Customer Portrait
The renowned Swiss private bank has been managing client assets for over 130 years and, as a trusted partner, offers clients an individual and holistic advisory approach. As of December 2021, assets under management amounted to CHF 482 billion. The Swiss private bank is headquartered in Zurich with other locations internationally in over 25 countries.
The Problem
When using Tableau, users regularly encountered two errors that significantly limited Tableau's usability and user experience. The private bank attempted to resolve these problems in advance, including in conjunction with other consultancy companies over the period of approximately six months. However, user-friendly or acceptable results could not be achieved.
1. Problem: SSO (Single-Sign-On) issues between Tableau Server and SAP HANA database
Users had to authenticate multiple times when extracting reports on Tableau Server, which relies on an SAP HANA database, even though initial authentication took place during the first log-in.
2. Problem: Performance problems loading reports
The loading times of certain reports via live connections between SAP HANA database and Tableau Server were in single cases more than one minute.
The Solution
As a specialist for SAP Business Warehouse and data visualization in Tableau as well as all frontend topics around reporting with Tableau, biX Consulting team was able to solve the problems within a very short time:
1. Problem: SSO (Single-Sign-On) issues between Tableau Server and SAP HANA database
After an analysis phase and preparation on the biX internal test landscape, a single-sing-on between Tableau Server and SAP HANA could be set up via remote access, so that users only have to authenticate once when using the system, as required.
2. Problem: Performance problems loading reports
Over a 2-day on-site workshop, the system, connection and architecture were analyzed. In just a few hours, an elementary improvement in report loading time was achieved from over one minute to approximately five seconds. Through additional fine-tuning, a further reduction in loading time to two to three seconds was achieved.
The Customer Benefit
Thanks to the expertise and solution-oriented consulting of biX Consulting team, the problems were solved quickly and without complications. The Swiss private bank was able to significantly increase Tableau's user experience and is now able to take full advantage of Tableau's strengths.
"The seamless and high-performance integration of Tableau into our SAP BW landscape is a central component of our self-service analytics strategy. Thanks to biX Consulting's professional support, we were able to clear major technical roadblocks in a very short time, which other consulting firms had failed at several times."
– Head Finance Analytics & Management Accounting –
Swiss private bank
biX Value
The result of biX Consulting services is an enthusiastic customer who was very sceptical at the beginning of the joint discussions. The reason for this scepticism was the past experience, which was contrary to the described estimations of biX Consulting to be able to solve the problems relatively quickly. However, biX Consulting team kept its word!
