South African Reserve Bank

Digital Knowledge, through Senior Solution Architect, Data Architect and Data Engineer Robert Dobson, delivered a complete turnkey Business Intelligence and Custom Development solution using an Agile delivery framework.

• Transformed weeks of manual data processing into near real-time insights
• Enabled SARB’s statistics department to calculate inflation indexes and assess national financial stability with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence
• Delivered an agile, robust, high-performance reporting platform supporting current and future requirements
• Provided a powerful combination of self-service analytics, strategic dashboards, and custom operational reporting
• Significantly reduced human error and improved data integrity for macroeconomic policy decisions

The solution was designed for both on-premise stability and regulatory-grade security while enabling daily analysis and near real-time reporting.

The SARB ERSD solution replaced manual form capture with a governed digital and analytics platform. Data from the B Forms and C Forms is captured, validated and stored in an Operational Data Store, then modelled into Data Marts that feed reporting and analysis. A custom Financial Calculation Engine applies the required calculations consistently, and interactive dashboards give the statistics team immediate access to the results.

Because the South African Reserve Bank uses this data to inform monetary policy and financial stability assessments, accuracy, auditability and security were designed in from the start. The Agile approach allowed the SARB ERSD team to review progress in short cycles and refine requirements as the platform took shape over the life of the project.