Why Maximo?

“We already own SAP, why should we invest in Maximo?”

Built for Purpose …. Asset Lifecycle Management

Maximo software is designed to support assets of all classes
throughout the entire lifecycle. While the SAP EAM process
model reflects SAP’s view of EAM best practices, it is not
necessarily appropriate for all businesses at all stages of
maintenance maturity nor is it preferred or effective for all
operating departments.

World Class Maintenance.

While both SAP and Maximo support basic maintenance, Maximo
supports advanced maintenance practices that are crucial in asset-
intensive industries. Maximo is designed to leverage reliability-
centered maintenance (RCM), predictive maintenance, and
financially optimized maintenance processes.

Maximo is built with open standards…

• Standardization drives software interoperability and
interchangeability.
• It builds a strong foundation on which others can quickly build and
innovate.
• When the playing field gets levelled in this way, we get increased
competition with new people and ideas entering the marketplace.
• Standardization is scary to those who are afraid of losing market
share, product cash cows, or cannot execute well in an open world.

Maximo software offers straightforward and reduced-cost

integration with SAP, and many SAP customers are using Maximo
solutions for EAM today. Doing so gives companies the best of
both worlds: the business benefits of Maximo’s advanced asset
management capabilities, combined with the ability to leverage
existing investments in SAP.
 But really… why Maximo?
Don’t risk the big bang! Over the past decade, thousands of complex
enterprise information management system deployments have died a slow
death because the best and sometimes only way to deploy was to follow a
big bang deployment methodology.

Maximo Supports Agile deployment methods. Maximo has

numerous built-in utilities that customers use to support controlled,
incremental deployments across the enterprise:
• Migration Manager
• Security Profiles Example: Maximo’s Integration Framework
• Maximo Integration Framework streamlines connecting to legacy systems and supports
• Dynamic Database Configuration rapid development of interfaces, both temporary and
• Dynamic User Interface Designer permanent.
• Communications Templates
• Workflows/Escalations/Notifications
• Mult-Organization/Multi-Site support
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

IoT: Move from Subjective Insight to Objective Action

As the proliferation of available data increases, Maximo
provides the ability to use that data to forecast and predict Asset
Performance and next best actions based on utilization and
criticality of the asset.

Analytics: Provide Cognitive Insights from multiple data sources.

IBM Watson Cognitive designed to support Maximo and any open
data source provides the ability to Ask, Explore, Discover, Decide and
Visualize insights from your data to optimize your business.

For more information, contact Dave Turner,

Asset Management Industry Leader +1 703-628-2251 david.turner@us.ibm.com