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The IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Integration Adapter portfolio supplies integration connectivity for leading e-business technologies, enterprise applications, legacy, and mainframe systems. The product set includes tools and templates for customizing, creating, and managing components for business process integration.

This document describes the installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and business object use for the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Maximo MEA. The Maximo MEA application provides support for work and asset management. Maximo MEA (called MRO in this guide) provides useful information across and entire enterprise.

MRO Software is the leading provider of e-Business solutions for strategic asset management. The Company's integrated suite of applications optimizes performance, improves productivity and service levels and enables asset-related sourcing and procurement across the entire spectrum of strategic assets.

The Company's asset management solutions allow customers to manage the complete lifecycle of strategic assets including: planning, procurement, deployment, tracking, maintenance and retirement. Using MRO Software's solutions customers improve production reliability, labor efficiency, material optimization, software license compliance, lease management, warranty and service management and provisioning across the asset base.

In this guide the terms connector and adapter are used interchangeably.

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