Geckoboard Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Initially Geckoboard was used by and for IT/IS staff exclusively. We used several (free at the time) dashboards to monitor system uptime, internal ticketing system SLA, ongoing project statuses (like AWS glacier uploads, file server migrations) as well as a somewhat makeshift Kanban board/task management system by using integrations from other platforms like Planview, etc. In fact, it was so quick and extensible, we often changed and added/removed dashboard frequently. We used wall mounted iMacs and rolling carts with HDTVs and Mac Minis to place dashboards when and where we wanted them. As the agency staff took notice, we began receiving requests from Project Management to create boards to observe things like deployments, website feature rollouts, app development, and client engagement and uptime displays.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

While the majority of our Geckoboard dashboards are accessible by most of our employees, there are a very small subset of regular Geckoboard users (primarily data analytics, hardware operations, and product management). In the oft-found overpopulated business tool scope, Geckoboard provides users with any level of data analysis experience to quickly and easily access a dashboard.

Likelihood to Recommend

A beautiful UI, with visuals that interest even those that hate staring at data. It's well suited for small to medium-sized businesses/corporations in which high-level sharing of data between teams is required -- the larger the distance between teams, the better as it's a great tool for level-setting on complex data.

It would be less appropriate for small businesses, or those that do not need to summarize complex data to share with those not familiar with the data source.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Geckoboard to broadcast our metrics and system status to TVs to help our team see where we are for the week month and quarter.

My team greatly appreciated adding this, as they can see at a glance where they stand in the rankings and how we're doing as a team.

Likelihood to Recommend

Geckoboard is well suited for teams wanting a quick and easy way to show others your metrics, both internally and externally. It's easy to use and hook up to the API.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Geckoboard is currently being used to display relevant ecommerce stats to the organistion in general, starting first with IT, then has moved out to a wider audience. This allows users to provide focused, timely metrics to stakeholders at a glance, instead of having to dig into Google Analytics directly.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited for at-a-glance stats.

Not to be used for deep, long term reporting.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Geckoboard allows us to see all out marketing metrics real time, in one place, across the entire department. We work in hospitality so weeks are like months. We use Geckoboard to see real time analytic data and make decisions on KPIs instantly.

Likelihood to Recommend

Geckoboard works particularly well for businesses well integrated with Google Ecommerce functions.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Geckoboard to display information to the sales team tracking new product sales. It was being used by the marketing department for a certain product line. Geckoboard solved the problem of getting simple information to a vast sales force by just a click of a button.

Likelihood to Recommend

The perfect scenario for Geckboard is a weekly/monthly dashboard that uses simple KPIs you need to display to a wide audience. This is not to use for a specific drill down.