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We love sharing our tips and tricks for Maximo, Cloud, and IoT.
6 Benefits of MaxiCloud LaaS (Bridge to Cloud)
Cloud is a hot topic at the moment and most organisations are either preparing to move to the Cloud or have already made the jump. If you’re in the first category and are gearing up, then BPD Zenith’s MaxiCloud License as a Service (LaaS) could be the ideal first...
Meet the Team – Rashenka Amarasekara
1. What is your position at BPD Zenith? "I’m a Maximo Consultant at BPD Zenith, Canada." 2. What led you to choose this career path? What alternative career path would you have chosen and why? "This role gives me the opportunity to interact with people on a daily...
Maximo 8.0 – Enabling efficient, reliable and sustainable equipment operations during a time of disruption
During this time of disruption, we are all having to reinvent the ways we live, work and communicate. IBM’s IoT Exchange event was no different and was replaced last week with an innovative digital academy. This is an ongoing virtual environment that will be refreshed...
Meet the Team – Yuhang Xiong
1. What is your position at BPD Zenith? "I'm a Trainee Maximo Consultant for BPD Zenith North America." ~Yuhang working from home~ 2. What led you to choose this career path? What alternative career path would you have chosen and why? "Being a Maximo Consultant best...
IoT in Power Generation – Monitoring Transformers
This is the third blog in my series on how we can use IoT and Maximo to help solve business problems. The main focus will be the Power Generation industry given the criticality and high cost of its Assets and continued importance during the current COVID-19 pandemic....
Regulatory Compliance – Maximo for Oil and Gas Use Cases
As most of us know, there is a lot more to IBM Maximo than most businesses use, and if you add in one of the Industry Solutions then that functionality is exponentially greater! In the Maximo for Oil and Gas modules, there is a wealth of functionality that enables...
MaxiCloud in Self Isolation
It’s fair to say that even though it’s only May, 2020 has been a challenging year! For our Australian cohort, a set of bushfires which devasted much of the East Coast and then COVID-19 which has impacted us all globally. We are all in this together Positivity is my...
Meet the Team – Simon Gate
1. What is your position at BPD Zenith? "I’m a developer at BPD working out of the Carlisle office (and currently my kitchen). This means I get to work on delivering client work packages from transformational Maximo upgrades, to smaller incremental changes. In...
Meet the Team – Nicky Rhodes
1. What is your position at BPD Zenith? "VP of Service Delivery – Canada. This involves a number of different hats, technical lead and management of our delivery team, technical sales support and a senior consultant delivering Maximo solutions for our clients." 2....
IBM Maximo Tokens – A New Flexible Licensing Model
Traditional Licensing Model With a traditional IBM licensing model, known as Passport Advantage, customers can manage and purchase licenses for each individual Maximo user and product, or for concurrent users. This is based on the expected peak usage and may include a...
Sensors, sensors everywhere! But are you making use of yours?
With the first electric thermostats coming into the market in 1883 (invented by Warren Johnson); infrared sensors being around since the 1940s; and motion sensors being used in alarm systems since the 1950s; I think it’s fair to say that the concept of sensors isn’t...
Meet the Team – Deepa Thomas
1. What is your position at BPD Zenith? I’m a Graduate Maximo consultant. I manage support tickets, develop solutions for clients, help with any bug fixes, and assist with any Maximo hiccups that our client’s face. 2. What led you to choose this career path? Though my...