Maximizing Mining Capabilities with Effective Procurement and Supply Strategies The mining industry has gone through some volatile and turbulent times over the past 12 months, but the outlook for the next 12 months is more consistent. A lot of mining companies are using this time as an opportunity to restructure, standardize processes and to prepare for the industry to pick up again. And one of the key focus areas is cost optimization, focusin...

Converting Big Data into Actionable Intelligence for the Business Mining companies investment into IT is due to multiply by 5 in the next 3 years and with every phase of a mining company’s value chain producing large amounts of data on a daily basis, big data analytics will certainly be a large part of this increase. A particular area of focus is real-time data acquisition and analytics in order to improve the day-to-day operations of a...