Reaching fit-for-AI status in data management Nathi Dube, Director: PBT Innovation at PBT Group For many organisations, data has historically been treated as an afterthought. It existed. It was stored. It supported reporting. But it was rarely placed at the centre of strategy. That approach is no longer sustainable. Artificial…

Assessing your data ecosystem: What to evaluate, where inefficiencies hide, and how to optimise for change Julian Thomas, Principal Consultant at PBT Group In the first part of this blog series, I spoke about why assessing your data ecosystem is critical, and why it should be treated as a regular…

Assessing your data ecosystem: Why it matters, when to do it, and why most organisations get it wrong Julian Thomas, Principal Consultant at PBT Group In most organisations, there is an implicit assumption that the data ecosystem has evolved according to some form of deliberate, overarching plan. In reality, that…

Agentic AI: Navigating opportunity and risk Jan de Villiers, Head of Cloud Academy at PBT Group Agentic AI¹ refers to a class of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can plan, reason, act, and execute multi-step tasks to achieve defined goals with limited, or in some cases no, direct human supervision.…

What makes a high-performance data team Andreas Bartsch, Head of Innovation and Services at PBT Group Every organisation wants better decisions to gain a competitive advantage. Yet the path to improved decision-making is often blocked by familiar obstacles. These include fragmented data, unexpectedly escalating cloud costs, and dashboards that keep…

Where metadata management is heading in the age of GenAI Julian Thomas, Principal Consultant at PBT Group In the first blog of this series, I looked at how metadata management frameworks have evolved over the past 30 years, from Word documents and Visio diagrams through to specialist tools, cloud platforms,…