We build data dashboards in Abu Dhabi
Building data dashboards in Abu Dhabi
Qanat builds software for Abu Dhabi companies, including work with data-residency and procurement requirements. Abu Dhabi projects start more slowly than Dubai ones — vendor registration and security review are real steps — but scope tends to be clearer and change less once agreed.
- Scope
- Written
- Price
- Fixed
- Held back
- 20%
- Code
- Yours
Before anything is quoted
Agreed before we start
Until you accept
From the first commit
Scope
What a build of this kind actually contains.
Everything below is inside the quoted price. The items agencies leave out of a cheap quote — admin tooling, error states, deployment, handover — are the ones you end up paying for anyway.
- 01
Agreeing metric definitions in writing before anything is built
- 02
Pipelines from the systems that hold the truth
- 03
Dashboards designed around decisions rather than available fields
- 04
Scheduled delivery to inbox or chat, because dashboards go unvisited
- 05
Documented definitions, so nobody re-litigates the numbers quarterly
What we build it with
- PostgreSQL
- dbt
- Metabase
- Next.js
- Python
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Building the dashboard before the definitions are agreed. Two departments counting revenue differently is a governance problem, and no visualisation fixes it.
Demand is weighted toward government, energy and sovereign-backed entities, which brings procurement processes, security review and data-residency requirements that a Dubai SME never encounters. It adds weeks at the front and removes ambiguity later. Requirements documents are usually written before a vendor is approached, which changes what a quote is measuring.
The constraint people miss in Abu Dhabi
Data residency is a design decision, not a hosting setting. If the workload cannot leave the UAE, that has to shape the architecture from week one — retrofitting it later is close to a rebuild, and it is the most common reason an Abu Dhabi project gets re-scoped.
Who we build for in Abu Dhabi
- Government and semi-government entities
- Energy and utilities groups
- ADGM-licensed financial firms
- Healthcare and education institutions
- Contractors serving public-sector programmes
What it costs
We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.
The price of data dashboards is decided by scope, not by category. Two projects with the same label routinely differ by a factor of five, and a number quoted before anyone has read your requirements is a guess dressed as a quote.
What we commit to is this: one price, written against a scope you have read and agreed, fixed before work starts. If we estimated badly that is our problem, not a change request.
If you need a budget figure first
Our UAE software cost guide publishes what the market charges, with every figure sourced. That is researched market data for budgeting — not our price list, and not a quote.
Questions
Data Dashboard Development in Abu Dhabi
Why not just use Power BI or Looker?
Often you should, and we will set it up on top of a clean data model rather than sell you a custom front end. Custom earns its place when the reporting needs logic a BI tool cannot express, or when it must sit inside a product your customers use.
What is different about building software in Abu Dhabi?
Demand is weighted toward government, energy and sovereign-backed entities, which brings procurement processes, security review and data-residency requirements that a Dubai SME never encounters. It adds weeks at the front and removes ambiguity later. Requirements documents are usually written before a vendor is approached, which changes what a quote is measuring.
How long does it take to build data dashboards in Abu Dhabi?
It depends on the scope, and any studio quoting you a duration before reading your requirements is guessing. We commit to a specific date in the quote, once the scope is written, and you see the software running well before that date rather than at the end.
Start here
Building data dashboards? Tell us what it has to do.
A scope call, then a written scope and one fixed price against it. 20% of that price is held back until you accept the finished build, and the scope is yours to take elsewhere either way.
- Who reads it
- Alexandre Arnaud, Founder & Engineer. Not a coordinator, not an inbox.
- What happens
- A 20-minute call to pin the outcome, then a written scope and one fixed price against it.
- What it costs
- Nothing to get scoped and quoted. The quote is free and the scope is yours to take elsewhere.