GEOVIA Minex licences, scoped to what your team opens
Most licence conversations start with a module list. Ours starts with a usage audit — because the honest answer is usually fewer seats than you are paying for now.
What actually drives a Minex quote
Four variables set the number. Everything else is negotiation.
Module families
Minex is licensed by module family, not as one product. Borehole and seam modelling, grids and surfaces, open pit design, scheduling, underground, quality and washability, plotting, SQL and Tcl. A geologist who never opens the scheduler should not be paying for it.
Concurrent versus named
Concurrent seats float across your team; named seats are tied to a person. A site running three geologists across two shifts rarely needs three concurrent seats. This single decision moves the number more than any discount.
Support tier and term
Minex sits on Continued Support. Term length and support tier change both the price and what you are entitled to when something breaks. We will tell you plainly what the tier does and does not cover.
The fourth variable is the one nobody puts in a quote: how many of the seats you already hold were opened last quarter. That is what a licence audit measures, and it is where the money usually is.
The audit that costs us money
We read your licence file against your actual session logs and tell you what we find, including when the finding is that you should buy less.
- Seat utilisation. How many concurrent seats peaked in use, by month, against how many you hold.
- Module drift. Modules licensed years ago for a project that ended, still renewing quietly every term.
- Version exposure. Anyone still on an older branch is running behind the current line, which has consequences for support entitlement.
- Renewal timing. Co-terminating separate licence lines so you negotiate once a year instead of four times.
An official channel, not a broker
MinexCoal is a service of ACALA, an Official Partner of Dassault Systèmes. The licence, the migration and the training come from one accountable party.
- Proper channel. Licences are supplied through the vendor's official partner channel, not resold second-hand.
- One contract path. Procurement, implementation and training under one supplier relationship rather than three.
- Honest limits. We cannot vary Dassault Systèmes' licence terms, warranties, support commitments or roadmap, and we will not pretend otherwise.
The commercial facts your finance team will ask for
Not a checkout. A licence is scoped per operation, so there is no basket to fill. But you cannot raise an internal budget request without these few lines, so here they are.
- Currency. We invoice in Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) or United States Dollars (USD). Which one applies is stated in the proposal, agreed before you commit.
- Payment terms. Invoices are payable within 30 days of the invoice date, unless the proposal states otherwise.
- Tax. Fees are exclusive of VAT (PPN) and other applicable duties, charged in addition at the prevailing rate. Where Indonesian withholding tax applies to service fees, it is handled in the normal way and reflected on the invoice.
- From PO to a working licence. Three to five business days from your purchase order to the licence installed and active on the machines that need it. The invoice follows once it is running — you are not billed for a seat nobody can open yet.
- Quotation validity. Quotations hold for 30 days from issue. A contract forms when we confirm your order in writing, or when we begin work at your written request.
Software licence fees payable to the vendor are separate from our service fees and are governed by the vendor’s own terms. The binding version of all of this is in our Terms & Conditions.
What buyers ask about licensing
How much does a GEOVIA Minex licence cost?
There is no list price we can publish, because the number depends on module families, concurrent versus named seats, support tier and term length. What we can do quickly is scope it: tell us commodity, seam count, current Minex version and how many people genuinely open the software each week, and we will come back with a figure rather than a discovery call.
Can we buy Minex without buying implementation?
Yes. Licensing and implementation are separate services and you are not obliged to take both. We will say so if your existing setup is sound — a recommendation we cannot defend is worth less than the fee attached to it.
We are on an older Minex release. Does that matter?
It matters for support entitlement. An older branch runs behind the current line, and Continued Support is scoped around the current line. Upgrading is usually straightforward; the work sits in re-validating models built under the older version, not in the installer.
Do you handle renewals for licences bought elsewhere?
We can review them and quote the renewal, subject to the vendor's own transfer rules. Bring the licence file and the renewal date and we will tell you what is possible before anyone signs anything.
What currency do you invoice in?
Indonesian Rupiah or United States Dollars, stated in the proposal and agreed before you commit. Software licence fees payable to Dassault Systèmes are separate from our service fees and follow the vendor's own terms.
What are your payment terms?
Invoices are payable within 30 days of the invoice date unless the proposal says otherwise. Fees are exclusive of PPN and other duties, which are charged in addition at the prevailing rate.
How long is a quotation valid?
Thirty days from issue. If the information the quote was built on turns out to be materially incomplete — the volume or condition of data to be migrated is the usual one — we will revise it before work begins rather than absorb it quietly and argue later.
Is there a minimum engagement size? We are a small operation.
No minimum. A single licence, one person trained, or a half-day model review are all real engagements, and we scope them the same way we scope a fourteen-seam rebuild. Small operations are often where the single-point-of-failure risk is highest — one geologist holds the model, the workflow lives in their head, and nothing is written down. And if the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, we will say that too.
How long from purchase order to a working licence?
Three to five business days. We take it from your PO through to the licence installed and activated on the machines that need it. The invoice is issued after that, once it is running — so you are never billed for a seat nobody can open yet. If anything in the chain is going to run longer than that, you hear it from us at quotation rather than afterwards.
Tell us about your deposit
Commodity, seam count, Minex version and user count. Those four lines are enough for us to answer with numbers instead of questions.
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