FlexiCadastre User Conference 2008 Welcome
Global participation 22 organizations (and counting) PHOENIX GEOCONSULTING
Global participation 16 countries (and counting)
Global solution
Company background Providing expert GIS and Software Development services since 1999 Subsidiary company to the MS Group Based in Cape Town with 25 fulltime technical staff and growing 9 professional services 11 development 5 support Since 2002 our focus area as been in Mineral Rights Solutions FlexiCadastre now accounts for 95% of our revenue
MSGroup
Spatial Dimension - revenue 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Spatial Dimension - staff 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
What is FlexiCadastre? FlexiCadastre provides a web based platform for an enterprise approach to the management of business processes surrounding mineral title and legal agreements Out the box it is jurisdictionally neutral and workflow simplistic FlexiCadastre provides the super-user with configuration wizards to develop workflows, business rules, responsibility matrices, escalation frameworks and security models to meet both their Jurisdictional and Business Process requirements The only thing that each of our implementations share is a common set of underlying computer code, that is continuality updated, maintained and supported by Spatial Dimension To date over 53,000 person hours spent developing the solution
FlexiCadastre implementations Anglo American, Anglo Coal, Exploration Barrick Gold, Africa Region Barrick Gold, Australia-Pacific Region (in start-up) Barrick Gold, North America Region Barrick Gold, South America Region BHPBilliton, Minerals Exploration Africa Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, Greenland Cadastre Minier, Democratic Republic of Congo Department of Minerals and Energy, South Africa Ministry of Mines and Energy, Ethiopia (in start-up) Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Tanzania Ministry of Mineral and Energy Resources, Mozambique Ministry of Mines and Minerals Development, Zambia Rio Tinto Exploration and Mining, Africa/Europe Region Rio Tinto Exploration and Mining, Asia Region (in start-up) Rio Tinto Exploration and Mining, North American Region (in start-up)
How do we implement FlexiCadastre Review of Act, Regulations and business processes for each Jurisdiction and/or Management Unit Review of existing data and systems Initial data migration and review of data and business process models Customization of FlexiCadastre database (if required) Customization of FlexiCadastre engine (if required) Develop connectors to 3 rd party systems (if required) Create business rules for required workflows Customization of reports and documents Final data mapping, normalization and import Data and system validation, user acceptance testing Training, documentation Support and enhancements
FlexiCadastre jurisdictions
More than just software!
Global customers = global partnerships Technology Partners ESRI Microsoft Domain IP Partners The Claim Group (Canada) Phoenix GeoConsulting (Africa) V-Biz (Australia) Implementation / Support Partners Geosoft (Exploration) Runge (Mining) Swedish Geological (Government)
Thursday 08:30-09:00 Opening Address Bill Feast, Managing Director, Spatial Dimension 09:00-10:00 What's New in FlexiCadastre Toby Mills, Technical Director, Spatial Dimension 10:00-10:30 Tea 10:30-11:00 Transparency in Mining Cadastre Hakan Tarras-Wahlberg, Swedish Geological 11:00-11:30 Challenges faced when the rolling out FlexiCadastre to 21 Regional Offices in Tanzania Silimu Mtigile, Licensing and Mineral Rights Officer, Tanzania Ministry of Energy and Minerals 11:30-12:00 FlexiCadastre's approval, escalation and notification infrastructure Glenn Matthews, Business Analyst, Spatial Dimension 12:00-12:30 Challenges encountered implementing FlexiCadastre in a changing legal environment Chris Sealy, Programme Manager, Zambian Mining Sector Diversification Programme 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:00 A global implementation of FlexiCadastre within Barrick Bill Feast on behalf of Margie Winsel Boorda. Director, Corporate Land, Barrick Gold Corporation 14:00-15:00 Barrick Gold's North American FlexiCadastre implementation Mary Kay Coroneos, Manager, Land Information Systems, Barrick Gold of North America 15:00-15:30 Tea 15:30-16:30 How does ArcServer integrate into the Enterprise? Willy Lynch, Mining Industry Specialist, ESRI 16:30-18:30 Cocktail Function
Friday 08:00-08:30 Light Breakfast 08:30-09:15 Project status on the implementation of FlexiCadastre in the DRC Justin Nyembo, Technical Director, CAMI 09:15-10:00 Review of FlexiCadastre's workflow and business rule infrastructure Toby Mills, Technical Director, Spatial Dimension 10:00-10:30 Tea 10:30-11:15 Using FlexiCadastre as a Hydrocarbon Permitting Tool at the DME, South Africa Trevor Ives, Business Analyst, Spatial Dimension 11:15-12:00 Spatial Dimension's development, test and support methodologies Isabel Muller, Release Manager, Spatial Dimension 12:00-12:30 Managing Hydrocarbon Licenses in the Arctic Jørgen Holm, Head of Petroleum Department, Greenland Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:00 What's Coming? Multilingual Support Rob Rademeyer, Developer, Spatial Dimension 14:00-14:30 What's Coming? ArcServer Jonathan Davids, Developer, Spatial Dimension 14:30-15:00 What's Coming? User Interface Enhancements Rob Rademeyer, Developer, Spatial Dimension 15:00-15:30 Tea 15:30-17:00 Open Session : Questions, Requests and Comments
Saturday Open day with developers and project managers
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