We performed a comparison between Planview AdaptiveWork 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."Clarizen Slide Publisher has helped increase transparency and communication with project stakeholders for us."
"Clarizen's strength is reporting. Aside from reporting, I also like the ability to create customized workflow and custom actions. The workflow rules are handy. For example, you can create custom fields and dependent picklists."
"The feature that has improved our project planning the most is the ability to create custom workflows, which allows us to automate manual tasks that project managers need to perform. The collaboration feature enhances our team's productivity by allowing individuals to see the impact of their decisions on projects owned and managed by other teams."
"I like the project management solution. It's really nice."
"It is my favorite project management tool. The reason for that is that it is very flexible. It is much easier to use than Microsoft Project in terms of creating custom fields. It is very similar to Excel. So, people understand it, which makes it a little bit easier to use for most users."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is its intuitiveness, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"I like that Smartsheet integrates Excel with a cloud-based project management software."
"As I am in the corporate legal department, I have to deal with a number of contracts and sometimes it's hard to keep up with email transactions. Having the tracker sheet and being able to build dashboards and workflow has been quite valuable."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"It's very user friendly."
"This solution provides easy collaboration and allows non-building users to use the system without requiring a license."
"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."
"I felt like the slide publisher isn't that user-friendly. I think it wasn't that easy to use or to figure out because of formatting constraints, or maybe we need to get better at understanding some of its limitations."
"One specific area for improvement could be implementing a development environment to test workflows with live production data."
"If I start customizing too many things, Clarizen tends to get really slow in our environment and especially if I'm tunneled in an environment, like if I'm connected to my VPN."
"It could be more user-friendly. I think it is too overwhelming, initially, in terms of possibilities and so on."
"With a large quantity of data, the solution lags a bit."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly, it needs improvement."
"It already has a really powerful Export to Excel feature, but it can have an Excel add-on. The way to set up single sign-on wasn't too easy in the beginning, and it was hard to get hold of customer service. They should make it easier to set up SSO. Smartsheet's customer service also definitely needs to be improved."
"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."
"The main challenge with Smartsheet is that when you start putting components on the Smartsheet dashboard, they don't know about each other. So, if I filter something in one widget, or if I click on a region or a project ID, the other widget or component and the visualization that's on that dashboard don't change. It doesn't know about the other component."
"I'd like to see them add more features to their automation."
"The integration with Microsoft products should be improved."
"The system can become more challenging to use in more complex scenarios, requiring additional add-ons that can be quite costly."
Planview AdaptiveWork is ranked 21st in Project Management Software with 8 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 5th in Project Management Software with 34 reviews. Planview AdaptiveWork is rated 7.8, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Planview AdaptiveWork writes "Has resources management and timesheets but could be more flexible". 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". Planview AdaptiveWork is most compared with Planview PPM Pro, Broadcom Clarity and Jira, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com and Adobe Workfront. See our Planview AdaptiveWork vs. Smartsheet report.
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