Geckoboard

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are one of the most effective ways business owners can use to track how well they're doing at reaching their professional objectives. By creating metrics that are evaluated on the terms of their personal goals, business owners can focus on whether their business is achieving what it needs to rather than getting worked up in terms of how they compete in comparison to the successes of other businesses. Geckoboard is a great resource for small to mid sized businesses and individuals who are still learning the fundamentals of website management, but it falls a bit short at meeting the needs of larger and more sophisticated businesses. Its design and front end analysis are strong, but it offers little in the way of meaningful statistics regarding a site's back end performance. Geckoboard uses APIs to pull information from the platforms and apps that your company uses and turn them into actionable intelligence. Integrations are available for some of the most prominent and useful tools around, and these stretch a wide array of important categories. If you're looking to track the performance of your social media accounts, you can put together a dashboard that tracks customer engagement through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and a host of other platforms. Infrastructural tools like Amazon Web Services and Heroku Dataclips are supported, as are advertising and marketing channels and resources like Google AdWords and HubSpot. Geckoboard falls short when it comes to the deeper level software that operates on the back end level, but their front end engagement covers exactly what you could need. This software has been designed with the inexperienced in mind, and it's notable for how intuitive, attractive, and easy to use it is. Their dashboards are exceedingly slick looking and highly customizable even for people just getting acquainted with the use of KPIs. You can set distinct goals for each dashboard, load it up with all the relevant information, and create a whole interrelated system of informational dashboards in a matter of minutes. Creating these dashboards requires no coding experience whatsoever and information from your dashboards can be easily transformed into spreadsheets for filing or analysis. There are a wide range of different visualizations to choose from as well, and they're designed to put the metrics front and center. They cleanly display the information in aesthetically appealing charts that are more easily digestible than raw numbers alone would be. Visualizations can be intuitively broadcast to TV displays as a way to motivate and inform your employees, or they can be used as effective presentation materials at your next meeting. The entirety of the Geckoboard experience is about providing you with the information about your goals so that you can focus on more important things. A range of collaborative tools allow you to share your information with members of your different teams and give them the tools to create their own dashboards.