TrustRadius Insights for DashThis are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Clear and Aesthetically Pleasing Display: Users have praised the product for its ability to present data in a visually appealing and easy-to-understand manner. Several reviewers have stated that the clear display of information enhances their overall experience with the product.
Integration Capabilities: The integration capabilities of the product have been highly valued by users, as it allows them to connect with various systems used in web design and digital marketing. Many reviewers have mentioned that this feature greatly improves their workflow efficiency.
Time-saving Report Creation: Users have found it beneficial that the product enables them to quickly create new charts, graphs, and reports for their clients. Multiple reviewers have expressed how this functionality saves them time and effort in generating insightful reports.
DashThis was an initial reporting solution for our clients as an agency. We like many aspects of the reporting but ultimately needed a better end to end ROI reporting solution for our clients. It’s a good solution for basic reporting. I would like to see them add phone call recording metrics to their reporting by integrating with a company like What Converts or Call Rail.
Pros
Simplified reporting
Scheduled reports
Ease of set up
Cons
Customized integrations
Call reporting
Likelihood to Recommend
Good but could be better. Needs to look at acquisition reporting in more detail.
We use DashThis to gather analytics for our clients every month. We also run reports for yearly analytics. Most of our analytics can be integrated and pulled straight from the source which saves us a lot of time.
Pros
Layout of analytics
Variety of integrations
Their support team is wonderful
Cons
More variety in comparing data in one widget
Integrations issues every once in awhile
Likelihood to Recommend
Even if you are only pulling analytics from Google, I think the ease of use is worth it.
DashThis is being used company-wide to track and monitor key client metrics month over month. We've dumped just about every app and resource site's data into it, creating a one-stop shop for analysis. From email, to paid search, to social media to website traffic, DashThis has provided a simple solution for providing a complete analytics database. Previous programs we have used are very siloed, and while they are helpful it's difficult managing 5 different apps and sites to get the monthly information we need.
Pros
Simple drag and drop interface. No complex programming or integrations needed.
Custom options for advanced users. The baseline graphs and charts are very helpful, but depending on what point you're trying to get across it's easy to create your own for maximum understanding
Easily accessible. Save time, trees, and money. Every month we simple forward a dashboard link to our clients. No complex reports necessary.
Cons
I'm interested in implementing more tools into the system, such as Google My Business or OpenTable to truly make it a universal analytics dashboard.
Instead of just month over month date ranges, I would also like to see a YTD date range.
Likelihood to Recommend
DashThis has worked well for us because many of our clients can't afford hours and hours of reporting and analysis fees. This has cut costs for both our agency and the clients, all while providing useful information. For our larger clients, some additional information and work is still needed to provide the whole picture so I'm not sure what our next steps will be to accomodate that.
I use DashThis to visualize data and set up dashboards for reports that I need to generate on an ongoing basis. It requires a one time setup to link data sources and create the template that fits needs. The platform then automatically updates the dashboard every new week/month and cuts down the reporting time significantly.
Pros
Easily connecting to data sources
Widget creation -- Quick and easy
Seamless Dashboard sharing
Cons
Glitchy data sync -- Sometimes widgets need to be "refreshed" in order to display updated data
Limited chart types
Poor annotation experience -- Making annotations, bullet points etc can become a nightmare. Editor has limited functionality
Likelihood to Recommend
DashThis can be a useful tool if you are working with a small data set that is already cleaned up an does not require any manipulation. However, if you are dealing with a situation that requires data clean-up, custom visualization and you need to slice and dice the data then DashThis is probably not a suitable tool to use.
I have been using DashThis to run weekly and monthly reporting for all agency clients. Currently we have about 13 clients running DashThis dashboards, and we're growing. Additionally, at a previous company we deployed over 100 dashboards for clients. DashThis provides key decision makers at client companies to see their most important KPIs without having to dive into Google Analytics.
We provide deep insights on practically any marketing channel through the dashboard with API integrations.
Pros
High-Level Executive Reports for Easy-to-Disseminate information. Provide the most important metrics quickly.
In-Depth data analysis capabilities. Using in-depth filtering in Analytics data, you can report on just about anything you want, and provide deep insights to your clients
Easy-to-Update reports allow for changes on the fly, during calls, if needed. Adding and updating reports takes very little time and it's quick and effective
Cons
Currently it's missing Amazon Ads integrations, which I have submitted a request for.
There should be options to transfer dashboards to other accounts, as needed. For example, when a client engagement ends, being able to transfer the dashboard to the client account would be cool. I'm sure the capability exists.
Offline-reporting capabilities or sending PDFs through email of the dashboard may be very valuable to people reviewing data that don't currently have internet access.
Likelihood to Recommend
I have used DashThis with all my clients, because it is the fastest, easiest, and best-developed reporting platform. I have tried Google data studio and many other reporting integrations, but they just don't have the speed or capabilities of DashThis.
With in-depth filtering, you can create reporting modules not available in any other dashboard, like deep source-medium targeting or landing page data, etc. Whatever data you need, you can get access.
Their API integrations are increasing all the time, and if they don't currently connect to something, request access.
Our digital marketing department uses DashThis to provide easy-to-understand reports to clients each month. It saves time since most reports can be updated automatically and provides a unified, streamlined look for the client, allowing them to quickly check how their website and digital marketing efforts are performing all in one place.
Pros
Displaying data in a clear and aesthetically pleasing way
Integrating with most of the systems you use on a regular basis in web design and digital marketing
Allowing you to quickly create new charts/graphs/reports for clients
Cons
I'd like the ability to archive a report so that it doesn't count against my dashboard total. There are a few reports we're not likely to use again, and if so we would gladly upgrade. But I'd hate to delete them just to free up space.
This is REALLY minor, but it would be nice to have more flexibility when uploading a client's logo to a report. Right now I have to resize it and add a transparent background if it's not the right shape to get it to the right dimensions before I can upload. It would be nice if they allowed for different dimensions.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's great if you have to provide reports (either internally or for clients) on a regular basis. It takes a little time to set up your structure (surely comparable to the time you'd spend in another tool and definitely faster than doing it manually), but then it saves so much time on an ongoing basis. It's also really important when you want your reports to look good -- which is pretty much all the time! No more Word documents here and Excel spreadsheet there with mismatched formatting all over the place. Now you can have one streamlined look, which allows you to view the data more easily and not get tripped up on the report itself.
Honestly, I think it's appropriate in pretty much any situation! I guess maybe if you were just pulling one report one time, then it might not be worth the time it takes to set up, but even then it depends -- you still have the benefit of one clear, streamlined look for all your data. And it's less error-prone.
