We performed a comparison between Planview AdaptiveWork and Smartsheet based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about monday.com, Microsoft, Asana and others in Project Management Software."Clarizen's strength is reporting. Aside from reporting, I also like the ability to create customized workflow and custom actions. The workflow rules are handy. For example, you can create custom fields and dependent picklists."
"The feature that has improved our project planning the most is the ability to create custom workflows, which allows us to automate manual tasks that project managers need to perform. The collaboration feature enhances our team's productivity by allowing individuals to see the impact of their decisions on projects owned and managed by other teams."
"Clarizen Slide Publisher has helped increase transparency and communication with project stakeholders for us."
"I like the project management solution. It's really nice."
"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."
"Their support is awesome. We are on an enterprise plan and there is a customer success at Smartsheet and anyone from our licensed users can just send an email to them and they respond as soon as possible."
"This solution provides easy collaboration and allows non-building users to use the system without requiring a license."
"The most valuable feature of Smartsheet is its intuitiveness, ease of use, and overall simplicity."
"Smartsheet is easy to use."
"The management aspect is the most valuable. You can also prioritize tasks and then view tasks by priorities as passports."
"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."
"The ability to update in real-time before meetings is great."
"One specific area for improvement could be implementing a development environment to test workflows with live production data."
"It could be more user-friendly. I think it is too overwhelming, initially, in terms of possibilities and so on."
"If I start customizing too many things, Clarizen tends to get really slow in our environment and especially if I'm tunneled in an environment, like if I'm connected to my VPN."
"I felt like the slide publisher isn't that user-friendly. I think it wasn't that easy to use or to figure out because of formatting constraints, or maybe we need to get better at understanding some of its limitations."
"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."
"We have to manually put in every dependency in Smartsheet."
"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."
"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."
"Maybe the solution could be a little bit more flexible."
"Lacks the ability to edit attachments within the solution."
"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."
Planview AdaptiveWork is ranked 21st in Project Management Software with 8 reviews while Smartsheet is ranked 4th in Project Management Software with 33 reviews. Planview AdaptiveWork is rated 7.8, while Smartsheet is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Planview AdaptiveWork writes "Has resources management and timesheets but could be more flexible". 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". Planview AdaptiveWork is most compared with Planview PPM Pro, Broadcom Clarity , Planview Portfolios, Jira and KeyedIn Projects, whereas Smartsheet is most compared with Microsoft Project, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, Spreadsheet.com, Adobe Workfront and monday.com.
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