Return On Investment

When you automate a task, it usually takes longer than just performing the task manually. Automating the task becomes a sunk cost. The return on investment comes when you can re-use that component and amortise that sunk cost across many uses of the component. The greater the re-use, the better the return on investment.

More Projects, Greater Chance of Re-Use

It stands to reason then, that if you can standardise hundreds of projects on a particular platform, you can develop components that can be re-used hundreds of times, yielding a great return on investment. However this only works if the tool can scale to keep pace. Therefore the scalability of the tool is the key to unlocking the best return on your investment.

Tableaux Scalability

Tableaux's enterprise-class features mean that it can scale as large as your organisation will allow. These features include:

• Supports a virtually unlimited number of concurrent projects. Tableaux is designed from the ground up to support concurrent development, not only within individual software projects, but also between multiple projects.
• Supports the largest software releases. This includes multi-day releases. Tableaux can support hundreds and even thousands of steps in each release. These releases would be impossible to deliver manually.
• Industrial strength application server. Tableaux runs on industry-standard, best of breed Java application servers, so it can run on nearly every platform on the market.
• Enterprise-class database backend. Tableaux can use best-of-breed database software to guarantee that it scales up to handle the heaviest of workloads.
• High Availability features allow you to run redundant Tableaux servers, ready to pick up in the event of failure.
• Numerous other features, such as a sophisticated web-based user interface to ensure the software is available from any location.