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The Group’s consultants are Data Specialists who apply best-practice principles irrespective of the technology.
Cloud optimisation: Why migration is only the beginning
Cloud optimisation: Why migration is only the beginning Leejay Bell, Senior Data Engineer at PBT Group For many organisations, cloud migration is still treated as the major milestone. Once workloads have been moved, systems are live, and users can access what they...
Reaching fit-for-AI status in data management
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...
Assessing your data ecosystem: What to evaluate, where inefficiencies hide, and how to optimise for change
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...
Assessing your data ecosystem: Why it matters, when to do it, and why most organisations get it wrong
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...
Agentic AI: Navigating opportunity and risk
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...
What makes a high-performance data team
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...
PBT Group – Data and technology trends that will define 2026 – Techsmart
Where metadata management is heading in the age of GenAI
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...
Self-service analytics without governance is a ticking time bomb – IT Online
PBT Group: Self-service analytics without governance is a ticking time bomb for businesses – Lifestyle & Tech
PBT Group: Self-service analytics without governance is a ticking time bomb for businesses – ITWeb
The evolution of metadata management frameworks
The evolution of metadata management frameworks Julian Thomas, Principal Consultant at PBT Group If you have worked with enterprise data for any length of time, you will know that metadata has never been a “nice to have.” Long before anyone coined phrases like data...