"I have found Work Order management the most valuable feature. Additionally, it is a very robust and powerful solution."
"They have a real strength of tracking the asset itself along with the condition of the asset, the maintenance of the asset and who has access to the asset, etc."
"Reliable, very configurable, and it's all integrated in the same database."
"The most valuable feature is asset management maintenance as well as asset management overall."
"The ability to configure and integrate it with other solutions for ERP."
"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."
"It is configurable, where you can add extra fields to screens and to the database."
"The most valuable features are the ability to create work orders and preventative maintenance."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"It doesn't take long to develop an automation blueprint. You need about half an hour, and then you can install or deploy it on several systems. That was our first great advantage in the project because we urgently needed to deploy across many different systems."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the metering capability."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"There are always ways to improve and make things better."
"The pricing model of the solution has room for improvement as well as the after-sales support."
"You can get lost using the application"
"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."
"The interface is not very easy or user-friendly and is in need of improvement."
"It's quite reliable, but new versions often are not too stable. They bring in enhancements but they break other stuff."
"Coding can be complex when customization is required."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"The solution's private cloud is much too expensive."
"If you haven't established a vSphere cluster and you only have a single server to integrate, you can't deploy any service."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
IBM Maximo is ranked 1st in Enterprise Asset Management with 23 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. IBM Maximo is rated 8.0, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. 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 vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". IBM Maximo is most compared with ServiceNow, NetSuite ERP, JIRA Service Management, ABB Ability Asset Suite EAM and IFS Cloud Platform, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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