To support this unified view of asset and geospatial data, you do not need to duplicate data.

Highlight related GIS features on the maps to visualize relationships between the Maximo GIS objects and the GIS records. You can see the proximity of assets and work to one another to make more cost-effective business decisions, such as when you're sending crews out to do repair work. You can edit the map without leaving the Maximo Manage application. You can add work orders, service requests, assets, and locations directly on the map, and you can save the edits to share with other users.

Security is controlled by using signature options. You can control whether users can edit and link map features and whether they have access to map feature classes. You can also restrict the map layers that a user can see on the map.

By using the Maximo and the GIS queries, or by using an address, you can find GIS records. Results of searches are clearly differentiated in the map view and are shown in a tabular view of the selected records. Maximo Spatial uses read-only data from many external GIS data sources, such as the flood plain data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other web services.

Maximo Spatial is compatible with Maximo Manage.