Airtable vs. Planview Portfolios

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Airtable
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Airtable is a project management and collaboration platform designed to enable content pipelines, product management, events planning, user research, and more. It combines spreadsheet,database, calendar, and kanban functionality within one platform.
$24
per month per seat
Planview Portfolios
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Planview Portfolios is an end-to-end project portfolio management and enterprise architecture management tool. It includes two components: Portfolio and Resource Management and Capability and Technology Management. The platform is available as a cloud-based or on-premise service.N/A
Pricing
AirtablePlanview Portfolios
Editions & Modules
Team
$24
per month per user
Business
$54
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AirtablePlanview Portfolios
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AirtablePlanview Portfolios
Features
AirtablePlanview Portfolios
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Airtable
7.8
235 Ratings
1% above category average
Planview Portfolios
-
Ratings
Task Management8.9199 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.0193 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.489 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling7.4165 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.0143 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration8.0218 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.3108 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology8.580 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management7.5170 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration7.1115 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access5.9191 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.793 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.1102 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management7.2127 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AirtablePlanview Portfolios
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(237 ratings)
8.6
(114 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(5 ratings)
9.3
(18 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(36 ratings)
7.1
(13 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.1
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(30 ratings)
7.5
(13 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.8
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.6
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
5.0
(1 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(2 ratings)
4.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.0
(1 ratings)
5.5
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AirtablePlanview Portfolios
Likelihood to Recommend
Airtable
Airtable is an ideal platform for small and growing businesses to keep track of just about EVERYTHING they need to keep things running smoothly. It's a great way to keep tasks organized, and keep everyone on the same page with progress on all things. Our company finds the kanban particularly useful, as products go through a lifecycle from ideation to retirement, it's good to keep a database of what is in production, what's working, and what we've tried before. I can see the platform being challenging with much larger businesses, but for the small to medium businesses I've used the platform with, it is ideal.
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Planview
Planview Portfolios is well suited to provide a single, central, view of the truth. There is clear expansion capabilities to integrate it as a true Enterprise toolset with existing organisation wide (not just delivery) - you can pick and choose what you need to implement and that list gets longer. The ability to quickly gain an understanding of resources within the overall portfolio and some really clever tools regarding capacity and demand modelling. I think the only challenge we have encountered is modelling our Business as Usual activity to a level of detail - this is due to other tools being very embedded not just in the organisation but across a lot of industries.
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Pros
Airtable
  • I can create tables, create and customize fields
  • Airtable has capabilities commonly found in spreadsheet applications, but also has some of the features found in databases.
  • The ability to filter fields. I set up a filter on the status field, so when a project is marked, complete, on hold, or canceled, that record is hidden from my current projects table view. If it is marked complete, the record is moved to the completed projects table view. In this way I can easily access a record of past projects
  • Being able to duplicate tables and create alternate views
  • Collapse and expand records. When I collapse the rows, I can easily scan current projects, next steps, project status, and due dates. When I expand the row, or field, I can see more detailed information about that field or record very easily. I can also expand or open the entire record. This is is helpful, when I am entering a lot of information to multiple fields in that record.
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Planview
  • Manage large portfolios with thousands of projects.
  • Roll up financials across strategic hierarchy for projects around the world.
  • Manage access in multiple ways so we can set up each user/role with just the right permissions.
  • Support a variety of reporting and analytics methods.
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Cons
Airtable
  • When records are deleted, there could be more options for what happens to associated records in other tables.
  • Multi-select fields should be sortable.
  • The per-user pricing model can be cumbersome when you need to share bases with third parties but can't use a publicly accessible URL.
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Planview
  • Capturing lower-level detailed expenditures within a project so that financial screens can show the details of the roll-up.
  • Reporting flexibility so that end users can create their own quick ad hoc reports for analysis.
  • Capturing matrixed skills on resources to ensure staffing is adequate and better align demand to supply.
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Likelihood to Renew
Airtable
We will 10/10 renew the use of Airtable because it has brought great value to our team. Not only is Airtable affordable, but it's also user-friendly and helps our team be efficient. We no longer need to rely on Excel spreadsheets being passed from person to person via email. Furthermore, we aren't dealing with corrupt Excel spreadsheets and the need to salvage data when a file is accidentally altered.
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Planview
We have been a Planview customer since 1999 and have seen it grow and mature as a tool. We have looked at other tools and have found that PV continues to meet our needs and is easy for our resources to use. They work to stay up on the project management industry and the direction it is going, keep on on current technology so that we can work more effectively, provide excellent customer support and have great pricing for what they offer. We can purchase only the modules we need versus buying a tool where we would only use a portion of the functionality.
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Usability
Airtable
IMO the usability of this product is its greatest asset. The UI is clean and the menus are intuitive to the point where I'd feel confident having a non-spreadsheety colleague take on building an Airtable for the first time with next to no training. I can't say that about every table-like software product that I've used such as Notion.
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Planview
Perfect tool for planning resource time management. Giving flexibility with ease in uptodate . Team collabration . Team aligment. Top management aligment. Close the project with feed back . Team aligment. Expert contribution in task . Task management easy for project manager . Nice tool to have for project manager. Cost contol & project management is very easy with Planview
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Reliability and Availability
Airtable
I have rarely experience downtime, compared to other tools, and given how much time we spend on the tool. Even if there were to be, their updates on it are very timely, and our support team are able to provide any questions regarding
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Planview
We are long time Planview users and its availability is only limited to our internal SLAs for nightly backups. I have never experienced any unexpected or prolonged software downtime from Planview itself.
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Performance
Airtable
I never had any issues with load time, even with the integrations that we use today (google sheets) However, I'm curious if adding additional layers of integrations would slow down performance. We do carry quite a bit of data in Airtable, but, again, no impact on overall performance
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Planview
There are occasions when the system is a bit sluggish. However, it may not always be on the Planview side. We are investing in better tools to monitor our network performance, which will help us diagnose issues more effectively in the future.
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Support Rating
Airtable
Airtable has great support. They have a variety of support features to answer any questions. They have great self teaching instructions for templates and product tours. They also have support for teams and project management. They also have a fantastic customer help line. They are able and willing to answer customer questions and never have customers waiting long
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Planview
Going through proper channels of support is fine for minor to moderate issues. However, lately the critical issues that arise have been frequent and the standard support cases do not always seem to relay just how critical these issues are and we have to utilize our customer rep to help escalate. Fortunate to have that escalation method.
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In-Person Training
Airtable
This training was done in-house, but the Airtable team provided resources and how to guides to ensure that we covered all components of the system
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Planview
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Airtable
Recorded trainings were provided by the Airtable team. Great as an evergreen resources to new team members and for anyone that wants to refresh their Airtable knowledge
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Planview
Generally good. Sometimes, users are a bit overwhelmed, and it takes multiple sessions for them to get the hang of it.
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Implementation Rating
Airtable
Training all users was an important part of the implementation, which did take considerable time and effort. At first glance without training, the content calendar can be overwhelming because of the amount of data. The features within Airtable seem to be endless but our team was able to identify the most important to be successful.
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Planview
Always have a pre-implementation meeting or conference call with Planview to ensure all are on the same page, disclosure of all and any customization (including reports) and plan for support after implementation of a specified amount of time with the assigned implementation resource. And document everything
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Alternatives Considered
Airtable
Airtable was a really good fit for this specific use case as it provided a huge number of collaboration features in an intuitive and pleasant-to-use interface. The free tier worked initially with our work, and the upgrade pathway was fair and made sense for us.
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Planview
We are currently using Planview AgilePlace. Also we use Tasktop Hub for integrating with other applications within the organization. We would like to use ProjectPlace which is integrated with Planview Portfolios in the future.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Airtable
I did not help purchase the product, but Airtable's per user pricing structure is inconvenient when some users only need occasional or read-only use.
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Planview
Did not help purchase product.
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Scalability
Airtable
There are TONS of opportunity to scale, but I think it's a matter if you have the time and resources to do so because the initial setup can be fairly time consuming and prioritized dedication
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Planview
We are constantly growing and expanding. It is challenging to accommodate different user needs, but the system does provide means of doing that as we desire.
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Professional Services
Airtable
No answers on this topic
Planview
some resources were great, but too much on their plates to be available
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Return on Investment
Airtable
  • It gives us a real-time experience of working.
  • Through this platform, I always have the idea bout which of my team member is working on which particular part of the project, I can easily track their progress, and also I can easily correct them where it is required by adding sticky notes, by sending the attachments and URLs.
  • Quality services.
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Planview
  • The positive impact is the ability to manage our projects enterprise wide.
  • Managing and reporting on projects and programs via portfolios makes it easy to identify troubled projects/programs that need immediate attention.
  • The negative is that pushing too much change too quickly is hard for us. We need to get our users focused on the basics of PM before we can adopt everything else. We need to introduce change to different companies based on their maturity level. Too much change too quickly is not always beneficial. We need to focus on core competencies.
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Planview Portfolios Screenshots

Screenshot of END to END VISIBILITY: Planview offers complete visibility across all strategic endeavors, the status, spend, and progress. This gives organizations a connected view of how all initiatives are tracking without having to manage disparate teams and tools.Screenshot of SCENARIO ANALYSIS: Unlike strategic portfolio management solutions that only allow users to create different plans and manually compare them, Planview users can compare plans, analyze investment trade-offs, and prioritize investments across different types of portfolios to ensure delivery of the best outcomes. This helps users to ensure the organization's capacity and investments are aligned to the highest priority initiatives.Screenshot of PERSONALIZED USER EXPERIENCE: Planview can create unique, real-time views based on a job and the status, progress, and other data-oriented use cases. As a result, it can pinpoint where to focus, issues to address, and risks to mitigate in a single view.Screenshot of DYNAMIC PLANNING AND FUNDING: Unlike applications that do not allow for the reprioritization of in-flight initiatives, with Planview you can pivot plans and key priorities at any time, and continue planning as needed based on your organizational strategies and goals. As a result, you get a portfolio mix of investments, initiatives, products, and projects that meet stakeholder and customer expectations.Screenshot of GENERATIVE AI ASSISTANT: Unlike other AI Copilots, Planview Copilot taps into decades of Planview knowledge and learnings from thousands of Planview customers to glean insights, derive recommendations based on best practices, and inform strategic decisions. It connects data across project and product initiatives to help you understand insights from all parts of your organization – and it does this using a natural language interface. As a result, you can surface previously hidden insights, identify delivery risks, and act in seconds.