IBM Maximo Asset Management Essentials V7.1, Руководство по внедрению

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Chapter 1. Introduction
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Contract Management
Have enhanced control over your vendor contracts with this integrated contract
management system. Provide comprehensive contract management support for
purchase, lease, rental, warranty, labor rate, software, master, blanket and user
defined contracts.
1.2.3 Integrating with Existing Enterprise Applications
From a functional standpoint, most businesses already have huge IT
investments. There is often the question - “Does installing Maximo mean I get rid
of existing applications?” The answer is - No. Maximo offers a very robust
integration platform to integrate with any existing applications and maintain a
‘single version of truth’.
Some of the integration with leading enterprise systems are already available in
the form of adapters where as some have to be custom built, as the need may
be. Maximo is a Java based solution with an open architecture and therefore
custom building integrations is not a daunting task.
Maximo Asset Management Essentials provides support for a set of standard
integrations, but does not ship with the capability to customize those adapters or
build new ones. The Integration Framework, previously known as the Maximo
Enterprise Adapter (MEA) be procured as an add-on from IBM to facilitate these
integrations.