Pragma Offers A Comprehensive Suite Of Solutions For Enterprise Asset Management

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Pragma Offers A Comprehensive Suite Of Solutions For Enterprise Asset Management

Pragma, founded in 1990 and headquartered in South Africa is an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) software provider. Its integrated EAM solution – On Key, is used by over 5000 users globally across multiple industries. Some publicly referenced customers include Aujan Industries, Life Healthcare, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and South Deep gold mine.

Pragma’s On Key EAM software application includes three core modules consisting of Intelligent Asset Register, Work Management and Supplier and Material Management. Intelligent Asset Register enables the creation of detailed as well as easily scalable and repeatable asset hierarchies, which can be further linked with components and maintenance work tasks. Maintenance Manager accessible on mobile devices includes functionality to create service or work requests, permit to work and preventive maintenance plans. On Key Materials Manager focuses on spare parts planning and prioritization by supporting critical parts identification and understanding MRO demands by linking with maintenance plans and reorder levels. On Key Insight leverages Qlik BI platform and helps firms visualize as well as analyze data to provide financial insights, set up health and safety related KPIs and undertake custom analysis for conditioning monitoring, lifecycle cost and spatial analysis.

In the 2020 Verdantix Global Corporate Survey, spend on asset maintenance activities topped the list of operational excellence activities with 62% of the 259 decision-makers in operations, maintenance, engineering, and process safety roles stated investing in commercial software for maintenance planning and execution in 2021. This bodes well for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and maintenance optimization software providers such as Pragma and other providers such as DevonWay, iOffice, Lloyd’s Register and Ultimo.

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Pragma Offers A Comprehensive Suite Of Solutions For Enterprise Asset Management

Malavika Tohani

Research Director, Industrial Transformation

Malavika leads the Verdantix Industrial Transformation practice. Her current research agenda focuses on digital technologies for Operational Excellence including digital twins and software solutions for industrial risk and asset management. Malavika has over 15 years’ experience in research and strategy consulting. Malavika previously worked at Frost & Sullivan, managing and delivering advisory projects for clients involving expansion, acquisition, benchmarking and product development strategies. Malavika holds a MSc in Economics from Madras School of Economics.