Oniqua Pty Ltd. Receives 2008 Emerging Company of the Year Award for Global Enterprise Asset Management in Mining

Brisbane — Australian-based Oniqua Pty Ltd. (Oniqua) has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2008 Emerging Company of the Year Award for Global Enterprise Asset Management in Mining. This award is in recognition of Oniqua’s ability to provide an enterprise-level integrated analytical solution for procurement, inventory, maintenance, and reliability management. Oniqua’s solution provides customers with unparalleled visibility into total asset management of their organizations and allows them to make real improvements for operational excellence.

Oniqua has emerged as a leader in providing analytical software that empowers customers to optimize their assets with greater cross-functional and regional visibility and collaboration. The Oniqua Analytcis Suite (OAS) helps customers improve asset management by making better use of the data captured by transactional systems already present in an organization. Based on proprietary statistical tools and closed loop optimization techniques, OAS helps customers better manage their assets and continuously improve data quality through automated feedback systems, allowing them to reduce waste and improve process efficiencies. OAS also helps to reduce an organization’s production costs and maximize asset availability, positively affecting the profitability of the organization. Andy Hill, Oniqua’s CEO, states, “The release of the Oniqua Analytics Suite has met with a strong uptake from the market, with eight out of the top ten mining companies now using Oniqua solutions. We are delighted and honoured to see this success recognized through the Frost & Sullivan 2008 Global Enterprise Asset Management in Mining Emerging Company of the Year Award.”

Oniqua has been able to effectively serve mining majors to optimize their assets and improve the total productivity of the organization. “The fact that even a 1 percent increase in asset utilization can help the global mining majors deliver more than a billion dollars in shareholder value is driving global mining companies to adopt Oniqua solutions,” states Frost and Sullivan analyst Sivakali Prasad.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Emerging Company of the Year is presented each year to the company that has emerged as a significant participant within its industry. Recipients of this award are perceived to have exhibited outstanding management skills, superior market growth, exceptional customer services and the ability to combine technology and successful strategic initiatives.

Oniqua is recognized as having the exceptional know-how to take advantage of market changes through the execution of innovative strategies within the existing competitive landscape. “The ingenuity of Oniqua to help its customers analyze raw data, understand inefficiencies, and identify opportunities for improvement of the utilization of assets makes it a worthy recipient of the 2008 Emerging Company of the Year Award in Enterprise Asset Management,” says industry analyst Sivakali Prasad.

About Oniqua
Oniqua Pty Ltd. is a world leader in the field of Enterprise Analytics, cataloging and content improvement with headquarters in Brisbane Australia, and offices and partners located in North America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Oniqua provides solutions and services for asset intensive organizations in Mining, Processing, Energy & Utilities, and Oil & Gas industries. Through the implementation and use of the Oniqua Analytics Suite, organizations will standardize, analyze and optimize their maintenance, inventory and procurement content to drive asset performance. Oniqua’s mining clients include: BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Vale, Freeport, Anglo American and Newmont Mining.

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VP Business Development Americas

Oniqua Pty. Ltd.

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