We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server 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."The solution's ease of use is its most valuable aspect."
"I like being able to manage the capacity in terms of the resources. I also like being able to share documents and information between teams. It's the best solution for collaboration."
"One notable positive aspect is its effective project-tracking capabilities."
"Technical support is good."
"This is a scalable solution. It is easy to set up and to add clusters to your environment."
"The most useful feature of Microsoft Project Server is you can select a function to see the baseline."
"Microsoft Project Server helps organizations in collaboration."
"The solution is scalable and easy to expand."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"The ability to build a quick dashboard and give management insight into the progress of the project itself is probably one of the most beneficial pieces."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is its intuitiveness, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"Enables coordination and sharing of information that is relatively inexpensive."
"We like Smartsheet's workflows, automation, and low-code capabilities. I don't know of any other project management tool with low-code functionality designed for project managers."
"Their support is awesome. We are on an enterprise plan and there is a customer success at Smartsheet and anyone from our licensed users can just send an email to them and they respond as soon as possible."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Smartsheet offers more than Project because it's similar to a table-based, database-type system. It's like a hybrid between Excel and project software. We were able to enter the formulas and do much of the automation. We added budgets to it and linked them to a vendor page. Smartsheet let us integrate the budget into the project seamlessly. With Project, we needed to open up Excel."
"The solution should be made more collaborative."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"The solution must provide Agile and AI features."
"The solution could improve the ease of access could improve. It can be time-consuming."
"The solution's desktop version is not compatible with the MacBook."
"There are certain shortcomings in the documentation part where improvements are required."
"The reporting aspects can be improved, which is one of the reasons why I'm using Qlik Sense. In the older on-prem versions, reporting was lackluster, to say the least. Project Online has a better handle on that. However, we will still be using Qlik Sense. We're also looking at an add-on app from a company called OnePlan that adds some additional functionality where Microsoft is not as clean in its approach for things such as portfolio management and some of the trends analysis."
"The initial setup was complex."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"Smartsheet could improve by having seamless integration with Azure Board."
"The solution should include integrations with other platforms or software."
"A room for improvement I found in Smartsheet is the view, as it's currently row-wise. I should have the opportunity to view a full scale, top down list instead of just a column driven list. I shouldn't have to go just left or right. I should be able to view it top down."
"They should improve the solution's integration with API."
"With a large quantity of data, the solution lags a bit."
"It already has a really powerful Export to Excel feature, but it can have an Excel add-on. The way to set up single sign-on wasn't too easy in the beginning, and it was hard to get hold of customer service. They should make it easier to set up SSO. Smartsheet's customer service also definitely needs to be improved."
"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 5th in Project Portfolio Management with 56 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 34 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 8.0, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". 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". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and JIRA Portfolio, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and Planisware. See our Microsoft Project Server vs. Smartsheet report.
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