Smartsheet vs. Airtable

Smartsheet, The Enterprise Work Management Platform, empowers collaboration and is the foundation for managing projects, programs, and processes that scale.

Comparison of select features offered by Smartsheet and Airtable
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Smartsheet allows for automated project creation, resource placeholders and global updates which can cascade across the entire portfolio.

Portfolio management

Rolling up projects into a portfolio view across multiple teams and departments is manual and time consuming given extra steps required to connect data across bases.

Portfolio reporting with Smartsheet is automated and has options to create tailored experiences.

Executive reporting

In Airtable there are ways to view your base’s data but there is no true reporting functionality that provides executives with a birds-eye view.

Smartsheet is highly flexible but intuitive enough for basic business users to innovate. Smartsheet is a Project Management Institute approved solution offering robust project management capabilities ...

Ease of use

Airtable is easy to use at the basic level but complex solutions require deep knowledge of the platform and are often time-consuming to maintain.

Smartsheet can support processes from simple project management to enterprise-level portfolio planning and will partner with you to ensure success.

Advanced project management

Airtable is good at process and item management but not considered a mature project management tool.

Smartsheet is #1 in Work Management

Smartsheet has the largest Market Presence and received the highest Satisfaction score among products in Work Management.

✔ 98% of users rated it 4 or 5 stars

✔ 94% of users believe it is headed in the right direction, and users said they would be likely to recommend Smartsheet at a rate of 92%

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Smartsheet is used by over 80% of the Fortune 500

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What is Smartsheet — and why is it different?

Smartsheet is the only platform that can scale from a single project to end-to-end work management, connecting business on a no-code, cloud-based platform where anyone can create the solution they need — backed by the control and security IT requires.

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Proven security

Smartsheet was built from the ground up with strict security requirements and protocols to secure your data, give you control of user access, and provide you with methods to safely share information inside and outside of your organization. Our world-class, multi-layer security includes continuous monitoring, physical security, data encryption, and user authentication.

Administration Controls

Best-in-class admin controls

Smartsheet provides the security, user management, and single sign-on capabilities necessary to manage work teams of 100 or 100,000. Both administrators and end users can create granular sharing permissions to control and protect their information. Admins can approve external domains, restrict integrations, and manage to internal standards.

Connect and extend

Automate mission-critical data by using embedded integrations and partner-built solutions - or build your own with our open API. The extensible Smartsheet API makes it possible to build custom applications and deep integrations with REST-based APIs to connect line-of-business systems

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Empower your business

With an intuitive UI, widget-driven dashboards, and configurable reports, organizations can customize their own workflows - without the need for technical support. Smartsheet empowers any user to build powerful work process automation with simple rules, and without complex formulas or a single line of code.

Once you use Smartsheet and you understand what it can do, it's amazing what the brain does. All of a sudden, you're coming up with ideas that you never had before because you were paralyzed by the fact that you didn't have a system. It's not just that you're developing these systems that are very transformational and drive productivity, but that you as an individual now open yourself up to think totally different. We're dreaming bigger than we ever have.

Ana Davis, Head of Health, Safety & Environment for Syngenta North America - Crop Protection