Product(s): Maximo Application Suite
Overall Comment:"Worked well - Core business support and many core vendors are available. The platform allows for business customization without it being a true code level customization while still being with an upgrade that would still be classified as a standard upgrade. This is where most all changes are at the core configurations, since python code necessary for business specific actions and redesigns of tables and screens are all held at the DB level, making them all to be flexible to the business needs, but completely upgradable. Well done. This is IBM Maximo's greatest strength. Moving MAS suite to the OpenShift platform has also expanded scaling and ease of spinning up a new environment for project reasons. In the past it would take a day or two to get another environment up with a new server, now it is simply having infrastructure add another worker node and a couple of changes to the IBM implementation tool IBM Maximo CLI and we'll have a working environment within a couple of hours. That is 2 hours for the process to complete, not actual concurrent work time on the admin side. Admin sets things up. kicks off the deployment, checks back in from time to time, but can overall work on other activities while it completes. Lastly the easy of integration with their Restapis based on the object structures already in place. We can have a new and custom endpoint setup within a matter of mins. These can be leveraged for application integrations quickly and easily. There are many reasons for the high rating these I'd say are the core of why I have such a high rating for MAS."
Ease of upgrades, flexibility on implementing business needs and OpenShift platform with a solid deployment and upgrade process.
Some of the newer tools are not part of the core deployment and have to be deployed separately. Thankfully, IBM has acknowledged this and has brought it in as part of their core deployment with the 9.1 release.