EMMMv Launches at Mining, Manufacturing & Process Conference 2008

The Open Group South Africa launched the Exploration, Mining, Metals and Minerals Vertical (EMMMv) at the MMP’08 Conference in Johannesburg on 12 and 13 November 2008. This is a first-of-its-kind global collaborative to set enterprise architecture standards and create reference models for the exploration, mining, metals and minerals industries.

Sarina Viljoen, who heads up The Open Group South Africa, is on a drive to grow both local and international membership of the collaborative so as to deliver reference models for the natural resources industries similar to the telecommunications sector’s eTOM and supply chain’s SCOR reference models. According to Viljoen, "Companies in the natural resources industry have realised that they need to redefine their processes in response to new drivers that support agility, such as flexibility, responsiveness, optimization, value chains and collaboration. Enterprise architecture will help natural resource companies to achieve these goals."

Grant Faber, Stuart Macgregor, Sarina Viljoen and Steve Rasmussen