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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:00:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | IBM remains committed to Maximo, the EAM product acquired from MRO Software; a roadmap for Maximo and Tivoli includes plans to marry the management of IT infrastructure and physical assets. |
| Keywords: | IBM, MRO Software, enterprise asset management, Maximo, EAM, Tivoli, IT asset management, Maximo World, configuration management, J2EE, IT infrastructure, network monitoring, applications management, physical asset management, systems integrators |
When IBM bought enterprise asset management software provider MRO Software, purveyor of the well-known Maximo product, just shy of a year ago, some customers and industry analysts were suspicious of IBM's intentions. Although Maximo at that time was the leading independent EAM product in the market, IBM already owned Tivoli, a service desk and IT asset management software company. Was the acquisition, some wondered, simply a way to eliminate a competitor? One year and 100 Maximo customer calls later -- made personally by Al Zollar, general manager of Tivoli software, IBM Software Group -- and it's clear that the speculation about the computer giant's intentions were way off the mark. About 1,700 attendees at Maximo World 2007, which took place in July, saw IBM officials unveil the Maximo/Tivoli roadmap, including a converged configuration management database (CMDB), to be delivered in November, as well as common user interfaces between asset types. [Click to continue] |
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