IBM Maximo Valuable Features
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Dmataval Matavolam
Maximo Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The best features IBM Maximo offers are that it is a comprehensive tool where we can get the purchasing of assets or spare parts in the same application. The reports are also very good. Additionally, the barcodes are valuable. We can print barcodes for all things we need. The UI also has a very strong appearance.
We use the reporting feature very often. We have multiple reports, not just one. For each module, there are multiple reports and we can customize the reports based on our needs. For example, for a work order, we can print a report which gives all the details so that it is easy to carry out the steps required to fix the issue. There are also barcodes for items which we can paste on a bin or the item so it can be scanned with a barcode scanner, which is very easy.
IBM Maximo has positively impacted my organization because it reduced a lot of time and has saved a lot of cost.
For example, prior to IBM Maximo, we were doing only paperwork. Now that we have IBM Maximo in place, it is useful for tracking all assets and everything in a single solution with no data loss. Previously, multiple people handled this work, but now very few people do. This has helped us significantly.
View full review »The best features IBM Maximo offers, in my opinion, are agility and the fact that we can customize the application to adapt to the business of the client.
The agility and customization features help my clients specifically. For example, we have a client at the airport of Nice in France who had the need to adapt the mobile application of IBM Maximo, and we were able to do it very fast compared to other solutions.
I have seen specific metrics or outcomes from these improvements. For some clients we have up to 89% downtime reduction of equipment that generates over 1.2 million euro growth in revenue because we don't spend that much money on downtime and repair costs.
View full review »Flexibility is one of the key components, along with ease of use. The ease of installation depends on how you set your solution up and whether you're going for Windows or Linux. If you know what you're doing, it's fairly simple. However, if you're a new user to the product, I'd rate it a seven. If you understand the product and you've got your design set up, then it's probably looking at about an eight or nine.
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IBM Maximo provides a very mature and structured model for managing assets, work orders, maintenance plans, and spare parts, which is well-suited for complex real-world operational processes. Another best feature is configurability without heavy customization because many business rules, workflows, and forms can be configured through the platform without writing custom code, which helps align the tool with existing operational processes.
I configured IBM Maximo to integrate with ERP.
IBM Maximo is a very robust and mature EAM platform that covers end-to-end asset and maintenance processes. It is also highly configurable for complex organizations, which was very good for us. It has a strong ecosystem and long-term vendor support because our customer colleagues, when they contacted the vendor for support, had a very positive experience.
View full review »The best features IBM Maximo offers are Service Management and Work Management since they cover all the details and specific requirements that engineers need. The inventory system in IBM Maximo has a point of view of engineering, with many engineering details that help in enhancing the cycle of inventory and specification of each item.
The inventory management in IBM Maximo helps enhance our organization's processes and efficiency. As a former maintenance engineer, I faced many problems, such as having the same item encoded or coded in the item list twice. That doesn't happen in IBM Maximo since you have specifications. You can have exact specifications, such as product dimensions, material, and country of manufacturing. These details help avoid mis-selection of items. IBM Maximo also has alternative items that you can attach to each item. If an item balance is zero, you can see the alternatives instead of waiting for the item to arrive.
IBM Maximo has positively impacted our organization by decreasing inventory costs and optimizing engineers' work time. It has made a great impact on management and auditing cycles from scratch. You can see the status of each record anytime and track history. These aspects have improved significantly.
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Devarshi Buch
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I find the automation products to be the most valuable features. When it comes to their reporting and analytics capabilities, I find them to be superb.
View full review »Work management, optimization, and maintenance indicators are some of the valuable features of the solution.
View full review »The most valuable feature is the ability to correct maintenance.
View full review »Maximo has a powerful audit combination that helps achieve high accuracy. For example, if I need to buy parts for maintenance, it requires procurement and therefore contact with the supplier. All the information is in the system, and that reduces human error in companies where parts are a crucial element and managing stock and costs is key. Maximo also controls maintenance schedules. The solution also has many valuable APIs that are easy to integrate with SAP, Oracle ERP, Scaler and more.
View full review »The most valuable features of IBM Maximo are the overall power and interface, and there are a lot of different modules that we use that are helpful. Additionally, it's an integrated solution and it has a lot of capabilities.
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Klemen Muhvič
Computer System Engineer at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features are the ability to create work orders and preventative maintenance.
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Chris Lok
COO / Developer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
There are not many enterprise asset management systems on the market and not many that have the categories that IBM Maximo has. It's a platform that has been here for about 30 years. Currently, the shift to having the ability for customers within the space to move from a legacy structure into a more modern microservice structure that's on the cloud is quite valuable. It gives clients a good journey map to a modern hybrid cloud infrastructure or a little more cloud infrastructure.
View full review »I have found Work Order management the most valuable feature. Additionally, it is a very robust and powerful solution.
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Shaina Sharma
Business Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were doing all kinds of paperwork for every type of order and to maintain our assets but with the use of the IBM Maximo application, we can automate a lot of the processes.
IBM Maximo is a large piece of software that has lots of functionality. I have not even used it to its full potential.
View full review »The most valuable aspect is the level of flexibility Maximo provides because it is more code-based and more Java-based, so our development team and support partners are able to customize and relatively easily tailor it to our needs.
They have a real strength of tracking the asset itself along with the condition of the asset, the maintenance of the asset and who has access to the asset, etc.
View full review »IBM Maximo is the best software for assets management.
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Khaled Handousa
Business analyst for PMIS at a non-tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The most valuable feature is asset management maintenance as well as asset management overall.
View full review »The most powerful features are the database and integration with CMDB.
View full review »The incident management feature is good because it allows you to keep track of and classify issues.
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SamirKhodair
Implemenation Specialist at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees
- The Preventive Maintenance feature, especially in its inspection routines and KPI abilities, is valuable.
- Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met.
- Maximo is easy to learn.
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Paul Heath
IBM Maximo Control Desk Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's reliable, and it's all integrated in the same database.
View full review »The main feature of Maximo is the capabilities of recording, tracking, and correlating. These are important items in the management of a company. These capabilities let us organize our work.
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Samir Khodair
Maximo Specialist implemenation at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Preventive maintenance management
- Maintenance management
The large range of configurability of the product is great, since everyone has a different way of doing things. I also like the interface mechanisms built into the tool. With these, we can talk to just about any external system.
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Wayde Prejean
Manager IC-Operations, Maximo Administrator at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Maximo is a platform where apps can be created to support special processes. It is configurable, where you can add extra fields to screens and to the database.
With that said, our biggest use of Maximo focuses on work and compliance management, and we have configured Maximo to help us manage our compliance activities. In addition, some pockets of the company utilize Maximo for managing work, failures, inventory, etc. beyond just compliance.
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Lonnie Stone
The InTechrity Group
- Ease of use
- The ability to configure and integrate it with other solutions for ERP.
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