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Hi Jason,   this is a good question that I often wonder myself.   Our company with the 140 sites around the world uses several different platforms.  The company has decided to standardize on Maximo but with that said, moving to that platform can be time consuming and difficult.  Pro's Maximo is taking the steps with MAS to move to a reliability platform incorporating Asset Life Cycle management into it.   I will say with some of the improvements,  I don't believe they are fully mature so keeping up with updates is crucial.  Our maximo platform is integrated into SAP which is our ERP system.   This seems to work very well with tracking costs and spend.   Prior to working here,  I've worked a two other companies in my career who also standardized on Maximo so from my perspective it tends to be widely used.   Another Fortune 500 company in the food and beverage used SAP.   SAP gives better reporting but is much more complicated to use for the end user.   Because that was also our ERP system integration was seamless.   Some of the things I see in MAS is they seemed they were in a rush to get to market and are now developing aftwards.  For instance the Maximo Monitor module is not integrated in the Manage module which in my opinion makes it near worthless as we currently use Aveva OSI Pi for monitoring and it's much more powerful.   I do believe with the right staffing and customization you can get Maximo MAS to be a premier platform but it won't be out fo the box.   The other comment that I will make is no matter what platform you decide to go with,  take the time up front to clean up your data before moving it to a new system.  I find over the years and many different companies,  the companies who established their standards up front had the best and easiest to use systems.  Make sure your reliability team has a seat at the table with the IT team when they implement the project to ensure they are looking at it from a maintenance and reliability perspective.    In many cases it has  nothing to do with the platform but a standard organization that could be used between plants and production lines.   This will become imperative as you move toward prescriptive analytics using forms of AI.   

Hi Jason,   this is a good question that I often wonder myself.   Our company with the 140 sites around the world uses several different platforms.  The company has decided to standardize on Maximo but with that said, moving to that platform can be time consuming and difficult.  Pro's Maximo is taking the steps with MAS to move to a reliability platform incorporating Asset Life Cycle management into it.   I will say with some of the improvements,  I don't believe they are fully mature so keeping up with updates is crucial.  Our maximo platform is integrated into SAP which is our ERP system.   This seems to work very well with tracking costs and spend.   Prior to working here,  I've worked a two other companies in my career who also standardized on Maximo so from my perspective it tends to be widely used.   Another Fortune 500 company in the food and beverage used SAP.   SAP gives better reporting but is much more complicated to use for the end user.   Because that was also our ERP system integration was seamless.   Some of the things I see in MAS is they seemed they were in a rush to get to market and are now developing aftwards.  For instance the Maximo Monitor module is not integrated in the Manage module which in my opinion makes it near worthless as we currently use Aveva OSI Pi for monitoring and it's much more powerful.   I do believe with the right staffing and customization you can get Maximo MAS to be a premier platform but it won't be out fo the box.   The other comment that I will make is no matter what platform you decide to go with,  take the time up front to clean up your data before moving it to a new system.  I find over the years and many different companies,  the companies who established their standards up front had the best and easiest to use systems.  Make sure your reliability team has a seat at the table with the IT team when they implement the project to ensure they are looking at it from a maintenance and reliability perspective.    In many cases it has  nothing to do with the platform but a standard organization that could be used between plants and production lines.   This will become imperative as you move toward prescriptive analytics using forms of AI.