NAB retires its Tableau surroundings – Finance – Cloud – Software program

NAB has decommissioned its 11-year-old Tableau surroundings as a part of a continued transfer to a new data platform that it calls Ada.

The financial institution’s chief information and analytics officer Christian Nelissen marked the decommissioning with a LinkedIn post, saying that the enterprise occasion of Tableau had been turned off.

At its peak, the occasion supported over 11,000 stories and 4000 customers.

Nelissen wrote that these stories have been both migrated to PowerBI or switched off totally.

It’s the second main decommissioning of a knowledge system by NAB and follows the financial institution’s retirement of its 26-year-old Teradata surroundings.

Teradata was turned off at the end of 2023.

It later emerged that the financial institution live-streamed the end of that platform to “thousands” of people, as a strategy to formally mark the top of an period and a brand new starting for the financial institution’s information infrastructure.

It’s understood there wasn’t the identical fanfare across the Tableau decommissioning.

A NAB spokesperson declined to remark.

Ada is taken into account “chapter two” for the financial institution and its information journey and is constructed on a knowledge stack comprising expertise from Databricks, HVR Fivetran, PowerBI, AWS and Azure.