Epicor Grow vs. Geckoboard

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Epicor Grow
Score 7.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Grow, from Epicor since the March 2022 acquisition, is a business intelligence software that is designed to empower businesses to become data-driven and accelerate growth by aligning team objectives and inspiring strategic decisions.N/A
Geckoboard
Score 6.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Geckoboard enables users to create real time dashboards using data from over 80 cloud services. It integrates with other products such as: AWeber, Basecamp, Campaign Monitor and HubSpot.
$35
per month
Pricing
Epicor GrowGeckoboard
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Starter
$35
per month
Team
$159
per month
Team Plus
$275
per month
Company
$599
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Epicor GrowGeckoboard
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Epicor GrowGeckoboard
Considered Both Products
Epicor Grow
Chose Epicor Grow
I've used all three products listed, and Salesforce really lacks even with their own reports. We started using Grow almost exclusively for displaying and visualizing Salesforce data. At a previous company, we used Geckoboard, which I would consider more of a direct competitor. …
Chose Epicor Grow
Geckoboard and hacking it together with Google Sheets. Neither let's you do as much and neither is as pretty.
Geckoboard

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Epicor GrowGeckoboard
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
8.0
33 Ratings
2% below category average
Geckoboard
9.3
5 Ratings
13% above category average
Customizable dashboards9.033 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates7.026 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
7.7
32 Ratings
5% below category average
Geckoboard
7.7
5 Ratings
5% below category average
Drill-down analysis7.028 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Formatting capabilities7.029 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration9.031 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
6.7
30 Ratings
22% below category average
Geckoboard
9.0
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Publish to Web7.026 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Publish to PDF7.026 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling6.026 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
7.0
27 Ratings
14% below category average
Geckoboard
8.7
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.025 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.024 Ratings10.05 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
7.0
32 Ratings
21% below category average
Geckoboard
7.8
5 Ratings
10% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)7.032 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model7.026 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.026 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)7.018 Ratings6.12 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
7.8
27 Ratings
2% below category average
Geckoboard
9.5
5 Ratings
17% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access8.027 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Mobile Application7.414 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.419 Ratings10.04 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Epicor Grow
7.0
21 Ratings
12% below category average
Geckoboard
10.0
2 Ratings
23% above category average
REST API7.021 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Epicor GrowGeckoboard
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(33 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(6 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Epicor GrowGeckoboard
Likelihood to Recommend
Epicor Software
Grow.com is well suited if you have a lot of data or client data to manage. If you do not have tons of data, there are other options out there that are a bit more simple and easy to use and a better price.
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Geckoboard
Great value for the money. Excellent for smaller agencies with multiple projects and teams in a smaller space. We can quickly roll out mobile displays to help with a particular deployment push or monitoring a clients website engagement. It's also useful for showing live data without requiring analytics to run reports from a CRM, etc.
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Pros
Epicor Software
  • I love the fact that you have a team of developers who can help me build metrics or fix metrics that I do not create properly. I had to learn SQL in order to really build the metrics that mattered, which was a lot of fun, but resulted in many broken metrics. The vendor's team was great in responding to me requests for help!
  • Really, really appreciate the fact that Grow has SQL formulas to reference when building metrics. Again, as a novice, this accelerated my ability to learn and not have to leave your site and resources and stay within the Grow web properties.
  • Great account managers who check in regularly and are willing to help out whenever needed.
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Geckoboard
  • User self-help - the video tutorials and a robust publicly accessible knowledgebase.
  • Geckoboard can aggregate data from a number of other apps into a singular dashboard.
  • Sleek, dark UI.
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Cons
Epicor Software
  • There are basic labeling issues with some of the graph types. Wish there was more customizability here, especially on complex graphs.
  • Could help more with analysis of data and trends, but that's going into full-fledged BI territory.
  • The functionality of being able to snapshot data isn't quite there.
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Geckoboard
  • A bit more flexibility in the number of columns would be nice.
  • Ability to scale to mobile device (web).
  • App capabilities are missing on Android.
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Likelihood to Renew
Epicor Software
No answers on this topic
Geckoboard
My company did not renew due to changes in the organization.
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Usability
Epicor Software
Grow.com is structured in [...] such a way that it is easy to get started for individuals that known SQL. For individuals that are not as well versed at SQL, the learning curve is much steeper. In such cases, it would be better for users to learn SQL and then go for data visualization with Grow.com.
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Geckoboard
With a simple interface and available templates, creating basic dashboards is easy. Obviously depending on the data you want to visualize, there may be higher learning curves. That being said, they have a huge amount of integrations and extensible frameworks. If you are using anything made in the past ten years there is an API function or integration that can get it talking to the platform. As such, it's pretty easy to hit the main data points you want and get it on a cheap display in front of your team.
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Support Rating
Epicor Software
If there is one area that Grow.com excel[s] upon much better than other data visualization tools, it is Grow.com's customer/tech support. Grow.com responds much quicker and does a better job of getting to a solution [than] any other business intelligence tool on the market. The support staff gets the big picture [...] and knows how to help.
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Geckoboard
The support levels vary based on the level of plan that you have but that's to be expected. Virtually everything except the Enterprise plan has basic chat/email support. While they are responsive they are not going to be much assistance in helping you figure out API calls or implementing 3rd party integrations. That is to be expected and the support community can pretty much get you in the right direction if you look.
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Alternatives Considered
Epicor Software
Grow doesn't have as many advanced analytics features and other capabilities as some other 'dashboard' platforms on the market. Simply, if you want a tool for internal use only that has high-level analytics capabilities (regressions, completely custom visualizations, modeling), Grow probably isn't the platform for you. To put it another way, if you have a team of data engineers and scientists doing complex analysis, Grow might not make the most sense. However, if you understand the value of data/visualization/dashboards, but lack some of those skillsets in your company, Grow might be the perfect fit. Not only is it incredibly scalable and reasonably priced compared to other market solutions, but their transform capabilities really stand out. They have many native data transformations that mimic SQL coding of a dataset, without requiring any knowledge of SQL. They've converted these transformations to easy-to-use tools in the platform, which are perfect for the less-technical user.
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Geckoboard
Domo is more robust. We do use both because Geckoboard is really easy to show the rest of our team without the need for additional licenses.
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Return on Investment
Epicor Software
  • Grow.com has been a positive ROI in that it has improved management communication and discussion.
  • Grow.com has been a positive ROI in that it has improved coordination among individuals at the same business.
  • Grow.com has sometimes been a negative ROI for entities that don't change their behavior to use the software the best way.
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Geckoboard
  • While we originally used this as an internal IS tool, we eventually have expanded it to be used by nearly every department.
  • Because pricing is monthly, we can grow or decrease our usage based on our current client needs.
  • Because it is low cost and easy to deploy, we can utilize it in place of considerable resources in analytics and reporting by delivering snapshots of data without pulling reports.
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ScreenShots

Epicor Grow Screenshots

Screenshot of Marketing desktop dashboard in dark-mode.Screenshot of TV, desktop, and mobile dashboards.Screenshot of KPI desktop dashboard in light-mode.Screenshot of Chart builder and data visualization.

Geckoboard Screenshots

Screenshot of Create live KPI dashboards in minutes. No coding or training required.Screenshot of Easily pull in real-time data from over 80 different tools, including spreadsheets and databases, as well as popular business tools like Salesforce, Zendesk, Google Analytics and many more.Screenshot of Anyone can build custom dashboards that make data and KPIs look professional and are easy for everyone on the team to understand at a glance.Screenshot of Get important numbers in front of the team or stakeholders, whether they're in the office or WFH.Screenshot of Every part of your organisation can surface metrics that matter to them and show progress towards their goals.