Data & Analytics Consulting in Riyadh
Riyadh is the fastest-growing analytics market in the GCC right now. Vision 2030 has triggered a wave of private sector investment in manufacturing, logistics infrastructure, and megaprojects — NEOM, Diriyah, the Red Sea — all of which generate massive analytics demand. The National Data Management Office (NDMO) is actively driving data governance standards across government and government-linked companies, creating a downstream requirement for private sector suppliers to meet similar standards.
What we see on the ground
The Riyadh market reality
Saudi organisations are running SAP S/4HANA migrations at scale — driven by ZATCA e-invoicing requirements and Vision 2030 digitalisation mandates. The S/4 implementation creates a data foundation that most organisations haven't yet built an analytics layer on top of. There is a significant gap between the ERP investment and the analytics capability in most Saudi private sector companies — and a growing recognition, at CEO and CFO level, that the gap needs to close.
Industries we serve in Riyadh
Compliance & regulatory context
ZATCA e-invoicing compliance. NDMO data governance requirements. IBAN/Zakat reporting. Nationalisation (Saudization) reporting requirements.
Our work in Riyadh
Services delivered in Riyadh
Every engagement listed links to a page that covers what the problem actually looks like in Riyadh, how we approach it, and what changes as a result.
Manufacturing Analytics
Real-time production intelligence for plants that are tired of making decisions on yesterday's numbers.
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Logistics Analytics
OTIF isn't a metric you track monthly. It's a signal you need in real time — by lane, by carrier, by customer.
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EPC Analytics
Project cost reporting in EPC should not take five days to close. If it does, the problem is data architecture, not headcount.
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Project Analytics
A dashboard that shows what happened last month isn't project intelligence. You need to see what's about to happen — before it does.
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Retail & FMCG Analytics
Demand forecasting that runs on last week's Excel export is not a forecasting system. It's a liability.
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Packaging Analytics
Material consumption variance is the most under-tracked cost driver in packaging. Most plants only see it at month-end — after the waste has already happened.
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Conversational BI
Power BI gets deployed. 80% of the organisation looks at it once and goes back to emailing the analyst. In manufacturing, that means a plant manager emailing a question about last shift's OEE at 9am and getting the answer at 3pm. Conversational BI fixes the access problem — not the data problem.
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Microsoft Fabric & Power BI
Most organisations have been sold a data warehouse that's already three years out of date, or a cloud migration that happened but the analytics layer was never built. We fix that.
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Modern Data Stack
The question isn't whether to adopt Snowflake or Databricks. The question is whether your data problem is actually a tool problem — and most of the time, it isn't.
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Digital Transformation Advisory
Most digital transformation roadmaps fail not because of technology — because there's no data foundation underneath them. You can't AI your way out of a data quality problem.
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Supply Chain Analytics
End-to-end supply chain visibility isn't a luxury. It's what separates the companies that absorb disruption from the ones that get disrupted.
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Common questions · Riyadh buyers
Questions we hear most from Riyadh-based operations leaders.
Direct answers — no consultant-speak. The questions and the answers are both real.
We are migrating to SAP S/4HANA. When should we build the analytics layer?
The S/4HANA migration creates the data foundation; the analytics layer is the next logical step that most Saudi organisations have not yet built. We can run the analytics build in parallel with the later migration phases, or straight after go-live, so the ERP investment actually turns into decisions.
Do you handle ZATCA e-invoicing data and NDMO data governance?
Yes. We align the governed data foundation with ZATCA e-invoicing requirements and NDMO data-governance standards — increasingly required of private sector suppliers to government-linked entities — with lineage and access controls built in.
Can you produce Zakat and Saudization (nationalisation) reporting?
Yes. Zakat, IBAN and Saudization reporting are modelled in the data layer with a full audit trail, on the same foundation that drives operational analytics for manufacturing, logistics and EPC.
Do you have a presence in Saudi Arabia, or how is delivery handled?
MDI is based in Dubai and serves Riyadh across the GCC. Discovery and stakeholder workshops happen on-site in Riyadh; build phases run remotely. Amit leads every engagement personally.
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Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
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