You definitely should have this conversation with your Sales Representative. However, here's my
understanding of App Point licensing:
- all logins are for concurrent use; no more Named Users
- For each login, regardless of whether the user is logging into test/dev/prod/etc., the user will consume app points from your "pool" of 2500 points
- the app points will be released back to the "pool" upon logout
- if the user logs into multiple environments (e.g. Test and Production), it's not supposed to consume app points multiple times
- not sure if app points are consumed multiple times if user logs in from multiple devices
- the number of app points consumed is controlled by the user's profile
- a "Limited" user can use up to 3 Modules; this CAN include Mobile, Anywhere, Industry Solutions, ACM, HSE, Service Provider, Linear, Calibration, and Spatial; this CANNOT include Scheduler, integration tools, system config tools, security settings)
- Limited users consume 5 app points
- a "Base" user can access basically anything that was in classic Maximo, Scheduler, Mobile, Anywhere, Linear, Calibration, and Spatial
- Base users consume 10 app points
- a "Premium" user is someone who either accesses more than three Industry Solutions or add-ons (HSE, ACM, Service Provider)
- Premium users consume 15 app points
- Application Adminstrator users consume either 10 app points (if they administer the areas of Maximo that Base users access) or 15 app points (if they administer areas where Premium users access), AND their app points are supposed to be reserved so that they will always be able to log in
- if you run out of app points, there's supposed to be a way to configure the system to either warn you that you've used too many, or to prevent additional logins.
- If you're using certain features (Spatial, Civil Infrastructure, Oracle or SAP connector), these each consume points, for each environment you have, AND their app points are supposed to be reserved so that they will always be able to log in (they get consumed from the "pool" first)
If you wanted to compare this to 7.6 licensing:
- Express tier is eliminated; merged with Limited tier
- Named User licensing is eliminated
- Limited tier can now access some applications they may not have been able to before
- Premium is a new tier
- one part number for everything in the Maximo brand
All that said, there's no way to look at your 2500 Points and tell you if you can support 2500 users. It will depend on what all they need to access; if you are using Spatial, Civil Infrastructure, Oracle Connector, and/or SAP Connector; and how many users you will have logged in at the same time. Even if you didn't use any of the special stuff (that is, you don't use Spatial, Civil Infrastructure, either Connector, or Scheduler; and only had Limited-tier use of Industry Solutions, ACM, HSE, and Service Provider) and only had one Application Administrator, the best you'd do is 498 users at 5 app points each (assuming you can keep all these users to 3 or fewer Modules), plus your one Administrator at 10 points. As you start using anything that's not classic Maximo or you have users needing more than 3 modules , now called "Manage" the number of users you can support concurrently will almost certainly decrease. For example, Spatial costs 20 points per environment. If you have 3 environments, that's 60 points that can't go to support/enable end users.
Hopefully someone did some analysis of your LOGINTRACKING table to figure out a good concurrency ratio. It looks like you're licensed for roughly a 5:1 ratio.
As far as the "Total points for this item: 25.00" line -- I really don't know what that is. I think it's like an IBM customer loyalty program. When you buy something from IBM, you earn points that can be used for. . .I don't know what. I've been with IBM Maximo since they bought MRO Software, and I've never used those points.
***Disclaimer*** Again, that's just my understanding of how App Point licensing works. Talk to your IBM Sales Representative for official answers.
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Travis Herron
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri April 30, 2021 06:05 PM
From: mx pro
Subject: Clarification on IBM Maximo Application Suite Appoint Licensing
We we are trying to cater for 2500 Maximo application suite users. Below is a description of our IBM Maximo licensing.
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Quantity Part Number Description
2,500 D28AYLL IBM Maximo Application Suite per AppPoint License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months --- Total points for this item: 25.00
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Can someone please clarify what this actually means? What does the 2,500 versus the 25.00 means? How do we articulate any limitations on number of concurrent users? Thank you.
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mx pro
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