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The Group’s consultants are Data Specialists who apply best-practice principles irrespective of the technology.
Exploring data warehouse alternatives
Your data strategy must constantly evolve
Cloud, AI, data governance and DataOps remain top Big Data trends in South Africa
Big Data predictions for 2022
Empowering users to join the data value chain
Data engineering a key part in the data strategy implementation puzzle
Kimball vs Data Vault, or taking the best of both?
Kimball vs Data Vault, or taking the best of both? Dudley Drummond-Hay, Senior Data Architect at PBT Group In 1996, Ralph Kimball introduced a dimensional modelling technique that used a set of defined methods, processes, and techniques to design and...
The need for data virtualisation for the modern, data-driven business
The need for data virtualisation for the modern, data-driven business Jessie Rudd, Technical Business Analyst at PBT Group Data virtualisation can be seen as the layer residing between disparate sources of data, whether stored in the cloud or across...
Data warehouse automation for better business decision-making
Data warehouse automation for better business decision-making Cor Winckler, Principal Consultant at PBT Group Automation has become such a loaded term with many organisations thinking this will mean they can now forget about managing certain elements of...
Underestimating data migration leads to costly failures
By Nickie Viljoen, PBT Group Head of Claims Migrating data from one system to another, whether local migration, on premises to cloud, or between cloud-hosted systems, is often the most underestimated, yet complex part of a new system implementation. It is frequently...
Broadening the reach of data for the business
Broadening the reach of data for the business Jessie Rudd, Technical Business Analyst, PBT Group Even though data has become the lifeblood of every organisation, it is still not accessible (or even understandable) to all employees. The potential of data is...
Understanding the alternatives to a data warehouse
Understanding the alternatives to a data warehouse Julian Thomas, Principal Consultant at PBT Group Often, when an organisation believes it is implementing an alternative to a data warehouse it is only using different technologies to do the same thing. A...