IBM Technology Expert Labs ADVISE Maximo Application Suite (MAS) Offerings

Our global subject matter experts will assist you on how to optimize equipment / asset performance and extend your asset(s) life cycles leveraging your Maximo Application Suite (MAS) asset management platform on Azure or hybrid cloud.

Our offerings provide thoughtful discovery, assessment and planning sessions, where you will share your unique priorities and requirements with our technical consultants who will determine the best course of action(s) for your organization to take on achieving desired results.

Some of the key challenges faced by your asset managers may be:

• Extreme risk involved with unmaintained assets → If mission-critical assets are not properly maintained, there can be catastrophic consequences, i.e. equipment failure that can result in significant business costs • Lack of comprehensive visibility → Struggles to gain a holistic view of their managed assets, which makes it difficult to monitor and manage them effectively • Manual and time-consuming processes → Relying on manual methods for monitoring, managing, and maintenance planning is labour-intensive and leads to errors • Difficulty giving meaning to data → Need to transform your data into something meaningful for your business • High turn-over in staff who understand best practices who can impact speed to value → Need to hire staff which may take time

Through an optimized implementation of MAS that our subject matter experts can deliver, clients can get ahead of these challenges.

Outcomes & Deliverables desired may include:

1. Findings & Recommendations
2. High Level Design
3. High Level Project Plan (Time Line, Resources, Indicative Cost)
4. Recommendations for system infrastructure changes
5. Application configuration changes
6. Best practices optimization changes

Key Activities may include:

1. Analyzing your Maximo EAM implementation and develop migration recommendations
2. Defining a high-level design of target MAS environments, including RedHat OpenShift on Azure or hybrid cloud deployment models
3. Developing a high-level project plan for migrating you to MAS
4. Configuration review in clients' Application and Database server.
5. Indicating where clients deviate from best practices of WebSphere Application Server, Maximo Asset Management and, if applicable, DB2. Analyze performance data.
6. Using performance data, settings may be reviewed, and adjustments recommended and presented.
7. Analyzing workload(s): our analysis tools will analyze one or more periods and indicate how well clients' deployment is handling the workload and recommend, where appropriate, how this might be improved.

Pre-requisite(s):

It is expected the customer uses a version of IBM Maximo and is looking to assess, modernize and/or improve. To acquire IBM Maximo on Azure please go here:

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=ibm%20maximo&page=1

Value Proposition:

The Advise Offerings provide clients the benefit of ensuring the IBM Maximo Application Suite implementation will support key elements to ensure success in areas such as:

1. Strategic alignment with business objectives
2. Effective allocation of resources
3. Risk mitigation during or after implementation
4. Proper stakeholder communication
5. Clear outcomes identified to measure success

With IBM's deep, product related skills and multitudes of customer engagements around the globe we can ensure that customers will benefit from learning from our best practices for deployment on Azure or hybrid cloud models with RedHat OpenShift technology and enable leveraging these insights for self sufficiency over time.

Your organization will benefit from any pre-built methodologies and architecture blueprint asset(s) during this planning service offering to help accelerate your adoption of IBM Maximo Application Suite on Azure or hybrid cloud.

"Advise" category of offerings are recommended based on the weekly scope of activities defined in the Service Description. Pricing is based on a week’s fixed scope of activities (in certain situations less than 5 days) and estimated conversion from USD. Quantities of the part number offering required may vary depending on requirements.