IBM SG24-7645-00 manual Modules, Asset Management, 7645introduction.fm

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1.2.2 Modules

Maximo Asset Management Essentials is a subset of Maximo Asset Management for Enterprise. Both the products have the same look and feel, similar navigation and functionality.

The product is composed of Modules, which in turn contain applications or sub-applications. Users access the lowest level, whether it is an application or sub-application for functionality.

The Maximo Asset Management Essentials solution has multiple modules to assist the end user. Six of these key management modules are:

￿Asset

￿Work

￿Service

￿Contract

￿Materials

￿Procurement Management

Together, these modules help you capture and analyze your asset and work data and help you optimize maintenance and service initiatives throughout your organization. These six management modules are packaged in an enhanced service oriented architecture that helps simplify the creation of Web services and supports additional Web service standards such as WS-Security.

Built on a Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) component-based Internet architecture, Maximo Asset Management Essentials fits in any modern enterprise technology infrastructure and integrates easily with your business systems. With a significant focus on configuration tooling, such as Application Designer for modifying the user interface and Database Configuration for adding new tables, columns and rows. Maximo Asset Management Essentials makes it easier to tailor the software to your needs without programming. Furthermore, your configurations are upgraded with the Upgrade Utility, thus keeping you from being locked in from one application release to another.

Each key module and the business goals for which you can use it are as described in the following sections.

Asset Management

Achieve the control you need to more efficiently track and manage asset and location data throughout the asset life cycle.

￿Track asset detail—including location, work, cost and other attributes and their histories— over time, to help maximize productivity and extend asset life.

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