In today's demand-based mining environment, time-to-market is paramount. Companies are under pressure to rapidly establish operations, improve throughput and deliver predicted grade quality. By managing and automating essential business processes, solutions built on the powerful and flexible Microsoft platform can help your mining company do all this and more, maximising the effectiveness of your supply chain from the pit to the ship.

"A successful mining operation depends on its people. Equipped with intuitive, powerful technology, they can make the competitive difference. Together with our technology partners, Microsoft has developed comprehensive solutions to help them manage and automate business processes and respond to your most pressing business challenges - from the pit to the ship."

"A cornerstone of successful, profitable mining is an integrated IT infrastructure that provides effective business tools, rapid access to inforamtion and the ability to communicate and collaborate across diverse, and often remote, locations.

Integrated security, identity systems, management, business intelligence and data proctection, along with other key capabilities in the Microsoft platform, are leveraged by mining applications to provide a responsive, agile and secure IT environment."