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Smartsheet is an online work management platform designed in a familiar spreadsheet format, offering superior capabilities in work management, collaboration, visibility, accessibility, and seamless integrations compared to Excel.
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Effortlessly create and modify Gantt charts with Smartsheet.
Smartsheet has flexible views to display data including grid, card (Kanban), Gantt, and calendar, empowering teams to work together with agility, speed, and accountability.
Excel is limited to a grid view, which makes it difficult to plan, track, and report on key workflows.
Smartsheet met our needs for a platform that would serve the whole company, including support of BYOD and mobility for employees. We've also proven that you don't always need a large-scale project management system. A spreadsheet-based system becomes powerful because it is easy for employees to use.
Nate McBride
CIO, AMAG
Improved collaboration
Automate updates, requests, reports, and more with Smartsheet.
Smartsheet is an online platform with the power to share work, attach details, and automate alerts, creating one location to access and collaborate on projects in real time.
In Excel, version control quickly becomes an issue because updates to data do not happen real-time.
It's been a tremendous help for me when I'm reporting to the executive team. I can easily show the task lists that demonstrate that the team has thought through every detail for each event. Plus anyone on the management team can drill down, and view documents at any time if they want to find out what we're doing.
Lisa Kudukis
Director of Professional Products and Services, BEHR
Better visibility
Create a dashboard for multiple projects with drag and drop widgets.
Smartsheet reports and dashboards are fully customizable to roll up key information across projects. Full version history captures changes and enables auditing.
Excel online does not have the functionality to roll up data for projects across multiple workbooks. Providing visibility into the "big picture" is a manual process.
The type of work that is managed within the organization is broad - ranging from donor outreach and event planning to the construction of homes. Smartsheet enables us to stay informed at all times.
Brian Juntti
Director of Marketing and Communications, Habitat for Humanity
Accessibility for all
Share with both internal and external stakeholders.
In Smartsheet, work can be shared with an unlimited number of free internal and external stakeholders that can access it from anywhere, on any device.
Sharing in Excel can be confusing and not all features are fully supported. Excel allows for co-authoring, but has limited features for managing work.
More integrations
Smartsheet has twelve O365 integrations and many others, including Salesforce, Jira, DocuSign, Google, Box, Dropbox, and more.
Excel has integrations with Power BI and Azure but limited connection with other O365 applications.
With Smartsheet for JIRA now, all of our reports are in one place. It's really helped with a lot of the redundancy that I was facing.
Natalie Pohorski
Director of Production, Creative Kingdoms
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See a head-to-head comparison of Microsoft Excel and Smartsheet
Discover how these two tools compare across five factors, including: work management, collaboration, visibility, accessibility, and integrations.
Smartsheet met our needs for a platform that would serve the whole company, including support of BYOD and mobility for employees. We've also proven that you don't always need a large-scale project management system. A spreadsheet-based system becomes powerful because it is easy for employees to use.
It's been a tremendous help for me when I'm reporting to the executive team. I can easily show the task lists that demonstrate that the team has thought through every detail for each event. Plus anyone on the management team can drill down, and view documents at any time if they want to find out what we're doing.
The type of work that is managed within the organization is broad - ranging from donor outreach and event planning to the construction of homes. Smartsheet enables us to stay informed at all times.
With Smartsheet for JIRA now, all of our reports are in one place. It's really helped with a lot of the redundancy that I was facing.
