ESRI, the market leader in geographic information system (GIS) technology, announced that ArcGIS Server 9.2 has been integrated with IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management, a new solution that brings geospatial query and visualization capability to the capture, analysis, and reporting of assets, locations, and work orders. Viewing the components of business in a geospatial context greatly aids in the dispatch of appropriate resources for service appointments and corrective/emergency maintenance work. The Maximo solution was built using ESRI’s ArcGIS Server 9.2 technology.
IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management gives asset and service managers the capability to view assets geospatially so they can easily and dynamically visualize the spatial relationships among managed assets and the roads, buildings, pipelines, and other mapped features around them. Similarly, Maximo users have access to all asset-related data, which translates to more informed decision making. No duplication of data is required to support this unified view of asset and geospatial data.
Many organizations with widely dispersed assets, such as municipal water utilities, electric and gas distribution utilities, and departments of transportation, find it useful to track the locations of assets over time. ESRI’s GIS technology provides a robust framework for managing these types of data to better support asset management activities such as compliance with federal mandates on gas pipelines or the ability to quickly locate open work orders pertaining to nearby assets when a crew finishes a job early.
"We are pleased to have had the close collaboration between ESRI and IBM resulting in the delivery of the first-of-a-kind full GIS functionality within an enterprise asset management application," said Jack Young, vice president, Maximo Development, Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group. "Maximo Spatial Asset Management users can now leverage business processes and the power of GIS functionality within a single environment. We look forward to working with the joint ESRI/Maximo user community to implement this solution."
"With Maximo Spatial, the IBM Maximo team takes a big step forward in the use of geographic tools for business processes," said Dave Wieseler, director, ESRI strategic alliances. "Its product design takes advantage of the power of ArcGIS Server as a development platform. IBM Maximo and ESRI have a similar product architecture that enables the seamless integration of our respective technologies. The ArcObjects and Java capabilities of ArcGIS Server Advanced Enterprise are melded with Maximo’s core development objects to provide organizations with a spatially enabled work and asset management workflow to enhance decision support, an integrated database that respects IT constructs, and an enterprise-level architecture with a very scalable growth path. IBM’s development of Maximo Spatial is a significant achievement in simplifying the workflow of spatial asset management."
IBM Maximo Spatial Asset Management takes advantage of the component architecture in ArcGIS Server software. Java-based IBM Maximo Business Objects, as well as ESRI ArcObjects, are uti lized in combination with map and navigation controls to provide spatial capabilities within the Maximo user interface. IBM Maximo Spatial is browser based and uses commercial application servers to provide scalability, performance, and failover capability.