We performed a comparison between Planview PPM Pro and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is flexible, because so far we haven't been able to figure out anything that it cannot do. It's highly configurable. We've added custom field design screens to fit our needs, develop reports, and dashboards that give us the ability to deliver much better information, especially to senior IT management."
"The solution is great for viewing projects and timelines."
"The product's deployment is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is reporting."
"The reporting and dashboards are the most valuable features. For most of what we're using it for almost all of it is pretty valuable to us."
"Flexibility is the most valuable feature of the solution. We're able to do a lot of integrations with ConnectWise, which is another IT services tool that we use. So, we can integrate with that, and it's pretty flexible. We just went live a couple of weeks ago, but already we're able to bring visibility into our resource utilization and project status with clients."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that my team can use one tool that's reliable, scalable, and provides the leadership team visibility to what's going on."
"PPM Pro absolutely enables us to create reusable project templates that reflect our project management lifecycle. We had a good customer session on this, where a team utilizes portfolio management and project management of the tool very intensively. We follow all of the templates but having said that, we have so many divisions and we have so many users and project managers utilizing the tools. They have a different bunch of templates. We're not just following one or two templates. We have a number of templates that the teams are using."
"The tool reduces manual labour and it is user-friendly."
"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."
"The solution is straightforward. Whenever a requirement arises, we create three things in Smartsheet: a project plan, a dashboard, and internal documents. It is done through the form and Smartsheet's automation services. This process shortens the time to market from seven days to less than 12 hours."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The solution has subtasks and a rollup."
"The dashboard and the layouts are quite good."
"Enables coordination and sharing of information that is relatively inexpensive."
"This solution provides easy collaboration and allows non-building users to use the system without requiring a license."
"Training documentation improvement is required because there are some high-level words in that material, terms that a non-technical person is unable to understand."
"I think PPM Pro is going to release a resource self-service admin which is going to duplicate the standard groups. I think that will help us a lot because right now a standard group has their own permission and we don't know what permission is getting out to the users. After the resource self-service admin will be in place, I think we will be in a much better position in terms of the formation profile."
"The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well."
"The initial setup was a little complex. There is so much to customize. It'd be good to have some templates out-of-the-box."
"Reporting and dashboards need improvement. I know they're doing a major revamp of that. We're really looking forward to that because that's something that is really being requested by our customers to give them better visibility, reporting, and dashboards that are easier to understand."
"The resource management tab is clunky, inefficient, and slow. And from a portfolio manager perspective, it would be nice if there were an easier way to view enterprise-wide resourcing to manage my team more effectively."
"Entering day-to-day tasks is a tedious process."
"The calculated field area needs improvement. There are a lot of formulas and functions available to make a calculated field, but it is still not comprehensive. We process the data to represent it through a report or dashboard. Due to the current constraints, for complex calculations, we do the data processing outside PPM Pro."
"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."
"Smartsheet could be improved to be a ticketing system. It would be nice to have a system to do everything."
"I think that the mobile interface needs to be improved. If you cannot access it through your laptop, I'd prefer to have that option on the mobile, but I don't think that it's user-friendly and easy to navigate."
"With a large quantity of data, the solution lags a bit."
"They provide a limited number of sheets which is not enough."
"The downside of Smartsheet is that there are some security concerns. We were able to restrict people from sharing sheets with anyone who was not in our domain, but it could be easier. We also found it hard to restrict certain user groups from adding attachments to sheets."
"Smartsheet needs to improve the user interface."
"The system can become more challenging to use in more complex scenarios, requiring additional add-ons that can be quite costly."
Planview PPM Pro is ranked 7th in Project Portfolio Management with 34 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 34 reviews. Planview PPM Pro is rated 7.8, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Planview PPM Pro writes "Attentive customer service". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Smartsheet writes "Has customization, data pulling, and cross-functional global communication features; it's a secure solution". Planview PPM Pro is most compared with Planview AdaptiveWork, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planview Portfolios, Planisware and monday.com, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and Wrike. See our Planview PPM Pro vs. Smartsheet report.
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