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AUTHORIZATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF TABLEAU SOFTWARE LICENSES, SERVICES, AND MAINTENANCE FROM CDW-G UTILIZING A COOPERATIVE PURCHASING CONTRACT
Staff Contact: Charles Murphy, Chief Information Officer, Innovation and Technology
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Purpose and Recommended Action
Recommendation
This is a request for City Council to authorize the expenditure of funds in an amount not to exceed $467,500 for the purchase of Tableau software licenses, services, and maintenance from CDW-G. This cooperative purchase is available through an agreement between the State of Arizona and CDW-G (Contract No. ADSPO17-149774) and is effective through September 30, 2021.
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Background
Tableau is a business intelligence solution which provides the ability for staff to integrate data from multiple business applications and to transform the data into meaningful and useful information which can be used to make strategic and tactical decisions. A cross-departmental team selected Tableau as the enterprise-wide business intelligence solution which best meets the City's operational requirements.
Business intelligence (BI) encompasses a variety of technologies for analyzing data and presenting actionable information to help business managers and other end users make more informed business decisions. Using BI, organizations can collect data from internal systems and external sources, prepare it for analysis, develop and run queries against the data, and create reports, dashboards and data visualizations to make the analytical results available to corporate decision makers as well as operational workers.
BI technology enables large amounts of data to be quickly analyzed based on established business criteria to answer business questions. The resulting information provided to the user is often in a graphical format which facilitates faster comprehension and decision making. There are three initial areas where BI will be applied in Glendale.
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