Case study: Fortune 100 company accelerates its decision-making with robust Tableau analytics

A multinational technology company that sells computer software and related services.

SECTOR
Technology

LOCATION
San Francisco Bay Area, CA

CATEGORIES
Tableau, process improvement

CHALLENGE

A group at the client company had teams spread worldwide. They experienced a high rate of Tableau Software adoption while the user base grew 70% year-over-year (YoY). Due to complicated provisioning and sophisticated security processes users at 13 business units waited for up to 12 days to be licensed and onboarded to the Tableau Server which slowed down access to the analytical and decision-making resources within the company.

0

days saved in each onboarding cycle

0

% reduced extract generation time

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Tableau creators affected

0

business units served

SOLUTION

Brightalytics, formerly known as Pekarsky Consulting, was brought in to help build Tableau Center of Excellence (CoE), support the strategic roadmap and culture of self-service analytics, and partner with all teams working with one of the largest enterprise Tableau Servers in the world.

 

Our analytical and research efforts focused on optimizing Tableau visualizations, monitoring user interactions with dashboards, software performance, and repository metadata.

 

Brightalytics reimagined the complex user enablement process and reduced the onboarding time to less than 2 days. This was accomplished by implementing an innovative ticketing system based on decision trees, consolidation of multiple requests, a self-service customer portal, and best practices newsletters.

RESULTS

build

Tableau Center of Excellence

reduce

user onboarding time to less than 2 days

partner

with Tableau Server infrastructure teams

visualize

performance of Tableau Server assets and user interactions

evangelize

self-service analytics and Tableau Software implementation

support

Tableau adoption and strategic roadmap

Tableau Center of Excellence built Tableau dashboards with metadata analytics, crafted newsletters with recommendations to optimize SQL queries, speed up visualizations rendering time, and reduce the extract generation time.

educate

teams about visual analytics best practices

design

innovative ticketing system

craft

newsletters and support articles

speed up

visualizations rendering time and SQL queries

develop

Tableau dashboards with metadata analytics

increase

user engagement with helpful content and frequent communication

Brightalytics shared the newly redesigned onboarding process with 410 Tableau publishers who generated content for thousands of other report users and decision-makers within the company.

implement

robust Tableau analytics

reduce

extract generation time

accelerate

speed of analytics

optimize

data visualizations and utilization of Tableau Server assets

perform

business process improvement

monitor

interactions with dashboards, software performance, metadata

empower

dashboard developers with tools and knowledge

improve

decision-making capability

reimagine

technology enablement process

The solutions facilitated Tableau adoption and user engagement and empowered dashboard developers with tools and knowledge to build more effective visualizations. These outcomes, in turn, accelerated the decision-making capability and the speed of analytics at the company’s locations across the globe.