PBT GROUP SERVICES
PBT Group provides services and solutions across most aspects relating to data; and from end-to-end.
Whilst the Group’s core expertise historically originated from Data Architecture, Data Modelling and Data Engineering, this naturally expanded to include areas such as Advisory & Strategic, as well as Analytics & Visualisation. PBT Group has also started venturing into the high-end data value streams like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intends to grow its expertise within this area.
In addition to this – and complementing the data services offered – PBT Group also has an Application Development competency mainly involved with Mobile Application Development within the financial sector.
Healthcare Solutions
- Policy Management
- Product Management
- Provider Management
- Schedule Management
- Claim/Invoice Management
- Eligibility Management
SAS® Services
- SAS Development & Integration
- SAS Administration & Optimisation
- Building Bespoke SAS Solutions
- Business Analysis & Solution Architecture
- Data Migration to SAS Viya
- SAS Viya Workbench Implementation
Data Engineering
- Data Lake
- Data Streaming
- ETL / ELT
- Data Warehouse
- Data Wrangling
- Cloud Infrastructure
Artificial Intelligence
- Scheduling
- Optimisation
- Natural Language Processing
- Robotics
- Machine Learning
Application Development
- Backend
- Frontend
- .NET Hub
- Java Hub
- Mobile
- IOT
Managed Services
- Outsourcing
- Support
- Maintenance
- Managed Services
- Technical Expertise
HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS
With substantial experience in providing solutions and services to leading medical aid firms, PBT has developed a professional service offering that addresses the particular specifications of the healthcare industry.
Maintaining a reputation for economically producing the desired results has led to PBT being recognised as a foremost provider of medical aid software solutions and products. PBT’s medical fund and managed care solutions consist of user-friendly, parameter-driven design, providing high levels of flexibility. This enables fast reaction to market changes with minimal effort and permits rapid adoption of new business opportunities.
SAS® Services
At the heart of our SAS Services is PBT Group’s SAS Competency Centre—a dedicated hub where deep technical expertise meets real-world data challenges. By centralising our SAS capabilities, we ensure every engagement benefits from the latest industry insights, proven methodologies, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.
Our Competency Centre is staffed by certified SAS professionals with extensive experience across multiple industries, covering deployment, troubleshooting, optimisation, advanced analytics, data integration, and visualisation. From platform installation and configuration through to sophisticated analytics, we provide a single point of contact for all your SAS needs. We work collaboratively with your in-house teams, offering training and mentorship to ensure long-term sustainability once solutions are live.
A culture of continuous innovation drives our team to research and test new SAS features, integrations, and techniques, enabling the rapid deployment of cutting-edge solutions. Whether you need end-to-end support or niche expertise—such as migrating to SAS Viya, integrating with cloud platforms, or building predictive models—our flexible engagement models can be scaled to meet your specific requirements.
Advanced Analytics
SAS® Competency Centre
Proactive
Solutions
Data
Storytelling
Local Partner
Strategic & Advisory
PBT Group’s principal Data & Analytics consultants have 10 or more years of experience in the data world. This collective experience is complemented by strong Data Governance & Management frameworks that are specifically aimed at dealing with the enterprise complexity of the modern data environment.
PBT Group can perform a readiness assessment of the client’s data journey and consult on modernisation initiatives, assist in the development and implementation of a data strategy, and advise on any associated cloud-based approaches and supporting technologies required.
Data Engineering
PBT Group has extensive experience across multiple industries and technologies, implementing successful data pipelines and solutions that span across Data Lakes, Operational Data Stores, Data Warehouses, Advanced Analytics, Data Science, Big Data, Data Visualisation, Cloud and DataOps. The Group’s Data Engineers are well equipped to utilise modern data processing techniques such as data streaming, data wrangling, data vaults etc.
Furthermore, PBT Group can provide Cloud-based services and consulting for most of the major cloud vendors, e.g.
Consultants keep abreast with changing technologies and industry best practices via ongoing training, certifications and as guided by the PBT Innovation division.
Data Visualisation
Analytics and Visualisation are mainstream consumer areas of stored/prepared data. Data can be consumed either from the raw Data Lake, or from some prepared, modelled data area.
The PBT Group experts are well versed in the methods of consuming and analysing large data sets, for e.g. Data Science, or more traditional Analytics outputs like dashboards, reports, and self-help slice-and-dice front ends. The Group’s Data Visualisation Engineers are familiar with many of the Visualisation tools available and provide significant value add in all aspects of analysis, user experience, data insights and in telling a data story.
Data
Storytelling
User
Experience
Data
Insights
Artificial Intelligence
In the business world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an emerging reality. Its adoption is tightly linked to business maturity. AI is commonly defined as the area of computer science that emphasises the creation of intelligent machines that work and react like humans.
As an extension of its Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics competencies, PBT Group has expanded its service offering into areas of Data Science and AI.
Application Development
The PBT Group Application Development competency assists organisations to deliver custom applications that focus on system integration, software, web, database, collaboration, business process management and mobile app development.
The PBT Group team has been fundamental in the creation/enhancement of a mobile banking app used by millions of banking clients.
Data
Science
Artificial
Intelligence
Application
Development
MANAGED SERVICES
PBT Group’s Managed Services and Solutions offering originated from a large-scale project across 20 countries, with the need to support the associated operations with 1st (day-to-day ‘running’ of the solution), 2nd- and 3rd line support, as well as maintenance (small enhancements) activities to keep the solution relevant. The support model provided the required flexibility of onsite vs. remote support, or a hybrid thereof, as well as more informal vs. formalised, Service Level Agreement (SLA) based support – depending on the operation’s size and budgetary constraints.
PBT Group has subsequently successfully expanded these services to non-support related, functional areas for various local and international clients. The diagram provides a summary of the managed services utilisation/application and associated value proposition PBT Group offers. A managed services and solutions engagement is an attractive consideration as it provides flexibility, on demand capacity and expertise, as well as cost efficiencies associated with a remote working model and limited management overhead.
Value Proposition
- Increased productivity
- Predictable cost structure
- High level of technical expertise
- Focus on core business, whilst empowering and enabling end users
- Utilise PBT’s experience and expertise
- No direct resource management & overhead
- Knowledge transfer and enablement
Value Added Services
PBT Group has established long term, strategic partnerships with many of its clients. Such an engagement positions the Group to provide value added services including:
The PBT Graduate Programme, facilitated by the PBT Academy.
Training through the PBT Academy, e.g. BI Business Analysis, Data Modelling, Data Engineering.
A specialised Skills Development Programme customised for the client’s requirements and environment.
“Burst capacity” enabling short term capacity on demand.
Knowledge sharing via the Group’s extensive consultant base and expertise related to industries, technologies and best-practices, locally and abroad.
Client Engagement Models
PBT Group’s service offering is based on the following engagement models:
Engaging a team/part-team in collaboration with the client to deliver a solution via a formalised project.
Providing relevant expertise, e.g. Data Engineers, Business and/or Data Analysts, Data Visualisation Engineers, Data Architects, Project Managers on an ‘as needed’ basis as professional services.
Providing a pre-defined service, e.g. BAU, functional, technology specific, support, as a managed service.
PBT Group is not just a “provider of resources” – the brand prefers to be an active, and valuable contributor in the client’s data strategy, execution and realisation thereof – in a practical, cost-efficient manner.
Consulting Services
PBT Group provides data specialist professional services to clients who require additional capacity and/or expert capability with their existing data platform environments. The Group’s consultant base consists of a variety of the mentioned roles, technology skills, and in-depth industry experience.
PROJECTS
PBT Group has completed many successful end-to-end data platform, Business Intelligence (BI) and Advanced Analytics projects. Where required, the brand has also provided the on-going maintenance and support after the project. These projects have varied in size and complexity. PBT Group has successfully completed some of the largest data projects on the African continent. The Group’s specialists and project managers have significant experience in the design, construction, implementation, and maintenance of Data and Analytics solutions.
And, the Group’s track record of successful delivery is built on more than 20-years of experience and a well-defined approach that considers the strategic objective, whilst enabling iterative value-add.
PBT Group’s practical project experiences are represented in many of its Use Cases, some of which have been published on the Group’s website, www.pbtgroup.co.za, or can be provided on request.
PBT promotes a few principles of Data & Analytics initiatives, namely:
- Confirm business ownership – appropriate project structure
- Understand business goals and tangible objectives – requirement specification, defined scope
- Think Big, Start Small – conceptual architecture
- Confirm client’s readiness – readiness assessment, quality checks
- Phased, iterative delivery cycles – early and continuous business value add
- Well-managed and open communication – appropriate project management
- Enable / contract knowledge – & IP transfer
- PBT will always align with the client’s preferred technology stack and methodology