Smartsheet vs. Planview AdaptiveWork

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 AdaptiveWork
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Smartsheet features a familiar grid format that's easy to use and configure, plus includes free training. Smartsheet can be used by anyone in the organization, no matter the technical skill level.

End-User Adoption

AdaptiveWork has such an extremely complex feature set which can add complications to user adoption and can be difficult to navigate.

In Smartsheet, teams are able to create custom views and projects to customize their work management structure.

More Flexible

AdaptiveWork is generally restrictive in its UI and project creation with a complicated set of required fields that make it difficult to customize.

Smartsheet reports and dashboards are fully customizable to roll up key information across projects, or act as a central team portal.

More Insightful Reporting

With AdaptiveWork, teams are limited to pre-configured reports, diagrams, and charts with little ability to create custom views of reporting if users want their own project or team dashboards.

Smartsheet will create a customized solution for your unique business needs delivering 680% return on investment over three years, seeing payback in less than six months.

Time to Value

Organizations face a lengthy implementation process with AdaptiveWork.

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. 

✔ 97% of users rated it 4 or 5 stars

✔  92% of users believe it is headed in the right direction

✔  Users said they would be likely to recommend Smartsheet at a rate of 90%

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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.

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