We performed a comparison between IBM Maximo and IFS Cloud Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is asset management maintenance as well as asset management overall."
"We can manage, organize, and track incidents, claims, jobs, tasks, preventive and corrective maintenance, locations, and assets."
"We were doing all kinds of paperwork for every type of order and to maintain our assets but with the use of the IBM Maximo application, we can automate a lot of the processes."
"The ability to configure and integrate it with other solutions for ERP."
"The incident management feature is good because it allows you to keep track of and classify issues."
"The most powerful features are the database and integration with CMDB."
"The most valuable features of IBM Maximo are the overall power and interface, and there are a lot of different modules that we use that are helpful. Additionally, it's an integrated solution and it has a lot of capabilities."
"Maximo is very stable. We really do not have problem with stability."
"The financial posting controls are quite handy. The user interface is really friendly, highly flexible, and pretty intuitive for end users."
"Individual user profiles that can be configured as templates to minimize data entry."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine or ten out of ten since it is an extremely scalable solution that can be used for various use cases with thousands of users."
"The main reason for the ERP project was to bring together our fourteen sites, which had until then worked in separate silos."
"IFS Applications is an all-in-one solution for finance, accounting, and production."
"The workflow of the solution is very good."
"IFS has been completely rebuilt, modernized, and cloud-based so we don't need bulky software installations."
"All the modules are valuable in their own right, but everything has to go through the ERP. IFS has done an excellent job integrating the various modules to complete these processes. My expertise is in the finance module, but I have used the other verticals. It's an all-around good product."
"I feel that the interface is a little too complicated with a large number of fields to enter."
"The initial setup was complex, because it is a complex product."
"IBM Maximo can improve the financial support and financial application, to make it more similar to an ERP as opposed to an EAM. Overall they can improve the financial processes."
"Areas for improvement include: an enhanced Service Catalog on Mobile; Agent intelligence; better dashboards for KPIs."
"You can get lost using the application"
"The standard reports that shipped with the package need to be enriched with more advanced reports, especially for the Inventory Management sections."
"The pricing model of the solution has room for improvement as well as the after-sales support."
"The interface is not very easy or user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"Sometimes from the sales perspective, clients don't always fully understand how large a task or a project they're getting involved in when they decide, "We're going to switch across to IFS." They could probably do a little bit more, maybe around preparing people for these projects."
"IFS uses Crystal Report mostly, which isn't too user-friendly. Developing reports isn't easy and requires a lot of dev time. Since SAP bought it, Crystal Report has become more complicated to use on IFS. You have a dashboard for reporting that is good, but it's incomplete. Most of our clients use Power BI or some additional tooling for BI."
"There are certain digital features that need to be incorporated, such as IOP."
"Some kind of bot assistance, some kind of artificial intelligence to help people solve the problems, would be interesting."
"There should be some improvements in the predefined templates in IFS Applications."
"The support provided by IFS Applications has room for improvement. I'm based in Poland, and when my company had an issue, finding people from IFS to give my company the support it needed was difficult."
"IFS Applications is not robust enough to handle high-volume transactions, so it's not suitable for larger enterprises."
"We would like to see AI-driven CSI functions built into the tool that would allow us to quickly tie our improvement goals to metrics and activities, so Assyst will suggest the next steps to help us get closer to our goals."
IBM Maximo is ranked 1st in Enterprise Asset Management with 23 reviews while IFS Cloud Platform is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Asset Management with 29 reviews. IBM Maximo is rated 8.0, while IFS Cloud Platform is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Maximo writes "Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IFS Cloud Platform writes "Robust, customizable, and modern". IBM Maximo is most compared with ServiceNow, NetSuite ERP, JIRA Service Management, ABB Ability Asset Suite EAM and Oracle Enterprise Asset Management, whereas IFS Cloud Platform is most compared with SAP ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Oracle E-Business Suite, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and ServiceNow. See our IBM Maximo vs. IFS Cloud Platform report.
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