Highlights from the recent Aspentech event with BluESP

BluESP’s Operational Excellence in a digital world event went off with a BANG! Over 250 Delegates gathered on the 7 March 2019 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Rosebank for a full day of AspenTech’s ground breaking technology and leading industry innovation excellence. Our customers were wowed with outstanding presentations which demonstrated how these technological innovations can give their companies a leading edge and take them into the future. Speakers included international AspenTech experts, key customers, our own Tertius Zitzke and our experts from AccTech, and inspiring innovation public speakers who kept our audience entertained and attentive.

AspenTech is the world leader in Industrial software. Their mission is to digitally transform industries by optimizing their assets to run faster, longer, safer and greener. AspenTech by the numbers:

• Creates value of over $50 Billion annually for
  customers worldwide
• AspenTech has over 2,100 Blue-chip companies
  (globally)
• A global presence with over 60% of business
  outside North America

37 years of technology leadership and innovation

Strategically, AspenTech is a key partner for the 4Sight Group and our mining cluster. Our partnership with the worlds leading industrial software provider allows us to deliver value to our customers. This was summarised by Matt Holland, the VP for Sales at AspenTech.

With technology being the theme of the day, the conference app was a big hit with customers as they actively engaged with the team throughout the day, and won some awesome prizes. Our CEO, Vincent Raseroka inspired the crowed with some wise words as he closed the event and invited everyone to cocktails on the porch. This was truly a conference to be remembered! BluESP would like to thank the sponsors AspenTech, 4Sight Holdings and Sage. Without your incredible support the event would not have happened.

Pieter Geldenhuys, one of the keynote speakers at the conference took delegates on an insightful journey with this topic of Business Unusual: New Opportunities in a hyper connected world. Pieter focussed on visions of the future and how we can use insights from today to create our own future.

Some of the 2025 visions of the future he highlighted included:

• Creating an enriched reality
• Quantum communication
• Fintech disruption
• The use of Smart Materials
• AI Dilemma
• Unlock the human brain

Pieter focused on 5 key change dimensions:

• Velocity: Speed of finding the right connection (e.g. time to find a service.)
• Granularity: The size of a thing that is perceived to have individual value (e.g. CD vs. Single MP3).
• Concreteness: Degree to which value is based on physical (e.g. a car) or ’abstract (transport) things.
• Agency: Who or what initiates change and the degree of free to act of these.
• Density: (of the factors of production – land, labour, capital, information). Degree of which configura
tions of these may be optimally (unpacked).
• Unlock the human brain

Digital Transformation is enabling our customers to make better and more informed decisions.

Coenie Middel, founder of Middel and Partners, took us on a journey on how augmented reality is going to be a key technology in the world of Digital Transformation. A key takeaway from Coenie’s presentation was:

“Improving is taking the next logical step” but “Innovating is making a jump”

Coenie performed a live demo of how augmented reality enabled the creation of a virtual world to help plan the development of an industrial plant.

BluESP is AspenTech’s Global partner in the Metals, Mining and Manufacturing (MMM) Industries, For over a decade BluESP has been working with AspenTech to take their technology solutions into the local and international MMM industries. The Operational Excellence in a Digital World conference was a good example of the strong collaborative relationship between the two companies. Not only did AspenTech financially support the event but they also sent eight of their Senior VP’s to present and network with our customers. We are looking forward to growing our relationship with AspenTech and working on similar events in the near future.

Digital Transformation: Building Systems of Intelligence, that help enable, Intelligent Customer Engagement and Intelligent Operations.

To transact in a digital economy, organisations needs to relook at the business from enabling employees through systems utilised ERP evolved from a trial balance in Excel to the Ind 4.0 digitally transformed block chain driven accounting. The data integrity of Ind 4.0 entity will be worth more than the resources in the ground. The Modern Worker serviced by 4Sight is a modern employee utilising technologies that enables Digital Transformation towards business growth. 4Sight group’s approach to data maturity is at the core of our data enablement strategy.