ActiveCollab vs Airtable

• They give you the source code to use on your own server.
• It is easy to sort clients and campaigns.
• The email notifications work perfectly when tagging and talking to people. They allow you to subscribe to tasks as well to keep in the loop on what is going on.

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• Great user experience and minimal learning curve. It wasn't until I became aware of Airtable that we found a solution that allows us to implement the best features of a collaborative RDBMS with our staff who don't have any training. I had previously used Zoho Creator and found that it was difficult to onboard new users because of a steeper learning curve.
• Easy to share views and invite contributions via forms.
• Blocks add significant functionality that would be hard to custom build.

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• They don' do Gantt charts well
• Integrations aren't awesome yet
• They don't have task dependencies

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• It would be great to have multi-tiered selection options. So if I check a box-like, "Does this need social support?" I could then pick from a multi-select drop-down based on the choice.
• It would be good if we could have a kanban view built off a selection from a multi-select since some projects might be part of multiple strategic initiatives.
• It would be cool if forms could have some basic if/then functionality. As it is, we need to create different forms for different media requests that share 75% of the same data.

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• ActiveCollab allowed me to get rid of spreadsheets and physical reports that always take away a lot of time.
• The automation of the management processes of the company is fantastic thanks to ActiveCollab.
• The whole team has focused more on the execution of its activities.

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• If not for Airtable I would have had to pursue a CRM system and an asset management system, plus some sort of task management system for multiple employees, and manage my budget in Excel which is a pain when it gets complex. Airtable lets me put all this in one system, light weight, extremely powerful, and extremely efficient. Exactly what we needed. I am so happy this system exists.
• Airtable is free and you can get quite a bit in there and use it for a while before deciding to go to the paid version. Therefore the proof of concept was quite easy to bring it into our organization. We've been using it for a few months and it's made everyone's lives easier, so moving now to the paid version is a no-brainer. I didn't have to ask everyone to take a big leap of faith in the beginning and there was no big up front resource investment either, at least relative to setting up any other software or even complex Excel workbooks.
• Several people in our organization have commented that this system has made their lives far easier, because we can now keep track of our tasks and our events. Our key people are both saner and more efficient.
• The paid version of Airtable is DIRT CHEAP in comparison to the systems it stands in for. I cannot emphasize this enough.

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