A Practice Built on One Discipline

Pelita Group was established in Kuala Lumpur in 2018 by a small group of practitioners who had spent the previous decade inside the finance and IT operations of Malaysian corporates. During that time they watched SaaS spending accumulate — often through individual departmental decisions made in good faith — until the aggregate cost and administrative burden became a quiet but significant problem.

The founding observation was straightforward: most organisations do not lack access to SaaS products, but they do lack a considered process for deciding which ones to adopt, how many seats to contract, and when a subscription has outrun its usefulness. The advisory gap was not technical. It was structural and managerial.

The practice was designed around three defined engagements rather than a general-purpose retainer. This was a deliberate choice. A narrow scope allows us to go deeper on the questions that actually arise during a SaaS decision — data sovereignty, the real cost of change, the administrative overhead of managing a subscription portfolio — without the tendency to expand the work unnecessarily.

Since 2018, Pelita Group has worked with finance teams, IT operations leads and procurement departments across a range of Malaysian industries. The practice remains small by intention: we take on fewer engagements to serve each one carefully.