With AWS, we build cloud-native analytics engineering platforms that support large-scale data processing and transformation. Leveraging services such as Glue, Redshift, Lambda, and S3, we implement resilient data pipelines, transformation workflows, and governed data layers. Our focus is on enabling modular, scalable architectures that support both batch and real-time analytics use cases.
Analytics Engineering
Bridge the gap between data platforms and decision‑making
Siloed teams, poor data quality, and governance bolted on too late often results in programmes that underdeliver. At Entelect, we embed into your teams and build analytics engineering solutions that fit your architecture, your controls, and business needs – from data modelling and transformation pipelines to security, visualisation, and DevOps-aligned deployment.
Our Work
Standard Bank: Building an API platform for corporate risk teams
Standard Bank's Corporate and Investment Banking division needed a smarter way to manage customer data across complex risk functions.
Standard Bank's CIB Risk division sought to elevate their team ability to access consistent, governed customer data. They needed a platform that could consolidate data sources, enable self-service reporting, and uphold strict regulatory and access control requirements.
Entelect partnered with Standard Bank to design and deliver an API platform, offering downstream applications a governed catalogue of API endpoints. Business rules were applied to ensure data consistency, with user restrictions managing access control. Datasets and database views were built to support secure, self-service reporting – with all data sourced from a trusted, curated foundation.
Data consolidation: A single source of truth replaced fragmented spreadsheets, eliminating reporting errors and improving governance across the CIB Risk ecosystem.
Operational agility: Teams gained self-service access to real-time data, reducing reliance on manual processes and improving efficiency across reporting and compliance workflows.
Scalable foundation: Enhanced data governance and Power BI integration created a platform built for future data-driven features and long-term growth.
What We Do
Our Analytics Engineering Capabilities
Analytics Engineering
Bridges the gap between data platforms and decision‑making by transforming raw data into analytics‑ready assets that scale across dashboards, applications, and advanced analytics use cases.
Analytics Data Modelling and Transformation
Designing and building fact and dimension models that represent the business in a consistent, performant, and analytics‑ready way. This includes reusable transformation logic, stable schemas, and clearly defined grain.
Semantic Modelling and Metrics Governance
Creating governed semantic layers and shared metric definitions so that key business measures are consistent across reports, teams, and tools – eliminating conflicting numbers and enabling reliable self-service analytics.
Data Quality, Testing and Trust
Embedding automated data quality checks, freshness monitoring, and analytics‑specific tests directly into the analytics lifecycle, ensuring decisionmakers can trust the data they consume.
Analytics Delivery and Visualisation
Building user‑friendly, analytical experiences - dashboards, reports, and embedded analytics - on top of well‑engineered models.
Analytics DevOps and Lifecycle Management
Implementing version control, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines for analytics assets - aligned with your DevOps philosophy.
Analytics Embedding and Integration
Surfacing insights directly inside business applications by embedding analytics capabilities and integrating them into the broader data and application landscape.
Analytics Security and Access Control
Implementing robust security models, including Active Directory integration, role‑based access, and dynamic row‑level security.
Pathway to Advanced Analytics and Decision Intelligence
Laying an analytics foundation that supports advanced analytics, data science, and decision intelligence as organisational data maturity grows.
KEY PARTNERS
Partners and Alliances
Microsoft Azure
microsoft.comAs a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we design and implement end-to-end analytics engineering solutions on Azure. Our teams specialise in building robust data platforms using services such as Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric, and Power BI - covering ingestion, transformation, semantic modelling, and governed data consumption. We support clients across the full lifecycle, from platform strategy and provisioning to pipeline engineering, optimisation, and operational excellence.
Google Cloud Services
cloud.google.comThrough our partnership with Google Cloud, we design and implement modern analytics engineering solutions powered by BigQuery and Dataflow. We enable organisations to operationalise data through well-architected pipelines, transformation frameworks, and semantic layers – supporting advanced analytics, self-service BI, and AI/ML integration across the data value chain.
Databricks
databricks.comThrough our partnership with Databricks, we deliver modern lakehouse-based analytics engineering. We design and build scalable data pipelines using Delta Lake, Spark, and dbt, enabling reliable data transformation, quality assurance, and medallion architecture patterns (bronze, silver, gold). Our teams bring deep expertise across data engineering, analytics engineering, and AI - ensuring data is production-ready, testable, and consumable.
Our Experience
Related Expertise
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Take AI from proof-of-concept to production - whether it's conversational banking, agentic workflows, dynamic risk scoring, or MLOps that keeps models accurate over time.
Data Engineering and Platforms
Design and build modern, scalable data platforms - from data modelling that creates structured views to data integration.
Legacy Modernisation and Cloud
Define clear modernisation and cloud strategies that aligned to your commercial priorities, regulatory obligations, and risk appetite.
Digital Product Engineering
Building digital products across complex architectures with cross-functional teams committed to continuous development and ownership.
Our Work
How We've Delivered
Context
Standard Bank saw an opportunity to strengthen its ability to identify and manage high-risk entities to reduce compliance exposure and financial penalties.
Approach
Entelect built a machine learning-driven solution that analyses entity data to classify risk and proactively flag potentially fraudulent or non-compliant businesses.
Outcome
This prevented high-risk entities from transacting, significantly reduced compliance risk, and saved the bank millions of rands in penalties annually.
Context
RMB sought to better understand client trading behaviour across global markets to drive more informed, data-driven decision-making.
Approach
Entelect applied advanced data science techniques to analyse time-series trading data, identifying behavioural shifts and patterns across multiple instruments and markets.
Outcome
This enabled clearer visibility into trading behaviour, improved strategic insights across sectors, and empowered teams to make more informed, data-driven decisions.
Context
Cooperative Governance Traditional Affairs held vast amounts of data across all provinces but lacked the ability to generate meaningful reports or recognise relationships between data points, limiting effective district and municipal planning.
Approach
Entelect reviewed COGTA's existing solution and used it as a springboard to design, document, and build a new semantic data model, migrating pipelines to Microsoft Fabric and enabling user-facing dashboards through Copilot for Power BI.
Outcome
The department gained faster, more informative insights across population, education, health, and finances, empowering data-driven municipal planning and delivering more value for money through AI best practices and cost reduction on models.
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