We performed a comparison between Broadcom Clarity and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Portfolio Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Being able to look at the data across team members, resources, projects and coming up with the algorithms and resources."
"The new UI makes it easier for people to go in there and know what to do. To train people, it's faster, more intuitive."
"The most valuable features of Broadcom Clarity PPM are demand, project, and product management."
"Visibility to where we are on projects. It tells someone where we are; if we're in trouble or not."
"Demand, Resource, Project Portfolio Management, for my business consulting services, PMO services to other clients."
"It makes the whole lifecycle of project management a lot easier than using the legacy systems, which we are retiring every few months because of PPM."
"The product is flexible."
"Being able to track all of the projects with all of the details of those projects, and being able to move projects along from a process perspective, that is really beneficial."
"To me, one of the most powerful features of Smartsheet is being able to email others."
"The solution has subtasks and a rollup."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is it can be highly customized."
"Smartsheet does a really good job of creating Gantt charts. Export to Excel feature was also very useful."
"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."
"Smartsheet is easy to use."
"This solution provides easy collaboration and allows non-building users to use the system without requiring a license."
"The solution is scalable."
"I want to see integration for SMS functionality."
"I think there's still a little bit of opportunity that we can do some stuff better in relation to the financial part of it; just that easier integration, that look and feel. Our project managers, and obviously finance people, love to interface and use of Excel. The more we can get CA PPM to behave in a similar way, which we're already starting to gain in that path, will be absolutely fantastic."
"One of the limitations would be mapping our current agile processes in the same tool set without obviously integrating to a different type of tool set within the same portfolio."
"We see it as overhead. Let us collect all the data in one place. Which, it is always nice to have everything in one place, but it does cause that overhead."
"Reporting is not good as they keep on changing reporting environment."
"I would like to see more team-based management, and less people-based management; as far as the resource management goes, to do it per team and not per person."
"Whenever that second instance of Clarity came about, it was overwhelming even to people who were accustomed to working with program management tools."
"It should be integrated with CA Service Desk Manager so that, when you have time for a ticket or when someone gets assigned a ticket, in PPM it automatically shows that they have to account for that: that they would both enter time in the past and, also, that this is going to take them time in the future."
"They provide a limited number of sheets which is not enough."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"Smartsheet's export and print functions could be more seamless. Once I create the plan in Smartsheet, I need to import it into my corporate web presentations. This isn't always smooth. I have to save it in PDF format, then cut an image from the PDF version."
"I would like if Smartsheet allowed more formulas in its sheets. I don't think working with formulas is as intuitive as it is in Excel. I use Vlookups and index matches in some of my sheets, and I had to find an outside consultant to help me build out those formulas."
"The downside of Smartsheet is that there are some security concerns. We were able to restrict people from sharing sheets with anyone who was not in our domain, but it could be easier. We also found it hard to restrict certain user groups from adding attachments to sheets."
"The product must include more modules for project management."
"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."
"Smartsheet could improve the UI and integrations. Some of Smartsheet's competitors have more than 2,000 integrations while Smartsheet only has approximately 40 integration applications."
Broadcom Clarity is ranked 2nd in Project Portfolio Management with 136 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 33 reviews. Broadcom Clarity is rated 8.0, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Broadcom Clarity writes "A dynamic solution with a lot of great out-of-the-box calculations, but integration with reporting utilities is a bit painful". 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". Broadcom Clarity is most compared with Microsoft Project, Jira, Planview Portfolios, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and monday.com, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and Teamwork . See our Broadcom Clarity vs. Smartsheet report.
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