StressTester™ for Maximo Asset Management Applications

Rapid, Rigorous and Realistic Maximo Performance Verification Services

Maximo is the market leader in enterprise-class asset management software, which when implemented correctly can deliver substantial productivity and operational efficiency savings for a diverse range of organisations. Conversely if it is not correctly tuned for its intended environment or continually monitored and maintained it can quickly become a major headache for both users and IT support staff.

Reflective Solutions' world-class Maximo experts can offer the full range of pre and post implementation testing and verification services that ensure applications are fully optimised at every stage of the development and post-implementation life-cycle to deliver maximum return on investment.

Having been involved with Maximo's software original development as well as being wholly responsible for the concept, design and development of the Maximo Data Loader module, Reflective Solutions is ideally positioned to offer users complete end to end Maximo performance verification and integration services.

MEA Customisation/Configuration

Once a stable and effective Maximo application has been established many businesses are keen to leverage its full functionality through integration with other critical business applications using the Maximo Enterprise Adaptor (MEA) module.

Reflective Solutions employs some of Europe's leading MEA experts who can offer extensive experience and expertise in delivering customised, functional development and MEA integration for leading organisations across Europe, Middle East and the US.

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Performance Testing/Verification

Maximo performance verification is typically performed using enterprise-class testing tools that can be difficult and time consuming to learn and use, often leading to high costs and extended testing timescales. StressTester™ from Reflective Solutions however takes a markedly different approach.

The tool is enterprise-class yet much easier to use delivering performance testing against any Maximo system up to 5 times faster than comparable tools. Uniquely StressTester™ is able to verify how the Maximo application will perform and scale by accurately simulating how it will be used by real users once implemented in an operational environment without the need for specialist scripting skills – there's no need for expensive journeymen tool experts with StressTester™.

Whether it is performance testing during the development lifecycle, hardware benchmarking or pre-production performance testing, StressTester™ provides an easy and cost effective solution for the Maximo application development environment. This approach significantly reduces the chances of post-implementation performance issues becoming a problem for the organisation.

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WebLoadTest™ Maximo Performance Verification Services

A common failure of many project development teams is not to adequately test how their applications will perform under extreme loads, often due to un-realistic budget and time constraints.

Using Reflective Solutions' enterprise-class performance testing tool StressTester™, full scalability and stability testing can be completed typically within one week, at a fixed price regardless of the number of simulated users. Including all the expertise, consultancy and software needed in one simple but comprehensive package, with WebLoadTest™ the Maximo application can be tested with many thousands of virtual users without incurring additional costs. 

WebLoadTest™ is also highly effective in helping problem resolution. By correlating real-time performance data of the underlying system resources with the application performance results WebLoadTest™ provides valuable information to help remedy the causes of instability or poor performance.

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Application Performance Investigation™

Deployed by major enterprises that typically operate with a complex and diverse network infrastructure, identifying the cause of a Maximo performance degradation or instability issue can be like finding a “needle in a haystack” particularly when the problem is intermittent and difficult to replicate.

Reflective Solutions' Application Performance Investigation™ (API) is delivered by world-class consultants capable of a deep-dive investigation of the root causes of any instability or poor performance issues affecting Maximo applications. Providing a highly detailed and comprehensive report covering every aspect of the system, the Reflective API consultants are able to determine the cause of the problem within one week of the start of the engagement. The fixed price service is suitable for any java enterprise application and particularly suitable for complex Maximo applications.

With successful engagements for clients such as BAA and Tube Lines, Reflective Solutions' real-world approach has a proven track record of delivering pragmatic advice leading to rapid remediation of the underlying problem that other services may have failed to solve.

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Sentinel

Having made significant investment in the development of the Maximo application it is essential to ensure that the system is properly monitored and managed to maintain optimum performance levels for all users regardless of where they are located in the world. In complex and diverse enterprise network environments this can be a major challenge, with network managers often being the last to know when a problem has occurred. Sentinel is Reflective Solutions' flagship solution, which provides round-the-clock performance monitoring from the user perspective as well as of the underlying system architecture, alerting system managers when a below par performance issue is detected anywhere in the network.

By scheduling simulated, realistic, end to-end business transactions at specified intervals on 24 x 7 x 365 basis, from different locations in the network, Sentinel is able to identify potential a problem in time to enable remediation before it can severely impact business critical operations or fall below contractual SLA standards. Combined with real-time data from Sentinel's integrated Resource Monitors, network managers have all the information they need to accurately pin-point the source of the problem, providing powerful diagnostics of issues immediately they occur.

Sentinel is specifically tailored to each client's needs and is deployed quickly, delivering result from day one.

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