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 customized workflows we can define are very valuable. JIRA's private projects is very useful as well. There are also a lot of plugins that they provide."
"Version management is the most valuable feature of JIRA Portfolio."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard where we can see all of our projects and apply filters to shortlist those projects."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Portfolio's best feature is integration with other JIRA products."
"The most valuable feature for me is the visualization and organizing of the tasks. We can have a pick, and then we can stick the multiple issues under that, and then we can again have a sort of hierarchical installation, and that's very useful."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"The tool helps us achieve more within the stipulated timeline and budget."
"Smartsheet is easy to use."
"To me, one of the most powerful features of Smartsheet is being able to email others."
"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."
"What I found most valuable in Smartsheet is its project customization feature. It's a great solution because you can add in your own WBS. You can see it in Jira style, Kanban, and you can even do Agile and Waterfall. Another feature that's valuable in the solution is when you have those connections, you have that API, you have a sandbox, and you can make a solution, it's a tremendous product because you can pull data."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"Smartsheet does a really good job of creating Gantt charts. Export to Excel feature was also very useful."
"It is a stable and scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is its intuitiveness, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"Some key features like integration, big data warehousing and data modeling need work."
"Converting a task into an epic is very troublesome."
"Our major team does not control or manage JIRA server well since sometimes there is trouble using the solution, which is a problem. The solution's speed needs to be improved."
"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 reporting and dashboard capabilities have room for improvement."
"We are using the on-premise deployment, but it is slower and not as easy to manage as the cloud version."
"We had to use assistance for the initial setup."
"If you want to generate a report for individual usage, it's difficult."
"They provide a limited number of sheets which is not enough."
"An area for improvement in Smartsheet is that if you're in the government or you're a regulated customer, you're not allowed to use APIs due to internal restrictions, so there are specific things that you cannot connect to it. Another area for improvement in the solution is that because there's a capacity of how many records you can have, and there's a capacity of how many functions you can apply, Smartsheet has set up their system where they can force people into purchasing a $20,000 additional module that is called Control Center, that will create documents for them on the fly, so they don't use so many functions and automation. Smartsheet also needs to improve on training, because the training that is out there is very little. The solution requires a steeper learning curve. You have to do your own training and you have to work on your own solution."
"I think it is all going to be about APIs in the future and I don't think Smartsheet is doing a lot in that regard. They have some integrations with Jira, but you have to pay for them."
"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'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."
"The system can become more challenging to use in more complex scenarios, requiring additional add-ons that can be quite costly."
"A room for improvement I found in Smartsheet is the view, as it's currently row-wise. I should have the opportunity to view a full scale, top down list instead of just a column driven list. I shouldn't have to go just left or right. I should be able to view it top down."
"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."
JIRA Portfolio is ranked 4th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 47 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Management Software with 33 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 Project Server, Adobe Workfront and Planview PPM Pro, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and QuickBase. See our JIRA Portfolio vs. Smartsheet report.
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