50 articles
There are four working days left before Maximo 7.6.1.x extended support ends on September 30, and September 22 is the second of them. This article treats the remainder as a business-day budget rather than a countdown, allocating each day to a specific gate and naming the work that cannot be…
UCLA Facilities Management has publicly committed to moving off aging on-premises Maximo onto Maximo Application Suite in the cloud, and the details it gave are the details most migration programs never document from inside. This article reads the announcement as a reference case: what the three…
When Maximo 7.6.1.x Extended Support ends on September 30, 2026, estates keep working but lose the entitlement that turns a disclosed defect into a vendor fix. This article maps the exposure surface that sits underneath Maximo and sets out a defensible compensating posture for teams that will run…
A cluster of IBM MQ defects published two weeks before the Maximo 7.6.1.x support deadline has no vendor workaround and sits directly on common Maximo file-based integration paths. This article examines the disclosure, the ownership gap it exposes, and a concrete remediation sequence for…
Extended support for Maximo 7.6.1.x ends on September 30, 2026, and only five full working days remain to prove anything about a cutover. This runbook sequences those five days into rehearsable gates, then covers the interim-support, compensating-control, and triage paths for estates that will not…
A practical guide to the MAS MCP Server: what it exposes, how it authenticates, and how to build your first agentic workflow connecting Maximo to an external AI agent, with security, performance, and production-readiness considerations.
Extended support for Maximo 7.6.1.x ends September 30, 2026, leaving one full business week. This sprint-week runbook covers the five non-negotiable go-live gates, bridging through Sustained Support, triaging to reduce scope, and the compensating-controls package every unsupported instance needs…
The MAS 9.2 MCP server is not a read-only query surface. It lets external AI agents create, update, and modify Maximo records through natural language, which moves the integration client from a fixed transformation into a decision-making agent. This article covers the governance architecture in…
Predictive maintenance programs stall when the loop between failure history, asset risk, scheduling priority, executed work, and total cost of ownership is left open. This article walks that loop end to end in Maximo terms, with the configuration obligations and organizational realities that…
Maximo Mobile 9.2 rewrites field labor capture with a read-only Timesheets app, crew-wide travel and work timers that automatically create labor transactions for every active crew member, and a clarified Record Data Options sync model. This article explains how the new timer model works in…
Verdantix survey data continues to show Maximo users ahead of the market on predictive and reliability-centered maintenance, with data quality named as the top barrier. This article argues that in the MAS 9.2 era, data quality stops being a reporting problem and becomes the literal input to the AI…
The MAS 9.2 upgrade wave has moved past planning and into a concentrated cluster of infrastructure problems: path-based versus subdomain routing, Manage URL changes, LDAP and SSO configuration errors, and framework configuration that stops applying after an interim patch. This article walks…
With twenty days until IBM ends support for Maximo 7.6.1.x on September 30, 2026, this triage plan lays out the immediate moves for unprepared teams: confirming support entitlements, inventorying environments, choosing a defensible posture, and ranking migration paths by realism and speed.
Naviam is acquiring Cohesive from Bentley Systems, combining two of the best-known independent Maximo services firms. What the deal means for customers of either firm, why consolidation is accelerating right now, and how the partner landscape will reshape ahead of the 7.6.1.x end-of-support…
Two IBM Maximo wins in Saudi Arabia in a single week — KAFD running MAS for smart-city asset management and Marafiq modernizing enterprise service delivery — signal a structural shift: the Middle East is becoming one of the most consequential regions for the future of Maximo. What national-scale…
Four months after MAS 9.2 shipped, the conversation has moved from what agentic AI is to how to pilot it. This article lays out a pragmatic first-pilot approach for Maximo teams: choosing a use case that won't embarrass you, the data groundwork that determines success, instrumenting the pilot for…
MAS 9.2 migration decisions shape how field crews work for the next five to seven years, and mobile deserves a seat at the table now — not after go-live. This article walks through the current mobile stack, what offline-first actually means in practice, what MAS 9.2 brings to field service…
IBM's Maximo MCP server lets external AI agents create, update, and modify Maximo records programmatically — a genuine architectural shift from fixed integration transforms to agentic tool-call chains. This article covers how MCP works in MAS, how it compares to the integration framework you…
When Maximo Manage PM forecasting produces nonsense, the engine is reporting upstream problems with mechanical fidelity: stale annual schedules, frozen interrupted queues, mismatched frequencies, or corrupted completion data. This repair guide gives Maximo admins a layered diagnostic path and a…
MaximoWorld 2026 introduced a wave of migration tooling aimed at the inventory and translation debt that stalls 7.6.x to MAS 9.2 programs. This guide walks late movers through the deadline math, why manual migrations fail, what the new tools do and do not compress, and the three viable paths with…
The CMMS vs EAM debate is really about your operating model, not your license. A practical framework for deciding what your Maximo deployment should become.
New Verdantix research shows Maximo users run predictive maintenance at nearly 40 percent versus 15 percent marketwide — and what the leaders do differently to close the gap.
MAS 9.2 ships an MCP server for Maximo. Why Model Context Protocol is quietly reshaping the integration conversation for EAM teams.
With 25 days until Maximo 7.6 end of support, a sober look at what actually changes on October 1, your realistic options, and how the migration really goes in the field.
A practical breakdown of what MAS 9.2 means for Maximo Mobile users: offline sync behavior, technician experience, upgrade considerations, and how field teams should prepare.
A practical analysis of Maximo's shift from predictive analytics toward agentic AI workflows: the component stack, the MCP angle, and how reliability and maintenance leaders should sequence their AI adoption.
Maximo Monitor 9.2 decouples from the Watson IoT Platform, becoming a stand-alone system of record for asset monitoring. This is arguably the single biggest architectural change in the release, yet partner coverage of its practical implications remains thin. This article walks through what the…
IBM's Maximo Managed Service is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, adding a third hyperscaler deployment option alongside AWS and IBM Cloud. Steve Lemme's August IBM community blog introduced the offering, but practical evaluation guidance for buyers remains scarce. This article unpacks…
A new industry survey of more than 600 maintenance decision-makers found that predictive maintenance adoption has doubled, rising from 9 percent to 18 percent, while generative AI has become a top investment priority at 36 percent. For Maximo operators, this data lands at a moment when MAS 9.2 has…
Extended support for Maximo 7.6.1.x ends September 30, 2026. Organizations still running classic Maximo Manage face a hard decision point: migrate to Maximo Application Suite 9.x now, accept unpatched risk, or negotiate a fragile bridge. Here is what the deadline actually means, what your…
Maximo Mobile 9.1 has evolved from a work order viewer into a true field execution platform. A practical look at offline sync, work order flows, integrations, and what actually works for the connected field workforce in 2026.
MAS 8.x reached end of support on April 30, 2026, leaving unpatched systems exposed to security, compliance, and integration risk. A practical, phased upgrade playbook for Maximo Manage teams moving to MAS 9.x without disrupting live maintenance operations.
Agentic AI in MAS 9.2 changes what consumption looks like: work happening at machine speed, around the clock, without a human in the loop for every action. The rebuilt AppPoint Usage Dashboard gives administrators the visibility they have been missing. This article walks through how to model,…
MaximoWorld 2026 in Nashville did more than showcase AI-enabled analytics and edge deployments. Between the sessions, the community quietly rebuilt itself around year-round structures, a new AI-focused user group, and an emerging expectation that vendors will be held to documented promises. Here…
New survey data shows predictive maintenance adoption doubling year over year while reactive maintenance stays flat. A cross-industry look at what the leaders are doing differently — and why Maximo-driven organizations are already ahead of the maturity curve.
What IBM's Model Context Protocol server in MAS 9.2 actually means for Maximo AI strategy: how 'bring your own agent' works, what early adopters are building, and the governance questions every Maximo program should answer first.
A practitioner's guide to adopting the new APM industry models for power assets in IBM Maximo Health 9.2, covering data readiness, calibration, work-decision linkage, and long-term model governance.
A practitioner's playbook for preparing for MAS 9.2.x upgrades, centered on the deprecations in MAS Core 9.2.3: legacy user and group API removals, Vegetation Management retirement, Collaborate restructuring, and user-sync elimination.
A practical blueprint for making Maximo Mobile offline work reliable through deliberate data contracts, download design, conflict handling, device operations, and field-ready testing.
A practical design for safely governing domain-value changes through Maximo Manage APIs, including authorization, validation, auditability, testing, and deployment controls.
MAS 9.2 brings a new Alerts and Ticketing framework, enhanced Inspection Forms, Dashboards, email processing improvements, and security model updates that administrators need to plan for.
MAS 8.7-8.9 have reached end of support with no Extended Support option. MAS 8.10-8.11 are on Extended Support. Here's what it means and how to plan your move to 9.x.
The Maximo community in 2026 is more active and organized than ever — LinkedIn, IBM Champions, and MaximoWorld are driving reference-quality knowledge exchange.
Day 2 of MaximoWorld 2026 delivered real architecture, real code, and real deployment stories for agentic AI in Maximo — from IBM's agentic workflows to Interloc.ai's launch.
The Maximo community in 2026 is more active and organized than ever — user groups, open resources, and peer knowledge are shaping the platform's direction.
MAS 9.2 reimagines the Maximo Assistant as an agentic system that plans, coordinates, and executes multistep tasks — moving from chatbot to true digital coworker.
The Maximo integration surface in 2026 is JSON-first, REST-native, and supplemented by MCP for AI agents and Kafka for event-driven patterns. This guide covers all five integration layers, when to use each, and how the SAP CPI modernization changes ERP connectivity.
Five documented Maximo deployments across power generation, downstream oil and gas, automotive manufacturing, and regional transit reveal consistent patterns: integration is the critical success factor, and measurable outcomes follow when data flows across system boundaries.
MAS 9.2 embeds AI directly into daily maintenance workflows through five capabilities: Condition Insight, Predict, Monitor, Visual Inspection, and Mobile Assistant. This guide covers each capability, the watsonx foundation, and a phased 12-month adoption roadmap.
A practitioner-level deep dive into the work order lifecycle in Maximo Manage 9.x, covering job plan enhancements, role-based applications, AI-driven Work Order Intelligence, the new dispatching model, and configuration patterns that survive upgrades.
