# Panels

NGSurvey provides you with an extensive set of features to manage a panel of external entities eg: contacts, employees, business partners, students etc ... 

The main benefits of a panel is that you can have a centralized set of data that can you can reuse for [reporting](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/reports), [survey distribution ](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/campaigns/campaign/panels)or [filtering](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/reports/filters) without having all the time to duplicate this information.

Instead of having for example to ask each time your customers for the same information (eg: name, country, age etc..) you can centralize all this information once for all in a panel, create the corresponding [panelists](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/panelists) and then just attach your surveys to that panel. Its even possible afterward to analyze and aggregate survey results with the panel information of the panelists who took the survey.

![](https://1025048312-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M8fLhS0bmfBRyq0HdUm%2F-MC1Xno4Eq-MvUNfsjw-%2F-MC2WwW949vUBRMB_bgE%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=fe6da648-3b91-4e9c-8423-a814e431357b)

Each panel is composed of a set of [attributes](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/untitled) that you can use to create your panelists. As attributes are based on the standard [answer types](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/form-management/form-designer/answers/answer-types) system you may reuse any existing answer type (fields, dates, countries ...) to build your [panelists](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/panelists) structure.

## Panel management

The panel management screen gives you an overview of all the panels that have been created and allows you to manage these panels or to create new one. 

![](https://1025048312-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-M8fLhS0bmfBRyq0HdUm%2F-MC2osO9nSK6RgqJ6z1A%2F-MC2rp78X--IMYocLAf5%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=1dd4f302-d5a5-49c8-bbd3-c2b0544e4272)

1. Overview of your existing panels and [panel views](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/panel-views).
2. Create a new panel using one of the [panel connectors](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/panel-connectors).
3. [Panel information](https://docs.ngsurvey.com/panels/panel-information).