+27 11 881 5855
info@onpro.co.za
Customer Portal
logo-sa
  • Home
  • Approach
  • Solutions
  • Insights
  • Careers
  • BEE
  • About Us
  • Contact

IoT and Advanced Analytics enable business agility

May 9, 2017Hein Pretorius

Improved business agility is when large organisations make faster, more accurate, data driven decisions and improve the speed with which these decisions are implemented. Some examples of how IoT and Advanced Analytics will promote business agility are: 1.   The collection of…

Read More

The importance of context in advanced analytics

May 9, 2017AnalyticsHein Pretorius

It is important to collect all data, for machine learning and stream analytics to produce the best possible insights. Even if you think it has no relevance to the question you are trying to find an answer for. Context is…

Read More

The Cost of Traditional Maintenance

May 7, 2017Analytics, CLoud, IoT, Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Prescriptive MaintenanceHugo Herbst

This is the second in a series of articles on predictive maintenance. In the introductory article (Available here), we discussed the 4 maintenance models: Reactive maintenance waits for parts to break before repairing them, often making matters worse and resulting…

Read More

Successful Predictive Maintenance

April 8, 2017AI, Big Data, CLoud, IoT, Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance, Prescriptive MaintenanceHugo Herbst

These days, neither management nor operational personnel argue the merits of ongoing asset maintenance. In modern manufacturing or mining environments, 20% to 60% of operational costs relate to maintenance activities, excluding upgrades or improvements. Thus, making maintenance as efficient as…

Read More

10 Questions Businesses Must Ask Before Choosing Expensive ERP Software

October 20, 2016Hein Pretorius

ERP investments often fail because software selection gets more attention than business strategy formulation. Here’s how to avoid falling into that trap. Software that is designed to direct business operations – Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software – has earned a…

Read More

How a successful IT project can kill your business

September 16, 2016Hein Pretorius

Legend has it that when Apple engineers demonstrated the first iPod prototype to Steve Jobs, he rejected it as being too big. When they argued that they couldn’t make it smaller, Jobs dropped it into his office aquarium and pointed…

Read More

Software testing must be a strategic management process

September 13, 20161 commentMenzi Tshabalala

Many organisations rely on standard or customised ERP software to run their operations more efficiently. But if a solution doesn’t operate correctly or meet the business requirements of the enterprise, it could mean lost customers, frustrated employees or even catastrophic…

Read More

Change management: more than an afterthought

August 19, 2016Change ManagementBasetsana Magano

Little has improved in change management practices since 2013 when a Gallup report announced that 70% of change initiatives fail. Yet, change management is more critical than ever as business models are subjected to constant disruption. According to Basetsana Magano,…

Read More

Are you still using the supply chain F-word?

August 17, 2016ERP, Supply ChainHein Pretorius

Don’t use the F-word with Hein Pretorius, founder and CEO of Onpro Consulting; he’s not impressed when you do. “We’re a more sophisticated society these days,” he says, “and it’s high time we stopped using that term.” This specific F-word…

Read More

How to turn your ERP system from a sunken cost to an investment

July 17, 2016Hein Pretorius

If you are in the company of a great many other enterprises who experienced challenges with their ERP projects. The initial scope of your project was probably reduced at some point to accommodate time and budget challenges. There appeared to…

Read More

Posts navigation

< 1 … 3,334 3,335 3,336 3,337 3,338 >

Strategic business solutions through technology and people. The Onpro Group is trusted worldwide for high quality ethical solutions. Through technology and people we add real value to the strategic business aspirations of clients.


DisclaimerOnpro Consulting Privacy NoticeMicrosoft Privacy Statement
© 2017 All rights reserved.