MRO Software, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, sale, and distribution of strategic asset and service management solutions. The company's Maximo Enterprise Suite offer customers to manage the complete lifecycle of strategic assets, including planning, procurement, deployment, tracking, maintenance, and retirement. Its products include MAXIMO for the enterprise asset management market and MAXIMO MainControl for the information technology asset management market. The company also provides online commerce services to the distributors and manufacturers of industrial and office products to support their asset-centric procurement. In addition, it offers consulting, training, and professional services. Its products are marketed through a direct sales organization, as well as through distributors and resellers; and through indirect sales channels. The company serves various industries, including facility/property management, discrete and process manufacturing, public sector, oil and gas, transportation and travel, government, aviation, energy and utilities, financial services, consumer/retail, pharmaceutical, media, technology, telecommunications, education, health care, and professional services. It has strategic partnerships with IBM Corporation, Science Applications International Corporation, BearingPoint, Inc., and Accenture LLP. MRO Software was founded by Robert L. Daniels in 1968 as Project Software & Development, Inc. and changed its name to MRO Software, Inc. in 2001. The company is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts. As of October 5, 2006, MRO Software Inc. is a subsidiary of International Business Machines Corp.