Case Study: University of Notre Dame achieves 10x faster analysis and faster reporting with Tableau Software

University of Notre Dame: 10x faster analysis with Tableau + Snowflake

The University of Notre Dame, which serves over 10,000 students, faced slow, siloed analytics: a legacy data warehouse couldn’t scale, queries often took 30–90 minutes, and standard reports required about two months to produce. Departments used inconsistent definitions and struggled to access and interpret enterprise data, which hindered fundraising insights and campus-wide decision-making.

Notre Dame built DataND—a governed, campus-wide portal on Tableau Server paired with Tableau Desktop—and adopted Snowflake’s Elastic Data Warehouse for cloud-native, scalable processing. Direct Tableau–Snowflake connectivity let teams create and share dashboards quickly, cut reporting from months to days, and deliver up to 10× faster analysis, enabling broader collaboration, faster decisions, and the ability to analyze semi-structured data.

University of Notre Dame

Evan Grantham-Brown

Business Intelligence Professional