Company Overview
BB&D is SA's leading, privately owned, custom software development company operating both nationally and abroad. The company is dedicated to designing and developing solutions for organizations that view information technology as a strategic advantage.
Formed in 1984, the company has grown by an average annual compound growth rate of 30%. Today the company has more than 400 software development professionals located in its development centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria and Nicosia (Cyprus). The company has in-depth business understanding of a range of market sectors including commercial and retail banking, investments, treasury, payments, credit risk, market risk, retailing and telecommunications backed up by extensive system development skills on numerous technology platforms.
Business Solutions
BB&D has developed a wide variety of complex mission critical solutions that include insurance (short term and life),home loan servicing, treasury dealing, investment research, payments, financial modelling, unit trust funds administration, risk management and Basel II, customer loyalty, electronic funds transfer, trade finance and telecommunications and billing applications. These solutions have been implemented internationally as well as in the local marketplace.
We provide clients with the surety that complex systems will be delivered on time and that we will continue to provide enhancements and support for as long as may be required - our track record bears this out. Many of our mission critical systems continue to provide clients with benefits ten years after implementation.
Due to our extensive business and technology expertise the company is ideally positioned to identify opportunities for specific development of packages. BB&D has successfully developed and markets a number of commercial packages such as digiView archiving solution, Razor.net Flexible Billing Framework and TradeworX Suite of financial dealing modules. BB&D is not an integrator of 'best-of-breed' packages but a developer of solutions that provide strategic advantages beyond what can be offered by 'best-of-breed' packages. As part of a solution BB&D will integrate the system with existing components of the client's infrastructure such as legacy business, security, workflow and accounting systems
Services
BB&D offers a complete range of services including project management, business analysis, technical design, development, implementation, support and maintenance and best practices consulting.
Whether a turn-key solution or an individual component service is being undertaken, BB&D's business and technology experts are complemented by the ASTRA (Architecture & Strategy) team who ensure the highest level of quality.
Technology
BB&D is technology agnostic, and uses the right tools for the project in question. The company was formed at the start of the personal computer revolution and has adapted itself to the various paradigm shifts during the past twenty years such as downsizing, client server, rightsizing, 4GL, Case tools, fat client, object orientation, thin client, e-everything, smart client and SOA.
Solutions are developed using the applicable tools for the task. Some of the tools include: C#, C, C++, Java and J2EE for Application Servers; Visual Basic, Visual C++ for front end components; DB2, Oracle, PostgresSQL and SQL Server for databases; Microsoft .Net framework, objects and services including.Net & C#.
Black Economic Empowerment
Barone, Budge & Dominick is a "Black Empowered" organisation as per the ICT Charter, with an Empowerdex B-BBEE Rating of Level 4 contributor. Our ongoing strategy includes interventions to support the transformation process in South Africa, in support of broad-based black economic empowerment. This is demonstrated across a number of criteria, including:
- Ownership by Previously Disadvantaged groups
BB&D have recently finalised a BEE deal in which 35.75% shareholding of BB&D is now owned by Sphere Holdings - a black owned organisation (from 1 March 2007).
- Procurement
BB&D has a policy of purchasing goods and services from black owned or empowered companies wherever possible.
- Training & Development
BB&D engage 20 black Learners per annum in our ongoing learnership program. A number of these learners have been employed by BB&D, the remainder have all been employed by large corporates.
- Employees and Management
BB&D is committed to growing the number of black employees and management. BB&D has recently appointed two black executives internally. The Board of BB&D includes 4 black Directors, one of which is female, of the total of 7 Directors.
- Corporate Social Responsibility
BB&D supports the following programmes: Bring a girl-child to work day; new computer centre for Aha-Thuto Secondary School; Action for the Blind School; Girls & Boys Town SA; Door of Hope; Thandanani House of Refuge, Oliver's House and SA Medical Foundation to name a few.
Key Differentiators of BB&D
- Long-term track record of delivery (25 years and 240+ large scale solutions).
- Experienced analysts with specialist Business Domain Knowledge.
- Commercial flexibility - including joint ownership opportunities for projects.
- Time-box approach to ensure delivery of project components within manageable timeframes.
- International footprint and project experience.
- Some of South Africa's top software developers and architects, many with over 15 years programming experience.
