Smartsheet is my new favorite tool
April 08, 2014
Smartsheet is my new favorite tool

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Cloud
Overall Satisfaction
We ran a pilot with Smartsheet and now adopting it as an enterprise solution. It meets our collaboration use cases with spreadsheets, task management and project management plans, however is more lightweight and easy to use than Sharepoint. It also provides a quick and easy tool to create forms and surveys. Most importantly, it is very intuitive and has a lot of training videos on YouTube, as a result even not very tech savvy people were able to adopt it pretty quickly.
- Advanced permissions management. I can provide my collaborators with the access to a specific row, and they won't be able to see the rest of the spreadsheet.
- Variety of templates to quickly start your new project plan, to do list or product catalog.
- Simultaneous collaboration: Smartsheet highlights who is currently viewing your sheet.
- Rows can be easily dragged-n-dropped for quick reordering
- Supported import from MS Project and Excel
- I would like to be able to see the row or cell my collaborator is working in (like in Google Docs)
- I would like to be able to create macros in Smartsheet
- Visible employee efficiency increase during large releases. It really helped to maintain the project plan up to date (as much as a tool can help), and it empowered project managers to quickly address issues impacting the critical path.
- We are still in the assessment mode, but the results from the pilot were very promising for internal customer satisfaction. Users reported that it was much easier for them to collaborate, saved time and improved visibility within their teams.
Google Drive didn't provide a sophisticated project management tool, although spreadsheet experience is quite similar.
Evaluation and Selection
- Product Features
- Product Usability
We were looking for a truly collaborative tool for task and project management, and Smartsheet perfectly fir our requirements.
I think our evaluation was really comprehensive.