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."The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is easy to understand and navigate."
"It can scale well."
"The scheduling and the customization are very powerful."
"SharePoint site integration"
"We use Microsoft Project Server for project management."
"It's stable and reliable."
"It's fine to navigate for a layperson."
"A single place for all our organisation's project records."
"The dashboard and the layouts are quite good."
"The management aspect is the most valuable. You can also prioritize tasks and then view tasks by priorities as passports."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"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."
"Enables coordination and sharing of information that is relatively inexpensive."
"The tool reduces manual labour and it is user-friendly."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is its intuitiveness, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"The solution should be made more collaborative."
"Project Server could be improved by simplifying how tasks are assigned and reviewed on a daily basis."
"Permission management needs improvement."
"In terms of tech support, it took a long time for them to resolve a ticket."
"We want to expand to the local level where we lack strong IT expertise, we are considering making it more user-friendly."
"It appears that Microsoft's primary goal is to migrate as much functionality as possible from the legacy on-premises Microsoft Project Server to the new cloud-based Power Apps solution."
"Collaboration within the tool is lacking when you compare it to online or cloud-based tools."
"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."
"I'd like to see them add more features to their automation."
"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."
"The product must include more modules for project management."
"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."
"Areas for improvement in Smartsheet include better integration capabilities with other technologies through APIs and addressing limitations in reporting functionalities."
"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."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"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."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 25 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 26 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while Smartsheet is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Project Server writes "Complex and less user-friendly interface, frequent technical issues, and slower speed compared to other project management tools". 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 Knovos eZManage, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, Spreadsheet.com, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Adobe Workfront and monday.com. See our Microsoft Project Server vs. Smartsheet report.
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