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GEOVIA is focused on meeting the needs of our users – today, we sit down with Pieter Neethling, Roger Staley and Matt Blattman, newly appointed Center of Excellence leaders in Asia, EMEAR and the Americas, to discuss all the new and exciting support tools for our users.
“As the largest supplier of mining software, we have a unique perspective on the industry. We cover the spectrum from exploration through development and operation and closure with our products and services. While technology has, and will continue to, change the face of mining, there is no substitute for experience.”
“Our customers will immediately benefit from the CoE through the delivery of resources such as subject expertise, strategic partnerships and powerful software. As an example, the power of Isight (from the Dassault Systèmes brand SIMULIA) in the hands of an experienced user can rapidly analyze more scenarios than were ever possible before. The CoE helps our customers identify where these resources should be deployed and the scale of improvements that may be gained.”
Matt Blattman
Center of Excellence Leader, The Americas, Dassault Systèmes
The global mining sector continues to face tough times, with low commodity prices impacting profit margins and cash flow amid a backdrop of sluggish economic growth. To top this off, worldwide mining operations are as much as 28% less productive today than ten years ago, according to McKinsey research.
It is within this context that Dassault Systèmes has identified the need to create three GEOVIA Centers of Excellence (CoE).
Located to support three regions – Asia Pacific (including Australia), the Americas and EMEAR (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia), these hubs are aimed at effectively deploying specialized technical resources to provide mining customers with the support and tools needed to get the most out of their GEOVIA software investment.
Andrew Pyne, Vice President of Mining, views our CoEs as critical to promote collaboration and best practices to drive value creation for our customers.
“Our three Centers of Excellence host a unified and credible team of technical mining experts ready to transfer their knowledge and experiences to our customers in order to best leverage their software investment, see maximum value from their resources, and deliver on promises made to stakeholders.”
Pieter Neethling, CoE leader in Asia Pacific, believes these Centers elevate our current GEOVIA Services and Support teams to a new level by centralizing the team of experts in order to ensure the best and most experienced resources are identified for the project at hand, and enables collaboration amongst the team members to define worldwide best practices.
“A tough economic climate and falling commodity prices may have become the order of the day, but we need to look ahead. By doing this we will be able to fully unlock the value of our talented mining professionals worldwide and help our customers uncover further gains in productivity.
Our CoEs are aimed at better enabling our users to get the maximum value out of their software. By using our proven business process modeling methodology in all of our onsite assessments, we can better understand mining challenges and identify any gaps to improve performance and reduce risk,” says Pieter.
Speaking to Roger Staley, CoE leader in EMEAR, he also views the three pillars of excellence as critical in standardizing and centralizing mining knowledge within the company.
“We are leveraging the technical expertise and career experiences of our CoE subject matter experts to deliver business improvement for our customers – and support, of course. In particular we aim to conduct health checks and support mining studies that deliver cost-effective plans for mining expansions.”
Matt Blattman, CoE leader of the Americas, agrees and notes that the CoE provides a single point of access for our customers to find solutions, best practices and assistance they need to improve their operations.
“As the largest supplier of mining software, we have a unique perspective on the industry. We cover the spectrum from exploration through development and operation and closure with our products and services. While technology has, and will continue to, change the face of mining, there is no substitute for experience.”
“Our customers will immediately benefit from the CoE through the delivery of resources such as subject expertise, strategic partnerships and powerful software. As an example, the power of Isight (from the Dassault Systèmes brand SIMULIA) in the hands of an experienced user can rapidly analyze more scenarios than were ever possible before. The CoE helps our customers identify where these resources should be deployed and the scale of improvements that may be gained.”
Dassault Systèmes Centers of Excellence will provide:
– Health checks to ensure you are maximizing your investment in GEOVIA technology
– Support mining studies that deliver cost effective plans for your green and brownfield expansions
– Collaboration and implementation of Strategic Mining Planning and Economic Modeling tools to enable your executives to make better strategic and operational decisions
– The introduction of our world-class Mine Planning Framework to model and implement your desired state at any point across your mining value chain
– Assistance to establish data workflows to merge real-time data from disparate sources to improve visibility across your business
For more information on the Services provided by our new Centers of Excellence in Asia Pacific, EMEAR and the Americas, check out our brochure.
Or, please feel free to contact GEOVIA.Services@3ds.com with specific questions.
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