Maximo Manage overview

IBM® Maximo® Manage is an asset lifecycle and workflow process management application that manages your asset operations and business processes and integrates with your existing enterprise applications.

Maximo Manage delivers a comprehensive view of all asset types, their conditions and locations, and the work processes that support them, to provide you with optimal planning, control, audit, and compliance capability.

Maximo Manage can help your organization optimize many aspects of your business.

Optimize asset efficiency
Manage and optimize the efficiency and use of all assets to maximize asset availability and performance, reduce downtime, and extend the life of the asset.
Increase productivity
Organize planned and unplanned work for assets and locations based on priority, urgency, and available resources to streamline work for increased productivity.
Improve inventory processes
Plan and manage inventory across multiple storerooms, providing visibility and availability of materials to meet and support maintenance operations.
Optimize schedules
Reduce maintenance costs and optimize the use of your resources by scheduling maintenance work in a single graphical view.
Improve business intelligence
View scheduled reports and KPIs to analyze and understand information about the lifecycle and the maintenance of your assets.
Capture information at the correct time
Optimize your workforce and data by using mobile solutions and device-specific capabilities, such as, photos and voice-to-text features that capture the correct information at the correct time.
Integrate applications and systems
Integrate enterprise applications and create business flows with external systems.

Streamline, customize, and integrate

Maximo Manage provides insight for all your enterprise assets, their conditions and work processes, for better planning and control. With Maximo Manage you can:

  • Manage which users can log in to the system and which sites, applications, and menu options each user can access.
  • Transfer product configurations and customizations from development to test to production environments. Migration Manager facilitates management of regulatory compliance efforts.
  • Integrate Maximo Manage with your external financial applications to use your financial application to access and track Maximo Manage data and transactions.
  • Develop and implement workflow to automate your business and management processes.
  • Maximo Manage is highly customizable and both the user interface and the help can be adapted to suit your business requirements. You can change applications 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 Manage and your framework applications.

Choose your database and application server

Maximo Manage uses multiple software servers. You can install the servers on the same server or on a different server. System requirements depend on your operating system, database platform, and site configuration.

Maximo Manage comprises features that have different purposes but function in a similar way. Information that you enter into an application is stored as data in the Manage database. The relational structure of the database means that you can view the same data in different ways, from different applications.

Maximo Manage supports the following database servers:
  • Db2®
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server

The application server manages the Maximo Manage JavaServer Pages (JSPs), XML, and business logic components. Maximo Manage uses a Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application server:

Maximo Manage supports the J2EE server, WebSphere® Application Server.

Select standard or custom reports

BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) is the embedded reporting tool in Maximo Manage. BIRT has standard reports that cover many applications.
  • BIRT report types are analysis, detail, hierarchical, and drill down reports.
  • Reports can update the database, hyperlink to one another to enable more detailed analysis, and refresh data dynamically.
  • You can customize the BIRT reports or develop new reports to suit your business needs.

With ad hoc reporting, you can quickly create your own custom reports from any application. 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 unique report parameters, and specify whether you want the report to run on the records of the application. You can then save and share the reports with others, or run the report only once. If you save a report, it can be scheduled and automatically emailed to other users. You can also download the contents of the report to other file formats for additional analysis.

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