Soaring to Success – Airline Accelerates Tableau Dashboard Migration with STORM

Seamless Tableau Cloud Migration Success with #1 Tableau Cloud Migration Tool

Airline Achieves Seamless Transition to Tableau Cloud

Enhancing BI Performance Through Automation

USEReady’s STORM Facilitates Efficient Migration

Business Challenges in Dashboard Migration

Leveraging STORM for Efficient Migration

Implementation Strategy and Tools Used

Key Outcomes and Business Impact

Reducing Manual Effort with Automation

Ensuring Data Quality and Consistency

Enhancing Dashboard Performance

Facilitating Collaboration Across Teams

In Brief

A major US airline wanted to migrate its business dashboards to Tableau Cloud to leverage its data assets better. It faced challenges such as manual migration, data quality issues, extensive testing and high maintenance costs. USEReady, Tableau's #1 Global Partner, deployed STORM, its award-winning Tableau Cloud migration accelerator service, to migrate 800+ dashboards with 65% savings in time and effort, improved performance and quality, and reduced cost and complexity. The airline benefited from Tableau Cloud's scalability, security, reliability, accessibility and collaboration features through industry's fastest Tableau server to Tableau Cloud migration.

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Customer

The customer is a major US airline which offers flights to hundreds of destinations across the country and the world. It has a large market share and a loyal customer base. The airline operates a modern and diverse fleet of aircrafts and employs thousands of people. It has a long history and a strong reputation in the aviation industry.

Business Challenges

The airline's tech-savvy operations had been struggling to keep pace with business requirements, particularly when it came to utilizing its data assets. To overcome the challenge, the airline sought to migrate its business dashboards to Tableau Cloud. However, it faced several challenges including:
Time-consuming manual migration of dashboards from Tableau Server to Tableau Cloud
Data inconsistencies and quality issues across dashboards and data sources
Extensive testing requirements to ensure accuracy and functionality of dashboards on Tableau Cloud
High cost and effort involved in maintaining and upgrading Tableau Server infrastructure

Enter STORM by USEReady

USEReady leveraged STORM, the best Tableau migration accelerator on the market to migrate the airline's dashboards to Tableau Cloud quickly and efficiently. USEReady's project team worked with Tableau COE to identify and prioritize business needs. STORM's Assessment accelerator helped prioritize and plan the migration while its Optimizer accelerator helped increase dashboard and data source performance.

Next was migration of business-critical reports. STORM's Organizer, a content clean-up accelerator helped expedite the migration by mapping sites, projects, folders, users, groups, permissions, data sources and dashboards between Tableau Server and Tableau Cloud. This award-winning Tableau Partner migration solution included automated Tableau User Migration Scripts and progress tracking mechanisms that monitored migration status, helping the team resolve issues throughout the migration process.

Key Outcomes

By using STORM, the fastest Tableau server to Tableau Cloud migration solution, the airline achieved:
Curated portfolio of dashboards and reports with improved performance and quality
Curated portfolio
of dashboards and reports with improved performance and quality
Worry-free, hassle-free conversion to Tableau Cloud with minimal service interruptions
Worry-free, hassle-free conversion
to Tableau Cloud with minimal service interruptions through our migration
Reduced cost and complexity of maintaining Tableau Server infrastructure
Reduced cost and complexity
of maintaining Tableau Server infrastructure
65% savings in time and effort via automation
65% savings in time and effort
via automation compared to manual methods such as Tableau Content Migration Tool

Lessons Learnt

Automation through tools like STORM can significantly reduce time and effort required for dashboard migration compared to traditional approaches
Data quality and performance optimization are essential for ensuring accuracy and functionality of dashboards on Tableau Cloud
Migration planning and prioritization can help identify and resolve issues during the Tableau Cloud migration process
Tableau Cloud offers many advantages over Tableau Server such as lower infrastructure costs, higher availability, and better collaboration

Conclusion

This case demonstrates how STORM's purpose-built accelerators transformed a complex migration challenge into a value-driving initiative. By automating content mapping, permission structures, and cross-platform data validation processes, the airline achieved a 65% reduction in migration overhead while optimizing query performance through our migration expertise. Beyond the logistics of transferring 800+ dashboards, the award-winning solution methodically addressed data governance gaps, optimized extraction workflows, and enhanced rendering performance. The implementation showcases how automation can redefine technical migrations from operational necessities into strategic advantages by simultaneously addressing infrastructure constraints, data quality issues, and scalability requirements in cloud-based analytics environments.

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