Periscope Data
September 14, 2017
Periscope Data
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Periscope Data
My company uses Periscope to generate visually appealing dashboards/graphs/reports for internal and external use.
Internally, we utilize the dashboards we've set up to understand where we stand on a variety of KPIs. For example, we've connected Salesforce to Periscope and created a dashboard that shows how many calls a particular salesperson made in the previous day/week/month. That dashboard is always accessible via Periscope but also is sent to the appropriate members of my team each morning.
Externally, our customers utilize similar dashboards to understand how they're using our platform. For example, we offer a media buying platform and Periscope allows us to show our customers how much money they've spent on media through our platform.
Internally, we utilize the dashboards we've set up to understand where we stand on a variety of KPIs. For example, we've connected Salesforce to Periscope and created a dashboard that shows how many calls a particular salesperson made in the previous day/week/month. That dashboard is always accessible via Periscope but also is sent to the appropriate members of my team each morning.
Externally, our customers utilize similar dashboards to understand how they're using our platform. For example, we offer a media buying platform and Periscope allows us to show our customers how much money they've spent on media through our platform.
- Periscope makes it very easy to write SQL queries to pull in critical information and KPIs that live in our database.
- Periscope allows us to visualize those data points and KPIs in a aesthetically pleasing way that we've never visualized them before.
- Periscope allows us to email those dashboards to the key stakeholders on a regularly scheduled basis so we don't always have to access and reference those reports in Periscope's application.
- I haven't really seen many negative aspects of Periscope because I had very little to do with the implementation. I know we relied heavily on our systems engineer to connect Periscope with our database and with our instance of Salesforce but I think that comes with the territory of using a tool like periscope.
- We've become a much more data focused organization. Periscope has allows us to better understand certain metrics that we can inform both our day-to-day tactical operations as well as our more strategic long term vision.
- At times, Periscope has generated almost too much focus on certain metrics that may not inform our business decisions as much as some members of our team would think. That's not necessarily the fault of Periscope but it is certainly an impact of using it.
I have not utilized any other tools like Periscope so it's hard to say how it stacks up against its competition.