A presentation on a few great online tools you and your team can use to increase productivity and collaboration.

1. www.anant.us | solutions@anant.us | 202.905.2818
1010 Wisconsin Ave, NW | Suite 250 | Washington, DC 20007
Streamline Organize Unify
Business Information
Team Collaboration
Slack, Airtable, Trello:
What Makes Them Good

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

3. Who am I. What I did. What I do.
Built a Hosting Company
Web Application Dev/Hosting
IT Consulting w/ Firms/Agencies
……………………………………...……...
Management Consulting for
Internet Teams + Difficult Data

4. What we do well.
Streamline, Organize & Unify
Business Information

5. What is Business Information
Internal vs. External (Public vs. Private)
Strategic / Tactical / Operational
Data / Information / Knowledge
Documents / Records / Metrics
Project
Information
Client Service
Information
Corporate
Guides
Collaborative
Documents
Assets
& Files
Corporate
Assets

6. Phases of Business Technology
Business
Silos
Standardized
Platform
Optimized
Core
Business
Modularity

7. Your Business Cloud is Disconnected
… so you and your team spend waste time ...

8. Bring it all together in One Place
Project
Information
Client Service
Information
Corporate
Guides
Collaborative
Documents
Assets
& Files
Corporate
Assets
Konotree
We will help you connect
and organize your data.

9. find. analyze. act.
FIND
DISCOVER
FILTER
ANALYZE
VISUALIZE
MEASURE
ACT
USE
SHARE

10. Why Team Collaboration
• People -> Process
– Communication
– Sharing
– Organization
• Information -> Systems

11. Systems Amateurity
• Gonna host a ..:
– Project Management System ?
– Chat Server ?
– Frontend / Backend Framework ?
– Blog System / CMS / eCommerce
?
– Social Network ?

12. Systems Amateurity
• Equivalent to restaurants making their own
Pots and Pans
• Common in many teams - Small to Large
• “I can SELF HOST EVERYTHING”

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. MVP Scenario: Business Workflow
Team Chat + Project
Management + Shared
Database
= Business Data Workflow
System MVP

17. 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

18. MVP Scenario: Business Workflow
Slack + Trello + Airtable
= Business Data Workflow
System MVP

19. 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

20. MVP Scenario: Business Workflow
• x = Customer Info
• y = Notification Info
• Trello (x) + Airtable (x) + Slack (x,y)
= Business Data Workflow System MVP

21. What we do well.
Streamline, Organize & Unify
Business Information

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- Advisory / Guidance
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23. www.anant.us | solutions@anant.us | 202.905.2818
1010 Wisconsin Ave, NW | Suite 250 | Washington, DC 20007
Streamlined Data
Integration / Data Pipelines
Organized Knowledge
Search / Data Warehouses
Unified Interfaces
Portals / Dashboards / Mobile
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