Why Maximo

IBM Maximo software is an EAM that meets the different business needs ranging from the following:

1. Manufacturing
2. Utilities
3. Energy
4. Hotels
5. Universities
6. Buses, trains, aircraft 
7. Information Technology assets

The software helps in decreasing the costs, by improving the availability and performance, along with managing the safety issues. It also

1. Records requests 
2. Track Work orders
3. Track configurations
4. Inventory optimization
5. Track purchase requisitions from start to finish
6. Safety and risk management

IBM Maximo has outstanding support of different databases, ranging from IBM DB2, Universal database, Oracle, SQL Server. The Maximo database itself contains more than 490 tables and more than 11,000 columns that makes it simple to store and organize the information, like an electronic files. 

The data is classified in to components, fields, records in a relational databases managing the proper hierarchies and the parent-child relationships. Along with this it also has a feature of sharing the data between applications, that is the reason why Maximo is a preferred solution.

Maximo Introduction

IBM Maximo is a comprehensive solution for managing physical assets on a common platform in an asst intensive industry
It has six different modules that manage the software as a service. They are;

• Asset Management
• Work Management
• Service Management
• Contract Management
• Inventory Management
• Procurement Management

Asset Management tracks all the assets and their locations through out the life cycle
Work Management manages the work activities from start to finish
Service Management monitors all the SLA's and service level deliveries
Contract Management helps us tracking the leases, the rentals, software etc
inventory Management keep up all with the details of all the inventory we have; for eg; numbers, usage, etc
Procurement Management helps us to directly purchase and inventory replenishment all that sort.

That is the place where IBM Enterprise asset management, where we can seamlessly perform the tasks of getting the assets manage along with the failure codes that help us in actually doing the setting up the failures if any and manage them.