Case Study: Dell achieves faster data-driven insights and empowered self-service analytics with Tableau Software

Dell inspires a workforce with visual data

Dell faced a fragmented data environment—warmerhouses, varying systems across functions and recent acquisitions—that made financial consolidation, rapid P&L reporting and trustworthy analysis slow and labor-intensive. Analysts were spending roughly 75% of their time on data collection and cleansing and only 25% on insight generation, while investor relations and integration work required faster, more precise answers.

Dell rolled out Tableau through a grassroots, self-service approach that put flexible visual analytics into the hands of subject-matter experts. The result: faster consolidated closes, better anomaly detection and data cleansing, a reversed prep/analysis time split, clear identification of product growth drivers for investor relations, and broad cross‑functional adoption that raised the organization’s analytical capabilities and job satisfaction.

Dell

Robert Ayala

Senior Financial Consultant