Airtable vs Project Insight

Airtable

As mentioned previously, I currently developing an Airtable base to track student data and other teaching resource inventory. The children create year group databases. All of which work very well. I haven't encountered any issues or unsuitability thus far.

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Shirley Hickey

Computing/ICT Tutor & Network Administrator

West Hoathly Church of England Primary SchoolEducation Management, 11-50 employees

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Project Insight

Not in my experience - Project Insight is vital to our business.

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Christy Reichenberger

Strategic Analyst - Sales Operations

AT&TTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Airtable

8.1

Project Insight

7.8

Task Management

8.3

10.0

Resource Management

9.1

5.0

Gantt Charts

7.4

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Scheduling

8.4

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Workflow Automation

7.7

8.0

Team Collaboration

8.8

9.0

Support for Agile Methodology

7.9

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Support for Waterfall Methodology

7.7

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Document Management

8.1

10.0

Email integration

7.3

5.0

Mobile Access

7.9

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Timesheet Tracking

8.0

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Change request and Case Management

8.1

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Budget and Expense Management

8.2

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Pros

The website is very well laid out. It is uncluttered, easy to navigate, and is highly visual. There are a great range of field types and add-on blocks.
Setting up bases is very straightforward. If you get stuck the help section and videos are excellent. You can also access Airtable Universe to see examples of how the product is used by others.
I have submitted a number of queries by email and in each case the staff were very helpful and responded quickly. Given that I was using a free account at the time, I was very impressed.
Given that I have used the product with very young children successfully, I think that it is extremely well designed.

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Shirley Hickey

Computing/ICT Tutor & Network Administrator

West Hoathly Church of England Primary SchoolEducation Management, 11-50 employees

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History tracking for any changes made to data.
Tracks all milestones and retains records for lifetime of account.
Easy extracting for reporting purposes.

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Christy Reichenberger

Strategic Analyst - Sales Operations

AT&TTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

They only thing I can think of is being able to switch between user accounts without having to log on and off.
A personal request, would be to add shades of brown to the color palette. When working with the children, we color code field options for eyes and hair. The only children I can't do this for is brunettes with brown eyes. A small thing I know, but it would really help the younger children as it is a visual clue.

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Shirley Hickey

Computing/ICT Tutor & Network Administrator

West Hoathly Church of England Primary SchoolEducation Management, 11-50 employees

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If there is a lot of data in a certain report, it can take time to download which is not always convenient.
There may be TOO many options for reporting.
Dashboards could use some visual tweaking.

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Christy Reichenberger

Strategic Analyst - Sales Operations

AT&TTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Airtable9.1

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compared to other products it is just fabulous.

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Andrej Vrsansky

Manager

Buddy NGO - connecting orphans with volunteersCivic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Airtable9.0

Based on 5 answers

Just so easy to learn/use. Very intuitive in its application logic.

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Sherry Raeder

Client Experience Manager

InnerWill Leadership InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees

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Support

Airtable7.3

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Sometimes, I have to wait a bit longer but I'm on a low priced option so I understand why. Generally, they're able to provide me solutions to my problems as long as I'm not in a rush.

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Malcolm Colman-Shearer

Co Founder

Optimi LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We do use Social Studio and Sharepoint for other tasks, but for project planning across a wide variety of deliverables, there wasn't enough flexibility all the time. Asana was harder to use and get into and didn't provide an easy way to adjust views/sorts.

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Andy Havens

Content Marketing Manager (Previously Manager of Creative Services)

OCLCLibraries, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Saved time providing updates on where tasks are up to. Anyone in the team can go in and look to see where things are up to.
Allowed the team to have access to the same information at the same time, saving time in people asking each other for data and information.
Before Airtable we had information stored in several places - Excel, Confluence, emails, on individuals' computers - now we've put it all in one place.

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Sarah Jones

Project Manager, Telepresence Robot Pilot

MissingSchoolNon-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees

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Reduction in costs on materials (i.e. - paper documentation)
Improved efficiency given that our field members need to report back on an hourly basis
Web based platform allows anyone access to the same information

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Christy Reichenberger

Strategic Analyst - Sales Operations

AT&TTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees

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