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My Take on Smartsheet
What do you like best about the product?
I love how if I'm in the office and I don't know what the next days will bring, a pandemic, for example, and I end up working from home. I love how I can easily save and reopen on another computer at home with no issues.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much. I do not see any dislikes with this website.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet has been a real game-changer for me in my role at the SANS Institute. Here's how it's solving some key problems and benefiting me:
Streamlining Communication: Smartsheet serves as a centralized hub for collaboration. It has greatly improved communication within my team, especially as we work across different time zones between the Philippines and Australia/New Zealand. Updates, comments, and notifications keep everyone in the loop without the need for lengthy email chains.
Project Tracking: Tracking cyber security training projects across different regions can be complex. Smartsheet's project management features have made it much easier to monitor progress, identify bottlenecks, and ensure that we meet our deadlines.
Data Visualization: As a music enthusiast and DJ, I appreciate the visual aspect of Smartsheet. It allows me to create intuitive dashboards and charts to represent our training data. This makes it easier for me to present information to stakeholders, both in terms of my work and my passion for music.
Customization: Smartsheet's flexibility is a huge benefit. I can customize sheets and reports to fit the specific needs of different projects. It's like mixing tracks as a DJ; you have the tools to create your unique sound, and with Smartsheet, I can craft the perfect solution for each scenario.
Now, playing devil's advocate for a moment, it's worth noting that Smartsheet does require a bit of a learning curve, especially for those who aren't as tech-savvy. But once you get the hang of it, the benefits far outweigh any initial challenges.
Streamlining Communication: Smartsheet serves as a centralized hub for collaboration. It has greatly improved communication within my team, especially as we work across different time zones between the Philippines and Australia/New Zealand. Updates, comments, and notifications keep everyone in the loop without the need for lengthy email chains.
Project Tracking: Tracking cyber security training projects across different regions can be complex. Smartsheet's project management features have made it much easier to monitor progress, identify bottlenecks, and ensure that we meet our deadlines.
Data Visualization: As a music enthusiast and DJ, I appreciate the visual aspect of Smartsheet. It allows me to create intuitive dashboards and charts to represent our training data. This makes it easier for me to present information to stakeholders, both in terms of my work and my passion for music.
Customization: Smartsheet's flexibility is a huge benefit. I can customize sheets and reports to fit the specific needs of different projects. It's like mixing tracks as a DJ; you have the tools to create your unique sound, and with Smartsheet, I can craft the perfect solution for each scenario.
Now, playing devil's advocate for a moment, it's worth noting that Smartsheet does require a bit of a learning curve, especially for those who aren't as tech-savvy. But once you get the hang of it, the benefits far outweigh any initial challenges.
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Good for Project planning
What do you like best about the product?
Colaboration and tools available like the different views to understand the content better
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to save automatically, you can share with others but you have to wait until changes are saved and reload to do your piece
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project planning. It helps us keep our tasks and responsibilities organized as well as assigning different projects, responsibilities and track progress
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Nice tool that allows sharing with others and multiple views, keep in mind that real- time collaboration and automatic saving are not part of the deal as of now
Smartsheet - a complete document solution
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best is that it's similar to Excel with the cells, but superior in that you can save documents and index things so much more. This makes sharing documents far easier and makes it superior to, for example, Dropbox because you can index everything. Uploading and downloading documents is very easy, and can be done on computer, phone or tablet.
You can also have multiple sheets open at the same time, so no need to open and close different project sheet time and time again.
There are a lot of different features and templates that can be used, so you can have Gant chart programmes, assign works to specific people for specific reasons, create document control smartsheets, create financial smartsheets. These can be saved, and updated to suit additional works and at the end kept as a record on smartsheet.
You can also have multiple sheets open at the same time, so no need to open and close different project sheet time and time again.
There are a lot of different features and templates that can be used, so you can have Gant chart programmes, assign works to specific people for specific reasons, create document control smartsheets, create financial smartsheets. These can be saved, and updated to suit additional works and at the end kept as a record on smartsheet.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the sheets were easier to do sums in.
It would be helpful to be able to copy and past documents and lines to other sheets.
It would be helpful to be able to copy and past documents and lines to other sheets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We put together documentation for buliding sites, including manuals, Site forms and financial spreadsheets. Smartsheets allows for multiple sheets to be set up for projects, allowing for programming, task related programming, the transfer and saving od key documents such as drawings, mnauals, timesheets, and also the building of site manuals at the end.
This means wherever I am, I am able to access key project information on a laptop, tablet or even phone to ensure the works are up to date.
This means wherever I am, I am able to access key project information on a laptop, tablet or even phone to ensure the works are up to date.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Strongly recommended for those doing document control.
Excellent Project Management Software
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to link sheets, create automation and produce forms that will directly input info into the sheets.
What do you dislike about the product?
No transpose function and can't set a column to time format.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We started using Smartsheet to create Gantt charts for project schedules; this has now evolved into us using it as a full PM tool. This includes managing submittals, proofing documents, storing attachments against relevant line items, and resourcing as required to meet program.
SMARTSHEET
What do you like best about the product?
It works like excel, it uses similar references and formulas. Sheets can be linked to each other and update pretty quickly. I especially like to use Smartsheet when creating project timelines.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the notifications don't work correctly, and sometimes the page is slow. I have had an issue where i go to copy and paste something, and it pastes old data, so i have to refresh the page
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Project management and drawing revision tracker
Automation for Admin Process
What do you like best about the product?
The versatility of Smartsheet is the best
What do you dislike about the product?
Logic Formulas should allow more variables
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been able to automated HR processes as time off and vacation requests. Also We have implemented some automation in the hiring process for temporary staff members as we usually hire over 400 temporary staff members per quarter. An automated contract request process brought a lot of efficiency to the HR team making the hiring process easier for all of the areas of our organization. Other area tha has benefit a lot from our smartsheet implmentation is the Ops and Logistics. We have been able to automated several processes in Ops and Logistics department as "field visit resource request" and "emergency funds request". All of these automation have increased our Internal Control and now we are able to be more transparent by showing the organization information to different stakeholders through the use of the Dashboards. With the created Dashboards our audince can have access at a glance and on one site to all of our on the field operations and status of the HR processes. When as an organization we need to quickly collect information from a lot of people our go to is Smarsheet forms to capture that information. After the databases are feed by the forms we can analyze the data, this has made our decision making process more expedite.
Is a great way to schedule with a few downsides
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of seeing the critical path of all the projects. It is a great communication tool to estimate the time required for the project.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is hard to start a project calendar with the available templates. It is not intuitive to create the sheets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it primarily to communicate to upper management the status and lead time of all the projects that lead to the completion. It helps to see and visualize the requirements and why a specific date is expected.
SmartSheet is a part of what makes us Super
What do you like best about the product?
SmartSheet allows small team accomplish big goals by staying organzied and vigilant through multiple touchpoint and communication opportunites.
From a usage pursective, not everyone needs a seat to view the information which makes it an even more valueable tool for those that build.
From a usage pursective, not everyone needs a seat to view the information which makes it an even more valueable tool for those that build.
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve with SmartSheet is time-consuming and with turnover, it can be hard to ensure buy-in and usage during our billing cycles.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are automating for communication. Our teams are able to implement effective record-keeping and provide visual snapshot updates using dashboard.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are on a small team, SmartSheet is equipped to help maximize the productivity.
Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
Very versatile tools and views; easy to get started, good templates! This is honestly one of the easiest tools I have used to manage projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would be very helpful to build more robust timelines that are exportable to slides to present to clients. We have had to purchase other software for this. Some examples would be: roadmaps, customer facing timelines vs. gantt chart exports
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are running all of our client facing projects with Smartsheets.
Good for project planning collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
- collaborating online
- seeing who changed what cell, who accessed the document
- ability to send automatic reminders
- dashboarding on a project status
- ability to create automated tasks like sending an email when there's a new row entered (useful when you make an open portal where people can add a new request to the team)
- seeing who changed what cell, who accessed the document
- ability to send automatic reminders
- dashboarding on a project status
- ability to create automated tasks like sending an email when there's a new row entered (useful when you make an open portal where people can add a new request to the team)
What do you dislike about the product?
- the ways to present data is not always easy, especially if you want to make it a cardboard
- the different types of licensing sometimes make it confusing who can edit or not a file
- lacking some format automation when having children on a row, it needs a tweak to make a conditional formating
- formatting specific text within a cell is not possible without formatting the whole cell
- the gantt view is ugly, there really should be something done about this, cannot copy paste it in any presentation
- formulas are tricky to make, there are some things I really can't get a grasp of after 3 years using it still
- the different types of licensing sometimes make it confusing who can edit or not a file
- lacking some format automation when having children on a row, it needs a tweak to make a conditional formating
- formatting specific text within a cell is not possible without formatting the whole cell
- the gantt view is ugly, there really should be something done about this, cannot copy paste it in any presentation
- formulas are tricky to make, there are some things I really can't get a grasp of after 3 years using it still
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're doing project management tracking, showing statuses, RAIDs; it's easy to gather all project documents in the same folder in smartsheet.
It simplifies communication and collaboration
it tracks decisions taken
we know who works on what and their timeline
It simplifies communication and collaboration
it tracks decisions taken
we know who works on what and their timeline
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