What is CMMS Systems Integration?
CMMS software integration (or for that matter any software systems integration solutions) is the process of enabling two or more software systems to talk to each other by making common data available to each system and facilitating the exchange of this data between the systems. The data exchange can involve each system reading the other’s data, writing to it or both. An obvious example is the integration of CMMS systems with a purchasing system. Most companies already have a purchasing system but almost all CMMS systems now come with their own. In all but the smallest companies the accounts and purchasing departments will already have their own financial, purchasing and inventory systems in place and they will not accept any move to the CMMS purchasing system. The maintenance department (via the CMMS/Maintenance Management Systems) may require that the availability of spare parts is checked before planned maintenance work orders are issued. To do this the CMMS software must be able to
