For decades, Total Resource Management Inc. has partnered with IBM to assist their customers with implementing Maximo, an enterprise asset management software first rolled out in 1985.

Offering services such as work planning, location management and inventory, Maximo is used by companies such as The American Red Cross.

“This relationship that we have with IBM is really important,” said Peter Morrow (pictured), vice president of sales and marketing at Total Resource Management. “As IBM is the dominant player in [enterprise asset management], AI and hybrid cloud, it’s a natural fit for us to leverage those mature solutions and build on top of them … to offer more of an end to end solution to our customers.”

TRM has spent the past few years developing a turnkey solution for IBM’s customers, called Maximo AAM, layered with IBM’s new AI solution. This solution will assist enterprises with rolling out EAMs in weeks instead of months or years, according to Morrow.

Morrow spoke with Lisa Martin, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the recent IBM Think event. They discussed the TRM and IBM partnership, TRM’s new turnkey solution, and TRM’s original equipment manufacturer relationship with IBM. (* Disclosure below.)

Why wait?

With the digital revolution ushering in a new speedy generation of services and data on-demand, the need for speed dictates a market that doesn’t want to wait — for anything. Maximo AAM addresses the desire for quick EAM implementation, with no drawn-out processes weighing down the consumers.

“We’ve spent a lot of time trying to make our solutions more turnkey, packaging up offerings in a way that you can start small,” Morrow said, “but all that effort you put in on a small scale, you can ramp up and scale enterprise-wide without making a huge investment.”

Until recently, AI was not universally embraced as a solution for maintenance problems, something beginning to change as AI becomes more accessible.

“What we’re finding is that, with the maturity level of IBM’s products, it is now at a point where AI is a great fit,” Morrow said, “and you take an experienced reliability specialist and you’ve armed them with AI tools like IBM’s Asset Monitor and Maximo Health and Predict, and you give them those tools and they can roll out predictive solutions that scale like they’ve never had the chance to before.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of IBM Think. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for IBM Think. Neither IBM, the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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