Happy New Year from the Desk of the CEO

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GEOVIA has now been part of Dassault Systèmes for a few years, and external observers may ask a very legitimate question: how has this integration helped reshape the brand, or more importantly, how has it brought more value to its user base?

It is actually with excitement that we prepare ourselves to introduce onto the market in 2017 new capabilities which will illustrate the benefits of integration to our customers. Indeed, GEOVIA is proud to announce that we will start bringing the 3DEXPERIENCE in the hands of our customers in 2017.

What is the 3DEXPERIENCE after all?

To put it simply, it is a business experience that is conducive to innovation. In more words, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform is the vehicle that Dassault Systèmes has provided to many industries, in order to successfully assist our clients drive their transformation agenda, through a set of rich applications leveraging the power of a social & collaborative enterprise-level platform.

In a mining context, what does this mean, and more particularly, to GEOVIA users?

Starting in 2017, GEOVIA will be enabling our Surpac, MineSched and Whittle users to benefit from the collaboration capabilities of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform through a seamless interface, allowing them to manage their intellectual property (contained in the files managed by these applications). The business benefits cover a large range, and include the following:

  • Centralized control of the mining data providing a single source of the truth
  • Program management of the mining workflow
  • Possibility to apply collaborative task management
  • Indexing of mining data and creation of ad-hoc dashboards
  • Sharing mining content in 3D

Furthermore, GEOVIA is introducing in 2017 to both our Surpac and GEMS customers a new cloud-based next-generation rapid geological modeling capability, to be delivered under an innovative SaaS (Software-as-as-Service) model, as illustrated below.

The seamless integration of this capability inside Surpac/GEMS will offer a powerful experience to our users, who will also benefit from important features such as version control, lifecycle management, scalability thanks to cloud computing, geospatial indexing –  all this through a simple browser interface.

In parallel to these exciting developments, GEOVIA will continue to maintain our portfolio of desktop applications.

Products such as Surpac, GEMS, Minex, MineSched, Whittle and InSite will have new releases coming out in 2017 too, with quality & performance improvements, as well as some select enhancements such as a point cloud integration capability in Surpac which will address the need expressed by our clients who make an expanding usage of drone-based surveys and LIDAR/photogrammetry technology for multiple purposes.

So in summary, GEOVIA is entering the age of the 3DEXPERIENCE in 2017 and will continue providing new value to our loyal installed base, with a view to also attract new users eager to join us in the transformation journey to build their Digital Mine.

Hear from our VP of Natural Resources, Marni Rabasso, as she talks about the Digital Mine in an interview with Mining.com.

We hope you will continue the journey with us this year!

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Raoul Jacquand

Raoul Jacquand

GEOVIA CEO at Dassault Systèmes
Raoul is the CEO of GEOVIA at Dassault Systèmes, responsible for managing and developing GEOVIA's business and strategies worldwide including extending the scope of GEOVIA applications powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform to help deliver sustainable solutions to the natural resources industry.