Smartsheet vs Dynamics 365 Comparison

Sharing information with team members and clients

Integration with Office 365 could be enhanced

It basically does everything that Microsoft Project does but it is significantly cheaper. It also has helpful visual dynamics that you give you a brief overview of how each project is doing.

They license per-user which can become tedious when you have various people coming in and out of various projects.

The collaboration features and reminders make this an incredible tool for collaborative sheets. Inviting people to edit certain cells means that you can manage a project without having to worry about unwanted changes.

Smartsheet doesn't integrate well with Office 365 or Google Workspace, making it very difficult to make the switch from the included software suite.

With Smartsheet, I am able to create and assign tasks automatically. Tracking time and expenses on projects is also at breeze for 24/7/365.

Smartsheet has proven to be a real-game changer since it has zero errors at the moment.

For now I'm on the free trial but I've already been very pleased with what it offers and I can log in with my Microsoft 365 which makes my life a lot easier

good I'm still testing more until now everything is very excellent very simple and practical in the paid versions I believe it will be much better for sure

I really like how straight forward the interface and navigation is with smartsheet. The support articles and forums are really helpful in getting new users acclimated to the smartsheet environment.

I find that the cost is a bit high given the fact that there are limitations to the program. I can get an Office 365 subscription with Excel for cheaper than their monthly individual user pricing.

We are a video production company. Our small business needed software that could manage numbers, tasks and information in an affordable, user-friendly, sharable format. We get the muscle of spreadsheets with broad functionality for our office manager, multifaceted task management versatility of visually-rich Gantt charts for our producers, real-time multi-user file sharing, and the ability to access our projects and information remotely on location via our smartphones. We can create forms to amass customer information at trade shows; share files or sections of documents with clients; add photos, links, and conversations to ongoing tasks; and set important files up to be automatically backed up. Smartsheet is the busy creative team's dream!

On the very rare occasion that there is a server issue and the software is down, we whine like petulant children. We have come to rely on Smartsheet as it puts everything at our fingertips 24/7/365. We are spoiled and we know it!

Feature rich product in an easy to use the frame. Subscription services for software are a very effective way to get tools into the hands of businesses quickly.

Cost

- Easy to track work tasks, the time it takes to complete them and the ability to collaborate with team members -Streamlined tool, easy to use right away and see an immediate impact -Add ons for Office 365 which makes sending emails to a work task steamlined

At times it could be more robust with some of its offerings, but in contrast the straightforward ability to use this work management tool is a welcomed attribute. Programs can become too complex that users aren't willing to spend 4 hours just learning how to use them. SmartSheet is a great tool that can be used by anyone.

Initially the collaboration features were a draw. Being able to request updates from other team members was helpful. There are some additional features beyond standard Excel / Google sheets, such as reporting and visualizations such as gantt charts.

Unfortunately most of the time we were using functionality that was already present in Excel / Google. Once Office 365 came around, there really wasn't a lot of justification for continuing to us Smartsheet. There are some diehards in the company that swear by it, however for my use case, it wasn't as meaningful.

-Extremely flexible tool for Project Management -Doesn't seem to be a limit to what you can use it for -Allows individuals and teams to work on projects together - keeping everyone up to date -Integrates well with Office 365 -Permissions are very flexible - able to give different users different access to view/edit

-Can't format in cell -Notifications seem to be delayed -Attachments aren't easily visible in the sheet

None that I know of. We didn’t end up using the software after all the demo because they were not well suited for our needs.

Heavy on the sales side. The smart sheet team had convinced my marketing team this was a replacement for MS project. I had to save them from making this decision as it’s not even close. Lacking in security and integration with office 365. Data can not be extracted making it difficult to get out of once started.

We love the mobile app! It has come in handy so often. The ability to assign tasks to different individuals works well for us so that we can see when that task is completed. The fact that it integrates with Office 365 allows us to sync reminders and documents and share them with other members of the team working on the same project.

The maintenance can be a pain, even though you are warned ahead of time. Still, we do a lot of our work on the weekends and have to schedule around the maintenance. It’s a little difficult because it can last several hours, but again, they let you know ahead of time. As another reviewer mentioned, an autosave option would be a helpful tool, especially with more than one person working on a project at the same time.

The fact it is cloud based and works well on mobile devices is a big plus. It offers a lot of functionality but is simple to use as is works a lot like spreadsheet software for the user. It also integrates with Office 365, to allow sharing of links and projects. There are alerts and conditional rules to help you manage your projects stages and progress.

The reporting is paid for only. Unfortunately it is also not worth the price. It lacks some of the capability of Excel and Project, but is not priced like those products. Customer service i good and there is clearly good development work going on, with new features coming out on a regular basis.

Cloud based - available everywhere to everyone Flexibility - it's not only a project management tool, it can do most things that Excel can do, but often better. Specifically column formulae are a fantastic recent addition that enables sheets to become almost unbreakable

Nothing major. There are some minor gripes: - Slack integration doesn't allow tagging of individuals, and cannot allow a variable to determine which channel to send the message to - Cannot yet control heirarchy with formulae, I hope this function will come eventually

We are able to manage information sharing with various internal and external partners. For example, we use this with our external auditors and we have conversations about specific workbook submissions and can easily make them aware of updates and needed adjustments. We also use this internally to communicate across teams and departments. Finance shares selected information with users who generally would not be able to pull that information without them needing to ask for it or be pointed to it.

It is not always easy to find out how to do something or learn how to use formulas. It shares some similarities with Excel and Google Sheets in that regard, but differs enough to where instructions are sometimes needed. I also wish that tabs were an option in the workbooks. I know we can use filters instead, but sometimes a separate tab is the better option.

SmartSheet allows individuals and teams to work projects together, plotting milestones and critical paths, tracking tasks, creating alerts, and using gantt charts to quickly view how various team members are allocated and intersect. It does a good job of integrating with Office 365, allowing you to share links to files in OneDrive and to Skype within SmartSheet. The revamped interface makes it closer...

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The reporting functionality we paid extra for is a joke. Instead, we've resorted to pulling data into Microsoft's Power BI to create reports and visualize data. And like many other Cloud-based services, there's a core product and then tiers of functionality that cost significantly more. Smartsheet is a capable product, but I'm frankly unsure it's cost is justified by its maturity. I've had the feeling I've been paying for what's coming, not for what's already there. But since we've invested in it, I guess we'll stay the course.

SmartSheet is a good project management tool that has an interface similar to Excel. Pros: 1. Multiple Project Views - Project managers will appreciate the multiple viewing options such as Gannt and Kanban, standard spreadsheet and even a calendar view. Many options for different managers. 2. If Spreadsheets are your thing, SmartSheet is worth a try - If you and your team use spreadsheets a lot,...

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There is not a lot to gripe about SmartSheets other than on occasion, the app can lag or suffer an error and finding what error it is and how to fix it can be a little frustrating. There is a limitation with exporting reports. If you want to display data in a visual way, you may need to manually extract the data and then add it into another application. If the reports feature could be improved and maybe export in a usable format it would be a solid winner.