Case Study: Tableau achieves 3-month payback and 15 hours back every two weeks with Gradle Develocity

Tableau sees 3-month payback with Gradle Develocity

Tableau, a data and analytics company, was facing a significant challenge with slow software builds that wasted developer time and caused frustration. The lack of granular data on build and test failures led to long mean time to resolution (MTTR). According to their VP of Engineering, they considered this a "$100M problem." To address this, they turned to Gradle and its Develocity platform.

Gradle's solution involved implementing Develocity's Build Cache to reduce build times by reusing unchanged outputs and Build Scan for in-depth failure analysis. This approach gave Tableau's heaviest software builders back 15 hours every two weeks, significantly shortening iteration time. Gradle's tools also provided the task-level data needed to visualize build errors and trends directly within Tableau's own dashboards.

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