6 posts tagged “Upgrade”
A structured reality check on IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.2. Eight gates that decide whether you can and should move, five verdicts mapped to real customer profiles, and an honest accounting of what the release does and doesn't give you.
Venkat AchantaAug 12, 2026Part 7 of 7
A seven-part, primary-source series on IBM Maximo Application Suite 9.2. What actually shipped on 25 June 2026, how it compares to 9.1 and 9.0, what changed inside Manage and across the suite, what the AI layer really contains, the upgrade items that bite hardest, and an honest verdict on who qualifies.
Venkat AchantaAug 12, 2026Part 0 of 7
Monitor 9.2 drops its IoT Platform dependency and becomes stand-alone. MVI removes Caffe and Darknet and retroactively drops NVIDIA Pascal GPUs. Health, Predict, Maximo IT, Real Estate and Facilities, HSE, Oil & Gas and AIP all shipped real changes. Here's the product-by-product breakdown, and which ones force work on upgrade.
Venkat AchantaAug 12, 2026Part 4 of 7
A ranked, sourced watch-list for the MAS 9.2 upgrade — the Db2 12 licence trap that takes production down 30 days later, the removed user management APIs, add-on parity, SCIM migration, two irreversible settings, Java 25, MVI's retroactive GPU removal, and the small ones that still cost you a weekend.
Venkat AchantaAug 12, 2026Part 6 of 7
A dimension-by-dimension comparison of Maximo Application Suite 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 — platform and navigation, AI, applications, Java and database prerequisites, and support lifecycle — built only from IBM's own pages, with every claim we could not verify flagged as such.
Venkat AchantaAug 12, 2026Part 2 of 7
A 4-part series breaking down every major feature change in MAS 9 — from Manage core platform transformation, to suite AI applications, paid add-ons and industry solutions, and the supply chain revolution. Your team's complete upgrade reference.
Posam LakshminarayanaMar 17, 2026Part 0 of 25