Dredging projects are critical to maintaining or establishing navigational access to ports, waterways and maritime infrastructure. Engagement and reporting to various internal and external stakeholders are required for these unique projects. Dredging project data collection and reporting can be timely and cumbersome.

Swash selected Power BI to develop an interactive dredging dashboard to provide a ‘one stop shop’ for monitoring dredging projects. Realtime data could be monitored in the form of vessel location and camera images, as well as tracking historical activities through vessel track plots and heat maps. Dredge Dash eliminates the need for manually creating daily, weekly and close out reports in MS Word and PDF format in order to streamline internal and external stakeholder communications.

This session focused on many different tools used across the Microsoft Stack to bring all this information together into one Power BI dashboard, including: Logic Apps; Azure Functions and Azure SQL DB; SharePoint Excel files; and Power BI (the hero) which brings it all together, including our favourite custom visuals Icon Map, Map Box and HTML Content to bring the data to life!