One of the most frustrating tasks I've had over the years as a Maximo administrator is cleaning up records for an employee that has separated from the company. It's frustrating because the call/ticket I will likely receive from a Maximo user is asking about how to work around an …

There's a funny thing that happens when you start using good tools, you only want to use your good tools. One of my favorite tools for a while now has been the Markdown¹ text file format. The upside to using Markdown is that it's also the format I use …

One of the analogies I've used over the years is that out of the box Maximo is a giant lump of clay - it's fun to play with in its raw form, but needs to be skillfully molded to be useful. One of these molding steps is to put your organization's …

I've been quiet the last couple of weeks as I prepared to upgrade our Maximo environment to 7.5. Last week I finally made the move with a marathon session on Wednesday with the upgrade and then did triage Thursday. With a new version comes new features. The one I'm …