Airtable vs Microsoft Power BI

• Airtable has the best customization features out there. They allow you to customize you spreadsheets or tables in a variety of formats. They allow you to customize a variety of field types, field sizes and various colors.
• Airtable has a great collaboration feature that makes it easy to share and grant access to tables and a variety of information.
• Airtable has great compatibilities that allows you to directly upload spreadsheets from excel into a customizable table.
• Airtable is easy to teach and understand quickly, and does not take time for someone who is not technically advanced to understand

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• Reporting, reporting, reporting. Power BI is great for reporting. I can create a number of different charts, views, and dashboards for a number of different audiences. It's very helpful for executives to see the big picture, but dynamic enough to take the same data sources and create detailed reports on very specific elements.
• Power BI is easy to use. We went from manual data entry and report creation in Excel to Power BI. There was a learning curve, but I was able to find enough training online to get started.
• Automating the report creation is wonderful. It takes all the manual work out of my old daily processes. My supervisors and bosses have been impressed too. They think it's magic, which makes me look good.

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• Pricing model: we don't like how we have to pay per user.
• Calendar view: we wish the calendar view was better, or if there were different types of calendar views. Right now there is just one.
• Complicated: some parts of the app are a little complicated.

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• Initial creation of reports, even from processed data sets is not simple.
• The on-premises reporting (crucial for a defense industry company) is extremely expensive, as it is only included in the Power BI Premium package.
• User training is usually required to ensure that full functionality of the dashboards and their built in features are utilized.

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• The ROI is simple: Airtable has created a more efficient workplace. We have fewer meetings, certainly. But any meetings we do have are much more efficient and impactful. Everyone walks in having used Airtable to prepare for the meeting (uploading needed docs, etc.), and the meeting is held using Airtable as the agenda. Airtable is updated and continues to be used after the meeting, so everyone stays on the same page.
• Airtable also makes planning events much more streamlined. Contracts, rental agreements, rosters, etc. are uploaded. Dates are set with reminders. People know what they are responsible for planning the event and for what role they will play during the event.

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• I'm using the free version, so the only investment was the time spent to learn how to use the product (which as an Excel user, was very short).
• I use Excel to store every single bit of information about all the projects I do, and being able to see them visualized helped me see some redundant steps I was taking.
• No negative impact at all for me.

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