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The company has won a number of awards over the past two years.
Early 2018, they landed second at the Black
Umbrellas Awards as brand ambassadors.
“We were also the overall winners at
the annual Eskom Business Investment
Competition (BIC) Awards. The award
included some form of investment and
this year we will be part of one of their
programmes. I believe this will help us
grow even further,” he adds.
“We run an internship programme
in partnership with the National Youth
Development Agency (NYDA). We have
two interns at the moment. The intention
is to retain them in the business.” He is also
part of an organisation called 1000’s Men: It
brings together male entrepreneurs to come
together and build sustainable businesses.
Some projects that they are working on
include consulting services primarily
focusing on advanced analytics in the
private and public sectors, through an entity
called Prodeliver Analytics. “The combined
experience of Prodeliver Analytics’
members in mining, transportation, data
analytics, and industrial problems such as
finance and telecommunications and R&D
in machine learning and robotics, as well as
a partnership with analytics software and
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Start ups need a lot of attention.
solutions provider SAS Institute, makes
Prodeliver Analytics a strong provider of
advanced analytics services in the mining
and transportation sectors,” he says.
As we enter the Fourth Industrial
Revolution, he would like to see Prodeliver
positioning themselves to adapt to the
revolution. “We don’t want to be left
behind,” he says.
“I can say I have always
been an entrepreneur
because throughout my life,
I have always been selling.”
Nyadzeni Makhado
www.quarryonline.co.za