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Fantastic platform for flexible and customized data management -- no coding experience required
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is far more than a spreadsheet tool or even a relational database. The platform allows non-technical users to develop and customize multiple apps for a plethora of business use cases, with the potential to visualize complex datasets in multiple ways and surface the most actionable and simplified information to end users without the risk of information overload. The flexibility is one of the biggest benefits when using Airtable; you can build a solution to almost any problem, but there are also handy templates and guides for getting started in a hurry. Integrations exist for multiple other programs and platforms, including Slack, Outlook, the Google Suite of products and more, and implementation is simple. Our media organization uses Airtable every day across multiple departments to keep track of vital information and to help manage various workflows.
What do you dislike about the product?
While the customizability of the platform is a significant benefit, it can also become a hindrance if workflow planning and implementation is not strictly governed. More recent additions to the platform, including two-way syncing, data libraries and managed app templates have made governance across multiple bases more manageable, but clear communication and guidance for new users is critical to ensure data integrity in the long-term. Additionally, the nomenclature and application of user roles and permissions (including end users being able to extend high-level permissions to other users) has some drawbacks, likely due to the platform's rapid expansion into providing solutions for new use cases. If the platform user permissions matched the admin labels, at least, it would be easier to understand from an access provisioning perspective. There are also some limitations to working with external users, with the pricing model operating on a per-user basis and scaling based on permissions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable is tackling everything from information intake to production management to analytics reporting. We are using it for all of these purposes and more, making connections across departments at our media organization to ensure staff and external partners are aware of who is responsible for various aspects of production and promotional support, what the goals and outcomes are for each project, how we're performing against those targets and more.
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Accessible and useful
What do you like best about the product?
I just started using Airtable at a new job starting a few months ago and I've really enjoyed it so far. It's pretty intuitive and easy to set up fairly complex tables/bases for someone with little coding experience. I've been able to do more than I would with Excel, without needing to know complicated functions or design elements.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a little intimidating to get started, so honestly the biggest downside is convincing coworkers to interact with an Airtable as regularly as they would with, say, an Excel workbook or Google Sheet.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed to track policy priorities throughout complicated federal lawmaking processes. Airtable allowed me to unite information all in one place that previously was spread out across many different documents and formats, and to link it together in ways that streamlined our team's work.
Casting Office Wonder!
What do you like best about the product?
I love that it's completely customizable to our needs. If I need to learn something new there are plenty of tutorials online.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some things are non-changeable, like how dates and phone numbers are formatted, so it's hard to make it as easily accessible for our global clients.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It provides a platform for us to gather multiple user data and synthesize that data into beautifully digestible views that our clients love.
Airtable review
What do you like best about the product?
Accessibility, Smart UI, Powerful Capabilities (with Automations, Functions, etc.)
What do you dislike about the product?
Due to the specific field types, there can be some restrictions to developing exacting, specific automations and functions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable is helping to expedite manual processes and serves as a powerful organizational tool to track a number of simultaneous deadlines, expirations, requirements. Airtable helps relieve the mental energy required to track and organize a myriad of activities and supports communication and visibility between teams.
Solid collaboration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable has a lot of functionality that extends past a basic spreadsheet. We use it every day as a team. It's a great collaborative tool and allows for automations to streamline processes and communication. I like the integrations with google calendar and other systems. I also really appreciate the fact that the Airtable team always offers free training services so you're able to practice and learn more about the tool live.
What do you dislike about the product?
Airtable can be overly complicated at times and is still limited in terms of sharing abilities. For instance, sometimes I want to share part of a base with the team but I don't want to give access to the whole workspace. I wish you could pick and choose access levels and what was visible to whom without needing to copy to a new base.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable is a great tool for project management and task management. The calendar integrations make it particularly easy to plan and break out tasks so they are more manageable and can be accomplished on a deadline.
I also use Airtable for collaboration and communication with my team. It helps streamline action items and makes sure we're all on the same page regarding next steps and task.
I also use Airtable for collaboration and communication with my team. It helps streamline action items and makes sure we're all on the same page regarding next steps and task.
Airtable makes everyday amazing
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is such a convenient way to collaborate with colleagues within and without my organization. It's quickly replacing our use of shared excel sheets and works as a very nimble database and project tracker.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be frustrating that we are limited to base collaborators within in our organization but the interfaces are a nice workaround.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Tracking projects across groups. Making data visualizations more cloud based.
A sophisticated system but has its flaws
What do you like best about the product?
It has many capabilities, but can often cause frustration
What do you dislike about the product?
It often glitches, especially when used for creating invoices
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping all of our information in a centralized and organized place
Airtable is really very useful, easy, and collaborative.
What do you like best about the product?
I like its ease of use, very intuitive, the countless customization possibilities, it can really be adapted to almost any business case, and its collaborative aspect.
What do you dislike about the product?
Airtable is not yet perfect for certain uses such as creating an internal forum, but the improvements are rapid and I am confident it will become so quickly.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable allows for the most efficient organization possible. The power of its database combined with its interface makes it very practical and extremely useful, with enormous productivity gains!
Better than Excel and Smartsheet
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, clarity, features for paid version
What do you dislike about the product?
Free version is getting more and more limited.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Organization and collaboration
An easy-to-use database that helps streamline collaboration and planning
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is a great tool for both individual and team planning. It's user-friendly, and setup in a way that makes it easy to access and understand your data. It's easy to customize your base with virtually any type of data you would need to track. It's also so helpful that Airtable offers forms and automations to help streamline data collection even further.
Airtable's website is also a useful tool, as there are many roubust tutorials that help new users figure out how to get set up (and help frequent users discover new abilities!).
Airtable's website is also a useful tool, as there are many roubust tutorials that help new users figure out how to get set up (and help frequent users discover new abilities!).
What do you dislike about the product?
I have used Airtable for several years now, and the biggest downside (to me) is how more and more features are now only accessible from a paid membership. When I first joined, I never had issues with things like limits of collaborators on bases. Now, more features are reserved only for those who pay to have a membership. As someone who also likes to use Airtable for personal (and not exclusively business) use, it's a bit dissapointing to lack access to some of the paid features.
In addition, it's not as powerful as Excel when you need to work with a lot of numbers. If you need to implement special formulas into your database, Airtable likely won't cut it for you.
In addition, it's not as powerful as Excel when you need to work with a lot of numbers. If you need to implement special formulas into your database, Airtable likely won't cut it for you.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At my organization, I work in the Event Planning team. This means we are constantly cycling through events, each of which has it's own unique set of details and data. Airtable offers us a space to keep track of each event and the many nuanced details associated with them. And since we are a highly collaborative team, Airtable allows us to easily edit/update records so we can each see the most recent information in real time. It gives us a platform to see our events through from start to finish, and houses all the information in a neat and visually-pleasing base which we can reference even after the event concludes.
Airtable also makes it easy to pull CSV downloads of our bases, which is helpful so we can run/compile reports for other departments as needed during end-of-year reporting.
Through the use of forms, Airtable also gives us a place where we can create RSVP forms for events and request file uploads as needed for specific opportunities.
Automations also offer helpful reminders/streamline planning process (though truthfully, I have not spent the time to really dive in to see the full capabilities that automations can offer).
We can use due dates to help create task lists for specific events, which helps keep our projects on track without constant individual follow-up.
Airtable also makes it easy to pull CSV downloads of our bases, which is helpful so we can run/compile reports for other departments as needed during end-of-year reporting.
Through the use of forms, Airtable also gives us a place where we can create RSVP forms for events and request file uploads as needed for specific opportunities.
Automations also offer helpful reminders/streamline planning process (though truthfully, I have not spent the time to really dive in to see the full capabilities that automations can offer).
We can use due dates to help create task lists for specific events, which helps keep our projects on track without constant individual follow-up.
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