Case Study: ACT (education and assessment organization) achieves rapid, organization-wide data insights with Tableau Software

ACT’s Business Users Uncover Hidden Influences

ACT, an organization with 50 years of educational and workforce data, faced the challenge of turning vast, varied datasets into meaningful, actionable insight. Reliance on manual tools like Excel made analysis slow and opaque, preventing easy identification of operational waste and clear reporting on strategic initiatives.

By adopting Tableau and running hands-on demos and simple onboarding, ACT quickly democratized analytics—growing users from five to 120. Visualizations that once took weeks in Excel were produced in minutes, mapping exposed areas of material waste that led to significant cost savings, and even small, textual datasets were turned into clear executive-level reports, driving faster, broader data-driven decisions across the organization.

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Tim Kuhns

Data Literacy Evangelist