Balachandran Venkatraman
Medispend 
We are an end-to-end data analytics service provider and do not receive any kickbacks from Tableau. We deliver tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of our clients.
We create high performing Tableau dashboards that run on data models that stand the test of time. We are committed to helping our clients get the most value from their data assets through our full range of data management, data integration, data quality, analytics, and visualization services.
Unlike many of our competitors, we do not take any commissions or license sale kickbacks from Tableau, ensuring that our interests are fully aligned with those of our clients.
Our Services
New Reports / Dashboard development
Data Management Services
Operations, Maintenance & Support
We support Tableau across multiple databases
We turn around failed Tableau projects?
Are your dashboards and reports getting obsolete?
Stale dashboards can quickly become obsolete and go unused. At Y Point Analytics, we keep dashboards updated to meet the evolving needs of any growing business. We continually enhance dashboards and reports to ensure they remain relevant and meet the changing analytic requirements of your organization. Additionally, we proactively monitor source data and enhance data pipelines, which helps insulate Tableau dashboards and reports from source data structure changes, ensuring their longevity and usefulness.
Is there a lack of interest in business teams to use Tableau?
Our team works closely with users to gain an in-depth understanding of their specific needs. We then create interactive and visually appealing Tableau dashboards that engage users and provide valuable insights. We employ “Tableau storytelling” tailored to each user, weaving data and insights into compelling narratives. Furthermore, our efficient data pipelines & data integration jobs ensure that the data is always up-to-date and accurate, ensuring user engagement.
Are you getting the expected ROI from your Tableau investment?
We help increase Return on Investment (ROI) on Tableau by reducing licensing costs and increasing user adoption. We help reduce manual data integration costs, by automating data loads, improve data quality, engage with users to educate them on available dashboards, instantiate data governance to drive collaboration, streamline existing ETL processes and utilize best tableau best practices.
Worried about Tableau licensing costs?
At Y Point Analytics, we are independent and unbiased, as we are not incentivized by Tableau to sell you more licenses. Our only focus is to align our interests with yours, by delivering the best solution for your needs, regardless of the product. As a result, you can trust that we will help you save on your licensing costs, without any hidden agenda.
Why Y Point Analytics ?
- Design custom Tableau Dashboards for Top Level Management, which helps in faster decision-making.
- Automate Database restoration using Python.
- Integrate Tableau with R, Python, and other statistical and data mining environments.
- Tackle complex Geospatial analysis and delivered dashboards showing Crimes and types of crimes around the radius of Client Properties by locating boundaries of the properties.
- Develop Reports for daily, weekly, monthly, and Yearly.
- Daily Work Order dashboards, Financial dashboards, Transaction Dashboards, and Waiting List dashboards.
- Working on a budget dashboard which helps in better budget allocation decisions and planning strategies.
- Build dashboards with data from clients' Websites.
- We work on the Tableau Server user's usage dashboard and analyze server performance with the data stored in Tableau Server Repository.
Case Study
District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA)
- The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) provides quality affordable housing to extremely low- through moderate-income households, fosters sustainable communities, and cultivates opportunities for residents to improve their lives. It aims to create opportunities to improve the quality of life for DCHA residents, increase access to quality affordable housing, provide livable housing to support healthy and sustainable communities and foster a collaborative outcome driven work environment that is outcome driven.
- We offer comprehensive data solutions for our clients by collecting information from multiple sources including databases, websites, SFTP servers, applications, and geospatial data. Our services encompass Data Integration, Web-Based Applications, Tableau Dashboards, Tableau Server Maintenance, including upgrades and database restoration, as well as SMS Workorder Alerts. Our goal is to provide an all-in-one solution that streamlines data management and helps organizations make informed decisions.
The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) provides quality affordable housing to extremely low- through moderate-income households, fosters sustainable communities, and cultivates opportunities for residents to improve their lives. It aims to create opportunities to improve the quality of life for DCHA residents, increase access to quality affordable housing, provide livable housing to support healthy and sustainable communities and foster a collaborative outcome driven work environment that is outcome driven.
We offer comprehensive data solutions for our clients by collecting information from multiple sources including databases, websites, SFTP servers, applications, and geospatial data. Our services encompass Data Integration, Web-Based Applications, Tableau Dashboards, Tableau Server Maintenance, including upgrades and database restoration, as well as SMS Workorder Alerts. Our goal is to provide an all-in-one solution that streamlines data management and helps organizations make informed decisions.
Case Study
District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA)
Pain Points
- Disorganized data is all around the application, database, SFTP server, excel files, and website.
- No proper tracking of work orders generated daily, who is working on them and what status of it.
- Unable to track the rent charged and the payments received from the Tenants.
- No proper idea about how many properties were vacant, why they were vacant and the status of each unit.
- The client wants to track crimes around their properties but needs boundary information.
Solution
- Data from different data sources are now centrally organized and created a replica of the client's database.
- Designed Work order dashboards for tracking along with inventory used to complete the work order.
- SMS alerts solution for new work orders.
- Created buffer boundaries and shaped files for DCHA properties to show the number of crimes and types of crime falling within and near DCHA properties by QGIS Tool and generating KMZ files in Google Earth. Through this analysis, they could now understand how safe their tenants are.
- Single-click download solution of all the dashboards into one PDF file.
- Designed frontend application for 90 Days Action Plan with the data pulled into the dashboard.
- Design custom Tableau Dashboards for Top Level Management, which helps in faster decision-making.
- Automate Database restoration using Python
- Integrate Tableau with R, Python, and other statistical and data mining environments
- Tackle complex Geospatial analysis and delivered dashboards showing Crimes and types of crimes around the radius of Client Properties by locating boundaries of the properties.
- Developed daily, weekly, monthly, and Yearly reports for Work Order dashboards, Financial dashboards, Transaction Dashboards, and Waiting List dashboards.
- Worked on a budget dashboards which helps in better budget allocation decisions and planning strategies.
- Worked on the Tableau Server user's usage dashboard and analyzed server performance with the data stored in Tableau Server Repository.
Tableau Dashboards Best Practices
Adhering to best practices in building Tableau reports & dashboards helps ensure:
Data accuracy and reliability, Consistency of development, Ease of use for end users, Effective communication of insights, Scalability and maintainability of the dashboard, Compliance with privacy and security regulations, Effectively support decision-making and drive business results.
We recommend following best practices while developing and deploying Tableau reports and Dashboards:
- Work hard to remove complexity from reports and dashboards, simple dashboards last longer, run faster, are loved by users, are easier to maintain.
- A robust data architecture is the cornerstone of exceptional data visualization. A significant number of projects fail due to inadequate data modeling. Utilize normalized and dimensional data models using an ETL tool for optimal results. [5]
- Keep it simple, limit the number of worksheets in the dashboard. Adopt the 4-pane dashboard design to streamline the user experience. [3]
- Optimize dashboard performance with extract connections, limited joins, data source filters, no custom SQL, and include filters. Target load time under 10 seconds. [2][4]
- Employ filter actions instead of Quick filters whenever feasible.[2] Refrain from utilizing calculations that necessitate data blending to maintain optimized performance.
- Abstain from constructing a single dashboard to fulfill all needs and steer clear of incorporating complex custom shapes and large images to prevent hindrance in the dashboard performance.
- Collaborate with the data integration and modeling specialists to enhance the efficiency of the data model through effective optimization techniques. [5]
- Comprehensive review of server settings and configuration that frequently drag down performance can breathe new life into your Tableau implementation. [7]
- Version control Best practices: Implement version control for ETL processes, data models, and Tableau code to ensure organized and efficient management of changes over time.[8]
- Methodology: Use agile development methodology to deliver value to end users quickly, subsequently continuously re-factor / optimize the code for simplicity and high performance. [6]
References:
- “Choose the Right Chart Type for Your Data” . Tableau.
- “Tableau Workbook Performance Checklist“ . Tableau.
- “Best Practices for Designing Effective Dashboard“ . Tableau.
- Francis Dejonckheere (2023-02-01). “Improve Dashboard Load Time“ . Tableau.
- Ralph Kimball (1996) . “Dimensional Modeling Techniques” . Kimball Group.
- “Principles and Manifesto for Agile Software Development” . Agile manifesto.
- “Best Practices for Efficient Tableau Server Performance” . Tableau.
Michael Ernst (2012-09). “Version Control Concepts and Best Practices” .
Testimonials
As a director of Data Opps, I managed Y Point Analytics team from 2019-2022. In my 25+ years of managing teams, I have yet to come across a team with such high ethics, team work & passion to deliver. YPoint team functions like a well oiled machine, taking in complex data integration and analytic requirements and creating high-quality, well documented, performance optimized code that continues to run for years. They do all this while juggling 100’s of data pipeline requests on a regular basis. This results in minimum production issues, satisfied clients, and happy employees.
Naveen Vedula
YPoint Solutions did a fantastic job implementing a state of the art 'Digital Assistant' for US Medical Affairs. The entire team was great to work with, and tailored solutions specific to our needs at GlaxoSmithKline. Amazed at how quickly the solution was implemented from the time initial conversations started. Highly recommend!
Medispend
Director of Data Opps
As a director of Data Opps, I managed Y Point Analytics team from 2019-2022. In my 25+ years of managing teams, I have yet to come across a team with such high ethics, team work & passion to deliver. YPoint team functions like a well oiled machine, taking in complex data integration and analytic requirements and creating high-quality, well documented, performance optimized code that continues to run for years. They do all this while juggling 100’s of data pipeline requests on a regular basis. This results in minimum production issues, satisfied clients, and happy employees.
GSK
Director
YPoint Solutions did a fantastic job implementing a state of the art 'Digital Assistant' for US Medical Affairs. The entire team was great to work with, and tailored solutions specific to our needs at GlaxoSmithKline. Amazed at how quickly the solution was implemented from the time initial conversations started. Highly recommend!