KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is making steady progress in becoming a big data and analytics (BDA) hub in Southeast Asia. In addition to this, Fusionex and Data Micron are among the Malaysian companies which have expanded globally," she said while officiating Big Data Week Asia 2016 today. Malaysia aims to produce 2,000 data scientists and 16,000 data professionals by 2020. Big Data Week Asia 2016 is a week-long congregation at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre initiated by both MDEC and Olygen Sdn Bhd. Kuala Lumpur is the 2016 city partner of Global Big Data Week and the congregation has been officially recognised as the biggest in Asia this year.

Source: New Strait Times September 19, 2016 06:22 UTC