The Smartsheet platform allows you to collaborate, manage, and report on work in real time, automate workflows, and deploy new processes at scale.
Comparison of select features offered by Smartsheet and Microsoft Planner
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Smartsheet is an intuitive solution that allows all users to build and manage both highly complex and simple projects in the same tool.
Better Project Online replacement
Planner can work for small projects but is not suitable for teams looking for true project management.
Smartsheet reports are available to all users, and full dashboard functionality is available to Business and Enterprise Plans without additional investment.
Easier reporting
Planner offers some basic reports and dashboards, but advanced charts require higher paid licenses or a paid subscription to Microsoft PowerBI.
With Smartsheet, teams manage thousands of projects and portfolios.
More scalable
Planner is very limited in scale for the amount of tasks and projects you can manage.
Smartsheet allows you to automate updates, requests, reports, and other repetitive processes with automated workflows.
Built-in automation
Planner offers basic automated features like dependent dates but requires Microsoft Power Automate to create critical time-saving automations within Planner and between other tools.
Smartsheet is #1 in Project and Portfolio Management
Smartsheet has the largest Market Presence and received the highest Satisfaction score among products in Project and Portfolio Management.
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.
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.
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
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
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.