Modern governance for data & analytics
Governance is no longer a choice between flexibility and usefulness to the business and tight IT control. Now, IT and business users can work together to define a governance model that enables everyone, and ensures data quality, content security and consistency. Appropriate governance protects your data while also encouraging widespread adoption of analytics across your organisation -- giving the business easy access for exploring and finding hidden insight.
Governance for self-service
Governance is built on consistency, security and reliability. Empowering the business does not have to be a trade-off with security. Governing data and managing content should be done alongside business stakeholders as part of a modern approach to enterprise analytics. By providing reliable access to standardised data, IT builds trust with the business. That trust is founded on secure and consistent data, instilling confidence in each user to access, analyse and share their insights with peers.
Trusted data
Data is the foundation for all analytics – the more accurate, complete and current the data, the more accurate the resulting analysis. Tableau helps IT build, manage and share data centrally through Tableau Server. Whether you’re connecting live to on-premises data warehouses and cloud applications or creating high performance extracts, your business users can focus on analysing rather than verifying data. By centralising data, IT helps create a single source of truth, prevents redundancy and increases performance through caching.
Shared responsibilities
A strong relationship between IT and the business is the foundation for self-service analytics. Tableau makes it easy for department and team owners to take on repetitive tasks that used to fall to IT. Business owners can manage their own analytics workspaces, including adding new users, managing data, promoting content and sharing with other groups. This frees IT to focus on platform governance, system reliability, and enabling more users with data and analytics.
Trusted content
Sharing and collaborating with analytics is how your organisation makes better decisions. With Tableau, people can explore and create new content within their team’s sandbox environment, then polish and publish finalised work to a production environment. Tableau supports your preferred content promotion workflows. We also enable individual business users to explore, experiment and collaborate with their teams – while respecting the boundaries you’ve set. Permissions for viewing, editing, publishing and exporting content can be controlled on a per user or group basis, ensuring that your content is accessible and secure.
Governed self-service analytics at scale
What does it mean to go beyond discovering insights to driving meaningful change across the entire organisation? To achieve this, people across teams must work together, communicating their insights and making use of each other’s work. And you, IT, are the central actors that make all of this possible. People in your organisation are already using Excel and other tools to answer their questions. So how do you take charge and enable self-service analytics while also making sure the data is governed, trusted and secure?
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PepsiCo cuts analysis time by 90%
PepsiCo gathers data from retail customers, consolidating warehouse, point-of-sale and production data. But relying on Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel for wrangling and analysis led to messy, inaccurate data. PepsiCo’s Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) team realised they needed a modern analytics platform to help govern their data.
Analytics at PepsiCo
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