IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery vs. Smartsheet

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.
$0
Smartsheet
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Smartsheet is an online project management and collaboration tool. It includes automated alerts, instantaneous updating and sharing across team members, resource management, nested tasks organized in a hierarchy, a Gantt chart view, exportable and automated reports, and integration with email.
$12
per month per user (up to 10 users)
Pricing
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySmartsheet
Editions & Modules
Lite
$0.00
Professional
$35.00
Authorized user per month
Pro
$12
per month per user (up to 10 users)
Business
$24
per month per user (3 user minimum)
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Advanced Work Management
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySmartsheet
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySmartsheet
Features
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySmartsheet
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
8.5
4 Ratings
12% above category average
Smartsheet
9.1
129 Ratings
16% above category average
Task Management8.24 Ratings9.8126 Ratings
Resource Management8.04 Ratings9.9108 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.33 Ratings9.0109 Ratings
Scheduling8.84 Ratings9.8111 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.04 Ratings8.781 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.63 Ratings9.079 Ratings
Document Management8.73 Ratings9.2101 Ratings
Email integration8.63 Ratings9.1100 Ratings
Mobile Access8.73 Ratings8.096 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking8.73 Ratings9.762 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.63 Ratings8.169 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.33 Ratings8.175 Ratings
Search9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.1100 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings10.0122 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
7.6
6 Ratings
4% below category average
Smartsheet
-
Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration7.75 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
-
Ratings
Smartsheet
8.0
66 Ratings
3% above category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings8.144 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings7.737 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.760 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.632 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySmartsheet
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(16 ratings)
9.3
(146 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.0
(24 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
9.2
(17 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(2 ratings)
8.1
(45 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliverySmartsheet
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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Smartsheet
Smartsheet shines for collaboration. When you have multiple people involved with planning events Smartsheet makes it easy to share and collaborate. For instance, multiple people can be in Smartsheet working at the same time. Also setting permissions for exactly those who need to know is quite easy with Smartsheet. For data analytics and general spreadsheet purposes Excel is better but for project management and event planning Smartsheet is superior
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Pros
IBM
  • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
  • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
  • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
  • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
  • Provides space for the data storage.
  • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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Smartsheet
  • Its hard to overstate the value of familiarity. Being able to use a tool that has some familiarity takes away the time needed to train and orient employees on a new tool and allows an organization to hit the ground running.
  • Smartsheet covers most of the basics of a project management tool, the usual tasks, milestones and project viewing options.
  • For data viewing, you get multiple data viewing options including a calendar view (good for marketing teams and those who work around scheduling), Kanban, Gaant etc
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Cons
IBM
  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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Smartsheet
  • Smartsheet set up is similar to Excel, yet when you upload an Excel file, things like conditional formatting are lost. Smartsheet has its own conditional formatting, and you have to reinstate the rules. It would be great if those would apply automatically once a file is uploaded
  • Some Smartsheet management and access rules can take some tweaking to work properly. This may be a case of offering more info to admins so they can apply these better and with more efficiency
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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Smartsheet
It definitely meets our needs as far as organizing and archiving our tasks and files. As we train more staff to view it, I see opportunities for more improvement, which I am sure this program can handle. I look forward to seeing continued improvement from Smartsheet on their capabilities and functionality.
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Usability
IBM
Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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Smartsheet
Smartsheet is very easy to learn. However, while I have been able to pick it easily, Microsoft Excel and Project super users that I have trained on Smartsheet get bogged down in the differences and can find it frustrating. Explaining the differences ahead of time and why Smartsheet is being chosen instead of a different software seems to counteract those reactions
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Support Rating
IBM
In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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Smartsheet
I give this rating because it fills a niche in the market. MS Project scares many away from proper task management but there are limited tools our there, especially cloud-based that are mobile-friendly. Smartsheet fills this market gap, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. IT is not fair to compare it to MS Project, but fairer to see what gaps it fills.
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Implementation Rating
IBM
No answers on this topic
Smartsheet
It's absolutely paramount to take a few minutes to actually play with the software. It's nearly impossible to do anything wrong or make a mistake which cannot be fixed easily. Under the help menu is Live Training option. After you familiarize yourself with the commands, watch the live training for some in depth understanding of how to make the software fit your needs perfectly.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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Smartsheet
Jira and Redmine are much more robust and technologically advanced project management solutions. I enjoy using either when managing a very large project. However, I prefer to use Smartsheet for my smaller to medium sized projects. As for Google Drive - I would say that Google sheets and Smartsheet are almost identical in my opinion when it comes to functionality. Personally I prefer to manage smaller projects via Google Drive, but it is a personal preference!
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
  • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
  • Contains great AI capabilities
  • The documentation needs improvement.
  • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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Smartsheet
  • This has really opened up collaboration across teams. A lot less working in silos.
  • It hasn't fully replaced any one tool so it means having to go to another place. Hopefully, we can eliminate a tool or two in the next six months.
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