Mincom Pty Ltd was a software and services company that provides business software to industries including mining, public infrastructure, defence, oil and gas in more than 40 countries across North America, South America, Australia, South East Asia, Africa, and Europe. Mincom Inc. operates in North America and is a subsidiary of Mincom Pty Ltd. Mincom employs 1250 people in 24 offices across six continents. Mincom was owned by Francisco Partners, a global

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focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. On 9 May 2011 the

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acquired Mincom to expand their enterprise software business, Ventyx. The company's name was originally devised as a contraction of the term "mining computing", as the company's initial products were aimed at the mining industry. Mincom's headquarters were located in

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, Queensland as well as with offices presence in Sydney,

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. North American operations are located in the United States (

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, Colorado, San Francisco, California and

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) and in Canada (

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, Ontario). Latin American offices are in

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, Chile.

MineMarket

MineMarket is a software application produced by Mincom Limited for the mining industry. The application is claimed to provide a whole-of-enterprise view of the

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, from ore extraction to product delivery, including external processes such as delivery arrangements. The MineMarket solution provides coverage of the logistics and sales processes for mining and mineral related organisations. It is designed to run on the

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family of operating systems. The current major release of MineMarket is version 4.

Mincom Critical Inventory Optimization

MCIO is a software application purchased by Mincom Limited from Bruce McNaught and Associates Pty Ltd. The application is claimed to offer the ability for any company holding a large inventory to substantially reduce the inventory value while improving the service level on critical stick items. Originally known as SIAM, MCIO integrates with Mincom's main Ellipse Asset management platform. It is designed to run on the

family of operating systems. The current major release of MCIO is version 4.3 which is a fully multilingual version of the product.

Awards

Mincom was inducted into the

Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame In 2009 State Library of Queensland The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Qu ...

in 2017.

References

External links

Mincom digital story and oral history: Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame 2016

State Library of Queensland The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government. Its legislative basis is provided by the Queensland Libraries Act 1988. It contai ...

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MineMarket

Mincom Critical Inventory Optimization

Awards

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