Likelihood to Recommend Airtable is very well suited for a niche environment that finds other project tracking or collaborative tools to be limiting. The ability to build out a single pool of information to best suit each team member's visual or functional needs is amazing. While the setup time can be lengthy, depending on your particular needs, it is really worth it when it's finally ready.
Read full review For tasks like financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and data visualization, I frequently use Microsoft Excel. I can develop financial models, use pivot tables to examine enormous datasets, and produce eye-catching visualizations thanks to its comprehensive features. I have, however, also come across circumstances in which Excel isn't the best tool.Excel falls short of alternatives like
Google Sheets when I need to collaborate with my team in real-time. I favor employing robust database management systems or data analysis tools like SQL, Python, or R for managing very big data sets or sophisticated calculations. I use specialized tools like SPSS, SAS, or programming languages for better outcomes when complex statistical analysis or machine learning are necessary. And finally, for formatting elaborate reports, In conclusion, even though I consider Excel to be a great tool for many finance jobs, there are some limits in collaborating, processing big amounts of data, performing complex analysis, and creating documents that I take into account when choosing the best tool for the job.
Read full review Pros 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. Read full review It is very good at embedded formulas and tying cells to one another It allows me to compare deals terms on a side-by-side basis and talk my clients through it easily. It is very helpful as well in terms of allowing me to filter/sort results in many different ways depending on what specific information I am most interested in prioritizing. Gary Ceder Managing Director - Transaction Advisory
Read full review Cons While working on the Airtable I have noticed that it is not open to uploading of the files for large sizes, most of the time files are not uploaded or links may get broken. In addition, they do not talk much about the time tracking tool and how we can calculate our hours, I still do it with just estimation and by the calendar. Ryan Dury Senior Manager Strategic Accounts & Sales Support
Read full review Counting conditionally formatted cells (e.g., you have 5 green cells, 10 red ones, and 3 orange ones in a row). Merging cells in a table; I have to remove the table first and then re-add the table to merge cells together. Offering more preset colour categories for formatting graphs. Built-in functions to run ANOVAs, Multiple Linear Regression, Factor Analysis, etc. Read full review Likelihood to Renew 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.
Read full review It comes with MS Office. Unless we stop using PCs or Microsoft Office, it's highly unlikely, even imperceivable to not continue to use Excel. It would be nice to see more Excel functions used, though, beside basic tables and calculations.
Read full review Usability Airtable has fantastic usability. I personally am fair when it comes to most technologies off the bat. I can understand a lot after being taught but most take me a little when I am teaching myself. Airtable was EXTREMELY easy to use off the bat. It was easy to understand or quickly figure out answers to my questions if i ever felt confused. Someone who has little technological experience could figure out Airtable quite easily.
Read full review Microsoft excel stands out in its User Interface as compared to any other software which offers same functionality. It can be used by a beginner as well as the expert in the same field. It is having many features as we dig deep in it like advance functions, dynamic arrays, pivot, VBA and Macros.
Read full review Reliability and Availability 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
Read full review I have rarely, if ever, had issues with its availability.
Mike Baucom Project Leader/Marketing Professional Commercial Truck Marketing
Read full review Performance 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
Read full review Again it does what I need it to do with little to no issues.
Mike Baucom Project Leader/Marketing Professional Commercial Truck Marketing
Read full review Support Rating I haven't contacted customer support yet, so I wouldn't be able to give a fair response. We also use the free version of the app. They do have document files, which we have looked at to answer key questions. Because it looks like there are a lot of people that use airtable, we've been able to find a lot of resources online.
Read full review I have not had to use it often, but it is good.
Mike Baucom Project Leader/Marketing Professional Commercial Truck Marketing
Read full review In-Person Training 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
Read full review Online Training 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
Read full review Implementation Rating 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.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Airtable exceeds all competitors I’ve seen. The feature set is full and only growing. The UI is intuitive for non-tech employees. Any competitors that match Airtable are really operating in a different space. Airtable is the industry leader in this category. Period.
Read full review We utilize
Tableau and
Alteryx in addition to Excel. We use Excel since we have a data dump that could be utilized in feeding for these two solutions. We select Excel for some manual work then plug the data into the other two tools for further analysis around text analytics like word clouds in
Tableau , or text mining in
Alteryx . Excel is an input data source that we use in conjunction with these two.
Read full review Contract Terms and Pricing Model N/A I was not involved in this process.
Mike Baucom Project Leader/Marketing Professional Commercial Truck Marketing
Read full review Scalability 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
Read full review It integrates well with all cross functional teams
Mike Baucom Project Leader/Marketing Professional Commercial Truck Marketing
Read full review Return on Investment The performance of the platform has been key to generate revenue and compensate for the investment we made at the beginning. Since the results were good, we proceeded to continue using the software, and in this way we obtained a large amount of profits, increasing our ROI to 5. Read full review Excel has positively impacted the business as it has increased our efficiency. It also saves us the time that we would have spent on making the calculations that it does for us. Since it works on all devices and is compatible with both Windows and Mac, we do not have to invest in any other alternative. Read full review ScreenShots