For certain organizations an on-premises deployment of Maximo Application Suite (MAS) may still be the only option that is permitted. Fortunately, that restriction is rare these days and most organizations are able to use cloud-provisioned infrastructure and services. Especially when the servers are dedicated (non-shared) resources in a secure private cloud like you get at MaxStack.
You can find a lot of online content covering cloud versus on-premises and the typical pros & cons. This comparison focuses more specifically on deploying and running MAS as an on-prem and self-hosted application versus running it as a turnkey managed application using dedicated cloud infrastructure.
Difference
Installation Cost
Installation Time
7.6 to MAS Upgrade Cost
Servers to Provision & Support
Infrastructure Support
Cloud Hosted on MaxStack
$0
4 hours
$0 to Low
None
Covered by hosting fee
On-Premises
Very High
Weeks or Months
Ask
16+ Servers
Covered by staff or contractor costs
Notes
We don't charge you to provision your servers and install Openshift and MAS.
Our clients are receiving quotes from other vendors for $100K to $300K for this same service done as a one-off install.
Whether you need 1 or 1,000 worker node servers, your MaxStack MAS system is online in 4 hours.
We perform most 7.6 to MAS database upgrades for free.
A typical small Openshift cluster might consist of 7 servers per environment such as Prod and Test, plus a bastion server and a database server.
This is provided as a turnkey service by MaxStack.
Contact us for pricing for a dedicated MAS system, right-sized for your organization.