Geckoboard Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 6.2 out of 10

Score

6.2 out of 10

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Geckoboard are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users frequently recommend Geckoboard for the following reasons:

Geckoboard is excellent at making data accessible to everyone, offering a consistent visual representation of goals across a company or department.
Geckoboard is recommended for easily pulling data from various sources and presenting it in a clear and visually appealing manner.
Users suggest ensuring that Geckoboard supports the desired platforms and data fields for effective display.
Geckoboard is a suitable product for displaying dashboards in both office and personal computer settings.
It is advised to invest time in learning Geckoboard's features and designing boards according to specific needs.
For optimal performance, utilizing custom components in Geckoboard is recommended.
Geckoboard provides exceptional flexibility and offers a straightforward setup process for predesigned widgets.
Geckoboard is highly recommended for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and readily available headlines.
Users are encouraged to check Geckoboard's integration list and be aware of any technical knowledge requirements for specific integrations.

Reviews

6 Reviews

Geckboard is a relatively inexpensive way to get actionable data in front of your team quickly and easily.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 25, 2021

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.

Pros

Relatively cheap for what it is Over the years the pricing has gotten more restrictive but if you are rolling your own hardware (thin clients on TVs, etc.) and you are all local in an office it is still affordable.
Lots of different integrations that don't require coding. From SYsAdmins monitoring AWS or VPN functions to counting website visitors and engagement data to showing CRM reporting.
Clean and simple interface. Automatic refreshing that is browser independent.

Cons

Pricing model has gotten more restrictive such as limiting to number of TVs, etc.
The 'support' is bare bones, you will have to learn how to implement your solutions on your own.
Limited number of database connections means that we would have to pay a huge amount to keep all of our potential dashboards live at a given time.

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.

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Share high-level, impactful data via beautifully presented (and easily-shared) dashboards.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 18, 2019

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.

Pros

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.

Cons

No mobile application solutions (as far as I am aware). In order to share my beautiful dashboards with a non-Geckoboard account user, I need to hop on a browser.
No support for ad hoc reporting -- if this were a feature, I'd be happy to drive my presentations to executive staff purely as

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.

Verified User

Team Lead (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Geckoboard gets the job done

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 25, 2018

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.

Pros

Easy to use. No nonsense.
Reliability is great :)
Provides a great value for the price. My team appreciates seeing the metrics.

Cons

Would be nice to be able to customize a bit more.

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.

Taylor Hansen

Support Team Manager in Customer Service at Riskalyze (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Definitely Try Geckoboard!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 4, 2017

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.

Pros

Simple to use and configure.
A good set of pre-built integrations to pull data back and summarise on a dashboard.
Excellent support! They actually respond when you ask them questions and are very thorough with their response.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited for at-a-glance stats.

Not to be used for deep, long term reporting.

Brett Raven

Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at RedBalloon (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Simple, Affordable, KPI Focused

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

February 29, 2016

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.

Pros

The Price. Geckoboard is affordable simply stated. It's affordable for both large and small organizations.
The Service. Anytime I have had a question or want to share feedback, the Geckboard team has responded to me nearly immediately.
It's simple. Visually, the product has a great UI and is not overly complicated like many other dash-boarding suites. It's also simple to use, simple to integrate, and simple to understand.

Cons

Not a must have, but unless you are decent with CSS, some style options would be nice from the user end.

Likelihood to Recommend

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

Chris Peters

Director of Marketing and PR in Marketing at Diggerland USA (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Geckoboard

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2014

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.

Pros

Simple Display
Great Customer Service
Advanced graphics

Cons

Building the Geckoboard had limitations using MS Excel. It would be nice to have a cloud based platform to revise the display.
Needs to add more visualization graphs
Ability to add more pages to 1 Geckoboard like a website

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.

Jordan Zwick

Business Analyst (Business Development/Market Valuation) in Corporate at Salix Pharmaceuticals (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Geckboard is a relatively inexpensive way to get actionable data in front of your team quickly and easily.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 25, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Relatively cheap for what it is Over the years the pricing has gotten more restrictive but if you are rolling your own hardware (thin clients on TVs, etc.) and you are all local in an office it is still affordable.
Lots of different integrations that don't require coding. From SYsAdmins monitoring AWS or VPN functions to counting website visitors and engagement data to showing CRM reporting.
Clean and simple interface. Automatic refreshing that is browser independent.

Cons

Pricing model has gotten more restrictive such as limiting to number of TVs, etc.
The 'support' is bare bones, you will have to learn how to implement your solutions on your own.
Limited number of database connections means that we would have to pay a huge amount to keep all of our potential dashboards live at a given time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience