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It has been an exciting time for Affinity Water, having gone live across all their regions with the roll-out of Maximo reaching the final 2 communities on 18th June 2018. As one of the biggest business system projects ever undertaken by Affinity Water, Vetasi is delighted to have supported them on this ground-breaking implementation. Maximo is now the biggest and most important system at the centre of their wholesale solution stack.

The primary objectives of the programme can be summarised as follow;

We are pleased to share that Vetasi Spain has achieved IBM Gold Partner status, testament to the hard work and outstanding technical abilities of our team.
Sharon Kepcia, MD Vetasi Spain, says 'The Gold Partner status reflects the quality of our services and our continued high levels of client satisfaction. This is an achievement for our team as we only commenced operations in November. I would like to thank everyone for their continued contribution to the success of Vetasi Spain.'

Vetasi has been selected by PKP Energetyka S.A, the cross-country electricity supplier to the Polish railway network, and other tens of thousands business customers, to implement IBM Maximo for Enterprise Asset Management.

PKP Energetyka S.A. provides electricity to PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe S.A, the Polish railway infrastructure administrator. Due to the sheer volume of its business and increasing technical development on a global scale, PKP Energetyka S.A. needed to modernize its IT infrastructure.

Vetasi, leading work and enterprise management experts, has formed a strategic partnership with DataSplice, a software company focused on creating mobile computing systems that integrate with IBM Maximo.

Vetasi is proud to be part of Facilities Management and welcome you all to join us in celebrating #WorldFMDay today, 16th May. We will be exhibiting at the Facilities Show again this year and invite you to visit us on stand P800 for a full demonstration of our facilities software solutions. You can register to attend the show for free here.

As we shared earlier in the year, Mark Robbins has been named an IBM Champion for the second year in a row thanks to his tireless work making sure that system administrators and developers get the most out of IBM® Maximo® Asset Management. In a recent interview with IBM, Mark discusses how the Maximo developer ecosystem has helped his company succeed in the enterprise asset management (EAM) space. He also said that he sees IoT solutions including data analytics and mobile as the next big opportunities where Maximo solutions can thrive.

Vetasi has signed a partner agreement with building automation system provider, Tridium, to market and use their sector leading Niagara framework. This enables a range of equipment to send analytically processed data on their own status and that of their environment, allowing our Maximo based solutions to respond with actionable work.

We are pleased to share that Vetasi's Mark Robbins has been named IBM Champion for Cloud 2018, for a second year running!

The IBM Champion program recognizes innovative thought leaders in the technical community. Mark specialises in supporting Maximo and runs a blog and has given 4 webexes for the UK and Ireland Maximo User Group and two presentations at user group meetings. A full index of blog postings and webexes is available here.

Well done Mark!

BIM (Building Information Modeling) is a 3D digital model (think AUTOCAD Revit 3D) that contains both the physical and functional details of the building plus the equipment contained within. Created during the design and build phases of construction it is normally updated after commissioning to reflect any structural or functional changes. 

It has been a busy week for Vetasi, across the world, at some key Maximo events!

​We started the week in Nice, as sponsors of the annual European Airport Summit. We took part in many interesting debates and shared our expertise on topics such as the latest Maximo and IoT roadmap.

Vetasi continues its expansion with the addition of 3 new graduates to its UK team. The graduates will be based in our Bristol office and will complete a number of placements during their training programme to give them a rounded knowledge of the business.

As a valued service provider to the three leading UK airport operators, we’re pleased to announce our sponsorship of IBM’s 6th European Maximo Airport Summit. Taking place between 13-14th November 2017, the annual event is being hosted by Nice Airport.

The Maximo Airport Summit is open to all organisations that manage infrastructure at airports, including air-side and land-side facilities, operational systems such as baggage handling and security, transit and fleet at no cost.

Vetasi continues its rapid growth in Europe with a new branch in Spain, making Vetasi one of the largest service providers of IBM Maximo in Spain.

The team, led by industry veterans Sharon Kepcia and José Inestal, will have its headquarters in Madrid and together with their team will bring Vetasi’s clients a combined experience of more than 150 years with Maximo, as well as specialists in Industry 4.0 and BIM.

Vetasi, in partnership with Gaussian, was a partner at the annual Mainstream Conference which took place from 9-11 October 2017 at the Maslow Hotel in Sandton.  We had a display which was visited by over 50 attendees and we have secured a number of positive leads to follow up. 

Vetasi's own Gavin Barbier was a speaker during a deep dive session discussing "Effective Asset Management - a Blueprint for creating outcomes aligned to objectives".  His session was extremely well attended.  Further to this, Gavin also acted as MC and timekeeper in his assigned room.

Vetasi had the pleasure of hosting the first in a series of roundtables this week, aimed at assisting Utilities (with an initial focus on UK Water companies) in sharing best practice on how to maximise the use of Maximo.

We were privileged to welcome Terry Saunders, Worldwide Utilities Industry Leader,  IBM Watson IoT and Stan Smith, Architecture and Design Manager, Maximo from the USA as our key speakers for the event.

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Keith Mokoape as a Non-Executive Director to the board of Vetasi South Africa Holdings.

Keith has held a number of senior positions including Head of the Drought Relief Programme of the Independent Development Trust, and Director of Corporate Affairs for Nampak, SA's largest packaging company. In 1998, he formed a black empowerment consortium, Katleho Linkages.

Keith brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to Vetasi South Africa holdings and we are privileged to welcome him to the team.

Vetasi Central Eastern Europe (CEE) is expanding into new markets - this month we signed the contract with Ukrainian IT-Integrator LLC  for the implementation of  IBM Control Desk for JSB Ukrgasbank. The project is scheduled for a year, and the implementation covers Request Fulfilment, Service Catalogue, Incident Management and Service Level Management (SLA).

Vetasi has now gone live with Maximo at South Deep Goldmine in South Africa. South Deep is one of the most mechanised deep level gold mines in the world.

Maximo is now rolled out to all trackless mining and earth moving machines in the mine and will be rolling out to the surface plant and other parts of the mine within the coming months. Maximo produces daily reports and real time dashboards on equipment utilization and availability.

Following the successful upgrade to the latest Maximo Asset Management system integrated with IBM MobileFirst Foundation by Vetasi, South East Water is reporting a marked increase in satisfaction in the two Service Incentive Mechanism (SIM) surveys performed since the new solution went live.

Dhiraj Sood, Operations System Manager at South East Water comments;