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BPD Zenith has 3 IBM Champions for 2021!
2021 marks my forth year of receiving an IBM Champion award - something which I am very proud about and especially given the challenges 2020 brought. 3 IBM Champions for 2021 at BPD Zenith I am delighted to say that I am also joined by my talented and dedicated...
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Improving Data Quality & Compliance in Enterprise Asset Management
Part of the regulation and licensing that Pharmaceutical Manufacturing and other regulated industries have to adhere to refers to Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and the requirement to have a current, supported system in place. The lack of which would result in non-compliancy. They selected BPD to implement the upgrade to 7.6.1 as well as Mobility (Maximo Anywhere), Calibration and Cognos Reporting due to our experience and knowledge in highly regulated industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Oil & Gas and Nuclear.
2020 Wrap Up by APAC CEO Graeme Sharp
As the year 2020 draws to a close, it’s important to reflect on what has transpired in this tumultuous year and take forward any lessons learnt into the future. Who would have thought in December 2019 that a global pandemic would sweep the world, disrupting economies...
A 2020 message from ANZ Managing Director Mark Michael
This has certainly been a year like no other. For many of us COVID19 has been a time of significant loss, some will endure the mourning of loved ones, some will have experienced separation from those we care about and there have been endless opportunities lost to...
Reimagining Maximo and licensing with the new IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) 8.0
Having recently attended the virtual UK&I Maximo User Group, I’d like to share some information from the roadmap session around the Maximo Application Suite and a new way of licensing called App Points. Maximo Today Currently, Maximo is at version 7.6.1.2 with...
Single Sign On (SSO) in Maximo
As our work environments become more and more digitized, end users express a greater need to access software systems quickly and efficiently. Single Sign On (SSO) has been introduced to reduce the complexity for end users by enabling them to log in to multiple...
BPD Zenith and Premier Oil win 2020 MaximoWorld Award
Reliabilityweb.com Announces Winners of 2020 MaximoWorld Awards We are delighted to announce that Premier Oil and BPD Zenith have won the 2020 MaximoWorld Award for Best Maximo Upgrade Project! Best Upgrade Project: Premier Oil and BPD Zenith Prior to the initial...
Implementing Drill-through in a BIRT report
More often than not, we may be working with a report which lacks all the necessary details about a particular Work Order or asset. In this instance, we need to access Maximo and retrieve the relevant record to obtain the information we are after. Wouldn’t it be so...
Meet the Team – Saravanaperumal Sankaranarayanan
1. What is your position at BPD Zenith? I am the Principal Consultant at BPD Zenith ANZ and my day to day responsibilities include helping the Sales team with proposals, implementing, and upgrading Maximo for the BPD clients and providing guidance on how we can...
BPD Zenith are proud ReliabilityWeb.com Marketplace Partners
This month, BPD Zenith became proud members of the ReliabilityWeb.com Marketplace Program. ReliabilityWeb.com are the first port of call for all thing’s reliability! And they’re heavyweights on social media. You’ve probably came across Terrance and Maura before, or...
An Introduction to the Service Requests Work Center
Service Requests Work Center The Service Request tool is used to create service requests, monitor the status of existing active requests as well as view completed requests. You have the ability to create SRs on your desktop computer, laptop computer, or mobile device....
Crew Management using Graphical Scheduling applications
Maximo Scheduler applications have been around for a while, but some great design enhancements and functionalities released by IBM in the recent versions; and the fact that it provides maintenance planning and scheduling capabilities within Maximo eliminates the need...
