Maximo is one of the most capable EAM platforms in the world, when it’s configured, adopted, and integrated well. We’ve spent decades inside Maximo deployments at utilities, federal facilities, manufacturers, and public agencies, doing the unglamorous work that separates a Maximo license from a working maintenance program.
Most of our work is platform-agnostic, we help clients design programs and processes that work regardless of which EAM/CMMS they run. But Maximo shows up in a lot of the situations we’re called for, and over the years we’ve built deep, hands-on experience with the platform: its quirks, its strengths, the places it bites teams that don’t know what to watch for, and the ways it pays back when you do.
If Maximo is your system of record, you don’t want a consultant figuring it out on your dollar. You want someone who’s already lived through the migration scars, the configuration tradeoffs, and the integration patterns that work. That’s the practice.
Maximo Application Suite is the path forward, but the move from Maximo 7.6 is rarely a lift-and-shift. We help organizations plan the migration around what they actually use, what they should drop, and what new capability they should pick up along the way.
When a Maximo rollout has stalled, lost executive sponsorship, or quietly become “the system nobody likes,” we come in and rebuild adoption from the workflow up, not from the slide deck down.
The configuration choices made in the first six months of a Maximo deployment shape what your team fights with for the next ten years. We help you make those choices intentionally, with the field in mind.
A clean, field-meaningful asset hierarchy is the single highest-leverage decision in any Maximo deployment. We design hierarchies that planners can navigate, reliability engineers can analyze, and crews actually recognize as the equipment in front of them.
Out-of-the-box Maximo reporting rarely tells leaders what they need. We design the dashboards, KPIs, and reports that turn Maximo from a system of record into a source of decisions.
Maximo is only as useful as the systems it talks to. SCADA, GIS, ERP, mobile, IoT, document management, we design integration patterns that hold up to real operations volume.
The license is paid for, the rollout happened, and somehow most planners are still working out of spreadsheets. We diagnose where the workflow broke down with the field and rebuild adoption with the people doing the work.
The migration timeline is fixed, the scope is fuzzy, and your team needs an honest plan that protects what works in 7.6 while picking up what MAS actually buys you. We’ve done this enough times to know where it gets hard.
Inconsistent asset records, hierarchies that don’t reflect the field, master data that nobody trusts. We design the cleanup, the stewardship model, and the governance to keep it from drifting again.
The original integration vendor is gone, the documentation is incomplete, and the SCADA-to-Maximo feed has been silently failing for six months. We reverse-engineer, document, and rebuild integration architecture you can support.
The data is in Maximo, somewhere, but nobody can extract anything a director wants to look at on a Monday. We design the KPI structure, the reports, and the data pipelines that turn Maximo into decision support.
A focused, time-boxed diagnostic that gives leadership a candid read on whether the platform is delivering, what’s holding it back, and the ranked moves that would actually pay back inside one fiscal year.
Most Maximo engagements start with a focused diagnostic. We sit with planners, schedulers, and reliability engineers, watch the work flow alongside field technicians and crews, look at how the platform is configured, and pull together a candid picture of what’s delivering and what isn’t. From there, the shape of the work, recovery, migration, or build, gets sized to what your team can actually absorb.
Every Maximo engagement leaves behind specific, concrete things your team can point at, defend, and run with after we’re gone. Below is what that usually looks like.
Planners stop maintaining a parallel spreadsheet. Supervisors stop printing work orders to mark up by hand. The system becomes the path of least resistance, not the tax you pay before doing the real work.
Documented workflows, automation scripts, and screen configurations that your administrators can change without calling the original implementer. The opposite of a black box.
A reporting layer that surfaces backlog, compliance, planning effectiveness, and reliability trends in formats a director, a board, or a budget committee can read in five minutes.
Governance, change management, training, and a clear roadmap for the next 24 months. The system becomes a managed program with owners and outcomes, not a project that ended when implementation closed.
Whites Elm is not an IBM reseller, a software partner with revenue-share incentives, or an implementation arm of any vendor. If Maximo is the right platform for your organization, we’ll help you get the most out of it. If it isn’t, we’ll say so. Our advice is paid for by you, only.
A 30-minute call is usually enough to read the situation, name the highest-leverage move, and decide whether it’s something we should help with, or something your team can do without us.
