Differences and Similarities between Maximo EAM and Maximo Application Suite

Maximo Application Suite (MAS) is hot topic of discussion in Maximo World and many organizations are starting to plan their journey to upgrade to MAS from their existing Maximo 7.6 Instances.

In order to plan this massive transition, users must understand that what are difference between Maximo 7.6 and MAS 8.x which will help them for the planning of this upgrade. This blog list down the differences and similarities of basis of multiple criteria which shall help End Users, Administrators and Implementors to get an overview of what is going to be changed and what is going to remain same when they upgrade to Maximo Application Suite.

# Criteria Maximo 7.6.1.X Maximo Application Suite 8.X
1 Functional Domain Asset Management Asset Management + Asset Performance Management
2 Type of Maintenance

Reactive/Corrective Maintenance,
Breakdown Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance
Conditional Monitoring
Reactive/Corrective Maintenance
Breakdown Maintenance
Preventive Maintenance
Conditional Monitoring
Predictive Maintenance
Prescriptive Maintenance
3 Packaged Applications




Maximo Asset Management
Manage
Monitor
Health
Predict
Assist
Visual Inspection
4 License Named license App Point based licensing
5 Can disable login when Licenses are not sufficient No Yes
6 Installation Artifacts Installation Package using IBM Installer Docker Images
7 Platform VM or Bare Metal Server running on Windows or Linux IBM RedHat OpenShift
8 Operating System Window or Red hat Linux Red hat Linux
9 Sizing Requirements Low High
10 Application Server IBM WebSphere Network Deployment IBM WebSphere Liberty
11 Integration Processing
JMS Queues
Apache Kafka
IBM MQ
12 Installation Options On Premise + Cloud + MaaS On Premise + Cloud + MaaS
13 Inspection Supported
Manual
Manual
Visual
14 Workload Separation Clustering in WebSphere Server Bundles
15 Workload Types All
UI
MIF
Cron
Report
All
UI
Mea
Cron
Report
16 Runtime for Application JVM Pod
17 Authentication for UI Native
LDAP
SAML
Native
LDAP
SAML
18 Authentication for Integration Native
LDAP
API Key


API Key
19 E-Signature credentials Maximo User Id and Password E-Signature Key
20 User Creation in Maximo in MAS
21 User Authentication in Maximo via Security Group in Manage via Security Group
22 LDAP Based Authentication Yes Yes
23 User Sync from LDAP VMMSYNC Cron fetching users from LDAP to Maximo MAXUSERSYNC Cron pulling users from MAS to Maximo
24 UI Classic UI
Work Centre
Classic UI
Work Centre
MAS Application
25 Skin Can change to tivoli09, iot18 Can't change skin
26 Database Supported Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
IBM DB2
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
IBM DB2
IBM DB2 Warehouse
27 TOOLSAPI Not available Yes
28 Logging Appender Console
Rolling
Daily Rolling and Others
Console
Rolling
Daily Rolling
29 Log Level Debug
Info
Fatal
Error
Warning
Debug
Info
Fatal
Error
Warning
30 Deployment Artifacts

EAR
Base Image from Entitled Registry
Customization Archive
31 Protocols Available RMI
http
REST

http
REST
32 Admin Workstation Required Not available
33 Client Side Authentication None Certificate Required to be imported
34 Execute Management Tools - Integrity Checker/MAXINST From Admin Workstation From Admin Command Processor Pod
35 High Availability Yes Yes, Drastically Improved
36 Scalability Limited High
37 Attachment Type Non-Secure Secure Secure
38 Attachment Storage

NFS
Limited Cloud Storage Support
NFS
Cloud Storage
Block Storage
Azure File Share
39 Installation Configuration From Installer From Suite Administration in MAS Portal
40 System Properties Maximo.Properties
System Properties

System Properties
41 Certificate Store WebSphere
IBM Http Server
Cert Manager
MAS Application Workspace
42 Scheduler Add On to be Installed Included with MAS Manage
43 Monitoring
Maximo Management Interface
Graphna
Monitoring Metrics
44 Reporting BIRT
Cognos
BIRT
Cognos (Except Initial 8.0 Version of MAS)
45 Multi Language Available Available
46 Multi Language Installation Installer Suite Administration
47 AI/ML Capabilities No Yes
48 AI/ML Engine None IBM Watson Studio
49 CI/CD Support Limited Enhanced
50 Mobile Solution Maximo Anywhere
3rd Party
Maximo Mobile
3rd Party

In case you are looking to upgrade your existing Maximo Instance to MAS and need help with Planning/Upgrade or have some other queries related to the same, please feel free to reach out to us and we’ll be happy to help.

Author: 

Prashant Sharma

Delivery Head - IBM Maximo & EAM360 Mobile App

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