Deployment Overview¶

Use App Connect to connect your different applications and make your business more efficient. Set up flows that define how data is moved fromone application to one or more other applications. App Connect supports a range of skill levels and interfaces, giving you the flexibility to create integrations without writing a single line of code. You can use a web user interface or drop resources into a toolkit that gives a broader range of configuration options. Your entire organization can make smarter business decisions by providing rapid access, visibility, and control over data as it flows through your business applications and systems from a single place - App Connect.

Maximo Assist helps to reduce the time that is required to diagnose and repair equipment problems, improves first-time fix rates, improves diagnosis accuracy, and drives higher levels of technician productivity.  

CAD (computer-aided design) files are digital files that house 3D & 2D designs as well as information regarding materials, processes, tolerances, and other data.

CouchDB is embedded and automatically deployed with Maximo Assist. You do not have to manually install it.

Asset data

IBM Db2 Warehouse is an analytics data warehouse that features in-memory data processing and in-database analytics. The Cloud Pak for Data control plane is not required to install Db2; alternatively, the Db2U operator can be installed standalone. For Maximo Application Suite users that require Maximo Predict or Maximo Assist applications Cloud Pak for Data is required to install the Watson Studio or Watson Discovery dependencies.

Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data is an award-winning AI-powered intelligent search and text-analytics platform that helps you find valuable information that is buried in your enterprise data. Discovery uses innovative, market-leading natural language processing to uncover meaningful insights from complex business documents.

Enterprise Assets are a company's physical capital investments used for production.

With Maximo Health, you can review your assets’ performance and condition indicators, such as the last failure date and the maintenance-to-replacement ratio (MRR),and take action by creating work orders and service requests. You can use work queues to improve the quality of your asset’s details and related data. You can also configure scoring for assets’ health,criticality, and risk.

Most applications require access to data or computations that are provided by another system, or applications need to respond to requests from other systems for data or computations. The approaches, technologies, and facilities that support accessing data are collectively known as integration and connection services.

Apache Kafka provides a buffer for messages sent to and received from externalinterfaces. Apache Kafka is not required if the IBM® Maximo® Manage software is notinterfacing with external systems.

The location of files is where digital files [for example, documents, drawings, images, videos, maintenance records, etc.] related to the assets are stored.

Maximo Manage provides a comprehensive view of all asset types, their conditions and locations, and the work processes that support them, to provide you with optimal planning, control, audit, and compliance capability.

Watson Machine Learning provides a full range of tools and services so that you can build, train, and deploy Machine Learning models. Choose the tool with the level of automation or autonomy that matches your needs, from a fully automated process to writing your own code.

IBM Maximo mobile solutions deliver remote and AI-based expert assistance, real-time asset history and operational data from wearables, safety sensors and diagnostic interfaces to the digital twin.

Maximo® Application Suite uses MongoDB for its data dictionary and local user management. Your MongoDB instance can run in the Red Hat® OpenShift® cluster or external toit.

By using Maximo® Monitor, business users can visualize current and historical trend data for their devices and assets in customizable dashboards. Users can drill down through layers from a system-wide view to individual assets and devices. Analytic functions are applied to input data, and the output is displayed on value cards, tables,images, line graphs, and alert tables.
Anomaly detectors run on the input data to detect outliers, gaps, and flat lines in the data and fire alerts. The anomalous data points are highlighted on line graphs.

External data sources can be synchronized with a Data Lake for access by the Analytics Services to create models for asset monitoring, health analysis, optimization and prediction of operational issues.

Maximo Predict uses historical and near real-time asset performance data, maintenance records, inspection reports, and environmental data to correlate performance factors that predict asset degradation or failure. Maximo Predict uses artificial intelligence to optimize predictive model accuracy.

Watson Studio provides the environment and tools for you to collaboratively work on data to solve your business problems. You can choose the tools you need to analyze and visualize data, to cleanse and shape data, to ingest streaming data, or to create and train machine learning models.

IBM® Maximo Visual Inspection is a machine-learning application for video and image analysis. IBM Maximo Visual Inspection offers built-in deep learning models that learn to analyze images and video streams for classification and object detection.