Smartsheet is the Swiss Army Knife of project management
December 20, 2019

Smartsheet is the Swiss Army Knife of project management

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Smartsheet

We use it within our Marketing and Events operations to manage nationwide events that we put on. It allows us to coordinate resource management across several teams to make sure our assets are not double booked and are being fully utilizes. It also gives teams outside of our visibility into what events are happening when and where as well as whom they can reach out to for various integrations.
  • Visibility across many working groups.
  • Control access rights to different documents and create basic approval processes.
  • It lacks full spreadsheet capabilities for advanced formulas and conditional formatting, etc.
  • It does not have a ton of integration into other programs like Outlook/MS products.
  • 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.
It does some things better and other things worse than all these products but what it does the best is balancing features across all these tools. I think it's unrealistic to expect a usable product that offers all the features our end users would need since this is meant to be a cross-team application that serves so many different use-cases. It would be too confusing or overly customized to have a product that delivers on everything. We think of Smartsheet as more of a central base where we come together to manage events at a high level.
They're a smaller company but they've always given great service when we rarely need to reach out. Pretty good online content but a bigger user base would help to produce more content in a self-sufficient community much as we see with Salesforce. To be fair we haven't needed their direct customer support very often. The sales guys are nice and not too pushy!

Do you think Smartsheet delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Smartsheet's feature set?

Yes

Did Smartsheet live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Smartsheet go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Smartsheet again?

Yes

There are few other products that can compete with Smartsheet under certain use-cases. It does a great job visualizing project management and time-based projects through Gantt charts etc. It's all cloud-based so your users can access it anywhere even from their phones, albeit a bit clunky if you have a massive Smartsheet. It's really a hybrid product of other products your users will be familiar with (project management, spreadsheets, CRM). It doesn't do any one of these areas exceptionally but it does an excellent job bringing features together.

Smartsheet Feature Ratings

Task Management
8
Resource Management
9
Gantt Charts
10
Scheduling
8
Workflow Automation
6
Team Collaboration
9
Support for Agile Methodology
8
Support for Waterfall Methodology
Not Rated
Document Management
Not Rated
Email integration
6
Mobile Access
8
Timesheet Tracking
Not Rated
Change request and Case Management
8
Budget and Expense Management
6
Quotes/estimates
Not Rated
Invoicing
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
Not Rated
Integration with accounting software
Not Rated