We performed a comparison between JIRA Portfolio and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best features of JIRA are its flexibility and configurability, allowing us to tailor it to our specific needs."
"The solution is very powerful and the underlying structure of it is well done. The company behind the solution is very open as far as their whole ecosystem is concerned. They also do a lot of work in the training area."
"The most valuable feature is that it fits very well into an agile framework, and it is especially helpful with the planning aspects."
"The most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good."
"It is a good scalable solution that I have used for small projects and reasonably large projects."
"In general, the valuable features of the tool are its capabilities concerning dependency reports and task status."
"The developers can simplify tasks and each one of them can undertake a task and then they continue with development. Our processes are more efficient and easier for our manager and developers to track them. Their work is more organized."
"The product's centralized database creates a single source of data for working groups so no data needs to be reconciled."
"The product is easy to use."
"Smartsheet offers more than Project because it's similar to a table-based, database-type system. It's like a hybrid between Excel and project software. We were able to enter the formulas and do much of the automation. We added budgets to it and linked them to a vendor page. Smartsheet let us integrate the budget into the project seamlessly. With Project, we needed to open up Excel."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"The solution is scalable."
"We like Smartsheet's workflows, automation, and low-code capabilities. I don't know of any other project management tool with low-code functionality designed for project managers."
"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."
"It's very user friendly."
"An improvement would be if Portfolio were integrated with Office 365."
"When using a scrum board, it only shows the current or open sprint. However, we also need to see past and future sprints, which is important for planning the next sprint. To solve this, we tried using a Kanban board instead, but since we follow the Scrum methodology, it's not the ideal solution."
"It would be nice if it could provide an end-to-end solution for a project."
"The solution’s pricing could be reduced."
"We would love to be able to have direct contact with Atlassian. Currently, they are not working directly with West African countries. We are considering using JIRA Align, but when we contact them, they say that as we are in West Africa, they don't directly work with West Africa."
"The team-centric view is slightly weaker in JIRA compared to its competitors, especially considering how I can evaluate how each resource has been placed, not just in one project but across JIRA."
"The workflow needs improvement."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"The integration with Microsoft products should be improved."
"There are some pain points for me. Other people use it a little differently, but I would like to be able to do a little more with it. I would like database functionality with it wherein if I bring in several Excel spreadsheets of data and load them into Smartsheets, I should be able to make a correlation between an index field and run a report against those two. I can do it, but it's a little clunky. So, I need a little more experience to feel comfortable doing that."
"Maybe the solution could be a little bit more flexible."
"Smartsheet should continue to expand the spreadsheet-type functionality because it's limited currently. Most business users are familiar with Excel and Office, so Smartsheet should adopt a similar way of navigating the program."
"Smartsheet could be improved to be a ticketing system. It would be nice to have a system to do everything."
"You were forced to create a new tab rather than add another sheet."
"The product must include more modules for project management."
"If there was some way to store more complex files in the system, or if there was a back-end structure where you could store files, that would be ideal."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 55 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 34 reviews. JIRA Portfolio is rated 8.2, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of JIRA Portfolio writes "Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Smartsheet writes "Has customization, data pulling, and cross-functional global communication features; it's a secure solution". JIRA Portfolio is most compared with Jira Align, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project Server and Planisware, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and OpenText Project and portfolio Management. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Smartsheet report.
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