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Tableau Software is a software company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, which produces interactive data visualization products focused on business intelligence. Why are Companies and Academia Interested in Tableau?

• It is one of the leading tools for producing visualizations that bring data to life
• Provides very quick response times with drill downs to detail
• Can be used with a wide variety of data sources (i.e. databases, Excel, etc.)
• Has a relatively low entry cost (Students can actually use Tableau free)
• Has many deployment options (Personal, Centralized, Cloud)

Defined

• Supports Thousands of reports across Student, Finance and HR subjects
• Supports mostly operational Dashboards – primarily in Finance and HR
• Supports the Campus Development Environment (self service Report writing)
• Contains a “metadata layer” which removes the complexity of the Data Warehouse tables

Summit Data Warehouse OBIEE

• Houses detailed transactions sourced from Student, Finance and HR Peoplesoft Systems
• Data updated and balanced Nightly
• Represented in Thousands of database tables (complex)

Tableau for Summit

Desktop Server

Develop Visualization

Access Visualization

Publish

Architecture

Metadata Layer Data Source Layer

Tableau for Summit

• Licenses Provided (eventual site License)
• Tableau Administration Provided
• Production Application Support Provided
• Training Provided
• Provides Access to Summit data:
• Governed
• Timely
• Balanced
• No Additional Cost (site license)

Inclusion

• Potential Application Sharing
• UMASS Tableau User Community:
• Share Applications
• Share Development Techniques
• Connection to Tableau and Worldwide Developers

Benefits

Sample Analytics View - Limitations with OBI Tool

OBI View Tableau View

Sample Analytics View – Using Tableau

Tableau for Summit

Next Steps Purchase BI Connector Design Integrated Security model Determine Hosting approach Build Basic Student and Financial Models UITS Training:

• Define resources
• Tableau Development
• Tableau Administration
• Program Support

User Training

• Define Resources
• Develop Basic Training
• Initial Centralized Classes
• Campus Roadshows

Communications Program

• Initial Communication
• Update Summit Landing Page
• Communications on Training