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The issue with Expert Solutions

The mining industry is notorious for its variety of fragmented expert systems, with a total count of more than 330 single subject, single-discipline systems produced by over 90 different vendors. Within a mid-sized mining enterprise, there could easily be as many as 30 disparate systems, and only a few will have proper integration capabilities. Most will have proprietary file formats and vendors unwilling to standardise and make use of open, published file formats.

To find out how to solve these integration, inter-operation issues, follow this link to read the full paper : MineRP data management paper