IBM Maximo Application Suite

Vorteile

Ability to track and manage work orders so you understand what is happening at your facility.

Re-using and duplicating job plans takes away the tediousness of writing equipment specific maintenance procedures.

Nachteile

Very powerful for building and tracking maintenance KPI's but can take training and experience to use to it's full potential.

Vorteile

Comprehensive asset management solution: IBM Maximo Application Suite offers a range of capabilities, from asset lifecycle management to maintenance and repair operations, that help organizations optimize their asset performance, minimize downtime, and reduce costs.

Nachteile

Implementation and maintenance costs: The cost of implementing and maintaining IBM Maximo Application Suite, including the software itself and any associated services, can be substantial. Additionally, the initial implementation and ongoing maintenance and upgrades may require significant resources.

Vorteile

1. Highly customizable.
2. Runs in a virtual environment.
3. Made by IBM, so it'll be around for the foreseeable future.

Nachteile

1. Very busy UI.
2. Screen-to-screen navigation is clunky (browser back button breaks)
3. The search is more complicated than it should be, nearly unusable.
4. Our company's "Quick Guide" is 45 pages long—that's saying something.
5. Need multiple IT developers and DBA's to run the software at an enterprise level.

Vorteile

Capable and has amazing industry verticals which set Maximo apart from all competitors. The addition of HSE manager was a great value and the recent Supply Chain functionalities enhancement were spot on. Overall, when it comes to having an out of the box product with deep industry understanding, Maximo is the way to go.

Nachteile

##Product 1: The product lacks standards business processes, just like SAP, Maximo must ship with standard business process. Stressing on the same point, I'd rather spend time and money understanding the standard business process and using it as a starting point than having the absolute freedom to create whatever because this is where "replicating legacy systems" starts.

##Product 2: It is difficult to justify Maximo investment compared to Oracle EBS or SAP! unless you really need a specific industry vertical, Maximo is one system which require million integrations. Hence, Maximo must ship with, not only the excellent MIF capability, but also with free integration adapters to major systems from Oracle and SAP. The cost of maintaining a custom integration between Maximo and those systems is just to high compared to integrations between Maximo and less demanding systems.

##Vendor 1: If IBM is not able to provide a fully integrated ERP system, then they have to make the product more appealing by reducing the cost of getting up and integrated with the existing ERP system. Not only by offering a generic way to integrate but also to provide a set configurable integration adapters with business cases.

##Vendor 2: The licensing scheme has to be revised to become more flexibly, every product has weaknesses compared to competitors and if IBM cannot offer a full ERP then they must take it easy and compensate somewhere else.

Vorteile

Maximo is one of IBM's masterpieces, with true comprehensiveness to manage enterprise assets. It is powerful and versatile, and it's easy to use. It's by far the only end-to-end asset management software on the market. It can serve as a centralized database for your equipment, and it will help monitor and manage your assets. If you have a lot of equipment, Maximo is the way to go. It can help you keep track of everything, and it has all of the tools you need for managing, maintaining, and servicing your equipment.

Nachteile

I find the product's ease of use to be its best feature and also the most frustrating. The user interface is confusing when attempting to learn how the program functions; modules have similar features, but not all of them are intuitive. I switch between browsers depending on which one works best for different tasks.