Client Overview

Dar Al-Handasah is a leading global consulting firm renowned for delivering engineering and architectural excellence across five continents. With a workforce of over 7,000 professionals and $2.37 billion in annual revenue, they maintain a robust security awareness program to safeguard their people and projects worldwide.

To elevate this program, Dar Al-Handasah partnered with Vizio AI to replace disparate reports with a unified Power BI dashboard—enabling executives and security managers to monitor key metrics in real time and respond to emerging threats with confidence.

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Challenge

Dar Al-Handasah’s security awareness initiative was built on data spread across multiple on-premise databases, Excel spreadsheets, and bespoke reporting tools. Pulling together completion rates for mandatory training, phishing simulation results, and MFA adoption required manual extraction and reconciliation—an error-prone process that consumed countless analyst hours and often delivered stale insights.

With dozens of regional offices worldwide, the lack of a unified, user-friendly interface hindered both tactical and strategic decision-making. Security managers found it difficult to spot emerging risk trends or enforce consistent compliance, while executives were left without a clear, up-to-date overview needed to adjust policies and allocate resources effectively.

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Objective

Create a cohesive, visually engaging Power BI dashboard that consolidates all security-training and compliance data, delivers both high-level executive summaries and detailed drill-downs, and updates automatically to reflect the latest on-premise database feeds.

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Solution

Detailed Mockup Design Using Figma
Crafted pixel-perfect prototypes in Figma based on stakeholder workshops, ensuring the final dashboard met both executive and security-manager needs with intuitive navigation and clear visual hierarchy.

Best Practices Implementation Consultancy
Provided expert guidance on Power BI architecture, data modeling, and visualization standards, aligning the dashboard with industry-leading security-reporting frameworks.

Data Integration from On-Premise Databases
Built secure ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load training, phishing, and MFA data into Power BI using Azure Data Factory—guaranteeing real-time synchronization and data consistency.

Consolidation and Design Improvement
Merged four separate reports into a single dashboard, refining chart types, color schemes, and layouts to enhance usability and drive higher engagement across global offices.

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Impact

22% Faster Security Issue Resolution
By surfacing critical training and compliance metrics in real time, teams cut the average time to identify and remediate gaps by nearly a quarter.

1,200 Hours Saved Annually
Automated report generation and consolidation freed up over 1,200 staff hours per year—time that security managers now devote to proactive risk mitigation.

$320K in Compliance-Risk Cost Avoidance
Improved visibility into training completion and MFA adoption helped avert potential regulatory fines and breach-related expenses, yielding an estimated $320,000 in avoided costs.

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