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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (June 3 2014) – RungePincockMinarco (RPM) has today announced the latest release of its Operational Mining Integration (OMI) platform, delivering enhanced reporting capabilities and allowing users to share data quickly and seamlessly between RPM scheduling products, financial modelling products and enterprise resource planning systems.
“The latest upgrades to OMI mean that users can now analyse enterprise level data and operational mine site data more deeply, allowing a better understanding of integrated production and financial data from various operational sites”, says Mr. Craig Halliday, RPM’s Head of Software.
OMI is the platform that links RPM’s industry leading products to enterprise business and reporting systems such as a company’s ERP system. OMI also allows for integration of information between RPM’s products themselves.
“As an example, users can compare planned production from their scheduling system with actual production figures from their enterprise systems in one report and visualise differences and investigate the cause of any discrepancy”.
Mr Halliday explains that previously, users would have to review separate reports and manually compare the differences.
“Now, with OMI 1.2 it is extremely easy to compare operational and enterprise data quickly and slice and dice it any way you want”.
Data is seamlessly transferred from RPM’s scheduling and financial solutions through OMI to a reporting cube. From here, it can be easily read by enterprise business reporting tools such as SAP’s Business Objects.
“This reporting cube gives you better insight to potentially discover information in the data that you may not have seen before”.
In addition, the updates to OMI have enhanced security features that utilise Active Directory information and inherit permissions to transfer or retrieve data from SAP.
“We have also made improvements to many of the standard things you’d expect from an enterprise level system including performance monitoring, error logging and auditability”, finishes Mr. Halliday.
OMI 1.2 is available now as part of all enterprise enabled RPM products. This includes XACT, XERAS, Open Pit Metals XPAC Solution, Open Pit Diamonds XPAC Solution and Oil Sands XPAC Solution.
