MAS 9.1
NIST SP 800-131A kicks in for federal-adjacent Maximo shops in January 2026. This is the field-tested guide to disabling TLS 1.0/1.1, culling weak ciphers, and validating FIPS 140-3 boundaries in MAS 9.1 on Red Hat OpenShift.
App Connect
Modern Maximo integrations live on App Connect Enterprise, Kafka, and the OSLC/REST APIs. Here are 7 patterns that have held up at scale — for ERP sync, GIS, IoT ingest, and the SSO/OIDC boundary that protects it all.
Entergy
When a Category 4 storm hits the Gulf Coast, the utility cannot afford a 4-hour Maximo triage. Entergy's Maximo-Manage-First storm playbook, refined over five storm seasons, has the crew-dispatch latency at 6 hours from power loss to first truck on the road.
Maximo Community
Finding the right Maximo help in 2026 is harder than it should be. This is the curated map of 8 channels, 6 communities, and 3 knowledge bases that are actually active — and what kind of help you can expect from each.
Maximo AI Service
The Maximo AI Service moved from 'demo' to 'production' in 2026. The agentic workflow pattern — a planner, a set of tools, and a guardrail — is the difference between a chatbot and an operational tool. Here is the 6-week implementation playbook.
reliability
Visual inspection has historically been the most under-digitized part of asset maintenance. The technician walks the asset, sees the corrosion, fills out a paper form, returns to the truck, types it into Maximo. The cycle is slow, the data quality is variable, and the AI never sees the image because
maximo
For most of its life, Maximo Mobile was a work-order execution surface. A technician opened the app, saw their assigned WOs, navigated to the asset, completed the work, recorded labor and materials, and closed the WO. That is still the core loop, but MAS 9.2 — and the Mobile 9.
MAS
If you are running MAS 9.0 or 9.1 today, MAS 9.2 is not a drop-in upgrade. It is a coordinated platform shift: OpenShift moves to 4.19, MongoDB to 8.0, the authentication stack gets a real OAuth2 surface, and the operator catalog gains new architecture options.
maximo
Most Maximo deployments have a Start Center problem. It loads with a default tile set, three out-of-date KPIs, a query that returns 47,000 work orders, and a "My Work" tile that nobody trusts. Users ignore it. Supervisors build their own ad-hoc queries in the Work Order Tracking
ibm
The single most common document-management complaint in Maximo for the last decade has been: "We have our documents in SharePoint. Why is it so painful to attach a SharePoint file to a work order?" The answer has always involved either a copy-the-file-into-Maximo workaround (which created two sources of
Industry Spotlights
The 2026 Maximo case-study signal is not in the "we deployed Maximo and our backlog went down" stories. Those are old. The signal is in the industries where the platform is being used to connect maintenance, fleet operations, inspections, and operational visibility in a single model — where the
community
The 2026 Maximo community calendar is the most consequential since the 2019 IBM Think / MaximoWorld convergence. The signals: MaximoWorld is back at the Gaylord Opryland in Nashville (Aug 17–20), the Pacific Maximo User Group (PacMUG) is running a four-city West Coast tour in June and July, the Australian Maximo