Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance and Management, on behalf of the Department of Technology (DoT), to associate all General Budget Reservations resulting from this ordinance with the appropriate State Term Schedule (STS033-534354 -51 expiring 06/30/2019) authorized for the City's use by Ordinance No. 582-87 with Halcyon Solutions, Inc. for the purchase of Tableau software licensing, first year software maintenance and support, software implementation services, and training for one year from the date of a certified purchase order from the City Auditor at a cost of $610,933.50.
This purchase includes a one-time purchase of Tableau server enterprise software license ($234,654.75) and 75 desktop licenses ($102,528.75) to be owned by the City, a one-time purchase of implementation services at a cost of $50,400.00, initial solution training for server and desktop at a cost of $133,100.00, and the first year of software license support at a cost of $90,250.00. The term of this agreement shall be for one year from the date of the purchase order. The software license support will be an ongoing annual operating expense. As such, for each year 2 through 5, the annual impact on the operating budget will be $90,250.00.
The Department of Technology has a need to acquire the Tableau software licensing to be used throughout City departments and divisions. Tableau is a data visualization and business intelligence software that provides instantaneous insight by transforming data into visually appealing and interactive visualizations. It helps the user see and understand the data quickly and find patterns that otherwise may be very difficult to detect and understand. Tableau connects to almost every database and its resulting visualizations can be easily shared with others both on and off City’s web pages. The City’s purchase of Tableau Server will empower the City departments to conduct ...
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