Dear Users,

It’s nearly that time again! Tuesday 9th May is the date for our next meeting at Southbank, and we’ve put together another varied and interesting agenda with something for everyone. There’s more details below, but the first thing is to get registered! Use the link below…

https://www.imwuc.org/p/su/rd/survey=2b772248-1e0f-11e7-b433-bc764e110cc2 

A new departure!

Our next meeting is going to take a slightly different shape. We’ve been invited to join forces with the Tririga User Group, who are growing in number and share the same eco-system as Maximo in terms of our places in the IBM world and our Partners. For this meeting, we will be sharing the keynote address, before heading off to our own presentations for the rest of the day…but of course, that means that you can pick and choose between presentations depending on what interests you.

We’ve also decided to make the day a little less frantic. Our usual six presentations can be a tight fit, and it doesn’t always leave the room we would like for networking. So this time, we will be giving you slightly longer to arrive, a bit more time over lunch, and three user presentations on Maximo deployments.

Agenda

Our joint keynote speaker will be Stan Tims. Stan is Program Director of Offering Management in IBM’s Internet of Things division. He also has a passion for analytics, (you can follow his posts on Twitter, @StanTims). Prior to IBM’s acquisition of TRIRIGA, Stan served as Executive Vice President of Operations, where he managed product management, marketing, corporate development and IT. For two years, Stan was the offering management lead for analytics on Maximo, covering descriptive, prescriptive and predictive analytics. He has also worked for Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Siebel Systems.

We will then hear Debbie Bell from Infinis describe the human challenges and business change needed to deploy their first mobile solution (MobileFirst and Fingertip) with their recently upgraded Maximo

Sarah Gleeson from Ervia will share with us the challenges of upgrading to Maximo 7.6, but on the Linux platform. Sarah will explain why Linux was adopted and what this meant for Maximo.

We then have Steve Poore from Vinci, who will be presenting on how his company have implemented Splunk to monitor performance of their Maximo facilities management system.

Another new feature will be our breakout Q &A session. Here you’ll have the choice of two sessions.

• The first will focus on two of the key core Maximo applications; Assets and Locations. You will have the chance to uncover some of the deeper functionality, and to pose any queries you have to our two product experts, Steve Lee from IBM and Andrew Jeffery from Capgemini.
• The second will focus on Websphere, and will probably appeal more to technical support users. This will give you a more in-depth understanding of performance tuning, load balancing and all the other clever tasks that Websphere manages.

Both sessions will be interactive…be sure to come armed with plenty of questions. These breakouts are designed to help you, the user, deal with any issues, queries or ideas you have around Maximo.

Make sure to say hello to the team, and feel free to bring any suggestions or ideas for the User Group to us! See you next month… Sign-up as soon as possible, and we look forward to seeing you all on 9 th May.

Registration is now open, so make sure to join us!