Introduction to Maximo Asset Management

IBM Maximo Asset Management is an asset management life cycle and workflow process
management system. With Maximo Asset Management, you can manage your asset oper
ations and business processes. You can also integrate with your existing applica
tions.
Streamline, customize, and integrate
Maximo Asset Management provides insight for all your enterprise assets, their c
onditions and work processes, for better planning and control. With Maximo Asset
Management you can:
Manage which users can log in to the system and which sites, applications, and m
enu options each user can access.
Transfer product configurations and customizations from development to test to p
roduction environments. Migration Manager facilitates management of regulatory c
ompliance efforts.
Integrate Maximo Asset Management with your external financial applications to u
se your financial application to access and track Maximo Asset Management data a
nd transactions.
Develop and implement workflow to automate your business and management processe
s.
Maximo Asset Management is highly customizable and both the user interface and t
he help can be adapted to suit your business requirements You can change applica
tions to meet your specific business needs. The Application Designer provides a
graphical user interface for configuring applications without editing a line of
code.
Integrate enterprise applications and create business flows between Maximo Asset
Management and your framework applications.
Choose your database and application server
Maximo Asset Management uses multiple software servers. You can install the serv
ers on the same computer or on a different server. System requirements depend on
your operating system, database platform, and site configuration.
Maximo Asset Management is a collection of applications that have different purp
oses but function in a similar way. Information that you enter into an applicati
on is stored as data in the Maximo database. The relational structure of the dat
abase means that you can view the same data in different ways, from different ap
plications.
Maximo Asset Management supports various database servers, including:
DB2
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
The application server manages theMaximo Asset Management JavaServer Pages (JSPs
), XML, and business logic components. Maximo Asset Management uses a Java 2 Plat
form, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server:
Maximo Asset Management supports various J2EE servers, including:
WebSphere Application Server
WebLogic Server
Select standard or custom reports
BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) is the embedded reporting tool
in Maximo Asset Management. BIRT has standard reports that cover many applicatio
ns and include analysis, detail, hierarchical, and drill down reports. Reports c
an update the database, hyperlink to one another to enable more detailed analysi
s, and refresh data dynamically. You can customize the BIRT reports or develop n
ew reports to suit your business needs.
With ad hoc reporting, you can quickly create your own custom reports from any a
pplication. You can select what type of report you want to create, which fields
to include, and whether to group and sort the results. You can also define uniqu
e report parameters, and specify whether you want the report to run on the recor
ds of the application. You can then save and share the reports with others, or r
un the report only once. If you save a report, it can be scheduled and automatic
ally emailed to other users. You can also download the contents of the report to
other file formats for additional analysis.