The Mathematics

of Business

Practical analytics and smart technologies to drive business performance.

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we AUTOMATE,
so that our clients PROSPER

BUSINESS SCIENCE CORPORATION [BSC] is a professional service and information technology business. We apply data engineering, data science and software technologies to enhance the prosperity of our clients.

BSC APPLIED

BSC Applied is our professional service division, comprising a portfolio of data engineering and data science business units, each focused on a specific business challenge.

Revenue Science

Harnessing data and analytics to grow your revenues with scientific precision

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Productivity Science

Simulation and optimisation to unleash your productivity potential

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Planning Science

Planning with deliberate precision to ensure maximum shareholder returns

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BSC CAPITAL

For the past 20 years, BSC has mastered the application of analytics and smart technology to increase business performance.

Qerent

Qerent has one simple purpose: To amplify your business’s performance by taking you through the journey of what has changed in your business, why and what you should do about it.

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Transaction Science

Transactional platforms and technologies to reach your customers in new and innovative ways

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Reality Science

Extended Reality (XR) training solutions for AR, VR, web and mobile. Enhanced Learning through experiential technologies

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WiredUp

Business execution and improvement management made simple.

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TESTIMONIALS

Financial markets are complex by its very nature and have multiple integration points with various specialised stakeholders. The BSC Team spent an enormous amount to study and understand the financial markets, prior to commencing with the product development. In retrospect that is probably the main reason why the Intengo project was delivered within specified timelines and budget.

Transaction Science - Rand Merchant Bank

BSC approaches every task as an opportunity to learn, master then teach which is very refreshing and is likely to set them up as a market leader.

Transaction Science - Rand Merchant Bank

BSC are a valued partner to Bizcash, they have helped us achieve our goals by executing on our vision, allowing us to take our business to new heights

Transaction Science - Alternative Finance Solutions

“BSC worked closely with our team to implement a credit platform for our customers. The team was of a high caliber and worked hard to ensure the solution was tailored to meet our specific needs, even when the business requirements needed to change. They applied their minds not only to the technology, but to helping us reach market success, and have been a great partner to work with throughout our engagement.”

Transaction Science - Standard Bank

“With every engagement, BSC exceeds our expectations. Their philosophy is one of true partnership and they commit to the successful outcome of a project as opposed to simply delivering task.”

Transaction Science - Standard Bank

Very Positive will continue working with the team in the future.

Reality Science - Anglo American Platinum

BSC delivered a technical excellent solution perfectly tailored to my budget. I felt at any stage that the customer is king.

Reality Science - Fosh

Very positive. Extremely professional, good project management and technical capabilities.

Reality Science - Anglo American

One thing that stood out for me was the prompt and business-like approach from the team, the team understood us and helped us to achieve what we wanted. Consistent and high quality service

Reality Science - Anglo American

An exciting project looking at how technology advances leanings in our industry, especially when it comes to working in dangerous environments. Creating scenarios where incidents can be experienced. I believe in your work and from what I have seen so far it’s so impressive and the people know what they are expected to do.

Reality Science - Anglo American Platinum

Enjoyable to work with such a professional team. Communication and progress representation throughout were appreciated.

Reality Science - Anglo American Platinum

Positive, the engagements and support from your team were great, and the continuous feedback was appreciated

Reality Science - Gold Fields

The team is very professional and always available to assist.

Reality Science - Kids Kicking Cancer

Very energetic team that is a pleasure to work with.

Planning Science - Anglo American

This is the first time I have been involved in a logistics study of this nature. The rigour and credibility of the team and the range of the model results exceeded my expectations. Well don

Productivity Science - Albermarle

The team is highly motived to deliver a quality result and work hard to achieve that.

Productivity Science - Albermarle

A highly professional team and highly driven to get the job done.

Productivity Science - Anglo American

All the outputs were extremely useful in dispelling ‘urban myths’ and providing opportunities for improvement.

Productivity Science - IG Partners Pty

The solution delivered is going to add great value to our sites going forward. The technical aspect was to a very high standard, and the ability of key people in the project team to pick up and understand a complex mining process was excellent. Overall a great first project with the BSC team.

Productivity Science - Newcrest Services Pty Limited

Great team, really gets stuck in to the hard & complex tasks.

Productivity Science - BHP

The team is dynamic and has suitable technical skills assisted by a single competent project manager improving communication and understanding. The information interpretation and visualisation is of outstanding quality.

Productivity Science - Dundee Precious Metals

BSC conducted an analysis of the South Deep Gold Mine rail-bound tramming capacity to verify if it can sustain the production profile. Real-time data was used to build the analysis model and a very valuable report was delivered. I will recommend BSC as a valuable stakeholder in any mine’s success.

Productivity Science - Gold Fields

I have always been impressed with their ability to understand the scope of the problem and in turn to articulate a solution that can add value to the business.

Productivity Science - Kumba Iron Ore

Really happy with the commitment from the team. They always make sure they understand our needs and make effort to address our concerns. Always a pleasure working with BSC.

Productivity Science - Kumba Iron Ore

BSC provided innovative but practical data science solutions that quickly deliver value to your organisation. Their problem solving ability, flexible attitude to technical solutions and ability to work globally are unrivalled.

Planning Science - Anglo American

“BSC’s Qerent platform was instrumental in shaping our decision to move ahead with this new leaching technology. We had an understanding that copper recovery was improved, but Qerent allowed us to see clearly the opportunity for both copper production and cash flow in a planning platform that easily allows for modifying input assumptions. Better information, easily obtained, made for confident decision-making.”

Planning science - Capstone Mining Corp

Positive strong systems and employees with huge flexibility. The consistent application of calculation and rules

Planning science - Sibanye-Stillwater

The BSC team worked really well with the Tyme team and ensured that there was alignment throughout the project. With constant feedback, and a good understanding of the business, they delivered a quality output.

Planning science - Tyme Bank Limited

The exceptionally talented BSC team brought together business, management and technical skills to translate business insights to into a robust analytical model to reveal the real drivers that influence liquidity.

Planning Science - Anglo American

BSC immerse themselves in the business and our operational team to truly understand not only our specific requirements but to proactively find ways to deliver additional value. Solutions are bespoke and the insights that they produce are of a consistently high standard. Their own (internal) team works like a well-oiled machine to ensure that deadlines are met.

Revenue Science - Cell C

I have worked with BSC on a number of different telco projects over many years and they are an invaluable business partner. The team I work with is totally customer-focused, proactive in their approach and a source of insight and excellence whose work I know and trust.

Revenue Science - Cell C

A second project and a brand-new team. The new team from BSC was not only pleasant to work worth but they were extremely competent and highly professional. They really provided a product that matched, and in some instances exceeded our expectations. Thank you very much and I am looking forward to working with BSC on future projects.

Revenue Science - Life Health care

From the onset the team at BSC was professional and understood our company needs. Michael and the team was always on time and with deliverables and the final product received was exactly what we required.

Revenue Science - Life Health care

 I expected to spend most of my time “hands-on” guiding and advising the BSC team on key and very technical concepts but was pleasantly surprised that the team had a very good understanding of the business and were able to easily grasp complex engineering concepts and deliver with very little supervision and oversight. This allowed me to free up my time and focus on multiple projects knowing that the BSC team were firmly in control and knew exactly what was expected of the project.

Revenue Science - Vodacom

The quality of the work is fantastic and well thought through. They are collaborative in their way of working which is always good on analytical pieces

Revenue Science - Woolworths

I must say the team are extremely malleable and articulate in understanding the jobs to be done. The fact that the team have telecommunications experience and worked in this sphere before creates a seamless experience & elevated innovative thinking passed on from the BSC team to the telco incumbents. The BSC team are enabled to elicit the pain points and transpose that into tangible meaningful outcomes. Superlative Experience Indeed!

Revenue Science - Cell C

It has been a pleasure working with the analysts and team leads from BSC. I enjoyed the innovation in analytical approaches which added to the quality of our final concepts. The assigned team members have always been professional, delivered work at high quality under pressure and have become very close to the market conditions and environmental factors affecting our business. I would recommend BSC to other businesses in technology without hesitation.

Revenue Science - Vodacom

TRUSTED BY
TOP BRANDS, GLOBALLY

For the past 20 years, BSC has mastered the application of analytics and smart technology to increase business performance.

Copper Mining and Processing
Planning Science
Integrated Business Planning
An Integrated Business Planning model combining operational drivers across the Copper mining and processing value streams with site- and macro-level financial drivers to yield a financial forecast and . This allowed for production planning, bottleneck analysis and studies on business case and capital investment profitability.
Banking
Planning Science
Rolling Forecast
This solution provided the bank with an intimate understanding of their key drivers of financial performance and the impact a change on any of these key drivers would have on their future through comprehensive scenario planning. It then used this information to ensure the bank would remain compliant and continue to adhere to regulations in an ever-changing environment.
Multi-commodity Mining Group
Planning Science
Group Integrated Planning
A fully integrated model including stochastic analysis, that provides an understanding of group risk exposure by using the variability in key drivers to calculate a confidence in achieving the Business Plan at Business Unit and Group level. This facilitated meaningful communication to shareholders and market analysts, providing assurance of the likelihood of meeting targets and exposure to key risks.
Media
Planning Science
Rolling Forecast
Developed a rolling forecast model that allowed the Financial Planning and Analysis team to report a monthly rolling forecast for the group, perform Budget vs Actual analysis, evaluate and quantify the causes of deviations, create multiple scenarios to stress test plans and generate amended Budgets for approval.
Planning Science
Platinum Mining and Processing
Strategic Portfolio Planning
A portfolio optimisation solution that modelled the production and economics of a portfolio of mining assets and the processing value chain, from mine to market, for a major Platinum operator. This provided an enhanced decision support capability through rapid scenario generation by allowing flexing of underlying operational driver, commercial contracts and macro-economics.
Planning Science
Utilities
Capital Portfolio Optimisation
A capital allocation decision support solution was built to allow for capital projects across different business units to objectively compete for capital based on liquidity and operational constraints. An optimization simulation provided the top portfolio configurations given the strategic focus criteria.
Commodity Market
Planning Science
Commodity Supply Demand Modelling
Cost models that estimate historical and forecasted future production, cost, and emissions data for all the major assets in the world for a given commodity. This allows clients to analyze market supply, demand, pricing and make asset valuations.
Extraction
Productivity Science
Load and Haul Traffic Orchestration
Derived and tested the impact of orchestrating haul truck traffic within open-pit mine operations. Productivity inefficiencies due to congestion were identified and strategies to address them were simulated resulting in double-digit percentage increases in throughput.
Processing
Productivity Science
In-Shift Production Optimisation
Developed and deployed a solution for a gold miner to use to optimise gold production in the event of unplanned stoppages in the plant. The tool utilises real-time data to determine the optimal set points to run the plant at, factoring in the various operational and metallurgical constraints.
Processing
Productivity Science
Plant Design Validation
Configured a model to dynamically simulate the flow of material, in detail, through the modules for a new lithium plant. The model was designed to identify any systemic issues within the plant layout, specifically within the realm of buffer sizing and equipment utilisation.
Logistics
Productivity Science
Working Capital Prediction Model
Configured a model to dynamically simulate the flow of concentrate from the client’s mines in Western Australia, through to the processing plants in China factoring in the multiple modes of transport along the way. The model determined the working capital requirements across the value chain.
Mining
Productivity Science
Tactical Planning Models
Developed a set of value stream and value driver tree models for various mines for a mining client. These models were designed to identify system bottlenecks, determine system throughput, and test various ‘What-if’ scenarios as part of the business improvement processes for the client.
Logistics
Productivity Science
Integrated Planning Logistics Model
Implemented a predictive simulation model that determined the logistics requirements for a copper smelter every week. The simulation integrated production plans and maintenance schedules at the smelter with arrival and departure times for the vessels at the port to work out the road and rail logistics requirements.
Mining
Reality Science
Underground Barring Training
A Mixed Reality (MR) simulation of the barring activity wherein the trainee uses real equipment but is exposed to virtual risks. Effective training time reduced by 90%, resulting in increased productivity and decreased overhead costs associated with training.
Construction
Reality Science
Electrical and Plumbing Training
Gamified VR modules where learners must perform tasks such as site inspection and planning of materials and working time; preparation of an installation plan and cost estimate; carrying out installations with the planned materials and tools. Focus on the development of problem-solving skills.
Healthcare
Reality Science
Pain Therapy and Meditation
A VR experience, providing a guided visualisation of the impact of how to leverage correct breathing during meditation. The experience has been used to demonstrate the effectiveness of VR-based meditative intervention in reducing pain ratings and modulating pain neuromatrix activity and connectivity among opioid use disorder (OUD) patients.
Mining
Reality Science
New Mining Methods
A fully animated and narrated 3D experience, showing proposed new mining methods and equipment. The 3D video experience shows intangible concepts that are otherwise difficult to convey and showed the value the project could unlock to upper management, leading to it being green-lit.
Financial
Reality Science
Investment Education
A VR experience to address the importance of saving and explain the concept of compound interest. The VR experience is used at corporate wellness days to attract interest and encourage participants to make a call to action, for example electing to be contacted by a financial counsellor. Greatly increased engagement and interest at wellness days.
Mining
Reality Science
Smelter Operator Training
VR training around the operating procedures of the smelter mud gun including inspection, drilling, tapping, lancing and filling . Trainees are introduced to the hazards and processes associated with the work, in a virtual environment. The project reduces risk to personnel and equipment, reduces disruptions in the field for training, and expedites operator experience gain.
Revenue Science
Telecoms
Telcosurance Personalisation
Using subscriber behavioral and transactional data, prepaid customers were segmented, and targeted with different insurance offerings based on the highest probability of conversion. Additionally, usage data helped optimize contactability rates and drive better conversions.
Revenue Science
Telecoms
Channel Incentive Structure Modelling
Introduced a Smart Commissions framework to address prepaid rotational churn supported by a commercial model to simulate different incentive structures for channel partners. Commissions inefficiencies were resolved through redefined performance measures & targets, which resulted in a decrease in churn.
Healthcare
Revenue Science
Revenue Forecasting & Diagnostics
A mathematical driver-based model of the finance process was built. This allowed for improved forecasts through driver-based machine-learning & diagnostics by tracking shifts in drivers & quantifying the resultant impact, for proactive interventions across hospitals, funders, disciplines and doctors.
Healthcare
Revenue Science
Outbreak Detection and Alerting
Improve the ability to promptly detect outbreaks by providing the infection control teams with an automated outbreak detection solution for hospitals and wards, while also providing a better understanding of the leading contributors to infectious outbreaks.
Retail
Revenue Science
Stock-out Prediction Models
Machine-learning forecast to provide retailer with weekly product predictions across relevant SKU’s reducing the probability of stock-outs. The end-to-end process of data sourcing, integration, processing, model training & deployment into a production environment, serves 10 000 stores
FMCG
Revenue Science
Early Warning Prediction System
Effective and swift responses to competitor promotional activity by identifying anomalous transactional behaviour in sales volumes, pricing & emerging SKUs at a localised level. Automated reports are distributed to operational teams to proactively combat high risk competitor activity.
Revenue Science
Customer Segmentation & Lifecycle Management
Detailed segmentation modelling to support lifecycle management, hyper-personalization and loyalty. Using the segment profiles and attributes, detailed engagement strategies were formulated and executed.
Revenue Science
Product Recommendation Engine
Simulating, forecasting & re-rating subscriber spend and usage behavior over 24 months to proactively recommend appropriate tariffs at contract renewal stage.
Revenue Science
Launch of Enterprise Product Portfolio
Helped launch a portfolio of enterprise tariffs targeted at different customer segments and verticals. This included commercial modelling, forecasting & simulation to determine optimal pricing & proposition design, to drive adoption and mitigate cannibalization from existing consumer offerings.
Revenue Science
Lead Allocation & Conversion Optimization Engine
Profiled and scored incoming calls to determine the optimal agent profile to service the lead who would have a higher likelihood to improve closing rates and overall effectiveness.
Revenue Science
Customer Insights, Modelling & Reporting
Consolidated data sources, cleaned and enriched data fields with text mining algorithms. The data was then profiled and statistically analysed to extract key insights and trends on acquisition, churn, product affinity and market penetration
Revenue Science
SALESFORCE OPTIMISATION
Developed a dynamic visit allocation solution, which prioritises visits based on localised needs of customers across a variety of strategic KPI’s. Subsequently created a route scheduling optimization model to minimize travel duration and visit days and provide weekly visit schedules to the salesforce.
Revenue Science
Product Pricing & Proposition
Pricing analytics and commercial modelling to develop two innovative propositions for Standard Bank Retail including proposition design, customer testing / validation and reporting.
Revenue Science
Segmentation & Embedded App Analytics
Blend digital banking behaviour with transactional and customer information to improve customer engagement within the digital mobile banking application.
Revenue Science
Consumer Product & Services Chatbot
A customer-facing concierge chatbot on homepage, aimed at assisting users to find the information they are looking for as quickly as possible. The solution aims to improve conversion by reducing drop-off of potential customers.
Revenue Science
Collections Optimization Engine
Built a collections optimization engine using machine learning to predict the likelihood of collection for a set amount on a specific date whilst minimizing collection costs.
Revenue Science
Centralised Infrastructure Logging Solution
Developed a centralised logging solution using the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack to automatically process, analyse and visualize log files, in order to diagnose infrastructure issues more efficiently and improve MTTR.
Revenue Science
Investment Management Platform
A platform to facilitate a more efficient and effective way to raise investments and capital for Green real estate globally, using a full transactional system and blockchain for increased transparency and auditability.