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Planview AdaptiveWork vs Smartsheet comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

No sentiment score available
Sentiment score
7.3
Smartsheet streamlines operations, reduces administrative tasks, enhances collaboration, and boosts productivity with an easy-to-use, cost-effective interface.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.1
Planview AdaptiveWork excels in customer service with prompt support, effective resolution, and informative monthly meetings on new features.
Sentiment score
7.4
Smartsheet's customer support is praised for responsiveness and resources but criticized for ticket tracking and lacks phone/chat options.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
Planview AdaptiveWork is scalable for medium to large enterprises, supporting thousands of users with potential customization growth.
Sentiment score
7.6
Smartsheet excels in scalability and integration but faces challenges with large tasks, depending on user proficiency and adoption.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Planview AdaptiveWork is stable and reliable, with responsive support resolving issues quickly despite occasional slowdowns during peak usage.
Sentiment score
8.1
Users praise Smartsheet's stability and reliability, noting minor issues that don't significantly affect their overall satisfaction.
 

Room For Improvement

Planview AdaptiveWork faces challenges with reporting, user adoption, and customization, requiring better graphical elements and user interfaces.
Smartsheet requires UI improvements, better integrations, enhanced functionality, and increased user-friendliness, with superior training and support.
 

Setup Cost

Smartsheet offers flexible pricing with various plans, seen as cost-effective compared to competitors, with customizable features and support.
 

Valuable Features

Planview AdaptiveWork offers project visibility, customizable workflows, reporting, and collaboration tools to enhance productivity and decision-making.
Smartsheet excels with cloud accessibility, real-time collaboration, and robust integrations, offering customizable project management and intuitive interfaces.
 

Categories and Ranking

Planview AdaptiveWork
Ranking in Project Management Software
18th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Smartsheet
Ranking in Project Management Software
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Project Portfolio Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Planview AdaptiveWork is 1.7%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Smartsheet is 5.2%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

VishalSingh11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Has resources management and timesheets but could be more flexible
Compared to Broadcom Clarity, there was some flexibility with blueprints, etc. You can create a blueprint for different business groups or different customers. Planview AdaptiveWork doesn't have something like that. If they can build up something like a view price. It's still a traditional way where you have to create different instances for different customers. The PPM solution uses queries if I'm rolling out for different divisions. In that case, I have to create different instances for each region because each division may have a different look and feel. But if I have a blueprint, then it's very convenient. I can create multiple interfaces for different processes. Broadcom Clarity has some access control on those viewpoints.
Asma Ali - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use, simple to set up, and great for non co-located environments
At one point we were trying to use it to organize a curriculum for students to just have the weekly stuff. We kind of ran into trouble doing this. It's not really designed for that. What we were trying to do is give them a real-time syllabus with pre-readings and activities and stuff embedded. It ended up getting really complicated. They also had access, and while there’s probably a way to not give them access, I didn’t know how to set that. I just wanted to let them download. It got complex. It wasn’t just people updating what they were working on. It was something else and it didn’t work. If there was some way to store more complex files in the system, or if there was a back-end structure where you could store files, that would be ideal. We use Box to store recordings, for example, of sessions and stuff. We’d like to store it in this solution. We already integrate Smartsheet into Teams for updates and stuff. That works well.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
63%
Computer Software Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Educational Organization
43%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
6%
Government
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Planview AdaptiveWork?
The feature that has improved our project planning the most is the ability to create custom workflows, which allows us to automate manual tasks that project managers need to perform. The collaborat...
What needs improvement with Planview AdaptiveWork?
One specific area for improvement could be implementing a development environment to test workflows with live production data.
What advice do you have for others considering Planview AdaptiveWork?
Integration with other tools can sometimes be a hiccup, but this isn't necessarily a limitation of Planview AdaptiveWork. It's more often a result of company policies regarding integration with oth...
Has anyone moved from Microsoft Project to Smartsheet? How has your experience been with Smartsheet?
Hi @Eire Zimmermann, I helped an organization evaluate both MS-Project and Smartsheet when they were conducting their PM tool RFP. The short of it is this, MS Project is not caught up with the mo...
What do you like most about Smartsheet?
The tool creates shareable dashboards. These dashboards allow us to display project deliverables' status, their position in the queue, expected delivery timelines, and more. The best part is that t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Smartsheet?
The pricing is great and reasonable enough that I maintained my copy and bought it for my team independently.
 

Also Known As

Planview Clarizen
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Sample Customers

Cisco Capital, JLL, Conagra Brands, Cargill, JLL, IBM, IIROC, Siemens Energy
Sony Music, ESPN, Hilton, Unisource, Colliers, Extreme Networks, Groupon, Netflix
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