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id: MAXCONNECT-TECH-001
title: MAS is a platform shift
type: TECH
state: amber
area: F-feasibility
purpose: notebooklm-tier2
priority: S
work_kind: A
provenance: research
confidence: medium-high
triangulated: true
engagement: maxconnect
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-01-product-workings.md
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-02-architecture-integrations.md
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-03-migration-risks.md
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-04-licensing-economics-buyers.md
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-05-ecosystem-community-language.md
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-06-maxconnect-opportunity.md
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- uri: file://notebooklm/answers/20260611T200650Z-07-community-opportunity.md
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- uri: file://corpus/H-synthesis/tier2-notebooklm-synthesis-20260611.md
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MAS is not a normal Maximo 7.6 version upgrade. The product corpus describes legacy IBM Maximo Asset Management as becoming Maximo Manage inside the broader IBM Maximo Application Suite, with suite-level administration, centralized identity/user management, AppPoints licensing, and OpenShift-hosted application components.
This makes the transition a product, architecture, skills, and operating-model change rather than only a software update.