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10 Best Practices for Dashboard Design

Improve the look of your dashboard with these 10 best practices for dashboard design

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Dashboard design

10 Best Practices for Dashboard Design

Improve the look of your dashboard with these 10 best practices for dashboard design

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How to Analyze Data: A Beginner's Guide

Learn the basics of how to analyze data, including six foolproof steps to analyze data and make better-informed business decisions.

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Six Dashboard Design Principles for the Most Engaging Dashboard

In this post, we talk through six dashboard design principles for creating an engaging dashboard. We know that designing an engaging and intuitive dashboard whilst also including all your most important KPIs and metrics can be hard, so we are here to help!

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3 Easy Tricks to Track OKRs in Plecto

Just a helping hand to shed some light on how to work with OKRs in your Plecto dashboards

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Step-by-Step Guide: How to create an Automatic Report

Do you still write reports manually? In this easy guide, we show you how to create them automatically in a matter of seconds.

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Step-by-Step Guide: How to Create an Engaging and Fun Contest

In this Step-by-Step Guide, you will learn how to create a fun and engaging contest in Plecto for your team, in no time!

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What Is a Data Dashboard & Why You Should Be Using Them

Find out what a data dashboard is, what it can do for your business, and how to use dashboards to make the best decisions for your business.

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The 3 Types of Dashboards You Need To Be Using

Learn the three mission-critical dashboard types, which ones you should choose, and how to get the most out of them in your company’s operations.

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What is Metrics Tracking – And Why is it Important?

Take a more data-driven approach to your business by learning the basics of metrics tracking – including what is a key metric and how it differs from a KPI.

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How Plecto Uses Plecto: The CEO's Perspective

Welcome to our new blog series called “How Plecto Uses Plecto”! Here, we’ll be sharing how our own management team uses Plecto as a part of their daily work activities. First up, none other than our CEO and co-founder Kristian Øllegaard, who shares his insight into how he uses Plecto.

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The 3 Golden Rules of Dashboard Design

Curious about how to create a well-designed dashboard that provides a complete overview of your KPIs whilst still being easy to understand? This post will tell you all our tips and tricks to creating the perfect dashboard.

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4 Sports-themed Sales Contest Ideas to Engage Your Team

Organizing a sports-themed sales contest is an excellent and fun way to engage your sales team and drive their performance. Discover four easy sales competition ideas in this blog post and learn how to create dashboards for them.

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What is a Business Dashboard? Top dashboard benefits for your business

More and more businesses worldwide are turning to dashboard software to measure their KPIs and get the best insights into their performance. Wonder why?

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Step-by-step guide: How to Create Custom Metrics in Plecto

It's so easy to create custom metrics and formulas in Plecto, that you don't even need a guide. But, just in case, you have a pretty good one here!

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June's Plecto App-dates: New Notification and Achievement Icons!

June's App-dates are here! New notification and new achievement icons to scale up your employees' engagement - do you want to walk the extra mile with your dashboard design?

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“Performance Agreements” to scale up your one-on-ones!

Discover our "Performance Agreements" feature and learn how to easily use it to scale up your one on ones.

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Engage Your Remote Team With our 'Limit Dashboard Access' Feature!

Discover our Limit Dashboard Access feature to get the best out of your Plecto dashboards. Also, learn more about how to improve your communication with your remote team!

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3 Tricks to Use Plecto Achievements in the Most Engaging Way

Scale up your dashboard design and implement Plecto Achievements for your office culture! Create a more engaging dashboard in just a few clicks.

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Five Things to Consider Before You Start Using Dashboards

You may think that designing an engaging and performance-boosting dashboard sounds like hard work. It's actually a lot easier than you think! In this blog post, we have gathered simple five things you need to consider before you start building dashboards to help you get started.

Boost performance with real-time insights

Plecto is a data visualization software that helps you motivate your employees to reach new limits and stay on top of your business.