Item: Chartio
Rating: 7
Author: Dylan Murphy

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Chartio to share live performance information to everyone in the business, this answers general questions like "how many users did we have yesterday" and also specific much more detailed product performance questions for product managers and developers

Pros and Cons

Simple and intuitive to add charts/dashboards
Looks good
Nice visualisation options

Error messages could be more helpful
Greater configurability of graphs, axes etc

Alternatives Considered

I wasn't involved in selection/evaluation.

The only other tool I've used was Business Objects which was much less intuitive for a basic user

Likelihood to Renew

Works well for our needs at the moment, and Chartio seem to be adding new functionality every few months

Breadth of Deployment

It's widely used, I'd say about a third of our staff use it to some degree

Data Integration

Don't feel qualified to answer this question

Data Visualization

The graphs and charts are simple and easy to set up. They could be a bit more customisable, though Chartio have been incrementally improving this since we signed up

Collaboration and Sharing

It would be better to be able to restrict viewing of some reports, or to have sandbox areas

Likelihood to Recommend

I guess a lot of suitability depends on how well structured and organised the data is behind it - a pretty front-end won't be of use if data behind it is a mess or otherwise unsuitable for Chartio

Simple, intuitive tool for data reporting/visualisation

Overall Satisfaction with Chartio