Case Study: ARD achieves governed self-service analytics with Holistics

How ARD builds a data-informed org through governed self-service analytics

ARD, the German public broadcasting consortium, wanted to make data more accessible across its thousands of employees while avoiding dashboard sprawl, unauthorized creation, and access-control issues. After a previous self-service BI tool fell short, the team turned to Holistics to support governed self-service analytics for both business users and analysts.

With Holistics, ARD gained intuitive data modeling, robust role-based access control, password-protected dashboard sharing, and self-serve exploration through drag-and-drop dashboards and drill-downs. The result was a lean data team governing thousands of users securely, while dashboards became part of daily editorial workflows and helped teams make faster content decisions; ARD has used Holistics since 2021.

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Johanna G.

Analytics Lead