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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Smartsheet

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASmartsheet 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)

    Visual Studio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio (now in the 2022 edition) is a 64-bit IDE that makes it easier to work with bigger projects and complex workloads, boasting a fluid and responsive experience for users. The IDE features IntelliCode, its automatic code completion tools that understand code context and that can complete up to a whole line at once to drive accurate and confident coding.

    $45

    per month

    Pricing
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Contact Sales
    Professional
    $45.00
    per month
    Enterprise
    $250.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Considered Both Products
    Smartsheet
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    62 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    58 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    61 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    41 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    47 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    51 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    Features
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Smartsheet and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Smartsheet
    9.1
    129 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management9.8126 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management10.0108 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts9.0109 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling9.8111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation9.2100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.0122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.981 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology9.079 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management9.2101 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration9.0100 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.096 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking9.762 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.075 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Smartsheet and Microsoft Visual Studio
    Feature
    Smartsheet
    7.9
    66 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Microsoft Visual Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates8.144 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing7.537 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting8.760 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.332 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    IntelliJ IDEA
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    PyCharm
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    WebStorm
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (146 ratings)
    9.1
    (118 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.2
    (17 ratings)
    9.2
    (15 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (45 ratings)
    8.8
    (15 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SmartsheetVisual Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Microsoft
    When working with base C# code for desktop and web projects, then Microsoft Visual Studio is ideal as it provides the libraries and interfaces needed to quickly create, test and deploy solutions. It is when slightly more complex scenarios are required that issues can arise. The built-in integration for things like PowerBI Paginated Reports and dashboards is far from ideal.
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    Pros
    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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    • I like how the tabs and panels are organized; everything is gathered together so you can find what you're looking for quickly.
    • If you can't find something, there's a thorough search engine that searches all of Visual Studio's features.
    • The Team Foundation Server feature is fantastic since it allows us to easily deploy and roll back changes on the server.
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    Cons
    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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    • Would be great if there was a better way to save and restore open tabs.
    • The built-in test runner can be improved, for example, by adding the ability to save a set of commonly run tests, etc.
    • Better integration for Microsoft SQL server would be great.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Microsoft
    VS is the best and is required for building Microsoft applications. The quality and usefulness of the product far out-weight the licensing costs associated with it.
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    Usability
    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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    Microsoft
    I love the overall usability of Microsoft Visual Studio. I’ve been using this IDE for more than 20 years, and I’ve seen it evolve by leaps and bounds. Today, with AI and code-suggestion/completion features, developers no longer need to remember countless libraries, methods, or language syntax, or invest a huge amount of programming effort to complete a project. It truly offers everything a developer needs to program, debug, test, and deploy in a single IDE.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Microsoft
    There are many resources available supporting Visual Studio IDE. Microsoft whitepapers, forum posts, and online Visual Studio documentation. There are countless demonstration videos available, as well. If users are having issues, they can call Microsoft Support, but depending on the company's agreement with Microsoft, the number of included support calls will vary from organization to organization. I've found that Microsoft support calls can be hit or miss depending on who you get, but they can usually get you with the right support person for your issue.
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    In-Person Training
    Smartsheet
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    IT is very complicated to understand all the functions that the environment has if you are not familiar with this type of development environments. It is important to select a good in-person training to achieve to understand all the possibilities and the capacity of the application. In this case, you will be able to develop a lot type of different applications.
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    Online Training
    Smartsheet
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    If you are not accustomed to develop in this type of development environments it would be complicated to follow all the parts of the course because if the course does not include a great tour with all the concepts to develop you will not have the option to understand all the functions.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Microsoft
    I personally feel Visual Studio IDE has [a] better interface and [is more] user friendly than other IDEs. It has better code maintainability and intellisense. Its inbuilt team foundation server help coders to check on their code then and go. Better nugget package management, quality testing and gives features to extract TRX file as result of testing which includes all the summary of each test case.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    • Using the integration between Visual Studio and our source control service, the cost of re-work and losing code is drastically reduced.
    • Paid versions of Visual Studio enable developers to be so much more productive than hacked-together open source solutions that it's hard to imagine developing in Windows without it.
    • When combined with support subscriptions and the vast array of free online help options available, Visual Studio saves our developers time by keeping them coding and testing, not wasting their time trying to guess their way out of problems or spend endless hours online hoping to find answers.
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