Day One
September 22, 2011
Morning Program

Time

Event

Presenter and Description

7:30-8:45 a.m.

Registration

7:30-8:45 a.m.

Breakfast/Refreshments

8:45-9:00 a.m.

Good Morning Greetings

The Createch Group

9:00-10:00 a.m.

Keynote

Perception Busters
Sunjay Nath, Motivational Speaker and Aurthor (Bio)
Perception Busters is the foundation to the 10-80-10 Principle. If we acknowledge the way our personal bias forms our opinions and biases, we can easily be trapped by our own limiting beliefs. Sunjay will share with Maximo users how changing your beliefs and questioning the impossible can make the impossible possible.

10:00 - 10:45 a.m.

Study Maximo Roadmap

Presenter: IBM
Find out about the latest Maximo V7.5 enhancements and what the future product roadmap will deliver.

10:45-11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00-11:45 a.m.

BIRT Reporting for Maximo

Presenter:Actuate
Learn and see how Actuate BIRT gives you more value from IBM Maximo Asset Management by instantly turning on powerful dashboards, business analytics, interactivity and ad-hoc reporting. Actuate BIRT can be used with any version of Maximo and also gives you the option to continue using your current Actuate reports from Maximo v5 or v6 with your Maximo v7 installation.

11:45-12:15 p.m.

Maximo License Compliance – What you need to know

Presenter: The Createch Group
Do you have more Maximo users than you are licensed for? Maximo license noncompliance penalties can be very expensive.  Find out how you can determine whether you are at risk and what you can do about it.

12:15-1:00 p.m.

Lunch/Refreshments

Day One
September 22, 2011
Afternoon Program

Time

Event

Presenter and Description

1:00-1:45 p.m. 

Enhancing the Maximo User Experience

Presenter: The Createch Group
Whether you are training a new hire or have the same users logging into Maximo on a daily basis there is always room for improvement in the Maximo user interface. This presentation will demonstrate some of the tools and techniques used to enhance and simplify the user experience when working with Maximo.

1:45-2:30 p.m.

Maximo Supply Chain Enhancements

Presenter: The Createch Group
Maximo V7.5 includes enhancements and improvements to materials management, purchasing, receiving, and invoicing.  This session will review the details of these enhancements.

2:30-2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45-3:30 p.m.

Tivoli Endpoint Manager

Presenter: IBM
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager—built on BigFix® technology—helps you achieve smarter, faster endpoint management. It combines endpoint and security management into a single solution that enables you to see and manage physical and virtual endpoints—servers, desktops, roaming laptops, and specialized equipment.  By automating time-intensive tasks across complex networks, you can control costs while reducing risk and supporting compliance. Tivoli Endpoint Manager can be deployed in days for any network size or configuration, providing a very rapid return on investment.

3:30-4:15 p.m.

Using Maximo Workflow to Optimize Business Processes

Presenter: The Createch Group
Maximo has a robust workflow engine that can enforce business practices, maintain audit trails, and ensure timely response to critical business needs. Are you using Maximo workflow effectively? This session will explain the benefits and the best practice methods of implementing Maximo workflow.

4:15-5:00 p.m.

Panel discussion

Presenters & Delegates

5:00-7:00p.m.

Reception

Day Two
September 23, 2011
Training Forum

Time

8:00 -9:00 a.m.

Breakfast
All

There will be a 15 minute break in the morning and afternoon and lunch will be provided.
Students are asked to preregister for one of the 3 tracks below.

Track A

Track B

Track C

Time

Session

Session

Session

9:00 a.m.

Maximo System Administration Workshop

Description:
This workshop aims to acquaint Maximo System Administrators with the key administration functions and activities required to configure and support the system.

The workshop will focus on  key administration functionality such as adding new users, setup the user security, system configurations and database changes, setting up automation through cron tasks, communication templates, actions, notifications, and escalations.

Additionally, you will use the Workflow designer application and modify and administer a workflow.

Students can bring their own laptops to participate in this workshop.  Laptops must be Windows-based and have wireless connectivity.

Intended Audience: Maximo administrators and technical personnel responsible for Maximo configuration and support.

Actuate BIRT Reporting Workshop

Description: 
Sponsored by Actuate, the morning portion of this workshop will teach you how to use the Actuate BIRT Designer. This course will cover functions such as data definition, layout creation strategies, reuse libraries and other useful techniques to quickly become successful developing and sharing BIRT reports.

The afternoon session will be led by The Createch Group’s Services personnel who will be guiding users on how to build and customize Maximo specific reports using BIRT. 

Students can bring their own laptops to participate in this workshop.  Laptops must be Windows-based and have wireless connectivity.

Intended Audience:  Maximo technical and non-technical users responsible for creating BIRT reports.

Maximo Versions: Applicable to Maximo V6 and V7.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Primer

Description:
The ITIL v3 Overview is a one day introduction to the ITIL Service Management framework, including ITIL terminology, the structure and basic concepts and provides an understanding of the core principles of ITIL practices for Service Management.

Areas covered include: Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation, Continual Service Improvement

Intended Audience:  This course is suited to those who require a basic understanding of the ITIL framework and how it may be used to enhance the quality of IT Service Management within an organization.

Maximo Versions: Not Maximo specific.

4:30 p.m.

Adjournment