airfocus vs. spreadsheets

Learn why thousands of product teams choose airfocus over spreadsheets
as their product management platform of choice.
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Why choose airfocus over spreadsheets?

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Ease of setup

8.5

Ease of admin

8.7

Quality of support

9.2

Ease of doing business with

9.0

Product direction

9.2

Joakim Wissing - Digital product director - Oriflame

Joakim Wissing

Digital product director - Oriflame

"airfocus has been incredibly useful when it comes to aligning everyone around the vision and handling ideas. We are now focusing on what really matters."

An easy-to-use platform
that people love

The airfocus UI is set up in a way where you are not distracted by features and elements you don't need, making the tool easy to use and accelerate adoption rate for your entire team. No complicated settings like endless system fields or distracting views that get in your way. Instead, airfocus provides custom fields, views, and apps that you can use to solve the problems that you have right now.

Build transparency and open up your product workflows, standardize processes, and concentrate on what matters most: your customers.

Unique work environments
for all of your teams

No company has the same set of processes and workflows, so why use a tool that will force you into one? With unlimited workspaces and advanced user permissions, airfocus allows you to organize your teams, products, or units as needed. airfocus is designed with flexibility in mind. With our modular approach you have the ability to choose the features you need, drop the ones you don't, and design a product home that is right for you.

Send information across workspaces, create dependencies, and visualize how your team can work together more efficiently. And if you ever need to share any workspace view with external stakeholders - be it your portfolio roadmap, your Kanban boards, or even your release plans - create a safe and shareable URL in a flash.

Build a product stack
that grows with you

As your team and product mature, extend your stack to solve additional problems, maximize cross-team collaboration, and adapt airfocus to the way you work.

Get started with a roadmap, use integrations to sync your backlog, add a connected feedback process, and involve your team when you are ready. Anyone can get started quickly with a set of pre-defined workspace templates that can be adapted and customized to suit your team's needs.

With the ability to customize airfocus your way set privacy and security measures and involve your team with advanced collaboration methods - the platform adds a unique flair to your team's overall experience.

Make prioritization inclusive

With airfocus' Priority Poker app teams can stop working in silos, benefit from cross-functional team's expertise, win their buy-ins, and ensure that product decisions can be made in alignment live or asynchronously.

The most flexible platform to build products that matter

How airfocus and spreadsheets compare:

	airfocus	spreadsheets
A single source of truth for all things product	airfocus is a single source of truth for all things product. With custom views and filtering capabilities, different stakeholders can have visibility into the product strategy. The platform helps teams understand what they’re working on and why.	Since information lives within different tabs and sheets, information can get lost, and it’s difficult to understand the connection between roadmaps, backlogs, and feedback.
Customizable product stack	Decide what features you need, drop those you don't, and create a product stack that is right for you. Less distractions, more efficiency for your team.	If you are working with spreadsheets, you can’t customize a ‘product stack’. You can create some system there, but that takes lots of spreadsheet experience and time, which means it’s not scalable.
Scalable platform	airfocus is a product management specific tool offering features that help product teams create product workflows. It's an easy-to-use platform which can be handed over or managed by anyone.	airfocus is a product management-specific platform offering features that help product teams create product workflows. It's an easy-to-use platform that can be handed over to or managed by anyone.
Easy to use interface	The airfocus UI is set up in a way so that you are not distracted by features and elements you don't need, making the tool easy to use and accelerating the adoption rate for your entire team.	Overly complicated and difficult to read and to navigate through. The adoption rate for spreadsheet is slow when it offers no onboarding help at all.
Advanced user permissions	airfocus has advanced user permissions, allowing you to determine how your airfocus team members can access features and actions across the application.	User permissions are extremely limited on spreadsheets. Anyone can alter information on there.
Multiple modular workspaces	Collaborate across teams, products, and units with interlinked workspaces. Keep workflows unique and bring information together as needed with a variety of dedicated PM apps.	No interlinked workspaces; you have to update everything manually. Information gets lost, and cross-team collaboration is difficult.
Integrate with customer feedback tools and conduct feedback management	Use the Insights and the Forms app to gather and centralize feedback to inform product discovery. You can create multiple dedicated feedback workspaces with customizable workflows. Connect customer feedback with your backlog to surface top-requested features and prioritize your backlog against company objectives.	Spreadsheets have no feedback management capabilities at all. You miss out on essential information product managers need, such as customer feedback and other added context. There is no way to inform product discovery.
Custom views	Set up unlimited views (tables, boards, charts, timelines) to visualize your data with powerful filters and segmentation.	Spreadsheets are clunky. Data can't be visualized in various ways with a click of a button.
Two-way Integrations	In airfocus, you can integrate with development tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps and so much more to save time and keep everyone in sync.	This is not an option on spreadsheets, and you cannot connect it to your product backlog.
Automated syncs	With airfocus, you don’t have to update your roadmap after every meeting manually. airfocus automatically syncs up with any changes you’ve made.	Manual and intense duplicating efforts are needed on spreadsheets as things don’t sync up automatically. This increases the chance of mistakes.
Priority chart	Gain insights on what are your quick wins, and don't dos on a 2x2 prioritization matrix.	spreadsheets do not have this view.
Portfolio view / roadmap	View your product portfolio in a single space, all with the appropriate information and product hierarchies.	No unified portfolio roadmap that spans all your products.
Collaborative prioritization / Priority Poker app	Priority Poker is an interactive, collaborative, and inclusive way to prioritize as a group and make decisions in the most time-efficient manner.	spreadsheets do not offer Priority Poker or inclusive prioritization.
Informed roadmaps	At airfocus, we understand that no roadmap ever stood the test of time. In airfocus, you can build informed roadmaps (including OKRs, feedbacks, personas, etc.) that focus on outcomes with team objectives.	spreadsheets don’t offer any views on what is happening in the business and product.
Boards view	Customizable boards view so you can create outcome-based roadmaps and Kanban workflows.	No board views, outcome-based roadmaps or Kanban workflows.
Dependencies	Create dependencies between items and align your team accordingly.	Option not available at all on spreadsheets.
Shareable and presentable roadmaps	Seamlessly share and export your roadmaps via secure URLs and exports.	While you can use the export function in spreadsheets, information within the spreadsheets might be difficult to read or understand.