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Chapter 3.
Project Planning
This chapter describes various parameters that should be considered in planning
an implementation right from technical options in terms of database, application
server and operating system to required skills. A Maximo Asset Management
Essentials implementation is assumed to be simpler and less time consuming
than an enterprise wide implementation. The underlying assumption in this
chapter is a basic implementation with out of box components for middleware,
database and so on. After reading this chapter, the implementation team should
be able to create a high level project plan with ballpark effort and time estimates
for a typical implementation.
We have not created an implementation plan which fits for each implementation
since all of them are different. Each customer is unique and the requirement set
of each customer differs. However, for the purpose of this chapter and to
maintain simplicity as Essentials is not supposed to be as complex as a Maximo
enterprise implementation, the following parameters have been taken into
consideration:
Infrastructure Selected
– Operating System - Windows®
– Database - DB2®
– Application Server - WebSphere
No integration with other third party systems
Existing data sets for data migration
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