By Jim Miwa Back in 2012, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) instituted a Cloud First policy. This policy was intended to accelerate the pace at which the government would realize the value of cloud computing by requiring Agencies to evaluate safe, secure cloud computing options before making any new investments Around this time…Read More
Back to Basics – Work Centers and User Adoption
John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP I hope you have spent some time looking at how Work Centers may improve user adoption. Although they have been a staple of Maximo for some time, major enhancements have been rolled out with version 7.6.0.9 that have made the feature even more valuable. IBM’s approach to Work…Read More
Back to Basics – Asset Risk
John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP Having been to a particular client site many times, I never thought much about this one alarm that would go off several times each day. The crew would roll their eyes, sigh, don their PPE, and then scurry out of the room to silence the noise. No problem…Read More
Back to Basics – Maximo In Support of User Business Processes
John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP In the world of standards-based Quality Management Systems and documented business processes, the common mantra is: Say what you do Do what you say Prove it Improve it The alignment of Maximo with documented business processes plays a key role in bringing the elements of this mantra to…Read More
Back to Basics – Maximo Queries and Maximo Ad-Hoc Reporting
John Q. Todd Sr. Business Consultant, PMP One of the areas of constant puzzlement by Maximo users is how to, “find my data.” Quite a few people struggle in this area and end up with the belief that their data has been, “lost.” I have received many calls from clients in regards to lost data,…Read More