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 Project
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Smartsheet is a purpose-built Intelligent Work Management platform that unites people, data, and AI to accelerate enterprise execution.
More modern tool
Microsoft is retiring Microsoft Project Online and has very limited investment in the other Microsoft Project tools.
With Smartsheet’s intuitive interface, it is adopted widely within the organization, encourages collaboration and removes productivity siloes.
Easier to use and collaborate
Microsoft Project is very complex to learn and cumbersome to maintain.
Smartsheet reports are available to all users, and full dashboard functionality is available to Business and Enterprise Plans without additional investment.
More accessible reporting
Project offers some basic reports and dashboards, but advanced charts require higher paid licenses or a paid subscription to Microsoft PowerBI.
Smartsheet allows you to automate updates, requests, reports, and other repetitive processes with automated workflows.
Built-in automation
Project offers basic automated features like dependent dates but requires Microsoft Power Automate to create critical time-saving automations within Project 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.