IT Infrastructure · Data Management
GoAgile helps Saudi and GCC organisations structure, clean, govern and protect the data that runs the business: classification, quality, master data, migration, warehousing and retention, aligned with PDPL, NDMO and NCA requirements.
What it is
Data management is how an organisation collects, stores, cleans, classifies, protects, shares and eventually deletes its data, so that people can trust what they see and the business stays inside the law. It covers the rules (governance), the quality of the data, the systems that hold it and the controls that keep it secure.
In Saudi Arabia it also has a legal dimension. The Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), supervised by SDAIA, sets duties for how personal data is collected, used, stored, transferred and deleted. The National Data Management Office (NDMO) publishes data management standards for government and regulated entities, and the NCA's controls set requirements for protecting data. Good data management is how you evidence compliance with all three.
We work on the practical layer: finding where data lives, fixing what is wrong with it, putting owners and rules around it, moving it safely between systems, and keeping it for exactly as long as it should be kept. That work sits underneath ERP, analytics, AI and cyber security projects and often decides whether they succeed.
Key facts
What we do
Seven workstreams you can take one at a time or as a programme.
You cannot protect, govern or delete data you cannot find. We map it across ERP, databases, file shares, email and cloud, and classify it by sensitivity.
What you get: A living inventory and a classification scheme that people actually use.
Governance gives every important dataset an owner, a definition and a rule. It is short, practical and written in plain language, so it is followed.
What you get: Clear accountability for data, so problems are fixed by someone.
Duplicates, gaps and inconsistent values cost money in every report and every invoice. We profile the problem, fix it at source and stop it coming back.
What you get: Reports and invoices built on data people trust.
Migration projects fail on data, not on software. We map every field, run trial migrations with reconciliation, and cut over with a rollback plan.
What you get: A migration the finance team signs off on.
A warehouse or lakehouse only helps if the data going in is clean and defined. We design the model, the pipelines and the checks, so dashboards and AI projects start from facts.
What you get: Dashboards and AI models that rest on governed data.
Keeping everything forever is a privacy risk and a cost. We set retention schedules by data type and regulation, archive old records and make deletion verifiable.
What you get: Less data to protect and evidence that you delete on time.
Behind every application is a database that needs tuning, patching, backup and access control. We administer it as a managed service or support your team.
What you get: Stable, secure databases and a team that knows them.
How we work
We start by finding out what is true, then fix the biggest problems first, and put the controls in place so they stay fixed.
Interviews and scans to find systems, data sets, owners and flows, including the spreadsheets nobody mentioned.
Quality, risk and compliance gaps measured against PDPL, NDMO and your own policies, ranked by business impact.
Governance model, classification scheme, target architecture and rules, agreed with the data owners.
Cleansing, de-duplication, migration, archiving and deletion, with reconciliation at each step.
Controls built into systems and processes, owners trained and dashboards switched on.
Monitoring, quarterly reviews and a request process for data subjects and data owners.
Reference
Two tables we use in almost every first workshop: a working classification scheme, and the duties that matter most under the PDPL.
| Level | What it covers | Typical controls |
|---|---|---|
| Public | Marketing material and published reports | Integrity checks only |
| Internal | Policies, internal memos and non-sensitive operational data | Staff-only access |
| Confidential | Customer, financial and HR data, including personal data | Role-based access, encryption, logging |
| Restricted | Strategic, legal and highly sensitive personal data | Need-to-know access, multi-factor authentication, data loss prevention, in-Kingdom storage |
NDMO and the CST define their own classification levels for government data and cloud services. We map your scheme to them when your sector requires it.
| Duty | What it means | What we deliver |
|---|---|---|
| Know your data | You must know what personal data you hold and why | Personal-data inventory and flow map |
| Lawful basis and consent | Collect for a clear purpose, with consent where required | Purpose and consent records |
| Individual rights | People may ask to access, correct or delete their data | Request process and system support |
| Retention limits | Keep data only as long as needed | Retention schedules and verified deletion |
| Security | Protect data against loss, leaks and misuse | Classification, access control, encryption and logging |
| Cross-border transfers | Transfers outside the Kingdom must meet conditions | Transfer register and residency design |
| Breach notification | Leaks must be reported to the authority and affected people | Incident procedure and contact tree |
This table summarises our delivery approach and is not legal advice. Interpretation of the PDPL remains with your legal counsel.
Built for Saudi Arabia and the GCC
The Kingdom has one of the region's most active data regulatory environments. We translate it into tasks, owners and evidence.
We map your personal-data processing, lawful bases, rights processes and security measures to the duties in the PDPL and its implementing regulations.
Governance, catalogue, quality, classification and sharing practices aligned to the NDMO data management standards for government and regulated bodies.
We help you decide which data can sit in the cloud, which must stay in the Kingdom and how transfers are justified and recorded.
Classification, access control, encryption and logging mapped to the NCA controls for protecting data and information.
Matching of Arabic and English names, Hijri and Gregorian dates, national ID and Iqama formats, and VAT and commercial registration numbers.
Riyadh-based consultants and engineers who work in Arabic and English with data owners and regulators' expectations in mind.
Where we deliver
Riyadh · Jeddah · Dammam & Al Khobar · Madinah · the Eastern Province · Dubai & the UAE · Qatar · Kuwait · Bahrain · Oman
Clients
A selection of the institutions and businesses we deliver for across Saudi Arabia.
Pannesma relied on Oracle E-Business Suite 12 to run its business. GoAgile took responsibility for the platform, then moved the organization to Oracle Fusion.
Certified management systems
ISO 9001
ISO 14001
ISO 45001
ISO 27001
Dun & BradstreetWhy GoAgile
Data programmes fail when they are all policy or all technology. We do both, and we do them in the systems you already run.
We write the rules and also configure the systems, so governance is enforced where the data lives.
Short, plain-language policies and a delivery plan that fits your team's capacity.
Experience with Dynamics 365, Oracle, SAP and Odoo data means fewer surprises in migrations.
Classification, retention and access control are designed with our security practices, not separately from them.
Inventories, registers and reports you can put in front of an auditor or regulator.
A Riyadh-based team that understands Saudi data formats, regulation and working practice.
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Governance, quality, migration and privacy delivered by a team that also runs the systems the data lives in.