IBM Maximo Application Suite: a carefree move to the cloud
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Do you also want to move to the cloud with your asset management? With IBM Maximo Application Suite, you can run your asset management applications wherever you want: in-house, in a public cloud, a private cloud, or a combination of these. Without being tied down and with maximum flexibility. And in combination with Gemba’s managed services, you won’t have to worry about your new asset management solution at all.

4 December 2020 • 13 min read
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Modern asset management platform

With IBM Maximo Application Suite, you get various asset management applications in one solution, which you can use as needed. This means you are ready for the future in terms of functionality. But the technical platform of IBM Maximo Application Suite also offers you all the flexibility and scalability you need now and in the future. This is because it is Red Hat OpenShift, the popular open source software platform that IBM acquired in 2018.

Transitioning to a hybrid cloud

As open source software, Red Hat OpenShift is available free of charge. That’s a nice bonus, but the major benefits are mainly in other aspects. For example, it is important that with this software platform you bring your asset management to the cloud in a way that suits your organization and situation. For example, you can choose to have some of the applications of your IBM Maximo Application Suite run on-premises, i.e. at your company itself. While you split the rest over one or more public or private clouds – any combination is possible. This means you are switching to what is now called a ‘hybrid cloud’. Of course, all forms of support by Gemba, IBM and Red Hat are possible.

Asset management without limitations

With IBM Maximo Application Suite and Red Hat OpenShift, you have an asset management platform of today. And what makes this solution even more attractive is that you are not tied to certain cloud providers. You can also move applications between your own data center, private clouds and public clouds at any time, while everything simply continues to run. In short, you decide how to set up the platform and which parties you work with. And if you want to change something, nothing stands in your way.

Optimally scalable

It is also useful that you can easily scale the asset management platform up and down, depending on your needs. For example, do you temporarily need more IT resources for a large project? Or do you want to permanently add capacity because you are using more asset management applications from the IBM Maximo Application Suite? This scalability even goes so far that the platform automatically makes more capacity available if many of your employees are using your asset management applications at the same time. Your flexibility and future-proofing are maximized.

Seamless asset management data sharing

Within the Red Hat OpenShift platform, all applications of your IBM Maximo Application Suite work together in an integrated manner. Your asset management applications exchange data seamlessly. This puts an end to the problem of data being scattered across various data silos. In practice, this is a barrier for many organizations when digitizing their asset management. With IBM Maximo Application Suite and Red Hat OpenShift, you remove this stumbling block.

Continue working during upgrades

Red Hat OpenShift offers another advantage as a platform for your asset management. Because upgrades to the applications in your IBM Maximo Application Suite happen without downtime. Your employees can simply continue working and will not notice the regular adjustments. In this way, they have the benefits of new asset management functions, improvements or bug fixes, but not the burdens!

IBM Maximo Application Suite with Gemba’s managed services: an ideal combination

Of course, you can purchase IBM Maximo Application Suite and the Red Hat OpenShift platform in combination with Gemba’s managed services. You can outsource the care of your asset management to us as desired: from functional and technical management to hosting and support. This gives your organization peace of mind and the certainty that you can rely on your digital asset management!
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