Physical asset management company Pragma is dedicated to delivering best-practice asset management solutions to asset- intensive industries across Africa.
Having been actively involved across several industries for 25 years, Pragma is a team of engineers at its core. This sets the company apart from many other organisations delivering services within the asset management space, which typically approach asset management from a purely financial, information technology, consulting or process-outsourcing perspective.
In addition to the required aptitude in these elements, Pragma also understands physical assets. The company also provides a wide range of asset-management-related services, whereas most of its competitors focus on niche areas.
Pragma’s business processes cover day-to-day maintenance as well as long-term asset optimisation.
The first step in a Pragma asset management intervention is usually an asset management improvement plan assessment, which establishes the current state of the assets, identifies their desired state and provides the outline for an improvement plan to close the gap between the two.
Pragma states that the solutions it offers is purely based on the needs and requirements of its clients. The company believes that no two clients are the same – each one’s organisational goals differ and will, therefore, have different demands on their assets to deliver on that organisational purpose.
Pragma also runs the Pragma Academy, which is aimed at rectifying the imbalance of apprentices and staff who lack a basic theoretical understanding of what physical asset management entails through theoretically sound, yet practically applicable, learning interventions.
Pragma was established in 1990 and has offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, eMalahleni and Port Elizabeth, as well as in Windhoek, Namibia; and Gaborone, Botswana. The company employs 240 people in South Africa, with an additional 100 employed internationally.