K-Commodities 2 : Knowledge Commodities Information System (Phase 2)

The Knowledge Commodities Information System (Phase 2), K-Commodities 2, is a web based knowledge system for collecting, analysing, and sharing data and information for the Malaysian Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities. This allows the Ministry to automatically consolidate about 200 datasets from the internet into a centralised database that is accessible securely through the internet. These datasets include daily prices; daily news; monthly production, exports and imports; quarterly economic statistics; annual domestic and international data; and various electronic documents.

These datasets are then sorted, categorised, cummulated, and consolidated using automated processes overnight, so that it can be analysed using articles, tables, maps, charts, and spreadsheets the next day. The analysed information is then published in specific industry dashboards, where the information can then be sent automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis via email to key stakeholders, management, and analysts.

The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities fosters the orderly development of the plantation and commodity sector through the development of higher value-added through downstream processing and promote the marketing of commodities, particularly semi-processed and processed. It's functions are also to oversee the development of the plantation and commodity sector covering research and development (R&D), production, processing, and marketing in respect of palm oil, rubber, wood and wood-based products, cocoa, pepper and tobacco.

The system is developed based on the open source IDA 2.1 (intelligence data analytics) application framework using LInux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Javascript; and the open source Palo Business Intelligence Suite 3.1. K-Commodities 2 can be viewed at http://k-commodities.kppk.gov.my

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