{"id":5961,"date":"2014-02-17T10:20:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T04:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fusioncharts.com\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:11:54","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-cakehr-dashboard-in-conversation-with-kaspars-upmanis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fusioncharts.com\/blog\/behind-the-scenes-of-cakehr-dashboard-in-conversation-with-kaspars-upmanis\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Kaspars Upmanis: CakeHR\u2019s Dashboard Design 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of dashboard design<\/a>\u00a0is a series of interviews with Product Managers, Developers and Designers of software products with\u00a0kick-ass\u00a0information dashboards to help you get an insider\u2019s view into their making.\u00a0This is the fifth and concluding part of the series.<\/em>\r\n\r\nHandling time offs of employees can be a tedious job for an HR manager, especially when the organization has offices at multiple locations. If not managed properly, organizations face issues of short-staffing and absenteeism.\r\n\r\nCakeHR aims to solve this issue by keeping all employee data in a single, unified, web-based app.\u00a0 HR Managers or Admins can see how much time off an employee has available to them and employees can see the same information, and request time off at the touch of a button.\r\n\r\nThe story behind CakeHR\u2019s birth is also interesting. In mid-2011, Kaspars Upmanis, Founder of Mosties!, a Digital Productions company, was working out of its London office. However, the team at his Riga office was also expanding rapidly and he did not even know the name of all his employees, forget knowing their time offs! He started looking for an app which would help him sort this out. Finding nothing that fulfilled his requirement, he decided to build one for his own team. Once it took concrete shape, they decided to release it publicly using the SaaS model.\r\n\r\n\"Kaspars\r\n\r\nI recently caught up with Kaspars Upmanis, Founder of CakeHR, to understand what went behind the building of their dashboard. Here are the excerpts from the interview:\r\n\r\n\"CakeHR\r\n
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