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Turn your Salesforce reports into live TV dashboards to inform your team

Turn your Salesforce reports into live TV dashboards to inform your team

  • by Nick Smith

Salesforce reporting basics: building, aggregating, segmenting and formatting reports

The Salesforce reporting feature is really powerful. However, if you’re just starting out, it can also be...

  • by Tom Randle

How to Use Iterative Design to Keep Your Dashboard Relevant

Imagine having a dashboard with beautiful, easy-to-read visualizations and data from five years ago that’s...

  • by Laura Tyson

Using spreadsheets for communicating data? Here are 4 reasons you shouldn’t

We all love spreadsheets, right? They’re great for manipulating and analyzing your business’s data on Key...

  • by Geckoboard Staff

What do you mean I'm not supposed to use Pie Charts?!

Pie charts are completely ubiquitous - especially in business. It can therefore come as a shock to hear that...

  • by Tom Randle

Two business dashboard books you must read before building your own

Here at Geckoboard HQ, nothing (except maybe doughnuts) makes us happier than a well put together business dashboard...

  • by Adele Simor

Design approach: The question of colour

When we originally created Geckoboard, we knew that it was going to be primarily for large screens. In...

  • by Paul Joyce

Humanising the way we communicate data

These days, data is being collected by almost every aspect of an organisation. We’ve developed software that...

  • by Paul Joyce

New and improved visualisations: Leaderboard, Goals and Geck-o-Meter

At Geckoboard, we’re committed to helping our customers create functional and useful dashboards that can help them...

  • by Tom Randle

Case Study: How Yummly is using data to build a strong culture of transparency and highly focused teamwork.

Yummly was launched in 2010 by foodies on a mission to invent the ultimate kitchen tool. Whether it’...

  • by Nick Smith

What is a Status Board and Why Do I Need One?

In the next few days the first beta testers will start using Geckoboard, a new realtime status board...

  • by Paul Joyce

Put your key metrics where your team can see them

Geckoboard turns data from the tools you already use into live, shared dashboards, so your team can spot problems earlier and act while there’s still time.

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