MicroStrategy, a name that
has nearly become synonymous with situational awareness-driving enterprise
software platform architectures over the past several decades, reported today
that Canadian-based gold mining industry giant, Kinross Gold Corp. (KGC), has
deployed a major business intelligence iPad app to their mining operations
layer using the amazing capabilities of the company’s code-free MicroStrategy
Mobile™ app platform.
Now, Kinross is a big player
in the gold game, with digs all over the planet spanning nine major operations
in North America, Africa, Russia and South America, so they cannot continue to
live and grow within a fractured business intelligence container, built
entirely out of older solutions. The Kinross iPad application allows regional
supervisors to get their hands on actionable data when they need it most,
accelerating decision making in the field which is driven by direct data input
and empowered by automatically changing language where needed to ensure
fluidity, as well as accuracy.
For a diverse workforce like
the one at Kinross, engaged in a business where you are constantly on the go,
being freed from a PC and yet being able to simply execute everything via the
iPad represents a serious logistical breakthrough. The multi-language content
capabilities and product-differentiating analytical tools of the MicroStrategy
Mobile business intelligence platform, also allows Kinross to easily and
intuitively explore their own vast, big data landscape for heretofore
undiscovered nuggets of potentially groundbreaking insight. Getting all eyes on
the data generated by across the enterprise, in near real-time, while also
bringing down language barriers and allowing immediate input from people in the
field, creates the perfect way for a mineral developer like Kinross to turn up
new production targets or identify areas where operations can be improved.
According to Director of
Project Management for Kinross, Alexis Ricordi, the decision to go with the
MSTR product was arrived at only after a comprehensive review of all the
analytical solutions out there on the market today. MicroStrategy Mobile came
in ahead of the pack according to Ricordi, hands-down too, on a variety of
targeted factors like platform speed, development window for publishing apps,
tight mobile integration, overall ease of use and most importantly perhaps to
Kinross, total cost of ownership. Something CIO and VP of IT at Kinross, David
Cefai, puts rather well in his Customer Testimonial Video, describing the
increasingly inordinate costs of their extant solution set, not to mention the
amount of time spent just to maintain the systems and get them to the point
where they could deliver business value.
Cefai hailed MSTR for
providing the tools to do a much needed course correction at Kinross and
insisted that since implementation of the MicroStrategy solution, significant
changes have been able to be applied to their underlying business processes,
with Kinross taking full advantage of the new bench to overhaul process and
technology elements of the operation. Cefai stated clearly that “there is no
debate” at Kinross as to whether or not the MSTR solution is delivering
significant value in this area and he emphasized his happiness with the
decision to pick MicroStrategy, now an increasingly obvious best-of-breed in
the BI space after yet another big name endorsement.
President of MSTR, Paul
Zolfaghari, touted the buzz among top industry analysts about the company
delivering the best mobile BI platform out there today, hinting that the true,
unquantified value of the MSTR solution rests well out beyond the acclaimed
multi-language capabilities and robust analytical tools, and is extremely well
showcased by the Kinross example. The real power of this kind of near real-time
situational awareness framework for BI is, of course, immediately apparent to
any seasoned management professional.
The modularity of apps
developed on the MSTR solution, thanks to the building block-like component
approach where each app is an “object” that can be reused and which updates
automatically, makes such apps ridiculously easy to maintain as well, removing
another major headache that has created roadblocks in this area.
Device-independent deployment capabilities are also key here and the
elimination of any application-specific scaling makes pixel-perfect design
layout a breeze, ultimately resulting in easy to build and use apps that are
highly accessible to even the lay developer.
For more information, visit
www.MicroStrategy.com
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