The Maximo Manage 9.1 release brings a wave of strategic enhancements for industrial organizations aiming to modernize their asset management, maintenance, and planning operations. From strengthened artificial intelligence capabilities to an enhanced user experience, this version delivers a comprehensive set of new features designed to drive efficiency and innovation.
Key New Features in Maximo Manage 9.1
- Enhanced API Key Management: Expiration Dates and Certificates : Maximo 9.1 strengthens API integration security by allowing expiration dates for each API key, reducing the risk of prolonged, uncontrolled usage. Additionally, users can now attach security certificates to each key, ensuring communication authenticity and enhanced data protection—bringing API management in line with industry best practices in cybersecurity.
- Integrated AI Assistant : A smart AI assistant is now embedded within Maximo Manage and Maximo Health environments. It responds to contextual questions directly in the applications, improving decision-making and boosting user productivity. The assistant integrates into enterprise, operational, and asset dashboards and can be fully customized by administrators using a dedicated configuration application, ensuring alignment with your business processes.
- Maximo AI Service : This dedicated module enables advanced AI capabilities across the platform. It empowers users to automate maintenance tasks, predict failures, and optimize operations using cognitive insights. Note: A separate license is required to activate Maximo AI Service in version 9.1.


AI and Automation in Maintenance
- Smart Work Orders : Work orders now benefit from AI-suggested field values, minimizing input errors and speeding up data entry. The system also displays similar past work orders, enabling faster analysis and improved decision-making through better visibility into maintenance history.
- Real-Time Assignment Status : Stay updated with real-time assignment statuses. Maximo now allows live tracking of task progress and resource usage, enhancing coordination, responsiveness, and decision-making throughout the maintenance lifecycle.
- Advanced Reliability Strategy Settings : Risk assessment gets more precise with customizable RPN (Risk Priority Number) categories and user-defined action types. These enhancements improve the flexibility and accuracy of reliability-centered maintenance strategies.
Cost Integration & Advanced Analytics
- Maximo Maintenance Costs Insights : This feature provides a 360° view of maintenance costs via an interactive dashboard. Integrated with IBM Apptio, it enables predictive analytics and pushes enriched data directly back into Maximo for smarter financial planning and cost control.


Improved Integrations
- Azure Blob Storage Support : You can now store attachments, logs, and images in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage—enhancing document management and scalability within your cloud infrastructure.
- REST API Data Export : Export CSV files generated by Graphite-based applications directly to Amazon S3 or Maximo directories using REST APIs. This streamlines integration with external systems and simplifies reporting and archiving.
- KPI JSON Integration : The KPI service now accepts performance indicators from external APIs in JSON format, enabling seamless integration of key metrics and real-time data visibility from various sources.
Technical Enhancements
- Improved IMGLIB Framework : The enhanced IMGLIB framework now supports writing to any custom storage type using automation scripts, making image storage and management more flexible and adaptable to diverse IT environments.
- Route Time Matrix with Cron Scheduling : Route time calculations can now run automatically via cron jobs, improving scheduling precision and optimizing technician assignments by reducing travel time.
- Migration to Java 17 : Maximo Manage 9.1 now supports Java™ 17, offering improved performance and future-proofing the platform.
- Custom Image Deployment : Admins can now deploy Maximo Manage using externally built images, providing more flexibility—ideal for training environments or custom deployment scenarios.
- BIRT 4.16 for Reporting : The updated BIRT 4.16 introduces a modernized reporting environment, with improved tools for designing, customizing, and distributing reports.
- Assignment Reevaluation Options : You can now decide whether to retain work records when reassigning tasks, adding flexibility to task management, especially in cases of unexpected changes.
- Build Personalization via nodeSelector : With nodeSelector and buildconfig, Maximo builds can be directed to specific Kubernetes cluster nodes. This allows detailed resource allocation (CPU, memory, storage), ensuring controlled and efficient deployment.
- ManageWorkspace for Attachment Configuration : Administrators can now choose between file-based and object-based storage for attachments, improving compatibility with on-premise or cloud storage solutions.
- Server Resilience in Update Failures : If an in-place update fails and the failureControl parameter is enabled, Maximo automatically stops the servers, rolls back the database, and restarts using the previous version—ensuring continuity and minimizing downtime.
- New Build Pod Template : A new pod template supports resource settings and nodeSelector for Maximo builds. This ensures optimal deployment and control in complex Kubernetes environments.
Dashboards & Planning
- New Planning Dashboard : An advanced planning dashboard helps reduce costs and inefficiencies by improving team coordination and forecasting capabilities—offering a smarter way to manage resources.
- Enhanced Dispatching : The improved Gantt chart now includes work hours, dispatch statuses, and visual indicators for urgency and task locks. Technicians’ routes can also be viewed on interactive maps for more effective field operation tracking.
- Configurable Maps : Users can choose between standard maps or gallery-based preconfigured maps—customizing spatial visualizations to meet specific project or team needs.
IBM Maximo Optimizer: Smart Optimization
- Spatial Planning Optimization :
- The spatial planning engine now integrates LNS (Large Neighborhood Search) algorithms for dynamic technician assignment, taking into account external tasks. It also simulates time impacts via RBF models and identifies critical tasks using the critical path method.
- Workforce Optimization :
- New settings now account for overtime and technician availability, enabling more accurate and balanced scheduling.


Enhanced User Experience
Usability has improved with several updates:
- The “Guided Tour” is now called “Show Me How” for a friendlier tone.
- A new intro video on the operations dashboard speeds up onboarding.
- Drag-and-drop is now supported for rescheduling work records—simplifying task planning.
Deprecated Applications
- Asset Data Dictionary : The asset data dictionary has been replaced with Maximo Monitor, offering better centralization and advanced analytics for asset tracking and performance optimization.
- AI Broker : The AI Broker has been removed and replaced by the Maximo AI Service, requiring a dedicated license. This shift brings deeper, more integrated AI functionality to the platform.
Why Migrate to Maximo Manage 9.1?
Maximo 9.1 is more than just an upgrade—it’s a strategic leap toward Maintenance 5.0. By embedding advanced AI, smart dashboards, predictive tools, and a modernized technical foundation, this release offers the tools industrial organizations need to transform asset management into a smarter, more agile, and cost-effective operation.
Contact us to discover how Maximo 9.1 can help you modernize and future-proof your maintenance strategy.
Reference : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/masv-and-l/maximo-manage/cd?topic=manage-in-91