You may be wondering what the difference is between MaxStack SaaS and MAS SaaS offerings from other vendors. At a high level, there are three primary differences:
1. Cost Savings
MaxStack is significantly more affordable. That’s true whether you use our MAS Single SNO plan or our larger MAS Cluster plan (where Red Hat ROSA HCP directly creates, hosts, and manages the control plane management nodes).
2. More Control
MaxStack provides you with more control than other MAS SaaS options.
3. Single Tenancy
MaxStack automatically creates dedicated and isolated infrastructure to power Maximo Application Suite for your organization.
MAS SaaS plans from other providers use multi-tenant hosting and create a “namespace” sub-cluster for your MAS system in a shared environment. Namespace is an Openshift method for segregating a “slice” of a cluster for one group, or tenant, to use. In contrast, MaxStack automatically creates the resources needed for your MAS SaaS application at the actual server level (the EC2 compute level for technical readers) so they are dedicated for your use only.
This means you do not share your Openshift installation or the server resources for your MaxStack MAS SaaS plan (vCPU, RAM, storage, etc.) with other companies – you have your own private, isolated environment.
Another major benefit of non-shared MAS clusters is it enables MaxStack to put your MAS systems and databases into a virtual private cloud (VPC). This VPC (essentially a private and secure LAN) can be secured so that only your user locations and your integrated systems can reach it. This is done either via “allowlisting” network addresses, or by attaching your MAS VPC to your organization’s network using a site-to-site VPN tunnel.
The VPN Tunnel connection option makes your dedicated MAS environment a private, secure extension of your organization’s current network. Traffic from MAS can’t even reach the internet, except through your existing network and its policies and routes. You can think of this as a “Satellite as a Service” configuration for MAS, where your MAS system is hosted but really a private extension of your network.
Standard
Features
Fully Managed SaaS
Managed by Red Hat
Single Node Openshift (SNO) Option
Dedicated (Non-Shared) Servers
Private Network (VPC)
Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel
Production Database Access
Unlimited Maximo Users
(purely governed by App Points)
Free Hosting Trial Period
Cold Spare MAS System
Time to Provision
Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
SLA
Cloud Hosting Platform
BYOL Option
BYOC Option
Maximo 7.6 to MAS 9 Upgrade Cost
Hosting Cost
Move to Another Provider Anytime
MaxStack
MAS SaaS
4 Hours
24 Hours
99.9% Standard
AWS
Free to $
$
Other MAS SaaS Hosting
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72 Hours
99.9% Standard
AWS
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Notes
Openshift version updates are managed for you, as are MAS application updates. MAS is updated either via IBM Continuous Delivery or Long Term Support scheduled updates. (Reference)
MaxStack Cluster plans use ROSA HCP, a service provided directly by Red Hat to create and manage parts of your cluster.
If you have less than 70 concurrent users we can provide much greater cost savings than you will find anywhere.
You get dedicated Red Hat servers.
With other MAS SaaS providers, your MAS application is running on shared clusters, unless you pay a premium for a custom deployment and hosting.
All of your servers are secured in VPC private networks. Others hosting providers can't do that when they have you sharing servers with others.
Your VPCs (containing your MAS app servers and database server) can be connected to your company network so no traffic flows over the internet. (Satellite as a Service)
If you've ever supported Maximo, you know that having database update access is sometimes a necessity. This is tightly controlled of course.
Some other SaaS hosting plans limit the number of users you can add, even though your licensed App Points are what control usage.
Contact us for your trial.
We can create a MAS system for you as a cold spare backup.
Our automated provisioner creates both the infrastrucure (servers and databases) for your MAS system and installs the applications (e.g. Manage, Health, and others). We can spin up a new MAS system and VPC for you quickly at any time.
Other MAS SaaS hosting providers have very long RPO, likely due to not having isolated customer systems. MaxStack can recover or even create a new MAS instance quickly. You can even have a cold spare MAS instance.
Higher SLA is an option.
The other leading MAS SaaS options also use AWS. We have been hosting Maximo 7.x in AWS since 2012.
You can bring your own MAS license (from IBM or your 3rd party consultant) or MaxStack can provide.
You have the option to use your preferred qualified Maximo consultant or in-house resource for Maximo configuration and support.
We enourage you to get competitive quotes for this. One of our Maximo clients got a $300K quote. We upgraded them for free the next day.
We encourage you to get hosting quotes from other providers and compare to our prices.
Easily move your MAS database to another SaaS or hosting service if needed (avoid vendor lock-in).
MaxStack is unique in that we provide only turnkey dedicated Maximo Application Suite (MAS) systems in the cloud. We’re able to make this superior dedicated MAS option affordable for even smaller / SMB organizations using Red Hat-supported deployment architectures.
