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Ten Times the Analysis in Half the Time, with Half the Staff

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Cornell University needed a reporting tool that would allow its college deans to better track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The university receives tens of thousands of applications every year and needed a way to access this information quickly and easily. The university also wanted to meet the needs of both highly sophisticated technical workers and hundreds of other employees who rely on the software everyday to answer important questions but whose jobs don’t revolve around data management. Read More
About Customer	Cornell University is an Ivy League university that began using Tableau in late 2007. The university initially purchased one Tableau Server and 20 Desktop licenses. Impressed with the capabilities of Tableau, the university has since increased its Tableau footprint to two servers and 150 desktop licenses. Today, more than 600 university employees use Tableau for various analysis tasks, from dissecting the student applicant pool to managing contributor relations, from evaluating risk to analyzing university expenditures, and from visualizing faculty salary statistics to keeping track of which students are in what classes. Read More
Solution	Tableau was implemented as a reporting tool to allow college deans to better track KPIs. The software was used to dissect the student applicant pool, manage contributor relations, evaluate risk, analyze university expenditures, visualize faculty salary statistics, and keep track of which students are in what classes. The university was able to easily integrate Tableau with its single sign-on mechanism, deploy metadata quickly, and allow report developers direct publishing access. The software was intuitive, requiring minimal training apart from quarterly user group meetings. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Cornell University needed a reporting tool that would allow its college deans to better track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The university receives tens of thousands of applications every year and needed a way to access this information quickly and easily. The university also wanted to meet the needs of both highly sophisticated technical workers and hundreds of other employees who rely on the software everyday to answer important questions but whose jobs don’t revolve around data management.

About Customer

Cornell University is an Ivy League university that began using Tableau in late 2007. The university initially purchased one Tableau Server and 20 Desktop licenses. Impressed with the capabilities of Tableau, the university has since increased its Tableau footprint to two servers and 150 desktop licenses. Today, more than 600 university employees use Tableau for various analysis tasks, from dissecting the student applicant pool to managing contributor relations, from evaluating risk to analyzing university expenditures, and from visualizing faculty salary statistics to keeping track of which students are in what classes.

Solution

Tableau was implemented as a reporting tool to allow college deans to better track KPIs. The software was used to dissect the student applicant pool, manage contributor relations, evaluate risk, analyze university expenditures, visualize faculty salary statistics, and keep track of which students are in what classes. The university was able to easily integrate Tableau with its single sign-on mechanism, deploy metadata quickly, and allow report developers direct publishing access. The software was intuitive, requiring minimal training apart from quarterly user group meetings.

Impact #1	Tableau has allowed for more collaborations and an opportunity for a more unified management approach.
Impact #2	With the increased adoption of Tableau across campus, new doors for collaboration continue to open in the areas of data access, common business definitions, merging of user communities, and governance.
Impact #3	The university was able to easily integrate with its single sign-on mechanism, deploy metadata quickly and allow report developers direct publishing access.

Impact #1

Tableau has allowed for more collaborations and an opportunity for a more unified management approach.

Impact #2

With the increased adoption of Tableau across campus, new doors for collaboration continue to open in the areas of data access, common business definitions, merging of user communities, and governance.

Impact #3

The university was able to easily integrate with its single sign-on mechanism, deploy metadata quickly and allow report developers direct publishing access.

Benefit #1	The university produces ten times the analysis in half the time, with half the staff.
Benefit #2	More than 600 university employees use Tableau for various analysis tasks.

Benefit #1

The university produces ten times the analysis in half the time, with half the staff.

Benefit #2

More than 600 university employees use Tableau for various analysis tasks.

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Ten Times the Analysis in Half the Time, with Half the Staff

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