The National Company for Prospecting, Exploration, Lapidation and Marketing of Diamonds in Angola (ENDIAMA) will create a database on the country’s diamond production.
Speaking to the press, on the sidelines of the opening of the workshop on Data Integration and Information on Diamond Projects in Angola, which takes place in Luanda, the chairman of the Board of Directors of ENDIAMA, Ganga Júnior, said that the process is already underway, and will be implemented through the Integrated Business Management System (ERP), as well as the Application of Products for Data Processing (SAP).
SAP will make it possible to process all the technical, economic, financial and administrative training of companies in the diamond sector. Ganga Júnior assured that Endiama is already working on installing SAP. “Geological information is central to our activity”, he stressed, stressing that Endiama, as a mining company, has as its starting point the information that results from the geological process. “It is necessary to join the companies that operate in the sector to find the best ways for there to be integration, and be the vehicle of communication and information between the institutions”, he pointed out. As for the performance of the companies in the project, Ganga Júnior guaranteed that it will be autonomous and independent, based on the Law that regulates mining activity in the country.
“We have to work in order to have a permanent flow of information between Endiama and the partners, in order to have knowledge of the real situation, to know what our reserves are, both global and at the level of each of the companies, as well as the follow-up of the entire production process”, underlined Ganga Júnior.
System integration
In turn, the director of Endiama’s Information Technology Office, Emanuel Saturnino, highlighted that the objective of the project is the “integration of all information on diamonds, in the same system”. “Any organization that wants data on diamonds in Angola, with this project, ENDIAMA will be able to make them available”, he underlined. About 30 companies from the diamond sector participated in the event, as well as companies linked to the digitization area, invited to demonstrate their experience in the data sharing system. During the workshop, participants discussed topics related to the type of data that will be integrated into the system, the frequency of integration, in addition to the format that should be used for integration.
