IBM SG24-7645-00 Manuale Utente

 Chapter 1. Introduction 

Draft Document for Review May 23, 2008 10:14 am

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.

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.