Smartsheet
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Sharesheet for Academic Research
What do you like best about the product?
Smartsheet offers an adaptable platform that supports the complex organizational needs of academic research. Its spreadsheet-like interface makes it easy to learn while offering advanced project management features such as Gantt charts, automated workflows, and task dependencies. For research teams, Smartsheet provides a centralized space to track milestones, manage data collection timelines, coordinate manuscript preparation, and monitor grant deadlines. Collaboration is a particular strength—multiple users can edit in real time, add comments, and attach files, ensuring that data, notes, and updates are accessible to the entire team. Integrations with tools like Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, and cloud storage services also streamline communication and document sharing. For academic researchers juggling multiple projects, collaborators, and deadlines, Smartsheet helps transform unstructured work into clear, trackable progress. It reduces reliance on scattered spreadsheets and email threads, ultimately improving accountability and efficiency.
What do you dislike about the product?
While Smartsheet is a powerful tool for organizing research projects, there are some drawbacks for academic use. The cost of a subscription can be a barrier compared to free alternatives, and setting up advanced features comes with a learning curve that may feel excessive for smaller teams. Smartsheet is also not designed for data-heavy tasks like statistical analysis or reproducible workflows, meaning other tools are still required for core research activities. Its reliance on internet access can be limiting, and collaboration with external partners may be inconvenient if they need accounts or licenses. Finally, version control is less robust than platforms like GitHub or Overleaf, which can be frustrating when managing manuscripts or code.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet helps me organize complex research projects in one place, making it easier to track deadlines, coordinate with collaborators, and keep everything moving forward efficiently.
It's a powerful tool with a lot of possibility, but it can be challenging to learn it all.
What do you like best about the product?
Smartsheet is incredibly versatile with many different ways to create schedules, visualize tasks, and build very specific calendars.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI is not entirely intuitive sometimes and the overwhelming amount of options can create friction for users starting out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet assists heavily with scheduling and assigning tasks for people on specific days. It also allows us to track when training or certifications are due and visualizes it neatly for anyone to identify gaps.
I like the idea of smart sheet and believe it can do many things that people are unaware of.
What do you like best about the product?
The ability to create your own workflows.
What do you dislike about the product?
How the main cell cannot be edited. How you cannot merge rows and columns together.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Collaborative approach to projects.
Very good
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of ability to find things necessary for work
What do you dislike about the product?
Unsure how to create items but probably more of me needing to learn more
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of ability to find scheduling of big project procedures, work orders and order placements, Anything needed to ask employee input
For the most part, tool works great! Just a few items for improvement.
What do you like best about the product?
* Ability to share the document over the web
* Ability to share the document with multiple users and assign different levels of security
* Ability to upload an excel sheet and convert it into smartsheet, and retain formulae from the excel sheet
* Ability to export the smartsheet into different
* I like the fact that Smartsheet is continuously staying up to date with latest technology by enhancing their integration capabilities.
* Ability to share the document with multiple users and assign different levels of security
* Ability to upload an excel sheet and convert it into smartsheet, and retain formulae from the excel sheet
* Ability to export the smartsheet into different
* I like the fact that Smartsheet is continuously staying up to date with latest technology by enhancing their integration capabilities.
What do you dislike about the product?
* First and foremost, help documentation is not very clear. I suggest improving it for making it more complete and detailed.
* We recently implemented SSO feature with OKTA. It doesn't work consistently. Some times, we have to go back to OKTA home page and launch the app.
* when more than one user is updating the smartsheet at the same, I occasionally ran into issues with losing some changes. this need to be improved.
* It would be great to have ability to format text with in a cell differently. For ex: some part of text in bold and red color while remaining stays default.
* We recently implemented SSO feature with OKTA. It doesn't work consistently. Some times, we have to go back to OKTA home page and launch the app.
* when more than one user is updating the smartsheet at the same, I occasionally ran into issues with losing some changes. this need to be improved.
* It would be great to have ability to format text with in a cell differently. For ex: some part of text in bold and red color while remaining stays default.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It removes need for maintaining multiple versions of the same document by different people.
My Review HRB
What do you like best about the product?
It has a very strong interface, or I guess sharing ability is what I should say.
What do you dislike about the product?
That you cannot utilize excel like functions. copy/paste drag/drop etc..
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows my employer and therein myself the ability to access the same data as our clients do.
Great tool for Project management, but company sometimes too complicated
What do you like best about the product?
very flexible. User can adjust according to their needs
What do you dislike about the product?
Company not flexible,
Development too much focused on AI
Development too much focused on AI
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
support of more complex projects
I find smartsheet for managing project, but personally don't use it much beyond that.
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate how streamlined it is, one I understand a specific mechanism I find it a very useful tool.
What do you dislike about the product?
I find the actual buidling to be somewhat complicated at times.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I love how it help visualize all of my teams projects in one place.
Smartsheet is useful for processes that require tracking and approval of multiple team members
What do you like best about the product?
That it helps me see ongoing requests on a project and the status gets updated immediately, I use it every day.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface I find it to be a little hard to use, it could be easier or more visually appealing. It could be easier to use and implement across organizations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having a process that needs multiple approvals tracked
Functional and helpful for project management
What do you like best about the product?
Project management functions. The Grid view is clean and helpful for mapping out tasks and assigning them to peers. I appreciate that you can connect sharepoint files to rows while also allowing you grant external partners access to the sheets to assign work. The automations are useful as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
the concept of a solution. Whenever i try to make a new sheet, it creates a new folder/solution which is confusing. I also don't like that. There's no clock functionality for calendaring, If a dashboard is public facing, we have limited insights on who is accessing the dashboard. There's no way to know if an email from an automation received a bounce back. There are so many tiers to Smartsheet and it's confusing on what we can and cannot use without paying more. Automations currently do not allow us to send out forms from our sheets.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Smartsheet has helped with creating consistent communications to peers by using automations.
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