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IBM Maximo Industry News
Validation process and compliance support in regulated industries
January 9, 2012 – The life sciences industry is experiencing increasing pressures across multiple fronts. Companies must shorten time to market in increasingly global and outsourced environments. At the same time, they must lower operating cost and increase product quality in tighter regulatory environments. This white paper discusses how enterprise asset management (EAM) plays a key role in shortening time to market, lowering operating costs and improving product quality in tighter regulatory environments.
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Highly functional data
January 9, 2012 – Enterprise asset management (EAM) software and computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software have been around for decades. But their functions and features have changed just as dramatically as the maintenance practices that have evolved to encompass not just maintaining, repairing and overhauling equipment, but proactively monitoring physical assets to ensure maximum plant reliability and aligning maintenance strategies with the overall objectives of not just the facility, but the organization as a whole.
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Facing the challenges of asset management: Part one
December 28, 2011 – If you’ve never considered how much data it takes to keep a toll road running, a brief chat with Barry King may give you pause for thought. As construction engineer with ConnectEast — the private sector operator contracted by the Victorian government to operate Melbourne’s 39km EastLink toll road until 2043 — King is involved with maintenance specialists who work to keep the road clear, safe, and in good shape.
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IBM Delves Deeper Into Smart Buildings, Acquires Tririga
May 4, 2011 – IBM is moving deeper into its smarter buildings initiative with the acquisition of sofware developer Tririga. "Smarter Planet" projects are a key strategic growth area for IBM, estimated to drive $10 billion in revenue by 2015.
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IBM Expands Smarter Planet Efforts With Network, Asset Management Apps
March 8, 2011 – Taking its "Smarter Planet" initiative to the next level, IBM this week unveiled new software tools for managing and monitoring networked systems and a new application that helps hospitals keep track of health-care equipment and other assets. IBM, which held its Pulse 2011 conference in Las Vegas this week, also announced a number of customer wins that relate to the vendor's Smarter Planet initiative. The Pulse conference is built around IBM's Tivoli systems and network management platform.
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IBM Delivers New Software to Advance Industry Transformation
February 28, 2011 – IBM today introduced software to help bring a new level of intelligence to the world's physical infrastructure. The software aims to advance smarter cities and industry transformation across water, energy, transportation and healthcare industries by monitoring and analyzing new streams of data.
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IBM Goes Global with Smarter Cities Strategy
December 29, 2010 – IBM continues to deliver on its Smarter Cities strategy by implementing smart solutions -- by designing strategies for collecting, sharing, analyzing and acting on data -- in cities around the world. Most recently, IBM announced a Smarter Cities partnership with Rio de Janeiro, but Big Blue has delivered smart solutions to cities such as Corpus Christi, Texas and Chesapeake, Va., among others.
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IBM Moves Maximo to Mobile Devices
October 27, 2010 – IBM has introduced a mobile version of its Maximo enterprise asset management software that is accessible via smart phones. IBM Maximo Everyplace allows maintenance workers and facilities managers to keep track of work orders and instantly update repairs using an Apple iPhone, iPad, or Android-based device.
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IBM launches new energy management tools
October 4, 2010 – IBM has added new software and services to its portfolio of tools for improving the energy efficiency of buildings and has struck new deals with Autodesk, which joins its industry alliance, the Green Sigma Coalition, and Schneider Electric, an energy management specialist, to develop tools that monitor and help reduce buildings' energy use.
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Modernizing Water Infrastructure with Asset Management and Analytics
April 21, 2010 – In a world where predictive maintenance can save utilities valuable time and money, as well as prevent catastrophic events, effective management of the infrastructure is increasingly important. Much of the nation’s water and sewage infrastructure was built over 100 years ago, with some systems dating as far back as the 1800s, and can no longer support today’s water needs.
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IBM Offers Incentives To Startups Developing Smarter Planet Apps
April 1, 2010 – IBM has launched a program to help technology startups developing applications that run within the IBM ecosystem and tie into the vendor's Smarter Planet strategy. Under the "Global Entrepreneur" initiative IBM is offering startups, particularly those building software for vertical industries, free use of cloud-based IBM software, the opportunity to work with IBM scientists, and access to IBM's DeveloperWorks social networking community portal.
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Galveston National Labs Employs IBM Software to Help Fight Infectious Disease
February 23, 2010 – In the fight against emerging infectious diseases, The Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), one of two National Institutes of Health funded bio-containment laboratories in the United States, is benefiting from IBM software to ensure the optimal performance of all equipment functioning within its facility. The GNL, which is dedicated to the study and prevention of emerging infectious diseases, will use IBM Maximo Asset Management Software to help automate, manage and ensure the performance of its 3,000 operating assets in one of the world's most complex medical research environments.
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IBM touts Smarter Buildings push
February 23, 2010 – IBM is hoping to use technology to create greener, smarter buildings. Big Blue announced Monday that it will team up with partners and customers to venture into the next phase of its Smarter Planet initiative: Smarter Buildings. The goal is to help buildings, manufacturing plants, and other facilities consume less energy and water and make them easier to operate.
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TVA Goes Live With IBM Software to Streamline Fleet Operations
February 23, 2010 – The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has initiated fleet-wide use of IBM software solutions to help it achieve asset-management improvements across all its power facilities, including fossil, hydro, nuclear, wind along with supporting Business Units such as Power Systems Operations, Facilities and the Customer Support & Repair Organization.
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IBM Launches New Era of Smarter Buildings
February 22, 2010 – IBM today announced it is creating smarter buildings, offices, and urban infrastructure worldwide. With intelligence embedded into the physical assets of an organization, IBM is helping clients create a command center to manage not only their data center and IT design, but also the physical assets as diverse as water mains, office equipment, door locks, printers, heating systems and fire hydrants.
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IBM Software to Help Improve the Sewer Infrastructure in California's Capital City
February 10, 2010 – IBM announced today it is working with two wastewater agencies in Sacramento, California to help identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they impact the region's one million residents.
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Software tool aids building managers in creating facility assessments
February 10, 2010 – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in Berkeley, Calif., had been using a hodge-podge of systems, including spreadsheets and databases, to maintain facility condition information and generate reports to meet federal government funding requirements. The lab spans 203 acres and consists of 107 buildings, including the Advanced Light Source, a soccer-field-sized accelerator complex; the Center for Beam Physics; the National Center for Electron Microscopy; cancer research labs and many other science buildings.
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Maximo Spatial Release 7.1.1 Offers Expanded Geospatial Analysis Capabilities
January 8, 2010 – IBM Maximo Spatial is bundled with the Maximo Utilities solution and also available as an add-on option for IBM’s other industry solutions. Maximo Spatial integrates IBM Maximo and ESRI ArcGIS Server, and ex-tends their combined capability with additional functions. Release 7.1.1 has numerous functional extensions and upgrades including support for multiple geo-databases, expanded interoperability with different GIS platforms, and several pragmatic geospatial query and display capabilities.
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IBM overhauls software channel strategy
December 11, 2009 – IBM is in the final stages of restructuring its software channel to align partners to specific brands and product pillars. Under the revised model, partners will need to invest in deep and specific sales and technical skills in order to sell licensing for any of the vendor’s five overarching software brands: Tivoli, Lotus, Rational, WebSphere and DB2. Previously, partners were able to sell licences across all brands.
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IBM tapped for city-wide capital improvement projects in Chesapeake, Va.
December 7, 2009 – IBM and the City of Chesapeake, VA, today announced a partnership to build more intelligent systems to better serve its more than 200,000 residents as part of a city-wide capital improvement project. The use of IBM technology will enhance services delivered to the public ranging from maintenance and operations of traffic signals and water systems to the management of the City's Fire and Police departments. As a result of these efforts, the City of Chesapeake is consistently improving the quality of life for its citizens.
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IBM wires trucks, water lines in smarter city bid
December 7, 2009 – Making a city "smarter" starts with networked hardware, says IBM. That is, fire trucks, waste water lines, and buildings. The city of Chesapeake, Va., has contracted with IBM to modernize the city's public works and utilities infrastructure, touching everything from its water system to its fire department.
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District of Columbia Water & Sewer Authority to automate water and sewer system and create business intelligence systems, with help from IBM
November 19, 2009 – IBM and the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC WASA) are working together to modernize the management of the aging water and sewer infrastructure hidden beneath the nation’s capital. The sprawling infrastructure includes hundreds of thousands of assets such as water distribution pipes, valves, public fire hydrants, collection pipes, man holes and water meters.
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IBM Helps the Lower Colorado River Authority Improve Water and Energy Management in Central and South Texas
November 13, 2009 – IBM today announced the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is using IBM software to reduce the complexity and costs of managing the utility's resources and services, which span across more than 36,800 square miles and 58 counties in Central and South Texas, serving more than 2.2 million residents.
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IBM Live webcast: What’s New in November for CCMDB?
Tivoli is planning exciting announcements in November regarding its core Service Request Management products. Timed to follow closely on those announcements, this webcast will feature IBM Product Managers Rich Johnston and Tina Cottier with information on enhancements to Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) and Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM). Come hear about the new TADDM integrations with ITM or discovery and virtualization and storage discovery - plus many more great enhancement. Hear about new graphical capability surrounding topology and process viewing, automatic impact analysis and much more.
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Fukuoka will use IBM software to increase and improve water supply
Using an asset management system based on IBM’s Maximo software, the Fukuoka District Waterworks Agency will be able to monitor the conditions of facilities assets at the water treatment plant and the Seawater Desalination Center when the system goes live in April 2010. Assets include electric equipment, engineering and construction devices, pipelines and water pumps.
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