We performed a comparison between Microsoft Project Server 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."Deliverables List: Most useful to enable meaningful status reporting at an enterprise level."
"It's fine to navigate for a layperson."
"The most valuable features are the gantt charts. It's easy to use for me."
"I like being able to manage the capacity in terms of the resources. I also like being able to share documents and information between teams. It's the best solution for collaboration."
"The key things are managing interactions, resource allocation, resource-leveling (enterprise) and as a collaborative tool, because we use it across multiple projects at a time."
"The most useful feature of Microsoft Project Server is you can select a function to see the baseline."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The ability to look at the resource loading is most valuable."
"It operates as an enhanced and versatile version of Excel, offering a wide range of capabilities that allow you to accomplish various tasks and operations."
"Smartsheet does a really good job of creating Gantt charts. Export to Excel feature was also very useful."
"The dashboard and the layouts are quite good."
"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."
"The tool creates shareable dashboards. These dashboards allow us to display project deliverables' status, their position in the queue, expected delivery timelines, and more. The best part is that these dashboards can be shared with our clients without a license."
"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."
"The dashboard feature is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The solution is scalable."
"There need to be more tutorials available to users."
"Work needs to be done on collaboration with SharePoint."
"It should be more agile and more flexible when it comes to customization."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"Microsoft Project Server's user interface is pretty average, and sometimes it can have bugs."
"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."
"The solution's desktop version is not compatible with the MacBook."
"The deployment aspect of the product is a bit tedious."
"They should improve the solution's integration with API."
"Smartsheet could improve by having seamless integration with Azure Board."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly, it needs improvement."
"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."
"It would be beneficial to enhance user-friendliness and make it less complex while maintaining its overall excellence as a product."
"The integration with Microsoft products should be improved."
"Smartsheet could be improved to be a ticketing system. It would be nice to have a system to do everything."
"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."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 33 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Provides holistic reporting and allows us to keep track of what's going on with projects". 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". Microsoft Project Server is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Planisware, Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management and JIRA Portfolio, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and monday.com. See our Microsoft Project Server vs. Smartsheet report.
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