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Slingshot

Overview

What is Slingshot?

Slingshot, from Infragistics, helps users manage work from a single app. The solution brings all the apps that a team already uses into the Slingshot workflow.

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Pricing

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Slingshot

$12

Cloud
per year per user

Slingshot Enterprise

$20

Cloud
per year per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.slingshotapp.io/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $12 per year per user
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Product Details

What is Slingshot?

Slingshot empowers data-driven decision-making through real-time analytics integrated with project management and collaboration features. With a business intelligence engine at its core, Slingshot offers users a direct connection to their data sources and platforms. That way they can extract valuable insights and transform them into visually engaging dashboards that can be shared across teams.

Its project management capabiliteis help users to turn insights to action and align tasks with key initiatives, ensuring that deadlines are met with transparency and clarity. Slingshot provides access to a library of over 75+ pre-built, customizable project, workspace, and dashboard templates, designed for teams of all sizes, industries, and departments, streamlining their day-to-day operations.

Slingshot Features

BI Platform Features

  • Supported: Administration via Windows App
  • Supported: Administration via Web Interface
  • Supported: Live Connection to External Data
  • Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Supported Data Sources Features

  • Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
  • Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
  • Supported: Salesforce
  • Supported: Google Analytics

BI Standard Reporting Features

  • Supported: Customizable dashboards
  • Supported: Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting Features

  • Supported: Formatting capabilities
  • Supported: Predictive modeling
  • Supported: Report sharing and collaboration

Report Output and Scheduling Features

  • Supported: Publish to PDF

Data Discovery and Visualization Features

  • Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
  • Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
  • Supported: Predictive Analytics
  • Supported: Support for Machine Learning models

Access Control and Security Features

  • Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
  • Supported: Role-Based Security Model
  • Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
  • Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)

Mobile Capabilities Features

  • Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
  • Supported: Mobile Application
  • Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Additional Features

  • Supported: Project Management
  • Supported: Collaboration
  • Supported: Content Management

Slingshot Screenshots

Screenshot of a team’s work broken down into tasks with due dates, dependencies and blockers, to make work understandable.Screenshot of the consolidated workspace where users can manage, share and access files and documents in the same place collaboration happens.Screenshot of Slingshot’s dashboard templates that have the essential KPIs for each use case, Interactives and features such as drill-down, and exporting to Excel or PowerPoint built right in.Screenshot of where chats and discussions from tasks, dashboards, and pinned content can be created. This allows team to move straight into collaborating with one click and stay informed.Screenshot of Slingshot's range of workspace and project templates, designed for simplicity, that enable users to handle, distribute, and retrieve files and documents while collaborating with a team.

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Slingshot - a digital workspace that brings an uninterrupted workflow and collaboration with no app-switching.
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Slingshot Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Slingshot, from Infragistics, helps users manage work from a single app. The solution brings all the apps that a team already uses into the Slingshot workflow.

Slingshot starts at $12.

Asana, monday.com, and Microsoft Teams are common alternatives for Slingshot.

The most common users of Slingshot are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(2)

Reviews

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June 25, 2023

Slingshot has been a game-changer for task management, improved productivity.

BB
Beth Brody
Founder
BrodyPR (Public Relations & Communications, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The biggest problems that Slingshot solved were communication inefficiencies and task management. I can now collaborate with my team members seamlessly. Slingshot has eliminated the need for long email chains or multiple back-and-forth messages, resulting in faster decision-making and more efficient communication. It also helps prevent team members from falling behind on deadlines since Slingshot sends them reminders of due dates.
Pros and Cons
  • One of the best aspects of Slingshot is the ability to assign a task and keep track of its progress. Prior to using Slingshot, tasks were assigned via email, with no automatic way to track their progress. Projects might not be delivered on time unless we manually remind each contributor of their deadlines. With Slingshot, we’ve eliminated back-and-forth emails, which has resulted in projects always delivered on time.
  • Another benefit of Slingshot is improved communication. The chat functionality within the digital workplace allows our team members and external clients to collaborate in real-time, exchange ideas, and provide quick feedback on tasks and projects.
  • The data analytics capabilities, which are part of Slingshot’s digital workplace, also ate a valuable feature. We used Slingshot for analysis of our annual survey. We were able to create data visualizations of the data collected so that the media could easily understand the results.
  • Slingshot could add more options for task views and a calendar where all tasks and projects are in one place.
Likelihood to Recommend
Slingshot has improved communication, streamlined task, and project management, and provided data-driven insights, resulting in increased productivity, efficiency, and the ability to get the work done on time.
Slingshot Feature Ratings
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (2)
100%
10.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
100%
10.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (2)
100%
10.0
Formatting capabilities
100%
10.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (1)
N/A
N/A
Publish to PDF
N/A
N/A
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
33.333333333333336%
3.3
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
N/A
N/A
Predictive Analytics
N/A
N/A
Access Control and Security (4)
25%
2.5
Multi-User Support (named login)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
N/A
N/A
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
N/A
N/A
Single Sign-On (SSO)
N/A
N/A
Mobile Capabilities (3)
100%
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
100%
10.0
Mobile Application
100%
10.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
100%
10.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Slingshot has been a game-changer for task management, resulting in improved productivity.
Alternatives Considered
There really is no comparison between Excel and Slingshot. Excel is very clunky and can't produce the level of visualizations I need.
Other Software Used
May 30, 2023

Slingshot is a great tool for team collaboration and alignment.

LR
Lawrence Rothstein
Executive Director
No Limits Media (Broadcast Media, 1-10 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Slingshot is priceless to me in terms of collaboration and managing my day-to-day work. As a book editor and writer, I appreciate the way this app brings together all aspects of my work. I am able to connect to my team quickly, I can pin or attach any file and document, so they are easy to find and we always have the most updated version, I organize my work and I have visibility on projects in a glance.
Pros and Cons
  • Slingshot has a very friendly and easy-to-use interface while at the same time being packed with useful features. I am able to collaborate fast and in context of projects and tasks, as well as find any file easily. Files and documents are pinned directly in the collaboration app, no matter the size, so everyone involved has visibility and the most recent update. The Inbox feature keeps me in the loop with everything I am involved in – my mentions, my messages, my organization updates.
  • Slingshot is great for collaboration, visibility on projects that take longer time, chats in context and finding the needed and most updated file easily, without switching between different tools.
  • Slingshot doesn’t have video or audio conference, though, so it’s not for people who need to video conference with their teammates constantly.
Likelihood to Recommend
- You can easily connect to your providers like Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint and Dropbox and more, and pin files from your cloud provider without the need to save them and uploading them again.
Slingshot Feature Ratings
BI Platform
N/A
N/A
Supported Data Sources
N/A
N/A
BI Standard Reporting (2)
100%
10.0
Customizable dashboards
100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates
100%
10.0
Ad-hoc Reporting (2)
100%
10.0
Formatting capabilities
100%
10.0
Report sharing and collaboration
100%
10.0
Report Output and Scheduling (1)
100%
10.0
Publish to PDF
100%
10.0
Data Discovery and Visualization (3)
100%
10.0
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
100%
10.0
Predictive Analytics
100%
10.0
Access Control and Security (4)
100%
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model
100%
10.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
100%
10.0
Single Sign-On (SSO)
100%
10.0
Mobile Capabilities (3)
100%
10.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
100%
10.0
Mobile Application
100%
10.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
100%
10.0
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • Slingshot has been very time saving and helped me be more productive along the way. So it has had a very positive return on investment.
Alternatives Considered
Far superior in its ease of use.
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