IBM Maximo Asset Management. The Consultant's Guide


Book Description

This book was written by a Maximo consultant for Maximo functional consultants to help them lead implementation projects better and faster. This is already the second edition of this book, revised and extended. The book covers the topic of how to implement IBM Maximo Asset Management efficiently and bring value to customers. The book begins by describing how to prepare the project and run the workshops. There is an explanation of how to design the system and what deliverables will be. The following chapters focus on the project organization to make it productive. This part of the book can be helpful also for managers of Maximo implementation teams. The second part of the book describes Maximo applications, their interactions and processes. You will also find here a lot of configuration examples and sample content of the project deliverables. See what my readers have to say... "...I must thank you for your contribution towards the industry and how much it can help young and upcoming business consultants like me in getting things right. Knowledge is invaluable. Thanks for your time in creating a medium to share it globally..." -Hashmeet "...The book has immensely helped me in planning the activities and deploying the project..." -Kushal "...Very well written for a consultant to understand how to approach projects. Utilize many of your talking points with my clients. Great work!..." -John




IBM Maximo Asset Management. The Consultant's Guide: Second Edition


Book Description

This book was written by a Maximo consultant for Maximo functional consultants to help them lead implementation projects better and faster. This is already the second edition of this book, revised and extended. The book covers the topic of how to implement IBM Maximo Asset Management efficiently and bring value to customers. The book begins by describing how to prepare the project and run the workshops. There is an explanation of how to design the system and what deliverables will be. The following chapters focus on the project organization to make it productive. This part of the book can be helpful also for managers of Maximo implementation teams. The second part of the book describes Maximo applications, their interactions, and processes. You will also find here a lot of configuration examples and sample content of the project deliverables. See what my readers have to say… “…I must thank you for your contribution towards the industry and how much it can help young and upcoming business consultants like me in getting things right. Knowledge is invaluable. Thanks for your time in creating a medium to share it globally…” —Hashmeet “…The book has immensely helped me in planning the activities and deploying the project….” —Kushal “…Very well written for a consultant to understand how to approach projects. Utilize many of your talking points with my clients. Great work!...” —John




IBM Maximo Asset Management the Consultant's Guide


Book Description

This book was written by a Maximo consultant for Maximo functional consultants to help them lead implementation projects better and faster. The book covers how to effectively and efficently implement IBM Maximo Asset Management to bring value for customers. The book begins by describing how to prepare the project and run the workshops. There is an explanation of how to design the system and what deliverables will be. The latter chapters focus on the internal organization to make it productive. This part of the book can be helpful also for managers of Maximo implementation teams. The second part of the book describes how to make Maximo even better. Known issues and improvements are presented. You will find here also lot of configuration examples and sample content of the project deliverables. Chapters include: Part I-Implementation Project -Prerequisites -Implementation Steps -Presentations -Work Streams -Workshops and Design -Installation -Reporting and KPIs -Data Model -Configuration -Data Migration -Training -Tests -Go Live -Lessons Learned -Products -Implementation Team -Tools Part II-Maximo Configuration -Module Administration -Module Assets -Module Financial -Module Integration -Modules Contracts, Inventory and Purchasing -Module Planning -Module Preventive Maintenance -Module Security -Module Self Service -Module Service Level -Module System Configuration -Module Work Orders -Other topics




Maintenance Excellence


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Considering maintenance from a proactive, rather than reactive, perspective, Maintenance Excellence details the strategies, tools, and solutions for maximizing the productivity of physical assets—focusing on profitability potential. The editors address contemporary concerns, key terms, data requirements, critical methodologies, and essential mathematical needs. They present maintenance in a business context, review planning, measurement, feedback, and techniques related to cost, efficiency, and results, and summarize applications of tools and software from statistics and neural networks to cost-optimized models.




IT Service Management Best Practices Using IBM SmartCloud Control Desk


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SmartCloud Control Desk is a comprehensive IT Asset and Service Management solution that helps reduce cost and minimize service disruptions. It does so through automated service request handling, efficient change management, and optimized asset lifecycle management across IT and enterprise domains. SmartCloud Control Desk helps to reduce total cost of ownership by using one unified solution to license, install, and manage multiple ITIL processes under one price point. It can also help reduce business risk by using advanced impact analysis and defining automated change procedures that ensure integrity of existing infrastructure while supporting business agility. SmartCloud Control Desk improves efficiency and quality of service by unifying asset, change, and problem management. It lowers cost and mitigates license compliance risk by performing end to end software asset management. It also delivers an adaptive, role-based simplified UI that can be more intuitive for novice users, which reduces training costs, while allowing access from anywhere at anytime through mobile device support that includes BlackBerry, iOS, and Android. In addition, SmartCloud Control Desk supports both a profit center business model for internal IT organizations, and an external Service Provider model. It allows organizations to manage customers and customer agreements and bills for managed assets, usage, and work activities while improving utilization rates and reducing unnecessary purchases by managing the IT asset lifecycle. You can deploy SmartCloud Control Desk in a variety of ways; traditional on-premise, SaaS, VM image. This approach can make it more affordable to meet your current business needs, and seamlessly move between delivery models while keeping the same functionality. This IBM® Redbooks® publication covers IBM SmartCloud® Control Desk product configuration, customization, and implementation best practices.




The Professional's Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology


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This book represents a significant step towards improving the knowledge of, and communications between, members of the Maintenance and Reliability Profession.With more than 3000 entries, the compilation reflects a virtual explosion of commonly practiced concepts, ideas, methodologies and various approaches to maintenance and reliability improvements. An additional directory of maintenance and reliability acronyms is included.Maintenance and reliability involves many different people in many different roles. If we are expected to work efficiently, productively, and harmoniously on tasks and projects, there is need for a common language for communication. It is the goal of The Professional's Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology to provide this basis.Robert Baldwin, Ramesh Gulati, and Jerry Kahn, have served the maintenance and reliability profession in many capacities for decades. Together, they have over 100 years of experience working in this field. All are Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (CMRPs).







Business Process Management Design Guide: Using IBM Business Process Manager


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IBM® Business Process Manager (IBM BPM) is a comprehensive business process management (BPM) suite that provides visibility and management of your business processes. IBM BPM supports the whole BPM lifecycle approach: Discover and document Plan Implement Deploy Manage Optimize Process owners and business owners can use this solution to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes. IBM BPM excels in integrating role-based process design, and provides a social BPM experience. It enables asset sharing and creating versions through its Process Center. The Process Center acts as a unified repository, making it possible to manage changes to the business processes with confidence. IBM BPM supports a wide range of standards for process modeling and exchange. Built-in analytics and search capabilities help to further improve and optimize the business processes. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides valuable information for project teams and business people that are involved in projects using IBM BPM. It describes the important design decisions that you face as a team. These decisions invariably have an effect on the success of your project. These decisions range from the more business-centric decisions, such as which should be your first process, to the more technical decisions, such as solution analysis and architectural considerations.




Migration Use Cases with the Migration Manager


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The Migration Manager enables you to migrate configuration content from one production environment to another. The typical use is to migrate configuration content from a development environment to a test environment and then on to production for the Tivoli® process automation engine and its applications, such as IBM® Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) and IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager®. The goal of migration is to ensure that your production environment fully meets the needs of your users. This IBM Redbooks® publication covers the most common migration use cases with the Migration Manager. Of course, these use cases are only a small subset of the possible migration scenarios that can be performed by the Migration Manager, but they were chosen to be representative of the capabilities of the Migration Manager. In addition to these use cases, the book presents a migration strategy and a comprehensive chapter about troubleshooting possible migration problems when using the Migration Manager. We strongly suggest that you read Chapter 1, "Migration strategy" on page 1 first before reading the other chapters. This chapter will give you a good foundation for all of the migration scenarios covered in the book. This book will be a reference for IT Specialists and IT Architects working on migrating configuration content from one production environment to another using the Migration Manager.




Deployment Guide for InfoSphere Guardium


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IBM® InfoSphere® Guardium® provides the simplest, most robust solution for data security and data privacy by assuring the integrity of trusted information in your data center. InfoSphere Guardium helps you reduce support costs by automating the entire compliance auditing process across heterogeneous environments. InfoSphere Guardium offers a flexible and scalable solution to support varying customer architecture requirements. This IBM Redbooks® publication provides a guide for deploying the Guardium solutions. This book also provides a roadmap process for implementing an InfoSphere Guardium solution that is based on years of experience and best practices that were collected from various Guardium experts. We describe planning, installation, configuration, monitoring, and administrating an InfoSphere Guardium environment. We also describe use cases and how InfoSphere Guardium integrates with other IBM products. The guidance can help you successfully deploy and manage an IBM InfoSphere Guardium system. This book is intended for the system administrators and support staff who are responsible for deploying or supporting an InfoSphere Guardium environment.