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Overview

All companies are dependent on critical assets — those assets that have a direct and significant impact on corporate performance. Precisely what these assets are varies by company and by industry, but caring for them is critical.

Asset Management is the process that helps organizations to automate the complete asset lifecycle management process from the time they decide to purchase an asset to the time they decided to retire it.

Birlasoft has set-up a dedicated team of consultants certified and trained on Maximo. This team has experience of implementation of Maximo for Asset Management in various domains such as:

	Life Science and Pharmaceuticals
	Transportation
	Government Institutions
	Manufacturing
	Oil and Gas
	Utilities
	Information Technology

Birlasoft team has implemented all modules of Maximo and has experience on all version right from 4.x to the latest version i.e. Maximo 7.1. The learning from each of these assignments is shared and reused for future engagements by the CoE. The various modules that Birlasoft team have implemented are:

	Assets
	Contracts
	Financials
	Integration
	Planning
	Preventive Maintenance
	Reporting
	Resources
	Safety
	Self Service
	Service Desk
	Service Management
	Work Orders

The CoE at Birlasoft offers the following services:

	Business Process Re-Engineering
	Fresh Implementations
	Maximo Upgrade/Migration
	Database configuration and migration
	Enhanced Reporting and KPI setup capabilities
	Integration with third party tools/software
	Audit of existing implementation
	Post Implementation Support and Training

Maximo® Upgrade/Migration

Upgrading your Maximo® solution to IBM Maximo Asset Management, release 6 or 7 is an important initiative that requires careful planning and strategy. Various implications of upgrading should be considered, and each has an impact on the duration, scope and financial investment of the project.

This web page will provide answers to some of your questions and guide you to appropriate resources as well.

Why Upgrade?

Below are reasons why customers should migrate to either release 6 or 7.

Following are the main reasons why customers should upgrade/migrate to Maximo Enterprise Suite, release 6:

	Improve return on assets and decrease costs and risk
	Increase productivity and asset-related decision making
	Increase asset service delivery responsiveness and revenue
	Facilitate regulatory compliance efforts
	Lower total cost of ownership
	New features are introduced in Maximo Enterprise Suite (MXES). These feature can be groped under the following categories:
		Multisite and Multilanguage
		Interface and Navigation
		Administration and Set Up (Configuration, Security)
		Asset Management
		Contract Management
		IT Asset Management
		Materials Management
		Maximo Enterprise Adapter (MEA)
		Purchasing
		Service Desk
		Service Management
		Workflow
		Work Management (Resources, PMs, Planning, Safety)
		Reporting

Following are the three main reasons why customers should upgrade/migrate to IBM Maximo Asset Management, release 7:

	One platform for the key processes that go hand in hand: Maximo Asset Management, Tivoli Asset Management for IT, Tivoli Service Request Manager and Configuration and Change Management Database
	Lowering both the cost of ownership and the cost of environment migration
	Specific market driven functionality such as Linear Assets, enhancements to work and process management and enhancements to usability

Upgrade versus Migration

Upgrade - Employs IBM-provided utilities to move database from ‘old to new,’ through each system version in succession, [i.e. 4.1.1 to 5.2, to 6.2,] to reach the target system
	Requires data cleansing
	Requires documentation of all screen changes and re-development of customizations for target system
	May require additional data input
Maximo Upgrade cycles not as simple as before
	Rapid technology advances caused technology gaps that may require bypassing multiple Maximo releases to achieve desired level
	Important objective: Reframe client perceptions, understanding, and expectations of process required, and provide bridge to transport them there
Migration – Starts and takes place on target system, receiving exported data from existing environment
	Requires data cleansing and importing through mechanism through the Upgrade Scripts or some other medium
	»	SQL Scripts / MEA for data loading
		»	Requires no intermediate system iterations
		»	Requires thorough database model knowledge
	Matches existing business process to new functional capabilities, versus moving from past to present
	May require additional data input
	Potential for modifying data during the process

Maximo 7 Upgrade Availability

More Resources:

	Maximo Upgrade Assessment
	Upgrade to Maximo 6 Approach
	Upgrade to Maximo 7 Approach