Saudi Arabia is currently witnessing the rise of Qiddiya City, a massive 360-square-kilometer urban project three times the size of Paris. Managing a "gigaproject" of this magnitude involves coordinating 22,000 workers and 700 distinct companies, creating a data management nightmare where naming conventions for buildings and roads vary wildly across 20 incompatible systems.

To navigate this complexity, Abdulrahman AlAli (Chief Technology Officer at Qiddiya Investment Company) integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Power BI. This allows employees to use natural language to "interrogate" massive databases, turning mountains of siloed information into actionable insights. In just four months, the AI has generated 250,000 messages and summarized 50,000 meetings, significantly reducing the administrative burden on technical teams.

Beyond simple productivity, the AI serves as a bridge for interoperability—the ability for different software systems to exchange and use information. By identifying inconsistencies in asset IDs and cross-referencing late invoices with engineer comments, Copilot ensures that human error doesn't stall a project housing 500,000 future residents. AlAli describes this as an "unfair advantage," proving that AI's greatest strength in physical infrastructure lies in its ability to synthesize chaotic, large-scale data.

Saudi Arabia is currently witnessing the rise of Qiddiya City, a massive 360-square-kilometer urban project three times the size of Paris. Managing a "gigaproject" of this magnitude involves coordinating 22,000 workers and 700 distinct companies, creating a data management nightmare where naming conventions for buildings and roads vary wildly across 20 incompatible systems.

To navigate this complexity, Abdulrahman AlAli (Chief Technology Officer at Qiddiya Investment Company) integrated Microsoft 365 Copilot with Microsoft Power BI. This allows employees to use natural language to "interrogate" massive databases, turning mountains of siloed information into actionable insights. In just four months, the AI has generated 250,000 messages and summarized 50,000 meetings, significantly reducing the administrative burden on technical teams.

Beyond simple productivity, the AI serves as a bridge for interoperability—the ability for different software systems to exchange and use information. By identifying inconsistencies in asset IDs and cross-referencing late invoices with engineer comments, Copilot ensures that human error doesn't stall a project housing 500,000 future residents. AlAli describes this as an "unfair advantage," proving that AI's greatest strength in physical infrastructure lies in its ability to synthesize chaotic, large-scale data.