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 most valuable features of Jira are the dashboards where we see all the features lined up with the release dates in the portfolio view, it is very good."
"The way to manage cards as a KANBAN, is really easy but when you need to track hundreds of projects, you need to be very clear in which way the things must be completed."
"The solution includes good and fast notifications for other project team members."
"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."
"The developers can simplify tasks and each one of them can undertake a task and then they continue with development. Our processes are more efficient and easier for our manager and developers to track them. Their work is more organized."
"The solution is very stable."
"The valuable features of the JIRA Portfolio are the customization it provides which is very useful and the Agile project management capability."
"With JIRA, you can do amazing things by developing connectors, embedding features, and adding new fields to create new things."
"The most valuable features of Smartsheet are its collaboration tools, the ability to centralize and prioritize projects, and robust reporting capabilities."
"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."
"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 management aspect is the most valuable. You can also prioritize tasks and then view tasks by priorities as passports."
"The ability to update in real-time before meetings is great."
"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."
"It's very user friendly."
"It would be really nice if the solution provided a heads-up every time they enhance something or add new features."
"The product could do with more flexible reporting."
"n the next version I would like to see better reporting and safer plugins, as well as easier scalability."
"Their interface is a little unique and I think that's partly because the core of the product has morphed into several sub-products, but the underlying architecture has stayed the same on all of them in that it was originally a help desk ticketing system. It's a very tech-focused product and that's fair given its origins, but if they really want to expand their community of users, then they're going to have to move beyond that a little bit and polish it up."
"It's got kind of a steep learning curve."
"We had to use assistance for the initial setup."
"The automation in JIRA Portfolio could improve, it takes some time. We have to do some other tactics to have the same integration. Manually integrating something will take more work than if it was automated, but the automation scripting in the solution is not simple."
"With Jira, an issue that arises is the length of time it takes to show certain data."
"Smartsheet needs to improve the user interface."
"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."
"I'd like to see them add more features to their automation."
"Asana has a modern look and feel, particularly its agile project management interface featuring movable cards between columns."
"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."
"You were forced to create a new tab rather than add another sheet."
"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."
"They should improve the solution's integration with API."
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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