Data Analytics in Malaysia

A dashboard on one data source starts from RM 10,000. Connecting several sources through automated pipelines, with interactive dashboards people can drill into, usually costs RM 30,000 to RM 80,000. A full data warehouse with quality checks and management reporting can reach RM 150,000 or more. If the data must stay on your own servers, a proof of concept is about RM 15,000 and a full build RM 50,000 to RM 100,000, with hardware and licences billed separately.

It depends on who will use it and what you already pay for. Companies on Microsoft 365 often end up with Power BI, and Google Workspace users with Looker Studio. Metabase is open source and can run on your own server, so it suits teams that want no per-seat licence or need the data kept in house. When none of them fits, we build a custom dashboard. Every handover includes documentation and training for your team.

Yes, and it is usually the bulk of the work. Accounting software, POS, online stores, CRMs and spreadsheets each name the same customer or product differently, so we map them to one definition, clear out duplicates and fix dates and currencies before anything reaches a chart. The pipelines run on a schedule and send an alert when a source breaks, so a stale number does not sit on the dashboard unnoticed.

Not at first. If your questions come from one or two systems, a dashboard that reads from them directly is cheaper and faster to build. A warehouse, meaning one database that copies and tidies everything, earns its cost when you have several sources, years of history, or reports that run too slowly on the live system.

If customer names, phone numbers or IC numbers flow into your reports, the PDPA covers them there too. Limit who can see personal data by role, keep it only as long as you need it, and show totals instead of names wherever a total answers the question. If the data should not leave Malaysia, or your building, we host the dashboards to match.