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Streamline Organize UnifyBusiness Information

Team CollaborationSlack, Airtable, Trello:

What Makes Them Good

Agenda

• Who are these guys? (Intro)• Why Team Collaboration• Trello: Simple but Powerful• Slack: Old Chat in New Skin• Airtable: Database / Spreadsheet• Questions?

Who am I. What I did. What I do.

Built a Hosting CompanyWeb Application Dev/HostingIT Consulting w/ Firms/Agencies……………………………………...……...Management Consulting for Internet Teams + Difficult Data

What we do well.

Streamline, Organize & Unify

Business Information

What is Business Information

Internal vs. External (Public vs. Private)Strategic / Tactical / OperationalData / Information / KnowledgeDocuments / Records / Metrics

Project Information

Client Service Information

CorporateGuides

Collaborative Documents

Assets& Files

Corporate Assets

Phases of Business Technology

Business Silos

Standardized Platform

Optimized Core

Business Modularity

Your Business Cloud is Disconnected

… so you and your team spend waste time ...

Bring it all together in One Place

Project Information

Client Service Information

CorporateGuides

Collaborative Documents

Assets& Files

Corporate Assets

Konotree

We will help you connect and organize your data.

find. analyze. act.

FIND

DISCOVER

FILTER

ANALYZE

VISUALIZE

MEASURE

ACT

USE

SHARE

Why Team Collaboration

• People -> Process – Communication – Sharing– Organization

• Information -> Systems

Systems Amateurity

• Gonna host a ..:

– Project Management System ?

– Chat Server ?

– Frontend / Backend Framework ?

– Blog System / CMS / eCommerce ?

– Social Network ?

Systems Amateurity

• Equivalent to restaurants making their own Pots and Pans

• Common in many teams - Small to Large

• “I can SELF HOST EVERYTHING”

Trello

• Great Web / Desktop / Mobile Experience

• Balance of Structure vs. Configuration

• Near Realtime Updates on All Devices

• Free to Do Most Everything

• Integrates Well with Most Everything• Many Use Cases

– Agile Project Management– Idea Management– Vision Boards– Product Roadmap

Slack

• Great Web / Desktop / Mobile Experience

• Free for Unlimited Users (limits on Integrations / Messages)

• Great for Private / Public Groups

• Integrates Well with Most Everything• Many Use Cases

– Team Operations– Community Building– Chat Ops – Customer Service

Airtable

• Balance of Spreadsheets and Database

• Automatic API Creation for Data

• Free to Do Most Everything

• Integrates Well with Most Everything• Many Many Many Use Cases

– Agile Project Management– Idea Management– Vision Boards– Product Roadmap– Interview Process– Sales Planning

MVP Scenario: Business Workflow

Team Chat + Project Management + Shared Database= Business Data Workflow System MVP

MVP Scenario: Business Workflow

System Team Chat Project

Management

Online Database /

Forms Engine

Data Sync

Purpose Communicate with

Team and Clients

Online, Share

Documents

Manage long and

short term goals

and tasks and

share with Team

and Clients

Manage Business

Data for different

Business

Processes that

also works with

Apps

Move / Sync

information

between Systems

Examples Slack

HipChat

Cisco Spark

Flock

Microsoft Teams

Facebook for Work

Contus Fly

Flowdock

Yammer

Framebench

Trello

Wrike

Basecamp

daPulse

Jira

Flow

Asana

Clarizen

ActiveCollab

Zoho App Creator

Force.com

Airtable

Wufoo

JotForm

Typekit

Google Forms

Zapier

Heroku Connect

IFTTT

Piesync

Microsoft Flow

MVP Scenario: Business Workflow

Slack + Trello + Airtable= Business Data Workflow System MVP

Modern Enterprise Canvas

Workflow

Approval

Customer

Acquisition

Customer

Payment

Customer

Information

Customer

Information

Customer

Information

Airtable

Slack Slack

AirtableTrello

Slack

Notification

Alerts

Notification

Alerts

Notification

Alerts

MVP Scenario: Business Workflow

• x = Customer Info • y = Notification Info

• Trello (x) + Airtable (x) + Slack (x,y)= Business Data Workflow System MVP

What we do well.

Streamline, Organize & Unify

Business Information

Ongoing Subscription + Kickstart

KICKSTART*- Discovery*- Workshop- Architecture*- Review- Engineering*- Delivery

SUBSCRIPTION- Support- Advisory / Guidance- Maintenance*- Config / Customization

- Managed*- Setup / Train / Admin

*service optionsFree Consultation

www.anant.us | solutions@anant.us | 202.905.28181010 Wisconsin Ave, NW | Suite 250 | Washington, DC 20007

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Organized KnowledgeSearch / Data Warehouses

Unified InterfacesPortals / Dashboards / Mobile

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