Soaring to Success – Accelerated Dashboard Migration with STORM

Dashboard Migration Success Story

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 used STORM, an automation accelerator, 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.
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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 the 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

USEReady Solution

USEReady leveraged STORM, its powerful automation tool 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 the dashboard and data source performance.

Next was migration of business-critical reports. STORM’s Organizer, a free 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. Further, STORM’s progress and alerts mechanism tracked migration status, helping the team resolve issues throughout the migration process.

Key Outcomes

By using STORM, the airline was able to migrate its 800+ dashboards to Tableau Cloud with
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
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

Lessons Learnt

Automation can significantly reduce the time and effort required for dashboard migration.
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 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. Beyond the logistics of transferring 800+ dashboards, the solution methodically addressed data governance gaps, optimized extraction workflows, and enhanced rendering performance. The implementation architecture showcases how intelligent automation tools 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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