Maximo Quest

Greetings! IoT is a real booming field since last couple of years and IBM has been a key player/innovator in this field. IBM has two major tools to enable IoT integration capability - 1. IBM WATSON product and API suites 2. TPAE based integration capabilities which comes in products like Maximo,SCCD,TRIRIGA. IBM Watson is recent addition and it not only has capabilities to enable IoT but it also have advance skills like Cognitive learning, Adapting learning which develoeprs can leverage. For IoT , a simple play demo can be find here where you can connect IBM Watson with your phone and play around to get condition based notification which can be directly linked with Conditional Monitoring of IoT Assets/Machines - http://discover-iot.eu-gb.mybluemix.net/#/play IBM Maximo Asset Management Product suite also comes with in built Conditional Monitoring module which and all other capabilties  can also be reviewed at above given link.

Saludos Amigos ! Today we are going to take a look at pretty essential time & effort saving Pre Requisite technique related with IBM Maximo installation. As we know that IBM Maximo is a unique product which need multiple components in technology stack for installation. Generally with IBM Maximo version 75 and 76 , binaries can be divided into 2 parts - MAM - Maximo Asset Management Binaries - these binaries consist base product files , tools required to apply add -on etc. MWI - Middleware Installer Binaries- these binaries consist following components whose version varies as per compatibility with MAM versions-      Application Server - IBM Web Sphere , Oracle Web Logic      Web Server- IBM HTTPS Server       Database Server - IBM DB2 , Oracle , Sql Server      Directory Server - IBM Tivoli Directory Server In order to install all these products we need different servers and infrastructure components as per compatibility matrix given by IBM. In order to ensure

Greetings Everyone & Happy New Year!  I know there has been a very long time since I have posted anything in this blog but today I am writting this blog to talk about one of the offering from IBM Tivoli Suite of ERP applications- IBM Smart Clould Control Desk (SCCD) , which I was reviewing recently. IBM SmartCloud Control Desk aka SCCD is an industry leading IT Service Management Solution.  Following figure  gives an overview of the end to end value proposition that IBM SmartCloud Control Desk offers -  In a nutshell it is a mix of different high level product offerings-  Service request management gives you an efficient service desk for handling service requests and managing incidents. Change, configuration and release management provides advanced impact analysis and automated change procedures designed to reduce risk and support integrity of services. IT asset management provides inventory management and software license compliance