[ R-04 — RESEARCH ]
From Maximo to Modern
Migration patterns, costs, and outcomes when organizations replace legacy EAM platforms
An upcoming report on the mechanics and economics of leaving legacy EAM systems, with IBM Maximo as the central case. It documents what migrating organizations move, what they leave behind, and what changes operationally in the first year after cutover.
What the report examines
- Examines the drivers behind legacy EAM replacement decisions: licensing economics, upgrade and customization debt, technician-experience gaps, and stalled telemetry ambitions.
- Maps the data-migration decisions that recur across projects — asset hierarchies, PM libraries, work history depth, and regulatory archives — and their downstream consequences.
- Investigates cutover strategies: pilot-site parallel runs, wave-based rollouts, and the failure patterns of big-bang and never-ending-parallel approaches.
- Analyzes integration re-wiring, with particular attention to ERP cost flows and the opportunity to replace brittle meter-reading pipelines with direct protocol ingestion.
- Assesses first-year outcomes migrating teams should measure: run-rate cost, PM compliance stability, mobile adoption, and data completeness on closed work.