Rally Software vs Smartsheet comparison

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We performed a comparison between Rally Software and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Rally Software

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

116

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (6th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (6th)

Smartsheet

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Portfolio Management (4th), Project Management Software (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Rally Software is 7.6%, up from 5.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Smartsheet is 0.1%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

Unique Categories:

Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

6.3%

Project Portfolio Management

5.7%

Project Management Software

3.2%

Featured Reviews

Shreenivas Dharwadkar

Sr Engineering Manager - Design Engineering at Baker Hughes

Apr 20, 2023

A solution that enables users to accurately estimate the time required for building large software projects

I don't have any specific suggestions for improvement regarding the solution because we are currently satisfied with all aspects. Our usage requirements are relatively straightforward, and we haven't encountered any significant challenges or complexities. Therefore, I don't have any valuable suggestions to provide at this time. I hear from some people that it could be customized, but they don't have details on how. Customization is possibly a desirable feature, and I don't know if it is available in the system. Customization features may not be exposed or unavailable, so people may be looking for them. So, customization is an area people have told me is more desirable.

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Natalija Prodanovic

Global IT PMO at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 1, 2022

Customizable, easy to use and cheap; needs more integrations

Smartsheet's initial setup is straightforward. There is not much to it. It's very simple from the user's perspective. We already have accounts, licenses, and users, and I assign license ownerships. They set everything up up for you. They give you the template page where you set up your landing page. Before assigning licenses, I send a form where they have to justify why they need a license because there is also a free version user account that they can use. I can have an unlimited number of people as users of Smartsheet, but I don't have to give them a license, which I think is a great advantage.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Reporting is much easier and faster than Micro Focus ALM, with CA AC built on web services... Also, the data is more granular when it comes to tasks, iterations, sprints, and releases."

"Helps me plan an estimate of how soon or how far out we'll be able to deliver something."

"The reporting, and being able to roll that up across the verticals, was an important selling point for us."

"What I like the most about Agile Central is that it is the only system I need to have full control and visibility of our entire body of work plus the activities and processes required to deliver it."

"It helps me evaluate teams' historical performance using velocity charts."

"The most valuable feature is actually creating a field within there for architectural review. So when teams are struggling or have questions on the architecture or strategy that they take, they can actually flag that particular story, release, or project. Those can then be reviewed by the architecture team and the teams actually get additional information on how to course-correct, build on the architecture that we're trying to build throughout the organization, and get over road blocks much quicker."

"Helps me determine how fast I can launch, go to production."

"It's designed around Agile, so it has all of the pieces that match up with the process."

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"The fact that you can have different access groups is definitely a pro for Smartsheet. It also has the ability to integrate with a lot of tools."

"Smartsheet is a really good tool for collaboration."

"For doing project plans what was really valuable is the ability to do a predecessor."

"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."

"The product is easy to use."

"The solution is straightforward. Whenever a requirement arises, we create three things in Smartsheet: a project plan, a dashboard, and internal documents. It is done through the form and Smartsheet's automation services. This process shortens the time to market from seven days to less than 12 hours."

"The solution is scalable."

"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."

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Cons

"The Reporting feature can improve, especially around executive summaries and dependency mapping."

"The product needs to have more integration capabilities."

"A lot of the features that we would be looking to add, I am learning may not be within Agile Central, but part of another CA tool set."

"I think there is a missing link with the development activity. Some developers are pushing in new versions of the code, but you cannot make the link from the user story to a specific application version."

"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."

"I think the interface could be a little bit more visual and less wordy. Right now, it seems like it's just a lot of text on the page. In other ticketing systems where it's more visual, you can see more of a flow. But in this one it's more just a list of tasks. I would like to see that a little bit better, especially considering it has so many great organizational features, like child tasks, different artifacts. It would be great to see it presented more appropriately."

"I would like for workspace admins to be able to hide projects in the Project Picker and not lose any historical data; make them invisible to certain users, visible to certain users, depending on permission sets. That would be lovely."

"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."

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"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."

"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."

"They should improve the solution's integration with API."

"The long-term timelines could be improved, especially the visuals on the projection Gantt chart."

"They provide a limited number of sheets which is not enough."

"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."

"With a large quantity of data, the solution lags a bit."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"From a price point, it's a cost effective solution for our needs."

"It is expensive and may not be worthwhile for a small company."

"We are always looking for a discount, if the solution was less expensive it would be a benefit."

"I understand it's a little more expensive. That is why many people prefer Jira."

"The license costs are fairly high as compared to some of the other solutions out there."

"Rally Software costs $50 a month, and for a base account, that price is acceptable."

"Frankly, pricing is expensive and needs to be carefully planned for when budgeting."

"The solution is too expensive."

"The solution is expensive."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"There's a license for Smartsheet, and the enterprise plan comes down to about $750. My company also pays an extra $60 monthly apart from the standard licensing fee."

"There's a trial version and a free version. Each license costs a decent amount, $25 per month or something."

"Its licensing is on a yearly basis. I was responsible for negotiating the price with the Smartsheet team, but I don't remember what the price was. Its standard license probably was around 5,000 to 6,000 a year. The enterprise version is significantly more expensive."

"Smartsheet only requires licenses for project managers. When we were using Asana, we had to purchase a license for everyone who wanted to access their tasks and use the system. That gets costly fast. It was one of the main reasons we left Asana. As Asana and these other tools scale, they become way more expensive."

"This licensing is straightforward and they charge per user."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

78%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

36%

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Healthcare Company

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Rally Software?

We have teams come and go all the time. We have teams in India, America, Ireland, Poland, Italy, England... we are spread out everywhere! Rally is our key tool for scrum planning and our single so...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rally Software?

Rally Software costs $50 a month, and for a base account, that price is acceptable.

What needs improvement with Rally Software?

It is hard to track the changes. For example, we're in sprint 25, and then we have 26, 27, 28, and 29. Throughout that whole time, we're developing pipelines in Azure, moving to GitHub, creating pi...

Has anyone moved from Microsoft Project to Smartsheet? How has your experience been with Smartsheet?

Hi @Eire Zimmermann, I helped an organization evaluate both MS-Project and Smartsheet when they were conducting their PM tool RFP. The short of it is this, MS Project is not caught up with the mo...

What do you like most about Smartsheet?

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 t...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Smartsheet?

The solution's pricing is not bad. I think it's a fair price for the amount of work you can do with it. I pay $ 120 or $ 128 a month for two to three users.

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Overview

With Rally Software, you can plan, prioritize, manage, track, and continuously improve your work so that you can deliver the value that your customers need with speed, quality, and efficiency. Our enterprise-class Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS platform provides visibility into progress, roadblocks, and dependencies across multiple teams, projects, and programs. This allows you to align to your strategic goals and create better business results, and to do it all in a single system of record.

Smartsheet is the enterprise platform for dynamic work. A leading cloud-based platform for work management, Smartsheet empowers organizations and teams to dynamically plan, execute, and report on work at scale, resulting in more efficient processes, innovative solutions, and better business outcomes.

Today over 90% of Fortune 100 companies and over 75% of Fortune 500 companies rely on the secure, scalable Smartsheet platform to connect the entire enterprise. The single Smartsheet platform gives people a solution flexible enough to adapt to the changing needs of dynamic work across a broad array of departments and use cases.

Sample Customers

Physicians Mutual, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, Editora Abril, Tata Communications, Level 3 Communications, Seagate, TomTom, Philips, Hiscox, Physicians Mutual, MYOB

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