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 solution scales well."
"A single place for all our organisation's project records."
"It can scale well."
"The solution is scalable and easy to expand."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Microsoft Project Server is a scalable solution."
"We use Microsoft Project Server for project management."
"The usability is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is it can be highly customized."
"Smartsheet is stable."
"The ability to update in real-time before meetings is great."
"The most valuable features of Smartsheet are its collaboration tools, the ability to centralize and prioritize projects, and robust reporting capabilities."
"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 solution is scalable."
"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 reporting aspects can be improved, which is one of the reasons why I'm using Qlik Sense. In the older on-prem versions, reporting was lackluster, to say the least. Project Online has a better handle on that. However, we will still be using Qlik Sense. We're also looking at an add-on app from a company called OnePlan that adds some additional functionality where Microsoft is not as clean in its approach for things such as portfolio management and some of the trends analysis."
"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."
"This solution could improve by adding integration with Primavera schedules to allow the reading and management of them."
"I'd like it if we could divide out the project calendars. On one project server, we might follow five projects or more at one time, and we'd like to see all of the items at once so that it becomes a long loop, but one where we can identify different projects in tandem and then focus on which we need to at the time. While I only have visibility into one, I'd like to see several at a time."
"The cost could be lower."
"When we started using this solution from scratch, we got lost. Microsoft should provide some templates for configurations for certain use cases."
"It needs to be more collaborative from inside the application. It only does project scheduling for me. It would be good if it could do other things and be more collaborative, such as sharing tasks for users. It is not really incorporated into MS Office, so you can't copy-paste stuff. It is on its own, doing its own thing. It is only used for scheduling, and it doesn't work well with anything else."
"Stability of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"They should improve the solution's integration with API."
"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."
"With a large quantity of data, the solution lags a bit."
"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."
"The main challenge with Smartsheet is that when you start putting components on the Smartsheet dashboard, they don't know about each other. So, if I filter something in one widget, or if I click on a region or a project ID, the other widget or component and the visualization that's on that dashboard don't change. It doesn't know about the other component."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly, it needs improvement."
"Smartsheet could be improved to be a ticketing system. It would be nice to have a system to do everything."
"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."
Microsoft Project Server is ranked 6th in Project Portfolio Management with 55 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Portfolio Management with 32 reviews. Microsoft Project Server is rated 7.8, while Smartsheet is rated 8.0. 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 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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