Understanding Data Dashboard Software: Spontivly vs. Traditional Solutions

Data is crucial to the success of all organizations in today's digital age. The data captured helps businesses make informed decisions, understand their customers, and improve their products or services.

However, data is only as good as your ability to understand and interpret it. This is where data dashboards come in.

Data dashboards provide a visual summary of different but related data sets, making the information easier to understand. However, not all data dashboard software is created equal. The options available today are built by technical experts for technical experts. Your average marketer, salesperson, or customer service rep is left with spreadsheets on spreadsheets, piles of data, and technical tools that won't help them make data-driven decisions.

This is where Spontivly comes in. We're making data simple with a customizable, visual dashboard builder that connects to your data sources.

What is a Data Dashboard? 📊

A data dashboard is a visual tool that presents data in a way that is easy to understand. It uses graphs, charts, and tables to make information visually appealing and easy to digest. It allows data to tell a story by tracking trends, viewing changes over time, and diving deeper into spikes in engagement.

The data is linked to a database, which pulls information into the charts, graphs, and tables. This visual representation of data allows businesses to monitor the results of campaigns, project future progress, and share key business metrics with executive staff to monitor performance in the market.

Sample Spontivly data dashboard featuring data from LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram

The Traditional Solutions 👩‍💻

Traditional data dashboard solutions such as Power BI, DOMO, and Looker have been the go-to for many businesses. However, these platforms were built by technical experts, for technical experts.

They require some level of coding and technical knowledge, making them less accessible to non-technical team members. Additionally, these platforms often have a bulky user interface, making them less user-friendly.

Companies will hire consultants, developers, and engineers to help solve their data problems. This results in an approximate six-week timeframe to get a new dashboard built for one data point. By the time the results are displayed in a visual format, they're out of date or teams are looking for a new metric.

As a result, teams are working with out-of-date, clunky, and technical solutions. They're also taking up time and capacity from multiple teams for little results. Traditional data visualization solutions are costly, difficult to use, and don't provide the key insights team members need to make data-driven decisions.

How Spontivly is Changing the Game 🚀

At Spontivly, we believe that everyone should be able to work with data. We are solving three key problems that traditional data dashboard solutions present:

Technical Problem 🛠️

Traditional solutions often require various data sources scattered in multiple different places. Team members are left trying to visualize and compare data across numerous sources such as Instagram, HubSpot, Luma, etc. With no technical expertise, sales, marketing, and customer support teams rely on engineers to sort through databases and gather data.

Spontivly connects all of your favorite community platforms like Slack, LinkedIn, Meta, HubSpot, Discord, and more, allowing you to keep your finger on the pulse of your community with all of this data in one place.

Simply use your existing account credentials and we take care of the rest!

Visual Problem 🎨

Non-technical team members often struggle to use complicated data dashboard software. They need to rely on other team members to help build data dashboards, which can be a time-consuming and expensive process.

Teams will spend hours trying to learn the ins and outs of technical platforms to build a single report. Then, it's back to the drawing board when there are new metrics to analyze.

Spontivly, on the other hand, is designed to be easy for anyone at your company to use. Its dashboard-building process is so simple it can be done in five minutes! Drag and drop your desired pie, area, bar, line, or even map charts onto the interface. Then, scale to fit. And voila!

Storytelling Problem 📚

Teams will gather vast data from customers, stakeholders, and more. Then what happens? This data is trying to tell you a story. Now, it's time to listen.

Spontivly is leveraging AI to let your data tell the story. It provides actionable insights, graphs, and charts to monitor your success. This makes it easier for businesses to understand their data and make informed decisions.

Next Steps 🚶‍♀️

We believe that data should be simple and accessible to everyone. With Spontivly, you can build better communities, make data-informed decisions, and scale in the right direction. We're helping businesses everywhere make data easily accessible for their teams.

So why not see for yourself? Book a demo with our team of experts and experience the Spontivly difference today!