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New York Times - IBM Upgrades Asset Management Solution By Inc.com, May 28, 2008
IBM (NYSE:IBM) has released the latest version of its asset management solution, Maximo Asset Management 7.1. The enhanced software provides support for linear assets, improved asset lifecycle management, and maintenance management for a wider range of asset categories, including production, facilities and transportation.
The new release offers enhanced capabilities for work management, job plans, work order tracking, service requests and reporting. It also frees up IT departments to focus on other projects by reducing the number of systems required to manage enterprise assets.
An improved user interface makes it easy to configure, and efficient data migration capabilities offer a quicker and less expensive implementation process. The basic version, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, is ideal for small and midsize businesses.
"The additional IBM resources, in the form of developers, software engineers and industry experts, which we were able to add to the Maximo 7.1 development effort, meant delivering to our customers a more comprehensive offering, sooner," Bill Sawyer, vice president of Maximo Operations at IBM Tivoli Software, said in a statement.
The following Plant Services link is the 2008 CMMS/EAM Software review. This was a huge undertaking completed back in February of 2008 and includes all the major competitors as well as Maximo 7.
Pressures from the real world are driving computerized maintenance management/ enterprise asset management (CMMS/EAM) software vendors to rethink and revise not only their products, but how they can help users actually achieve a larger portion of the potential they shrink-wrap in every package.
More than ever, CMMS/EAM vendors need you, their clients, to succeed. Many have identified room for improvement and are focusing their efforts on four key areas: industry specialization, implementation, integration and functionality. The changes they wrought have prompted us to revise and expand the Plant Services CMMS/EAM Software Review, our detailed hands-on comparison of current offerings.
This new version of the review allows you to decide just how in-depth you want to be in controlling product comparisons, from simple browsing of vendor survey data to creating customized scores for each product based on the aspects most important to you.
Read the complete review: http://www.plantservices.com/cmms_review/software_review.html
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