Case Study: Tableau Software achieves faster iteration and weekly sprint cycles with Pantheon

Tableau Finds Faster Iteration Leads to Faster Innovation on Pantheon

Tableau, a data analytics company serving over 32,000 customers, faced slow, resource‑intensive website workflows while hosting multiple Drupal sites in‑house. Marketing initiatives were frequently deprioritized as engineering stretched to support Tableau Public and other infrastructure needs, creating a bottleneck for rapid campaign development and iteration.

Moving to Pantheon gave Tableau identical Dev, Test, and Live environments with built‑in continuous integration, letting marketing self‑serve content changes while engineering shortens sprint cycles from a month to a week. The new workflow preserved Drupal, improved site performance and reliability, enabled faster, data‑driven campaigns (including a custom proxy integration), and increased the team’s ability to deliver leads and iterate rapidly.

Tableau Software

Eric Peterson

Drupal Web Developer