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IBM Software Group

The New Features and Capabilities of Maximo 7.1

Maximo Webcast Series

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Frank Vanderham, PhD – Ontracks Consulting

September 18, 2008

Outline

• The evolution towards Maximo 7.1 - now truly "IBM blue”

• Business benefits of new capabilities in Maximo 7.1

• System-related improvements in 7.1: administration, deployment,

reports

• Our implementation experiences with 7.1 so far• Our implementation experiences with 7.1 so far

• Live demonstration of Maximo 7.1 and its new features

• Q&A

The evolution towards Maximo 7.1

• Maximo 4 – Thick Client Database application

• Maximo 5 – Web-based Java EE application

• Maximo 6 – New functionality, Application Designer, enhanced

security, workflow

• Maximo 7.1 – First IBM release, the topic of today’s webcast• Maximo 7.1 – First IBM release, the topic of today’s webcast

Business Benefits – New Capabilities

• Linear Assets – pipelines, roads, railways, etc.

– Handles segments, e.g. create and view work orders from mile post 1a

through 12b

– Is licensed as a separate module, not part of base package

• Conditional Expressions

– Define conditions based on field values (e.g. statuses, owners, etc.)– Define conditions based on field values (e.g. statuses, owners, etc.)

– Labor records with pay-rates, only HR people can see those

– Access based on a record’s field value: e.g. MOC Work orders can only be

viewed by MOC persons.

– Data restrictions are applied before the record is fetched: allows for secure

and sensitive data management

Business Benefits – New Capabilities – Cont.

• Improved Work Order Task management – Task Application

– Start and stop individual tasks through assignments

– Use a timer to indicate start and finish

– Application automatically logs elapsed time against the work order

• Improved Work Order Management

– Multiple assets on a single work order

– Attach documents at the task level

– Automatically set task in progress upon completion of previous task

– Ability to prevent tasks from starting before the previous is completed

– Classification Attributes (in addition to just classifications in v6)

Business Benefits – New Capabilities – Cont.

• Routes

– Routes can now create, for each route stop:

– Child Work Orders (as previous versions)

– Task Work Orders

– Multiple assets on a single Work Order

• Assets• Assets

– Create Asset Collections

– Ability to control user access to these collections, spanning multiple sites

• Service Requests

– Service Request Templates – create templates for commonly used requests

– Dialog-based create actions – create Work Order from Request, etc.

Business Benefits – New Capabilities – Cont.

• Items

– Item Status: mark items as Obsolete (or other statuses)

– Item Images: see the item’s image directly on the Item tab

• Improved Job Plans

– Ability to create “nested” Job Plans – a Job Plan that contains other Job

PlansPlans

– (default WO report does not show children)

– Job Plan Templates

System-related improvements

• No more Actuate Report Server

– Replaced with BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) report server

– Deployed with the Maximo application

• Apply database changes without shutting down Maximo

– Greatly shortens time to deploy changes

• Enhancements to Integration

– Invoke Maximo processes from external system, such as Status Changes

– Invoke external systems within Maximo, driven from Workflow, Escalations,

Select Action, etc.

• Management of System Properties within the application

Reports

• Maximo now support multiple report engines

• Report engines can be utilized from within Maximo “Run Reports”

menus

• Out-of-the box reports are with BIRT

System-related improvements – Cont.

Migration Manager

System-related improvements – Cont.

Our implementation experiences with 7.1 so far

• Completed two implementations – last one just went Live

• System requirements have increased significantly

– Maximo no longer ships with BEA Weblogic, only IBM Websphere

– MUST have at least 4 GB of RAM for any size deployment, 8 GB would be our

recommendation

• Installation experience• Installation experience

• System admin

• Report Development

• Any bugs…?

Demonstration

• BIRT Report Writer

• Maximo 7.1

Frank Vanderham

Ontracks Consulting

[email protected]

Ph. 780-916-3639