Standard mining platform for new asset integration

Challenge

With MMG’s portfolio of mine assets growing through acquisition and integration of a newly acquired South American mine imminent, it was clear the company needed a repeatable approach to the integration of IT assets and services that reduced delivery effort and risk whilst providing a path to strategic technology alignment.

Solution

Our combined team of enterprise architects, delivery professionals and domain experts initially developed a set of tools for surveying the acquiree’s IT landscape, covering infrastructure, applications, data, people, services, contracts and vendors.

Secondly, MMG’s Standard Mining Platform was defined, clearly specifying the enterprise-level, asset-level and information security standards that define the compliance baseline for any MMG asset. SMP modelling enabled item-by-item gap analysis with identified impacts feeding forward into the asset integration implementation plan.

Lastly, an asset integration playbook and asset integration plan were developed as a template for future acquisitions.

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Value delivered

Our architecture-driven approach delivered immediate benefit for the in-progress asset integration, providing a complete picture of integration targets, reducing impact analysis lead times, and balancing speed of execution and standardisation. These benefits extend to future mine asset integrations.

From vision to value with enterprise and solution architecture

Human-technology collaboration starts with architecture: a critical tool for analysing, planning and communicating the evolution of your business and its information systems landscape.

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