Case Study: Surrey County Council achieves data analysis in hours instead of days with Tableau Software

Surrey County Council reduces analysis time from days to hours

Surrey County Council needed a way to make data accessible and actionable across a workforce with widely varying technical skills and to move decision‑making from intuition to evidence. Manual, repetitive processes and slow analysis—sometimes taking days or weeks—made it hard to plan services like youth club interventions and led to unnecessary travel and inefficiency.

By deploying Tableau dashboards and a secure, governed Tableau Server, the council gives senior managers and frontline staff live, easy‑to‑use visualizations that update daily. The result: analysis that once took days or weeks now takes hours (one monthly task dropped from a week to two hours), fewer miles driven, measurable cost savings, and staff freed to focus on higher‑value work.

Surrey County Council

Rich Stockley

Chief Research Officer