Wasan Safhi: Making Data Useful Where the Work Happens

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The management information systems graduate is connecting database design and reporting with a practical question: what does someone need to know to make the next decision?

Wasan Safhi is interested in the moment when information becomes useful. It is not necessarily when a report is finished or a dashboard is published, but when someone can see a problem clearly enough to decide what to do about it.

Her cooperative training at Tamer Logistics brought that idea into a working environment. Supporting operations within Oracle Warehouse Management System meant dealing with inbound activity, outbound movements, storage and the issues that could interrupt their flow.

Custom reports were part of that work, giving managers greater visibility into inventory. Just as important was learning how to frame information around an operational need rather than around everything a system could display.

“A report can be accurate and still leave someone wondering what to do next,” she says. “I try to begin with the decision, then work backwards to the information.”

A useful dashboard starts before the chart

Her academic projects show the same interest from several directions. For Squido's Matcha, she designed a relational database solution, using normalisation and SQL queries to support inventory tracking, customer analysis and reporting.

In a separate business intelligence project, she cleaned a dataset of more than 3,000 records and developed Power BI dashboards exploring climate events and economic impact. The exercise made data preparation part of the story, not an invisible stage before visualisation.

She added a short explanatory guide to the dashboard: what each view showed, which comparisons were appropriate and where the analysis stopped. The goal was to make the work understandable without requiring its audience to become analysts themselves.

Her systems-analysis project for Glowr Store widened that perspective. Requirements gathering, process models and prioritised user stories required her to think about how a proposed system would fit the people using it.

That blend of technical and communication work also runs through her university activities. Design, marketing and event-support roles gave her practice in making information clear for different audiences.

“Sometimes the improvement is not a more complicated system,” she says. “It is a clearer label, a better question or one less step between a person and the information they need.”

Her emerging professional identity sits at that intersection of systems, data and usability. The tools matter, but the purpose is more direct: make operational information easier to understand and act on.

Profile details

Field: Management information systems, data analysis and application support.

Education: Bachelor's in Management Information Systems, King Abdulaziz University, 2026.

Selected projects: Squido's Matcha database; climate-impact dashboard; Glowr Store systems analysis.

Tools and methods: SQL/MySQL, Power BI, Oracle WMS and requirements analysis.

Get in touch

For more information about Wasan's work in data analysis, information systems or operational reporting, contact Wasan directly at wasansafhi11@gmail.com. Enquiries about the ideas and projects featured in this article are welcome.