Start Center Application Description Start Center The home page which displays a dashboard with portlets defined in the Layout and Configuration application. A user can have multiple tabs depending on the roles they perform, each tab is a Start Center in its own right. Layout and Configuration Used for creating a new Start Center and…

GDPR is all about the privacy of personal data and GDPR comes into force across the European Union and EEA countries on the 25th May 2018. The potential fines for failure to follow the regulations could amount to 4% of an organizations worldwide annual turnover. GDPR gives an individual the right to know what personal…

GDPR comes into force across the 28 EU member states and the other 3 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) on 25th May 2018 – those three countries are Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. It replaces EU Data Protection directive and all national data protection legislation. GDPR is generally associated with the storage and processing…

On 28th October 2015 at the time of the announcement that IBM was to acquire The Weather Company I was an IBMer. It certainly seemed a strange acquisition, but knowing that asset deterioration and performance can be effected by weather, that the efficiency of field working and worker safety are similarly affected my reaction was…

Service Level Module Application Description Service Level Agreements A service level agreement (SLA) is most commonly applied to a type of ticket or work order. An SLA can have multiple commitments and when applied to a ticket or work order these create target dates. An escalation can be set-up to monitor progress against the commitment…

Preventive Maintenance Module Application Description Preventive Maintenance The Preventive Maintenance (PM) application is used to create a template for routine maintenance or inspection of an asset, location or a set of assets defined with a route. The frequency in which the work orders are generated can be time or meter based or a mix of…

Financial Module Application Description Currency Codes A single page application used to define a currency code and its description. A currency code must be defined before you can define an organization, an organization can have two base currencies. Exchange Rates An exchange rate is defined between two currencies for a particular organization. An exchange rate…

Administration Module Application Description Sets A set is used to share data across multiple organizations. There are two types of set, item and company. Organizations This is the application where organizations and sites are defined and where there are options for how Maximo functions at system, organization and site level. An organization provides data sharing…