Abre vs Tableau

The better alternative to Tableau

Unlike Tableau, which demands extensive manual effort for each dashboard and visualization, Abre provides pre-built, fully customized K-12 dashboards. Your district receives a platform that’s personalized and ready to start impacting student lives.

K-12 data visualizations & analytics

Monitor K-12 progress in custom dashboards that update in real-time.

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All-in-one tool

One unified platform to handle over 20+ areas of K-12 growth.

Streamlined strategic plan execution

1 platform to create, monitor, and achieve custom strategic objectives.

Assessment creation

Create, assign, and track assessments to students.

Curriculum mapping & collaboration

Create and share curriculum maps across districts, fostering collaboration.

Forms

Create and rollout forms to students, families, and staff members.

Fast onboarding

Get your first dashboards built in 30 days by K-12 data experts.

Cost savings

Save by condensing tools and costs into 1 platform.

Total customer support

Get your dashboards and visualizations built for you.

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Superintendent Karen Cheser was tired of her school leaders juggling multiple platforms for K-12 data

Hear from her about what makes Abre different.

Tableau: Notable Gaps

Both Abre and Tableau handle K-12 data visualizations and analytics — so what can Abre do that Tableau can’t?

Cost Savings

Where Tableau falls short:

In order to get a dashboard for insights into the effectiveness of spending and investments across your district with Tableau, you’ll need the help of a data scientist or hours of manual staff effort. Tableau also still requires you to have additional platforms for things like behavior tracking, assessment scores, attendance, and wellness to collect the data in the first place.

How Abre saves costs:

Abre centralizes all your data in one place and works as a partner to build dashboards customized to your needs. This means you can see the impact of your tools, resources, and interventions without the hours of manual data manipulation. With the ability to collect academic, wellness, and additional K-12 data natively, schools that switch to Abre report saving over $850k.

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Community Support

Where Tableau falls short:

Tableau and Abre both streamline data collection and analysis, but Tableau isn’t built with the community in mind, making it difficult to share relevant data with community partners and support organizations like counseling, tutoring, and physical health support.

How Abre engages the community:

Abre knows it takes a community to educate a child, so the platform is built with community organizations in mind. K-12 admins and families can easily give a community partner such as a counselor or tutor access to secure student data so that they have the right information and tools to support the child.

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Career and Technical Education

Where Tableau falls short:

Tableau’s limited access for community organizations means it’s difficult to track and benchmark student progress with work-based learning partners.

How Abre empowers CTE education:

With Abre, districts can see the full picture of a CTE program and student progress through student portfolios. Portfolios are central to our Student Success (sometimes called “Portrait of a Graduate”) framework. District leaders can also create CTE-specific plans to help students achieve their goals and graduate with the tools necessary for CTE programs.

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Strategic Planning

Where Tableau falls short:

Tableau allows districts to build dashboards for strategic goals and track progress, but offers few added tools to execute strategic goals such as assessment creators, curriculum tools, and classroom management tools.

How Abre helps you achieve your strategic plan

Abre not only gives K-12 leaders custom strategic dashboards to create and monitor progress towards district goals, but a suite of features for streamlined execution such as curriculum management, student performance tracking, classroom management, and more.

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Data-as-a-Service

Where Tableau falls short

Tableau offers districts total customization… so long as the district builds everything themselves. That often requires extra trained staff members whose dedicated role is building new dashboards and visualizations.

Abre’s Data-as-a-Service

Abre wants you to be able to focus on students, not on complex dashboard building. You tell us what you want to see and how you want to see it, and our team of school data experts will build your dashboards for you, and help you understand and interpret the data when you have questions.

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Let's talk admin to admin

Hear from other K-12 leaders about why Abre is the perfect data partner:

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What K-12 admins are saying about Abre

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Dr. Melvin Brown, Superintendent
Montgomery City Schools (AL)
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“Abre brings all our data together in one place and allows us to customize it to meet our specific needs and those of our community. Unlike many programs that offer a one-size-fits-all approach, Abre gives us a custom solution.”
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Dr. Karen Cheser, Superintendent
Durango School District (CO)
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“Adopting Abre is one of the best decisions you can make. Abre makes our work more efficient, productive, and effective. It's a one-stop shop that simplifies our work and makes a meaningful impact on our students.”
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Dr. Bob Hill, Superintendent
Springfield City Schools (OH)
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“Abre helped Springfield City Schools save $850k in staff expenses, allowing the funds and staff to be redeployed towards more meaningful tasks.”
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Keith Millard, Superintendent
Batavia Local School District (OH)
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“Abre serves as our central hub for essential daily tasks, eliminating the need to visit multiple websites. Staff can start their day on the Abre homepage, streamlining their workflow”
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Dean Mader, Director of Federal Programs
Dawson-Bryant Local Schools (OH)
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With Abre we spend less time compiling data and more on making informed decisions. This efficiency allows us to document the effectiveness of our interventions and strategies.”
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Keith Pomeroy, Chief Academic Officer
Upper Arlington Schools (OH)
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“Abre is allowing us to focus on students rather than focusing on preparing the data. We can clearly see the next steps to make processes more efficient for teachers and administrators, which will benefit our students by making them the main focus.”
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Dr. Dylan Connell, Chief Academic Officer
Durango School District (CO)
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Abre is the kind of partner we want in public education. They are simultaneously experts in their craft and empathetic in their collaboration. Their whole team seeks to understand the kinds of impact we're trying to make for our students locally.”
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Jake Richards, Dir. of Curriculum & Instruction
Ross Local School District (OH)
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“In my 16 years in education, I've never worked with a company more committed to meeting customer needs. When we requested two professional learning modules mid-year, the Abre team made them a top priority.”
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Raechel Purdon, Assistant Superintendent
Blanchester City Schools (OH)
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“When we signed with Abre, we expected a solution for our siloed data. We got that AND gained a partnership with data experts who created tailored solutions for our district.
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Deann Burns, Director of Technology
Kings Local Schools (OH)
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“One of the standout features of Abre is its flexibility. Whether it's managing student data, posting an announcement or reviewing professional development opportunities for our staff, Abre provides customizable solutions tailored to our specific needs.
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Laura Spencer, Chief Academic Innovation Officer
Charter School, CA
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“Abre helps our teachers stop saying, "I wish I had known that" by centralizing access to a myriad of data points. It paints the full picture of a student in a way that is easily accessible, digestible, and actionable.”
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Jamie Shields, Curriculum & Instruction Coor.
BChesapeake UEVSD (OH)
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“Abre is a game changer when it comes to early warning. The system allows us to see students and groups of students who need support in the areas of attendance, behavior, course work, testing, and wellness all in one place.