Case Study: Oldcastle achieves enterprise self-service analytics and 78,000‑SKU visibility with Tableau Software

CFO of building product manufacturer, Oldcastle, champions self-service BI with Tableau to empower thousands of users

Oldcastle, a leading North American building‑products manufacturer with 20 divisions and 206 facilities, faced the challenge of turning large, static monthly reports into timely, trustworthy information that could scale across its organization and salesforce tracking 78,000 SKUs. CFO Ian Crabtree pushed for a solution that would give leaders and frontline workers faster, governed access to the data they needed to make operational and financial decisions.

By deploying Tableau and working closely with IT, Oldcastle replaced lengthy PDFs with nightly‑refreshed, row‑level‑secure dashboards, standardized templates and web authoring, and integrated ERP and Salesforce data. The change created a self‑service analytics culture—more than 3,000 dashboards, ~500 web authors and 1,800 subscribers—delivering a real‑time, 360° view of the business, speeding manufacturing (mold‑tracking across 11 divisions) and enabling faster, data‑driven decisions.

Oldcastle

Ian Crabtree

Chief Financial Officer