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IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.5

June 7, 2011

Release Highlights


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2011 Asset Management Product Roadmap2011 Asset Management Product Roadmap

Q2 2011

Maximo Asset Management 7.5.0.0

Q3 2011 Q4 2011

Maximo Industry Solutions 7.5.0.0

• Oil & Gas

• Transportation

• Utilities

• Life Sciences

• Nuclear Power

• Government

Maximo for Data CenterInfrastructure Mgmt 7.5.0.0

Maximo Asset Mgmt. Essentials 7.5.0.0

Maximo Everyplace 7.5.0.0

Maximo Mobile Suite 7.5.0.0

Maximo Adapter for SAP 7.5.0.0

Maximo Adapter for Oracle 7.5.0.0

IBM Real Time Asset Locator 7.5.0.0

Fix-pack 7.1.1.9 Fix-pack 7.5.0.1

Fix-pack 7.1.1.10Intelligent Building Management Solution 1.1.0.0

Maximo adapter for ITM 7.5.0.0

TSRM 7.5.0.0

TAMIT 7.5.0.0

CCMDB 7.5.0.0

Maximo Adapter for Primavera 7.5.0.0

Maximo Adapter for Microsoft Project 7.5.0.0

Maximo for Service Providers 7.5.0.0

Maximo for Internal Service Providers 7.5.0.0

Maximo Spatial Asset Management 7.5.0.0

Maximo Asset Configuration Manager 7.5.0.0

Maximo Scheduler 7.5.0.0

Maximo for Safety, Risk & Compliance 7.5.0.0

IBM Real Time Asset Locator for Healthcare 7.5.0.0

Fix-Packs

7.5.0.0 Releases

New Products

Maximo Archiving with Optim Data Growth Solution 7.5.0.0

Planned Releases

Fix-pack 6.2.8

2012

The information on the new product is intended to outline our general product direction and it should not be relied on in making a purchasing decision. The information on the new product is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract. The information on the new product is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any material,

code or functionality. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for our products remains at our sole discretion. .

Intelligent Building management Solution 1.x

Maximo Asset Mgmt 7.5.x.0

• Industry Solutions

• Add-on’s

Maximo DCIM 7.5.x.0

Maximo Mobile 7.5.x.0

Maximo Everyplace 7.5.x.0

TRIRIGA Portfolio - TBD

TRIRIGA Portfolio -TBD


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WhatWhat’’s Next?......s Next?......

Maximo 7.5 !

Released on April 29, 2011


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2. Return on Investment

• Automation Scripts

• Application data Import/Export

• Enhanced Migration Manager

• Usability & Performance

• Additional Configuration

• Lower Cost of Implementation

• Lower Cost of Ownership • Easier to configure & support

• Additional Configuration

• Lower Cost of Implementation

• Lower Cost of Ownership • Easier to configure & support

3. Continued Leadership and Innovation in EAM

• Enhanced Work & Asset Management

• Linear Asset Visual Control

• Deep Vertical Functionality

• Improved End-User interaction

• Deep Vertical Functionality

• Improved End-User interaction

Maximo 7.5 Maximo 7.5 –– 3 Major Areas of Focus3 Major Areas of Focus

1. New & Enhanced Supply Chain Management

• PO/PR/RFQ/Invoicing

• Inventory/Receiving

• Expanded Capabilities

• Customer Driven Requirements

•Satisfy Functional gaps

•Improved Usability/Maintainability

•Address Integration/ERP

• Expanded Capabilities

• Customer Driven Requirements

•Satisfy Functional gaps

•Improved Usability/Maintainability

•Address Integration/ERP


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Maximo 7.5Maximo 7.5–– Expanded FootprintExpanded Footprint

Asset Management

KPIs / Reporting/ Ad-hoc Reporting / Cognos Integration

Work Management

Materials Management

Purchasing

Locations

• Repair Facilities

Asset

Asset Templates

Failure Codes

Linear Assets

• Visual Control

Condition Monitoring

Meters

Meter Groups

Request for Quotation

Receiving

Receiving Inspections

Shipment Receiving

Purchase Requisitions

•Invoices

• Invoice Reversals

Purchase Orders

• Revisioning

• Receipt Tolerance

Desktop Requisitions

Item Master

Storerooms

Inventory

•Inventory Usage

•LIFO/FIFO Costing

• Consignment

• Transfer via

Shipment

• Default Costing

Condition Codes

Stocked Tools

Service Items

Job Plans

• Revisioning

Work Order Tracking

•Assignment Tab

•Hard/Soft Reservations

•Repair Facilities

Safety

Quick Reporting

Labor/Crafts

Tools

Preventive Maintenance

• PM Forecasting

Master PM

Assignment Manager

Enhanced Workflow – Event Driven, Context-based / Escalation Manager

Contract Management

Purchase Contracts

Master Contracts

Warranty Contracts

Lease/Rental Contracts

Labor Rate Contracts

•Premium Pay Rates

Payment Schedules

Service Management

Service Groups

SLA Management

Change Management

•Incidents

•Problems

•Changes

•Releases

•Solutions

Security/Administration/Configuration – Automation Scripts, Migration Manager

Integration/Web Services – Import & Export direct from applications


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Maximo 7.5 Beta programMaximo 7.5 Beta program

� Maximo 7.5 Beta testing – started in December 2010

– Hosted in a cloud by the beta team in India

– Over 15 client companies & business partners

– Global coverage with cross-industry representation

North America, Asia, Middle East & Europe

Southern Company, Duke, KNPC, Hong Kong Jockey Club, Bluewater, others

– 50+ individuals as registered testers, additional companies/testers added weekly

– Excellent participation, customers actually testing

Over 75 unique postings of feedback, questions, comments, bugs

Focus on Supply Chain, but also hitting Work Management applications


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Maximo 7.5 Beta program Maximo 7.5 Beta program –– Participant QuotesParticipant Quotes– “Happy to see Supply Chain getting new functionality”.

– “Could see good amount of improvements, administration point of view, saves time/increases

accuracy in migrations and reduces number of outages for smaller changes.”

– “The Beta 7.5 was a great reference which desperately helped with insight into updates. For

the majority I was pleased with the site. Maximo 7.5 incorporates major changes which allow

more flexibility and less customization. “

– “Greatly Improved on the SCM side. Can see where the foundation is being laid for next

generation Maximo to be a complete Supply Chain and Work Management Solution.”

– “Some new features added on SCM that make it competitive to other ERP packages like

SAP” .

– “The Beta of Maximo 7.5 is impressive and superb! The new design, the speed and the

quality are incredible. Happy to see that some changes requested from us are now in the core

product.”

– “Upgrading to Maximo 7.5 will require the least change management compared to any other

Maximo upgrades we have applied.”

– “The Modules in Maximo I've tested have been working perfect so far. No Errors

encountered.”

– “Better user interface. Better performance. Additional applications available.”


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Enhancements AreasEnhancements Areas

� Supply Chain– Materials Management

– Purchasing

– Receiving

– Invoicing

– Misc

� Work and Asset Management– Work Order

– Job Plan

– Repair Facility

– Assets

– PMs

� Usability– Improved Efficiency

– New Skin

� Maximo Integration Framework (MIF)

� Migration Manager

� Scripting


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Materials ManagementMaterials Management

� Item Master – Add ‘true’ stocked/non-stocked item support

– Resolves functional gap on usage of stocked/non-stock item terminology. Better alignment with ERP systems.

� Inventory Usage Application – Add a ‘statusable’ document for issuing and transferring

items

– Provides for streamlining the issue and transfer process while increasing the breadth of functionality: Support for workflow of issues and transfers, staged and shipped items, multiple assets and source bins per line.

� Issues and Transfers – Transfer via Shipment

– Enhances and streamlines business process for items in transit. Serves as a foundation for manifesting for Oil & Gas customers.

� Issues and Transfers – Hard/Soft material reservations

– Addresses functional gap in materials mgt by allowing requested items to be set as a hard or soft reservation.


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Materials ManagementMaterials Management

� Inventory Costing Enhancements

– Default Costing Method (Avg, Std, LIFO, FIFO)

Allows the user to set the costing method for an item at the inventory level.

– LIFO/FIFO Inventory Costing

‘New’ costing method to allow for valuation at actual receipt costs on a LIFO or FIFO basis

– Consignment Inventory

Adds support for ‘vendor-owned’ inventory valuation. Allows for items to be paid for on use rather than pay on receipt


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PurchasingPurchasing

� PO Revisioning– Benefit: Improves the process for creating PO revisions. Applies the 6.x revision capabilities to the

PO application.

� PR/PO/RFQ/RECEIPTS/INVOICE – View entire supply chain – Will provide the user with the ability, from one screen, to view all upstream and downstream

processing of any line items currently in the supply chain.

� Item Master, PO – Tax exempt items– Provides support for setting items as ‘tax-exempt.’ Tax exempt items will bypass the normal tax

code application process on purchasing lines.

� RFQ: Allow item comparison in base currency – Currently, quotes may be submitted in various currencies and there is no valid way to compare the

line items in this case. The functionality will use the Exchange Rates app to display the line items in the native and base currency.


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ReceivingReceiving

� Receipt Tolerances

– Provides functionality to control against ‘over-receipt’ of lines against a PO. Establishes a tolerance threshold at which the user can be either warned or stopped during an over-receipt situation.

� Add functionality for returning received services

– Brings service receipt return functionality in line with what is offered for material receiving.

� Support for voiding a receipt. (ie: cancelling a receipt line)

– Allows the reversal of a receipt line, similar to a return, and reverse balance updates, etc, but would NOT allow the user to create a credit invoice for the voided line.

� Receiving application requires functionality to select an asset for return to a vendor

– Provides the functionality to select the asset being returned and business logic to disable the use of the returned asset records.


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InvoicingInvoicing

� Ability to create invoice reversals – Allows the creation of reversal invoices against PO lines that have already been fully matched. Also

allows for the ability ‘back out’ an approved, but incorrect invoice.

� Cross Site Invoices– Ability to create an Invoice containing POs from other sites in the same Org.

� Enhance ‘Copy PO Lines’ dialog box– Enhances usability by allowing invoice users to filter on additional fields.

� Add functionality for setting the date to derive the financial period– Benefit: A Posting Date will be added to the invoice header to be used to derive the financial period.

� Default Table Window– A new Default Table Window added to the Invoice Lines tab


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Accounting EnhancementsAccounting Enhancements

� Chart of Accounts - Date ranges for account validity

– Benefit: Addresses customer-requested functional gap.

� Chart of Accounts – Different GL account structures per Organization

– Addresses customer-requested functional gap.

– Better alignment with ERPs.


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Miscellaneous Supply Chain enhancementsMiscellaneous Supply Chain enhancements

� Labor Contracts – Premium pay rates on labor contracts

– Allows that the same options that are available on the labor record would be available on the labor contract record.

� Organizations – Support multiple addresses per site

– Allows for additional addresses to be registered against a site. This data will be used by the purchasing applications in the scenario where multiple ship-to and bill-to addresses are possible per site.

� Person – Associate multiple commodity codes with a person record

– Benefit: Satisfies the use case of a ‘buyer’ person record. Person records associated with these commodity codes could then be used within workflow etc, for routing purchasing documents to the appropriate individual.


Work and Asset ManagementWork and Asset Management


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Work Management EnhancementsWork Management Enhancements

� Work Order Tracking – Additional Cost information displayed in the work order

– Adds additional visibility into related purchasing records from a work order.

� Work Order Tracking – Add visibility for storeroom materials on backorder

– Fills a functional gap in work orders by adding visibility of a ‘waiting material’ situation for storeroom items in addition to direct issue items.

� Assignments tab added to Work Order app

– Enables labor assignments directly on the Work Order

� Job Plan Revisioning

– Optional system setting to enforce tracking of JP revisions/revision history

� PM Forecast tab added to app

– Ability to generate forecasted dates for Preventative Maintenance records

� Decoupling Owner and Owner Group

– Ability to assign both to a Work Order or Ticket based record


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WO Costs and Material StatusWO Costs and Material Status


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Assignments tab – enables labor assignments directly on the

Work Order


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Job Plan Revisioning – optional system setting to enforce

tracking of JP revisions/revision history


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PM Forecast tab – ability to generate forecasted dates for

Preventative Maintenance records


Repair FacilityRepair Facility


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RequirementRequirement

� Some assets operate across the virtual geographical boundaries of Maximo sites– Repair and maintenance work may need to be performed at a facility that is not in the same Maximo site as the asset

– “How can I EASILY insert a work order for an asset from a site other than my default insert site?”

� The Maximo work order defaults to a site and the asset must be in this site– The work order is “owned” by the site and location of the asset

– Customers want the ability to have the location performing the work to “own” the work order and potentially be in a different site than

the asset.


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Fixed Assets Fixed Assets vsvs Mobile AssetsMobile Assets

KC

KC

Work Order: 5678

Asset: KC

Asset Home Location: Kansas City

Repair Location: Plano

KC

KC

Work Order: 1234

Asset: HVAC

Asset Home Location: Denver

Repair Location: Denver


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SolutionSolution

� Allow users to EASILY insert work orders for assets from any site– New asset field validation allows valid assets from multiple sites

� Introduce the concept of a Repair Facility– A location identified as a Repair Facility (check box)

� Work order based records can be assigned a repair facility– Work orders, changes, releases

� The repair facility can be from a site other than current site– Within the same organization

� New security groups feature for Repair Facility authorizations– Works in concert with site authorizations to determine records user can work with

� Users can have a default repair facility


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User ScenariosUser Scenarios

� The most common scenario is for clients with mobile assets with multiple sites defined in Maximo– Assets that can travel across the virtual boundaries defined by Maximo sites

– For example an asset based in Atlanta in the Southeast US site travels to Boston in the Northeast US site. The repair facility in

Boston owns the work and the work order, but the asset is from another site

� Clients with fixed assets or with only one site may also find benefit to having the further control over security for work order based records

– Limiting maintenance personnel to records only for their repair facility


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Multisite Architecture with Repair FacilitiesMultisite Architecture with Repair Facilities

USA Organization 2

Site

6

Co

lora

do

Kan

sas

Texas

Site

4

Site

5

Database/Enterprise

Plano Repair Facility

Denver Repair Facility

Repair Facility 3

Repair Facility 4

Work Order: 5678

Repair Facility: Plano

Repair Facility Site: Texas

Asset: KC

Asset Site: Kansas


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Repair FacilitiesRepair Facilities

Site where the work is done

Site for the Work

Order and Asset


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Asset Management EnhancementsAsset Management Enhancements

� New Asset Template application

– Provides a quick way to add new Assets or update existing Assets based on defined template

� Asset list from Template

– list of assets created from Asset Template generation, all create at once

� Visual Control for Linear Assets

– Visual Control tab enables graphical display of linear assets, features, attributes and work orders


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New Asset Template application – quick way to add new

Assets or update existing Assets based on defined template


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Assets Assets –– list of assets created from Asset Template generation, all list of assets created from Asset Template generation, all

create at oncecreate at once


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Linear tab in Assets – Visual Control enables graphical

display of linear assets, features, attributes and work orders


UsabilityUsability


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Improved EfficiencyImproved Efficiency EnhancementsEnhancements

� Returning to List Tab maintains Record focus

– After editing an record going back to the list tab will return to the edited record

� Field Validation option

– Performed in background allowing the user to continue data entry

– Set as default at system level

� Rich Text Editor for Long Description and Com Templates

– Supported by BIRT reports

� Improved Date Entry

– Quicker and easier to select values

� Help moved to Info Center format

– Content based.


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When I save a record and go

back to the List, the result set is

still in the state I left it until I hit

refresh.

Records that have been touched

are Italicized to indicate they have

changed

List pageList page


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When I save, focus remains on the last table

row that was edited

Table WindowTable Window


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‘‘Heads down data entryHeads down data entry’’ (Asynchronous Validation)(Asynchronous Validation)

I can enter data at my own

pace, and address errors and warnings when I want to


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I can enter text in the format that I want on a Maximo screen. II can enter text in the format that I want on a Maximo screen. I dondon’’t need to rely t need to rely

on attachments for on attachments for richrich--text formattingtext formatting..

• Long Descriptions, Communication Templates and Displays in BIRT reports

• Flexible Fonts

• Bold, Italics, Underline, etc.• Character Sizes• Bullets• Colors and Highlighting• URL links• Supports copy/paste from Word, etc.


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Enabled Rich Text Formats to display in

BIRT Reports

Displays in reportsDisplays in reports


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New CalendarNew Calendar

New calendar control offers faster response to clicks because it does not make round trips to the server.


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Help Help –– Info Center, content basedInfo Center, content based


New SkinNew Skin


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Maximo Integration FrameworkMaximo Integration Framework


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New Integration Framework Features in 7.5New Integration Framework Features in 7.5

� Event Propagation

� Support for application authorization

� BIDI support

� Application-based Importing/Exporting

� JAX-WS – Web Service support via the application server container

� Migration of WS Configuration


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Event PropagationEvent Propagation

� Feature – A new 7.5 feature for the Integration Framework is the ability to recognize events from child objects

within an object structure. In prior releases, this was only supported if the business objects had this logic embedded within them. Now customers will be able to enable the events from child objects when the business object does not provide this capability.

� Planning– This new feature would be applicable in cases of ‘outbound’ integration using Publish Channels. For

use when an event from a child object within an object structure does not initiate an event through the Publish Channel

� Steps– How to configure

Using the Object Structure application, select the applicable object structure, choose Advanced Configuration under the Select Action menu and check the Propagate Events checkbox for the object where event behavior is desired.

– Verifying successful configuration

Using the relevant application, update an attribute of that object and verify an outbound integration messages is sent via the Publish Channel.

� Benefits

Provides event-based integration messages to external applications where in previous releases this behavior did not exist. Customers would often write custom code or do other configuration in order to work around this limitation.


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App AuthorizationApp Authorization

� Feature:A new 7.5 feature for the Integration Framework is the ability to support the existing application authorization that is configured for User Groups. In prior releases, integration support for authorization was limited to object restrictions. This change will allow support for application configured authorization.

� Planning– This new feature allows integration implementations to leverage the application-based configuration for authorization

for ‘inbound messages’ and Data Export. An object structure can be connected to an application which would, in turn, point to an authorization configuration for a user group. The user on the inbound integration message would be used in combination with the application on the object structure to obtain the appropriate authorization configuration.

� Steps

– How to configure

Using the main tab on the Object Structure application, select the applicable application name to associate to the object structure.


Send an inbound message to Maximo where the action/operation of the message is in conflict with the users authorization and confirm that a security-related error is generated.

� Benefits– Provides improved/expanded support for authorization as it relates to an integration message.


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BIDI SupportBIDI Support

� Feature

A new 7.5 feature for the Integration Framework is the ability to support the conversion between the Maximo BIDI format to an external BIDI format for both inbound and outbound messages

� Planning

– For a Maximo implementation in a BIDI language that requires integration to another application in a different BIDI format, this new feature provide the capability to transform messages from one BIDI format to another for both inbound and outbound messages.

� Steps

– How to configure

There is configuration at the object structure, standard service and external systems levels to enable BIDI. See the Deep Dive section for more details.


Send/Receive messages using a different BIDI format than the one being used within Maximo and verify proper conversion of data.

� Benefits

For those customers operating with BIDI, this features allows them to integrate with another application in a different BIDI format.


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App Import/ExportApp Import/Export

� Feature– A new 7.5 feature for the Integration Framework is the ability to enable importing and exporting of

data directly from an application such as Assets or Work Orders.

� Planning– This new feature allows integration implementations to leverage the application-based configuration

for authorization for ‘inbound messages’ and Data Export. An object structure can be connected to an application which would, in turn, point to an authorization configuration for a user group. The user on the inbound integration message would be used in combination with the application on the object structure to obtain the appropriate authorization configuration.

� Steps

– How to configure Using the main tab on the Object Structure application, select the applicable application name to

associate to the object structure.

– Verifying successful configurationSend an inbound message to Maximo where the action/operation of the message is in conflict with the

users authorization and confirm that a security-related error is generated.

� Benefits– Provides improved/expanded support for authorization as it relates to an integration message.


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Export/Import toolbar

buttons•Added through Object structures

•Controlled through Security

•Imported data is validated through business logic

•Able to run in Preview mode

Application Export/ImportApplication Export/Import

Export

.csv

Import


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JAXJAX--WS compliant web servicesWS compliant web services

� Description

– An important interoperability feature in IBM Tivoli Automation Engine (TPAE) is the deployment of Integration Framework (I-F) services as web services enabling the interaction with external applications via web service calls.

– Starting in TPAE 7.1, the I-F supports web services interoperability by means of an AXIS2 based implementation:

Inbound - TPAE's web services are deployed to an AXIS2 container for external applications consumption.

Outbound - I-F provides a SOAP handler based on AXIS2 ServiceClient APIs designed to call external web services.

� Features:

– Incorporate the deployment of web services to TPAE's Application Server Web Service Container by means of JAX-WS standard.

– Enable use of WS-* standards (WS-Policy, WS-Security, etc).

Leverage application servers to support WS-*

– ITCAM support for TPAE Web Services

– Allows clients to move off Axis Web Service container

– Leverage application servers' support of WS standards (WS-Policy, WS-Security, etc).


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Migration of Web Services (WS) ConfigurationMigration of Web Services (WS) Configuration

� Features:– It is the objective of this enhancement to

Enable the migration of web service configuration between TPAE instances.

Supported via Integration Framework or Migration Manager

� Planning Web Service Deployment– This new feature would be applicable for customers working with Integration Framework services (Enterprise, Object

Structure, Standard)

– Customers need to identify which web service container is more appropriate for their integration scenarios

For web services created in previous TPAE versions, customers need to decide if a web service container migration is needed

� Steps– How to configure

Using the Systems Properties application, set

mxe.int.containerdeploy property value that corresponds to the web service container ofchoice. In TPAE 7.5 installations this property value is being set to 1 by default.

Verifying successful configuration

Using the Web Services Library application, select and deploy a web service. Initiate a web service call from external system.


Migration ManagerMigration Manager


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Migration Manager strategy for 7.5Migration Manager strategy for 7.5

� A set of features is being added to Migration Manager to:

– Enable clients better align Migration Manager with development environments

– Enable clients and practitioners more easily create and distribute content (time-to-value)

� Imperatives driving new features:

– Reduce lead times to plan, execute and complete migration

– Reduce overheads on tracking development configurations

� Clients driving new features:

– Key clients in service and asset management

� Product teams driving new features:

– SRM, CCMDB, Maximo, IBM Global Services, business partners


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Development support featuresDevelopment support features

� These features are intended to better support development environments

– Simpler, intuitive collection of configurations

– Facilitate check in/check out against source control system

Facilitate a source control model – enable check in/check out of a set of configuration data

Enable export/import of configuration from the “Pick and Choose” application

Reduce cost to development teams to rebuild packages; correct and re-process existing packages

Improve error processing and recovery

Packages can be assembled one configuration at a time without need for complex SQL or behind the scenes change tracking

“Pick and choose” configurations to be migrated

BenefitFeature


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Content creation and distribution featuresContent creation and distribution features

� These features are targeted towards more a flexible and quicker

content migration model

Avoid having to manually select and migrate ‘same as’ objects

Automatically migrate ‘same as’ objects

Differences can be identified pre- or post-migration accelerating the migration effort

Enable comparison of sources and targets

Make it easier to distribute content across disparate product installations

Relax product compatibility checks

Make it easier to distribute object definitions to multiple customers/targets with different RDBMS

Enable migration of objects across RDBMS

Make it easier to distribute content where site/org/date-time values need to be changed to suit target environment

Enable replacement of chosen values in a package

Reduce time and effort needed to define packagesEnable auto-approved package definitions

BenefitFeature


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Migration Collection

Tpae 7.5 Tpae 7.5 -- Migration Collections and ComparisonMigration Collections and Comparison

Target product instanceSource product instance

Define /Generate

Create Distribute Deploy

Preview

Create

Collect

Validate

Go to app/Return with value

Add to collection directly in app

Collect based on events

Migration Comparison

Compare

Add comparison results to migration collection


ScriptingScripting


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What is a script?What is a script?

� Short pieces of code

� Simplified programming model

� Usually used to glue or extend applications

� Usually interpreted (vs compiled Java or C/C++)

� Example – add all asset spare part quantities together and set total into ASSET.SPAREQTY:

spPartSet = mbo.getMboSet('sparepart')

partCount = spPartSet.count()

totalQty = 0.0

for i in range(partCount):

partMbo = spPartSet.getMbo(i)

totalQty += partMbo.getDouble('quantity')

mbo.setValue('spareqty',totalQty)


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Why scripting?Why scripting?

� Java skills considered onerous

� Java customizations increase IT costs

– Java/JEE developers

– API knowledge/compatibility

– Performance/functionality issues

– Build process for WAR, EAR, JAR files

– Server shutdown / re-starts

� Scripting promotes simplified programming model

� Scripting is completely dynamic (no server re-starts)


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Scripting Strategy for 7.5Scripting Strategy for 7.5� Tpae 7.5 exploits scripting API that is part of JDK 6

– JSR 223 – standardized scripting API for Java

� Supports two script engines out of the box

– Rhino JavaScript (embedded with JDK 6, compliant with JSR 223)

– Jython 2.5.2 (newer version compliant with JSR 223)

� Other JSR-223 compliant script engines can be seamlessly plugged in

– Provides programming flexibility to clients and practitioners

– Example: Jacl, JRuby, Groovy, Jawk

– Place JARs in application server classpath and re-start server

� Tpae scripting can be enabled for many different configurations

– No longer limited to just actions

– Script creation and management remains the same

� Tpae scripting supports simple coding approach

– Launch points offer closer alignment with Tpae applications and configurations

– Script variables and bindings to pass in data and return results

– Detailed knowledge and experience of Maximo APIs not a pre-requisite


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Runtime

Script Driver

Script EngineScript Engine

Design Time

Scripting architecture in 7.5Scripting architecture in 7.5

Tpae Database

Script

Script Driver

Script Engine

Script

Launch Point Action Launch Point

Object Launch Point

Attribute Launch Point

Other Launch Points

Others..Field

ValidationsObject EventsAction

UI constructs

Workflow

Escalation


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Scripting constructs in 7.5Scripting constructs in 7.5

Script

Variables

Objects

Attributes

Actions

Tpae native configuration or application

Configuration or application context for script

Input and output variables to script

Script executed passing inputs and returning outputs

Bindings

Launch PointBinding

application/configuration data to variables


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BackupBackup


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IBM Maximo Briefing


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