Jason is a Maximo expert with 20 years experience. He has joined the Official Tivoli User Group and has a couple of posts that might be of interest to you. His most recent one, Maximo KPI”s and Metrics, that will get you started in understanding what all this really means and how it can help [...]
Understanding and creating KPI’s for your Start Center
September 29, 2011 by 1 Comment
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Maximo Start CentersThe ultimate goal of using start centers is to utilize the power of KPI’s and result sets for quick access to some important information. This information can be useful to your users for quick access to things but it can also affect performance [...]
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Creating Bar/Pie chart portlet for your Start Center
September 13, 2011 by 1 Comment
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Maximo Start CentersYou can create KPI’s for your Start Center, but first we will create pie/bar charts as they are much simpler to create. You can create pie charts and bar charts from your results set queries that you should have already created. These charts [...]
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Maximo 7.5 and Cognos Integration Installation
June 21, 2011 by Leave a Comment
IBM has provided us with a document to guide us through the Cognos installation with Maximo 7.5. You will need an IBM ID to view it though. [IBM Support] Within the Maximo® Base Services 7.5 Releases, an IBM Cognos ® Reporting Integration is enabled. This integration extends the current suite of reporting tools that Maximo [...]
Create ‘My Work Order Assignments’ portlet for your start center
January 20, 2011 by 1 Comment
Maximo start center portlets are great for a quick overview of information that is important to you. Start centers are the first thing you see when you log into Maximo. You can use portlets to show a variety of information and if I’m a labor technician, the most important thing to me is to quickly [...]
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Setting a default start center in Maximo
September 7, 2010 by 1 Comment
A quick and easy way to default a user’s start center.
Change BIRT report logo to your company image
September 3, 2010 by 2 Comments
To me the BIRT report logos are unnecessary and take up too much valuable space on a report where the data is the most important thing on there. But if you don’t want to have the “tivoli” and “IBM” logos displayed, you can always remove them from the report designer when developing the report, but [...]
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EZDash with Google Map integration
May 24, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We have added a new integration with Google Maps to our EZDash solution. This Babson EZDash integration simply shows the number of work request by building around campus. Check it out…
Report List Portlet not enabled in Security Group Application
May 2, 2010 by 2 Comments
I just started to play around with this again and noticed that even in Maximo 7.1.1.6 this feature is not enabled by default. So, you have to enable it yourself. You have to download a package file and rebuild and deploy EAR for this to show. Read the full article here…
