EZMaxMobile Features

• Work Order Management
• View Job Tasks and Safety Plans
• Inventory Tracking
• Issues and Transfers
• Physical Counts
• Asset auditing (including classifications)
• Purchase Requisitions and Purchase Orders
• Meter Readings, Inspections and Routes
• Easily Generate Follow-up Work Orders
• Capture Electronic Signatures
• View Start Centers
• Assignment Manager
• Built-in Bar Code Scanning
• Automatic picture upload associated with a work order, asset or location
• GPS enabled for work orders, locations, assets
• View linked documents (attachments)
• Works with Smart Devices, PCs, Laptops, Tablets and Ruggedized devices
• Seamless transition from on-line to offline mode
• Offline mode easily handles thousands of recs
• Very simple synchronization process
• Adheres to all Maximo security, business rules and work flows

Maximo mobile with Real Time, Anytime Maximo Access via Smartphone Browser

• WiFi, 3G, 4G or VPN connectivity
• Remote Operation
• iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, etc. compatible
• Maximo versions 6x and 7x are supported

Capabilities

• Record GPS coordinates
• Photo upload from iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, and Blackberry devices
• Scan barcodes from iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices
• Full disconnected mode, work remotely offline
• And much more…

Process Improvements

• Access to unlimited (all) work orders
• Ability to remotely approve/assign work orders
• Real time updates and creation of work orders
• Real time work order status changes
• Real time material issues
• Real time inventory counts (physical counts)
• Real time receiving transactions

Significant Cost Savings:

• Lower mobile device costs but greater flexibility
• Eliminate mobile device setups and configurations
• Eradicate synchronization issues and troubleshooting costs
• Reduce Maximo work order administration costs
• Substantially reduce or even eliminate work order printouts

Easy setup and Configuration

• No client application installation required on the mobile device
• No mobile hardware server required

Come visit our booth at E115!

Session Details:

1120 Release the Beast: How USAA Went on the Mobile Offensive in a Defensive Environment

Date: Tue, Mar 6, 2012
Location: 118 – MGM Grand
Start Time: 5:00 PM
End Time: 6:00 PM
Agenda status:
Speakers: Sam Lampe, USAA; Brian Hickey, USAA
Session Code: EIS
Stream: Smarter Physical Infrastructures
Track: EAM Industry Case Studies
Activity Type: Breakout Session
Session Type: Client Case Study
Industry Focus: Financial Markets
Role: Line of Business – Chief Financial Officer
With a rich history of innovation, USAA is an insurance industry leader in leveraging technology. These advancements were applied to their Real Estate and Facilities Management space by utilizing IBM Maximo coupled with multiple mobile solutions, including Syclo and InterPro’s EZMaxMobile. USAA can now manage work orders in real-time, handle purchase orders, and manage inventory and assets via mobile devices. USAA even brought the iPad into their facilities work space — extending their employees reach even further. Previously, employees were tied to their desks dealing with time-intensive syncing of devices and downtime. Today, USAA’s innovative spirit and IBM Maximos Asset Management technology has facilitated a groundbreaking, forward-thinking mobile environment others aspire to. This solution provides high system availability, lower failure rates, improved stability and a mobile platform that can be built out and extended upon for future efforts and continued innovation.

The IBM Tivoli Awards recognize IBM Tivoli Business Partners that have demonstrated excellence in delivering impressive business value to IBM clients based on their solutions with Tivoli software.

EZMaxMobile solution for IBM Maximo – “Today’s Mobile Solution for Maximo”
Key winning features for EZMaxMobile include an easy to user interface with real-time connectivity to IBM Maximo through WiFi or 3G cellular connectivity, photo uploading as attachments to a record in Maximo, innovative barcode scanning on smart devices using the built in camera, and the traditional offline mode for when WiFi connectivity is not readily available.

Additional product highlights
EZMaxMobile is a mobile solution that provides real time connectivity to Maximo via cellular or WiFi. Smart devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7 and many others are now capable of connecting to and communicating with Maximo on a real time basis.

With your mobile device, you can have full access to Maximo including applications such as Work Order Tracking, Assets, Locations, Inventory, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, PMs, Job Plans, Meters and many more.

EZMaxMobile adheres to ALL Maximo security and business rules. There is no need to configure separate mobile users or establish additional security parameters. Our mobile integration engine uses your existing Maximo user name and password for authentication; it doesn’t matter if you’re using Maximo’s default authentication or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) authentication.

“We are honored to receive such a distinguished award,” said Bill Fahey, president of InterPro Solutions. “Achieving this type of recognition from industry leaders illustrates our continued innovation in using Tivoli technology to create robust solutions and provide quality services to our customers.”

About InterPro Solutions
InterPro Solutions is an innovative, market responsive organization that provides professional and technical support services to asset owners and stakeholders throughout the United States and Canada.

To learn more about EZMaxMobile visit http://ezmaxmobile.interprosoft.com or email info@interprosoft.com

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Overview:

Babson College is a private college located in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Babson offers all undergraduates a Bachelor of Science degree in business management while the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College offers MBA degrees.

In 2010, Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranked Babson’s undergraduate program #17 overall in the country, as well as giving Babson the second-most, tied with Cornell University, top-10 specialty rankings among leading undergraduate business programs. In addition, Babson’s MBA program has been ranked #1 in Entrepreneurship for 17 consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report.

Project Background:

Babson College invests a significant amount of financial resources and workforce time into the upkeep of the campus grounds, modern athletic facilities, and the operation and maintenance of more than 70 facilities that are used for academics, administration and housing. In an effort to lower cost, increase work productivity and improve customer service Babson College initiated the search for a mobile solution that would help them meet their targeted goals.

Babson College sought out a mobile solution that worked seamlessly with their Maximo 6x environment, eliminated paper work orders, captured work performed data in real time, increased their labor force efficiency, and provided the capability on a real-time basis to automatically communicate new work requests to staff in the field.

After a thorough evaluation of several mobile solutions currently available for Maximo, Babson College chose InterPro Solutions’ EZMaxMobile product. Babson’s facilities management team was impressed with EZMaxMobile’s friendly user interface, real time capabilities, flexibility and its ability to operate on all major smart devices such as, Apple (iPod, iPhone, and iPad), Android, Blackberry and Windows 7 mobile.

Implementation

Babson’s facilities management team came to the conclusion that by implementing EZMaxMobile they could meet their business objectives yet keep their initial investment costs associated with new hardware and software low, including any costs associated with training the facilities workforce. In addition to lowering costs and giving them the ability to secure and display information in real-time, Babson also realized that EZMaxMobile would increase the speed of allocating their work, improve the accuracy of their information, and simplify their operations review process. For Babson College, meeting these business objectives was critical to the success of their mobile/wireless operational initiative.

After a smooth and fast implementation of InterPro’s EZMaxMobile product, Babson staff quickly eliminated a significant amount of paper work orders, began capturing work performed data in real-time, and increased the work efficiency of their labor force. Babson staff also utilized EZMaxMobile’s capability to integrate with Maximo’s work flow module and automatically send work orders to staff in the field on a real time basis.

As Jeff Dean of Babson College stated, “EZMaxMobile had a powerful impact on our workforce’s labor utilization rate. We found that 21% of our workforce’s total work completed was previously going unrecorded. We knew the work force was doing their job yet we didn’t have an accurate record of work performed because tracking their work time with the old paper process was too cumbersome, inefficient and inaccurate. Now that they can record hours and information in real-time utilizing a user-friendly smart device such as an iPad, we can easily capture and record all the work being performed. By using EZMaxMobile we discovered that what we had labeled as “unproductive time” actually included a significant number of hours related to work that was actually performed.”

With EZMaxMobile, Babson College was able to reduce administrative costs, eliminate costly data entry mistakes associated with a paper supported process, and most surprisingly to them, introducing smart devices and mobile technology to the work force improved overall employee morale. As Jeff Dean stated, “Prior to introducing mobile technology, we were concerned with our workforce’s readiness and desire to adapt and embrace the utilization of InterPro’s EZMaxMobile product. However, what we found is that they not only embraced the technology, but by providing smart devices such as an iPad, the work force staff took on a greater share of the responsibility to initiate, complete and accurately record work activity.”

Performance Results

Babson College facilities management team considers the implementation of EZMaxMobile a phenomenal success and in the near future plans to expand the use of EZMaxMobile to support the collection of meter readings, track dorm room inspections and manage scheduled maintenance activities such as PM work orders. Some of the benefits Babson College has realized from implementing InterPro’s EZMaxMobile product are as follows:

1. A 33% reduction in administrative costs.
2. Simplification of their quarterly operations review process resulting in a significant reduction in the amount of time to gather, analyze and document work perform data.
3. A 20% increase in the total number of work orders completed per month (this work was previously recorded as unproductive time).
4. A labor utilization rate increase of 25% because of the elimination of the need for staff to return to the work control center to pick up and return work orders.
5. Elimination of costly data entry mistakes while increasing the accuracy and detail of the information captured.
6. The ability to allocate work much faster and more accurately with EZMaxMobile’s real-time capabilities.
7. Improved employee morale.

EZMaxMobile RESULTS

InterPro’s EZMaxMobile Solution delivers the following results:

• Eliminate Costly Mistakes
• Allocate Work Quickly & Easily
• Reduce Administrative Overhead
• Increase Labor Utilization Rates
• Prioritize Work Faster & More Effectively
• Enhance the Accuracy of Information
• Respond Instantly with Real-Time Feedback
• Simplify Work Processes
• Reduce Paper

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