News - COSOL

November 24 2022

Mining insights: Are asset inefficiencies crippling your productivity?

Mining organizations stand to benefit enormously if they can realize the productivity potential of their assets. The critical factor is how effectively they utilize the abundance of asset data available to them.

June 23 2022

COSOL grows Enterprise services, secures beachhead into Western Australian resources sector

Highlights Agreement to acquire Enterprise Asset Management advisory business with blue chip client base Technology enabled through proprietary software platforms Complementary addition to COSOL’s existing proprietary software and IP/technology stack Unique end-to-end Enterprise Asset Management capability COSOL Limited (COSOL) is pleased to announce that it has entered an agreement to acquire Work Management Solutions (WMS),…

June 7 2022

How to deliver a successful SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA migration

One tip can be found in a ComputerWeekly.com article titled Big majority of SAP users beset by data problems in migrating to S/4HANA. A recent UK & Ireland SAP User Group (UKISUG) survey found that two-thirds of SAP customers say that data issues are impeding migrations from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA. As Chairman of UKISUG…

May 12 2022

Data quality myths and misconceptions

A recent Gartner report confirmed that every year, poor data quality costs organisations an average US$12.9 million and highlighted that in addition to the immediate impact on revenue, over the long term, poor quality data increases the complexity of data ecosystems and leads to poor decision making. Despite this, some organisations prioritise technology solutions or systems…

April 7 2022

Hitachi Energy and COSOL partner to upgrade Prony Resources ERP/EAM system on time and on budget

Hitachi Energy and COSOL announced a strategic partnership for the delivery of Professional Services in Asia Pacific in July 2021. Both parties are pleased to celebrate the first major project delivered as part of this partnership to the benefit of Prony Resources. Prony Resources (formerly Goro Nickel and Vale) mitigate the risk of an unsupported…

March 21 2022

How to achieve a successful Merger or Acquisition data migration

Merging data landscapes following a Merger or Acquisition (M&A) is a complex business undertaking. Therefore, it’s essential to understand the impact of the merger on your entire data landscape and systems infrastructure early in the process. There may be multiple and incompatible systems, the data quality is likely to be inconsistent across functional areas and…

March 15 2022

Keeping business improvement on track at MaxiTRANS

The COVID-19 pandemic bought with it many challenges for businesses. For COSOL, we have used the opportunity to find new ways to maintain and enhance connection and collaboration with our clients. One new initiative is introducing an online collaboration ‘whiteboard’ tool as part of our business process improvement methodology. Virtual or remote process mapping has…

January 11 2022

COSOL signs multi-year contract with De Beers Group

De Beers is the world’s leading diamond company with expertise in diamond exploration, mining, grading, marketing and retail. It employs more than 20,000 people across the global diamond industry, mostly in the diamond source countries of Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa. The De Beers contract further reinforces COSOL’s position as internationally recognised data management…

November 8 2021

Strategic acquisition of leading EAM business to expand COSOL’s data and digital solutions

COSOL Limited is pleased to announce that it has executed an agreement to acquire Clarita Solutions Pty Ltd (Clarita). Headquartered in Brisbane, Clarita is a dynamic digital solutions company with specialist skills in IBM’s Maximo® (a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for EAM software platforms) committed to transforming Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) operations. The complementary…

October 12 2021

COSOL announces its newest partnership agreement with Dassault Systèmes Quintiq

COSOL Asia Pacific and Dassault Systèmes Quintiq (Quintiq) have signed a systems integrator alliance agreement to help clients model, plan and optimise end to end business operations. COSOL and Quintiq share a common goal to drive efficiencies and deliver quantifiable business improvements for our customers and the finalisation of the partnership secures COSOL’s position as…

October 5 2021

COSOL lands Long Beach Transit Managed Service contract

COSOL North America has been awarded a new contract to provide proactive and reactive Managed Services for Long Beach Transit (LBT). The scope of works includes providing all levels of Ellipse support for the Finance, Maintenance and Procurement/Materials Departments, in addition to COSOL providing ongoing technical and functional support for the Ellipse application. LBT provides…

July 22 2021

COSOL and Hitachi ABB Power Grids expand strategic partnership agreement

COSOL has announced an expanded strategic partnership agreement with Hitachi ABB Power Grids to become the preferred provider for all Ellipse Professional Services capability required by Hitachi ABB Power Grids’ clients in the Australia-New Zealand region. The decision is an outcome of a strategic partnership review focused on how best to meet the needs of Ellipse clients in the region, who will now benefit from the respective strengths of both organisations, as those clients maximise the value they derive from their…

April 29 2021

Introducing the new COSOL

Following the acquisition of AddOns, Inc. in October 2020, we now formally welcome AddOns, Inc. as COSOL North America. COSOL Australia, whose reputation extends throughout the Asia Pacific region is now COSOL Asia Pacific. After more than two decades bringing digital and data solutions expertise to asset intensive organisations, COSOL is taking the next step…

April 20 2021

COSOL awarded new contract with Australian owned Ioneer

COSOL North America has been awarded a new contract with Australian owned mining company Ioneer. The contract is the first of a potential three phased agreement to support the initial growth of Ioneer as it establishes its Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project in Nevada, USA. The project will see COSOL North America become the partner of…

April 19 2021

COSOL awarded new contracts with Transgrid and Anglo American

COSOL Asia Pacific is has been awarded new contracts on the strength of its proprietary digital solutions, RPConnect® and Copernicus. COSOL has been awarded a multi-year contract with Transgrid as part of its digital transformation program that will see it replace its existing Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) platform (Hitachi Ellipse) and move to Oracle Financials and…

April 7 2021

COSOL awarded extension to Department of Defence ERP program

COSOL Asia Pacific is pleased to announce that IBM has subcontracted COSOL to provide its proprietary IP RPConnect®, and professional data migration services for the Australian Department of Defence’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) transformation program. The well-publicised Defence ERP programme is replacing the Department of Defence’s core enterprise resource planning platform, Hitachi’s Ellipse Enterprise Asset…