Starboard Consulting has been recognized by CIOReview Magazine as the recipient of “Top 10 IBM Solutions Companies - 2022,” based on our proprietary methodology, reflecting its position in the industry. This profile has been developed by the CIOReview research and editorial team based on insights from an interview with Karen Buck, Executive Director.

Starboard Consulting
Rediscover the Benefits of IBM Maximo

Karen Buck, Executive Director

Managing hundreds, thousands, or even millions of smart, connected assets can grow to become an incredible challenge without adequate experience in the field of enterprise asset management (EAM). As a result, EAM systems have become a critical, must-have technology in today’s hypercompetitive marketplace. Combining asset management expertise with artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics to operate high-value assets further improves performance, extends asset lifecycles, and reduces downtime and operational costs. At this juncture, Starboard Consulting—a Gold‐accredited, IBM Premier Business Partner and IBM Maximo reseller— provides best-in-class Maximo consulting services to help firms enhance their asset management systems.

Over the past 15 years, Starboard has focused on delivering the highest quality Maximo services to help clients improve their business. The company caters to clients from asset and capitalintensive industries such as utilities, municipalities, public works agencies, transportation organizations, and higher education institutions. As capitalintensive companies require frequent maintenance and repair of their assets, the company provides Maximo managed services. Starboard can manage the entire development life cycle—from project inception to post-implementation support—by working closely with internal and external development team members.

Backed by a highly efficient staff consisting of some of the best and the brightest in the industry, Starboard Consulting ensures each client’s success through IBM Maximo. A world-leading EAM solution, Maximo simplifies the tasks of purchasing, inventory management, and overseeing the service desk, all while streamlining operational workflows.

“At Starboard we do what matters. Every decision—from our founding 15 years ago until today—is to do what matters for our clients and that is achieving results that improve their business,” adds Karen Buck, the executive director of Starboard Consulting.

To best elucidate the company’s consulting competencies, the following case study of its engagement with a public power organization serves the purpose perfectly.

The client was in need of an IBM Maximo integration for their transportation module and reached out to Starboard Consulting. After carefully understanding their requirements, Starboard Consulting provided comprehensive Maximo consulting, IT support, and strategic advisory services. The company also recently facilitated a major upgrade to the Maximo Asset Management software, version 7.6, and expanded the solution’s footprint across the client’s organization. The successful results of this collaboration led to many more projects over the years, and the two organizations continue to enjoy a long-standing relationship today.

Starboard Consulting strongly believes in learning about a client organziation’s people before approaching any new Maximo strategies. With this core value driving the company, it employs the D4 methodology: discover, define, develop, and deliver. This mantra is institutionalized within Starboard Consulting to help achieve successful project outcomes. The process starts with identifying a client’s issues and the areas that require attention, then defining those issues, and ultimately developing solutions for clients.

At Starboard we do what matters. Every decision—from our founding 15 years ago until today—is to do what matters for our clients and that is achieving results that improve their business

Atop its IBM gold-level partner certification, Starboard Consulting houses numerous IBM- certifified IT professionals. The company has a reputation for being a problem solver and lives up to popular expectations through constant innovation and creativity. Be it a Maximo upgrade, a new training program, new integration, or configuration of an application, everything is dealt with dexterity and finesse. Starboard Consulting is also a strong advocate of the Maximo community, sponsoring numerous industry sessions and webinars, and is dedicated to supporting the knowledge growth of all Maximo users across the globe.

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Starboard Consulting, IBM Gold-Accredited Implementation Partner, Introduces StarMax Mobile for IBM Maximo Application Suite

Wednesday, August 09, 2023

PHOENIX, ARIZONA : MaximoWorld 2023, Starboard Consulting, an IBM Gold-Accredited Implementation Partner, announced the availability of StarMax Mobile. The StarMax Mobile product offers IBM Maximo users a new and simplified solution for mobility and mobile inspections for the IBM Maximo Application Suite. IBM Maximo, a leader in Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) technology, provides users intelligent asset management, monitoring, predictive maintenance, and reliability data in a single digital platform.

“StarMax Mobile is the Digital Transformation of Asset Management in the Palm of your Hand,” announced Karen Buck, Executive Director at Starboard Consulting. Karen continued: “We recognized a gap in the Maximo user experience for mobility and developed a unique and inclusive approach for Maximo Mobile and Field Inspections. To achieve the goals of our clients, and unable to find anything suitable in the marketplace, we leveraged our Maximo user experience and technology acumen to develop the solution ourselves with the Maximo end user in mind. To paraphrase our IBM distributor and MaximoWorld 2023-host TD Synnex, our mission is to achieve great outcomes with technology, and specific to our StarMax Mobile product, further serve the needs of our Maximo clients and community members.”

StarMax Mobile brings a configurable UX experience to field workers and contractors and serves as an enterprise transformation utility and tool. For Starboard, this new offering is driven by consistent client requests to seek superior user experiences, and simplified solutions for their business processes with specific emphasis on mobile workers.

“The advances in mobile technology, coupled with an increased proliferation and availability of asset condition communication devices, enables our clients to transform many areas of their day-to-day business – not just in "traditional" field roles, but also for a wider range in operations, warehousing, management, internal customer delivery, and executive leadership," added Karen Buck.

Starboard Consulting’s Amy Tatum, Vice President, and IBM Champion for Leadership and Contributions to the IBM Technology Community, will be leading an energy utility use case study on Construction Contractor Reporting in Maximo through StarMax Mobile. The session will be held at the TD Synnex Sponsor Pavilion on Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 at 2pm. View MaximoWorld 2023 Conference Agenda.

“Our focus is on the digital experience of the field technician and analysts. We needed to recognize fundamental requirements from those in the field, those in the plant, and those working with back office applications, and align to ensure we were solving problems where they were occurring and not overcomplicating the process.” said Kyle Harding, Director of Product Development at Starboard. Kyle continued: “Our aggregated user interface makes it easy to use, navigate, and comply with reporting requirements within regulated environments, which represents the majority of our customer base. We see an ability for Maximo users to make great strides in their ability to contribute to asset risk management through the advances in Maximo technology and mobility capabilities.”

Starboard Consulting, IBM Gold-Accredited Implementation Partner, Leading Water and Wastewater Maximo Application Suite (MAS) Digital Workshop and Forum

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

MAS Industry and Technology Leaders from IBM, Starboard Consulting, and the Maximo Utility Working Group to lead sector-specific sessions and demonstrations

LONGWOOD, Fla., -- Starboard Consulting, an IBM Gold-Accredited Implementation Partner, announced today they are hosting a Water & Wastewater MAS Digital Forum & Workshop on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10am – 12pm EST. Registration is free and available here: Water & Wastewater MAS Digital Workshop & Forum Registration.

"There is a lot of new information available for Maximo water and wastewater utilities with the release of MAS," said Karen Buck, Executive Director of Starboard Consulting. Karen continued: "We understand the amount of information can be overwhelming and we're hosting this event to help users understand how these changes will impact their role in providing reliable and sustainable water resources to their constituencies."

The Water & Wastewater MAS Workshop & Forum was assembled to segment and address common questions and inquiries related to the challenges water and wastewater utilities and municipalities are facing with the growing adoption of modern technology. The session topics address consistent operational issues and how the sophisticated application of technology can continue to improve reliability and sustainability for those organizations facing aging infrastructure-related issues.

• Water & Wastewater MAS Workshop & Forum Introduction

• Terry Saunders, Worldwide Utilities Industry Leader, IBM

• The Evolution of Maximo

• MAS within Water & Wastewater | 30 Minutes

• Clay Cook, Functional Lead, MUWG President

• John Brietz, Solutions Director, Starboard Consulting

• The MAS Revolution

• Monitor, Predict, Health | 45 Minutes

• Hannah Carr, Solutions Architect, IBM

• The Future is Now

• Sector Use Case Highlights | 30 Minutes

• John Brietz, Solutions Director, Starboard Consulting

• Clay Cook, Functional Lead, MUWG President

• Q&A | 15 Minutes

• Presentation Team

IBM Maximo Asset Management has been a highly adopted Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) / Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software application for the Energy & Utilities sector for several decades. The new IBM Maximo Application Suite is geared towards utilities and municipalities seeking superior technological performance for intelligent asset management, monitoring, predictive maintenance, and reliability data in a single digital platform.

Karen Buck added: "We recognize the importance of education in the proper application of mobility and technology, and we're holding this event to showcase how MAS is able to solve both longstanding operational challenges as well as meeting health, safety, environmental (HSE), and sustainability goals and initiatives. We're excited to share this timely information with the MAS Community."

Company
Starboard Consulting

Management
Karen Buck, Executive Director

Description
A GOLD-accredited IBM Premier Business Partner and Maximo reseller.As specialists in Maximo, they are focused on delivering to the highest standards and expectations of their clients.

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