Smartsheet

What differentiates Smartsheet from other similar products?

Useful for team jurors who are unfamiliar with creating a planning schedule but need to arrange and assign tasks to various team members. The organization is currently in the process of maturing.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Being able to use a tool that has some familiarity takes time away from training and orienting employees to a new tool and allows a strategy to get off the ground.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Could have a more user friendly interface or module to manage files uploaded to folders instead of attachments, it is available for external integration, but you have to pay to use it, would be nice if some integrations were built in.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you have several users who use Excel or Google Sheets for personal project management, this tool will be very useful and somewhat familiar. If you have a very large program, you might consider looking at more advanced platforms.

What differentiates Smartsheet from other similar products?

It's like excel with super powers. It takes what you can do there and amplifies it with great features. Awesome for tracking tasks and more.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

all of the sorting & filtering options. Being able to assign items. Forms for entry. Just very flexible with what it does.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It's limited to its wheelhouse. There's only so many things we can do through the tool. Integrations with other tools (usuch as JIRA) that would have added more value is very expensive. Also unlike excel you can't have multitabbed documents. And there are a few other things excel does that aren't here.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Excellent tool to consider if you use a lot of spreadsheets, need to track multiple things, assign ownership to cells, or create task lists.

What differentiates Smartsheet from other similar products?

Smartsheet is designed with automation in mind. Using Smartsheet for our projects , has afforded us the opportunity to incorporate automation into aspects of our software project management process, by combining inherent conditional pathways and actions present on Smartsheet, into automated workflows that has led to faster completion of tasks and a coherent project collaboration experience for my team.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Smartsheet is built on spreadsheets . Therefore, everything I can achieve on a spreadsheet are achievable on Smartsheet , with more efficiency . This makes Smartsheet easier to pick up by new users in my team.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Advance resource management and activity tracking are not by default , available on Smartsheet. Users have to purchase them as add-ons . I would prefer that this critical features come as a part and parcel of Smartsheet as against as additional extension features.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I think Smartsheet is an ideal software for project management, especially for managers interested in automating processes. Albeit, that this comes with its own inherent weaknesses.