A robust Microsoft Flow alternative (now Microsoft Power Automate)
User friendly. Enterprise ready.
3 million users. 190 countries.
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Smartsheet is an online, collaborative work execution platform that saves you time on repetitive manual processes with powerful work automation capabilities. Compared to MS Power Automate (MS Flow), Smartsheet excels in flexibility, shareability, user experience, visibility, and price.
Built-in automation
Automate updates, requests, reports, and more with Smartsheet.
Smartsheet, an all-in-one work management and automation platform, allows you to automate manual processes within the context of your most high-value business processes and projects.
Microsoft Power Automate relies on your other applications to become powerful. It has a flexible automation configuration, but requires a thorough understanding of any connected apps and is not a stand-alone tool.
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
Unlimited shareability
Share with both internal and external stakeholders, free.
Smartsheet allows you to send update requests to anyone with an email address, regardless of whether or not they are a Smartsheet user. Set permission levels to determine what information they have access to and modify these settings at any time.
Microsoft Power Automate can send and receive messages to users outside of your organization, but access to the underlying data or platform needs to be configured separately and users must have a Microsoft ID to modify any data.
Better user experience
Smartsheet has flexible views so teams can work more effectively.
Smartsheet is a comprehensive tool for managing work and automating workflows. It has an intuitive interface that makes it easy to use.
Microsoft Power Automate is a workflow automation engine that can have a steep learning curve for less tech-savvy users.
Improved visibility
Edit Smartsheet dashboards with drag and drop widgets.
With Smartsheet, you can visualize your project in four flexible views, create custom reports, and aggregate multi-project data into dashboards, giving visibility into project and program status at a glance.
Microsoft Power Automate gives a view of all of the flows you’ve created, but dashboarding and data aggregation requires separate visualization tools.
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
Affordable pricing
Smartsheet automation comes with every multi-user plan at no extra cost, giving you a full work management platform with powerful dashboards at one reasonable cost.
Microsoft Power Automate needs to be combined with Exchange, Project, SharePoint, and Excel to do what Smartsheet does, resulting in a costly suite of tools.
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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.