Aspire Public Schools Selects Tableau to Deliver School and Student Dashboards and Business Intelligence to Over 700 Employees
Aspire Chooses Tableau to Support Data-Driven Decision Making Across Diverse Employee Base
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June 28, 2009 - 5:00pm SEATTLE — June 29, 2009 — Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced that Aspire Public Schools has adopted Tableau to provide live, interactive dashboards, graphics and reports to over 700 staff across 25 locations. Principals, deans, teachers, and managers in Aspire’s home office will access data to make decisions that best support student achievement. Aspire Public Schools is a not-for-profit charter management organization that builds and operates high quality public charter schools that prepare urban students for college. Currently, Aspire manages 21 schools and employs over 1,000 employees.
With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Aspire licensed Tableau to play a key part in fulfilling the organization’s vision of providing its staff members with role-based dashboards that are timely, understandable, and actionable. Aspire needed business intelligence software that could roll out across multiple locations, connect to multiple data sources and scale with Aspire’s rapid growth. As importantly, they needed a solution that would enable people of any skill level to draw insights from a single portal embedded with live, interactive data visualizations, reports and graphics. "Aspire Public Schools chose Tableau because it was designed with human beings in mind,” said Lynzi Ziegenhagen, Director of Special Projects for Aspire Public Schools. “Tableau's design and features support the processes that lead to effective data-driven decision making: finding the story, telling the story, and understanding the story so the right people can do something about it."
Aspire is deploying both Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server in order to reap the benefits of rapid-fire BI. Award-winning Tableau Desktop data visualization software connects directly to a wide assortment of data sources allowing people to understand complex relationships with easy-to-understand data visualizations and business dashboards. Award-winning Tableau Server extends the functionality of Desktop to the web, enabling entire organizations to share, discover and interact with their data, business dashboards and reports via a web browser.
“In this economic climate, few companies can afford bloated business intelligence software with high license fees, long roll-outs, expensive maintenance and low user adoption rates,” said Christian Chabot, Tableau’s CEO and co-founder. “Aspire was looking for a new kind of business intelligence—software that is fast and easy to deploy, simple to learn and intuitive to use.”
About Tableau Software
Tableau Software is the leading provider of fast analytics and rapid-fire business intelligence software and one of the 50 fastest growing software companies in the U.S. Its award-winning applications can be downloaded at http://www.tableausoftware.com/trial. They enable anyone to create and share interactive data visualizations, business dashboards and analytics, and can scale to organizations of any size or reach. Information regarding Tableau’s popular data visualization conference July 20-23 is available at http://conference.tableausoftware.com.
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