Item: Smartsheet
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Smartsheet

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Majorly we are using Smartsheet for the Project Execution stage, where it helps to track the various activities, and we can easily coordinate and share it with our team members.
Best part about Smartsheet is its readymade dashboards which are very useful to update to the higher management and we can easily take a glance of overall project status.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It is very helpful to collaborate with team members.
Dashboards are very useful for giving the Project status update to the management.
We can sync Smartsheet with the Teams and outlook, which really helps to notify team members.

Cons

Using formulas in smartsheet is bit difficult in comparison with Excel.
Linking multiple sheets is bit complicated.
Sorting is bit diificult.

Return on Investment

It reduces the number of meetings as we can create a plan once and it will keep on notifying stakeholders when their tasks are due.
Reduce manhours.
Documentation is easy.

Usability

I have rated it 9 since it is very useful at project execution, tracking & monitoring stages.
It also allows creating multiple reports as per the specific requirements.
Dashboards are very useful for the monitoring.

But it has some scope of improvement as it seems bit difficult at applying formulas and linking multiple sheets.

Alternatives Considered

Chatsonic, MindManager, Mixpanel and Microsoft Planner

It allows team collaboration.
Project monitoring is very easy.
Dashboards are very good for the project reporting.
It also allows to create reports for the different usecases.
Interface is easy to understand and use.
We can notify stakeholders when their tasks are due.
We can also see the calendar view.

Key Insights

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

Other Software Used

Chatsonic, Mixpanel, MindManager, Anthropic Claude, Semrush, Similarweb

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited -
Smartsheet is very well suited in Project execution stage. We can easily notify all the team members when their tasks are due. We can create project dashboards to see the project status anytime. we can easily create reports for particular scenarios.

Less appropriate:
At the project planning stage I would prefer MindManager as it provides good visual representation and easy to understand.

Smartsheet Feature Ratings

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Best tool for the Project Execution & Reporting Stage