Regular auditing of your data and associated workflows can help to protect the value of the data. When there is a prolonged period of using faulty data, what is the impact on the business? Auditing should be a regular and integral part of all mining or exploration operations.

Maxwell has developed a suite of auditing services to provide an independent and comprehensive assessment of the quality of the data and business workflows. Our auditing services have the potential to significantly reduce data risk across the organisation and identify opportunities. A comprehensive audit delivers operational benefits beyond checking the data. It complements the data management process, improves operational data integrity, establishes accountability for data usage and provides a means to analyse data quality.

Our audit services include:

• Data and Metadata Audit

  The data audit covers the quality of the data and metadata in the database.

• Database Structure Audit

  A full testing of your SQL database model for primary and foreign keys, constraints, stored procedures, links to libraries and general referential integrity for compliance with accepted standards. Validation rules are audited if the constraints in the database are functional.

• Database Configuration Audit

  For DataShed users, this audit tests functionality and compliance of all standard extensions.

• QAQC Data Audit

  The QAQC data audit covers the workflows and quality of the internal and external QAQC data and metadata in the database.

• Feasibility Auditing

  The feasability audit covers the quality of the data and metadata in the database.

• IT Infrastructure Audit

  This is a comprehensive audit of the IT infrastructure, addressing operating systems, hardware and workflows such as backup systems.

• Database Workflow Audit

  A comprehensive audit of the workflows to identify data collection points and the capture of this data and metadata.

• Exploration Workflow Audit

  A comprehensive end to end review of the exploration workflows and the associated sources of data and metadata.

For further information on our auditing services, please email us at sales@maxwellgeoservices.com