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SmartSuite

Score1.2 out of 10

20 Reviews and Ratings

What is SmartSuite?

SmartSuite provides a collaborative Work Management platform that enables teams to plan, track and manage workflows - whether it be a project, an ongoing process or routine everyday tasks.

SmartSuite helps coordinate people and work across all levels of an organization to ensure that team members have the information they need to accomplish the work that matters most. Team members can create a workflow, or choose from over 200 templates that can be tailored to their exact needs.

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Top Performing Features

  • Task Management

    This includes the ability to plan, track, collaborate and report on tasks.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Resource Management

    Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.

    Category average: 8.6

  • Gantt Charts

    Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Invoicing

    Ability to create, manage and send invoices to clients during or after completion of a project

    Category average: 7.6

  • Project & financial reporting

    Ability to analyze project and financial data based on custom criteria to gather insights and improve business performance

    Category average: 8.4

  • Integration with accounting software

    Real-time, two-way sync with accounting or financial software to facilitate project and financial reporting

    Category average: 8.3

Great addition to our computer software company!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SmartSuite for project management, workflow management, and marketing assistance.

Pros

  • SmartSuite is easy to set up
  • SmartSuite has an intuitive interface with everything at your finger tips
  • Has a low code/no-code landscape for its workflow and operations management software

Cons

  • Excited to see more dashboard features to complement the existing dashboards. Sounds like this is on the roadmap soon.

Most Important Features

  • Accessibility by all team members
  • Variety of templates
  • Advanced filtering and sorting functionality

Return on Investment

  • High positive impact on onboarding new clientele, directly positively affecting the business's financial bottom line

Great tool for task management!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I consider SmartSuite a useful tool for task tracking and team collaboration. Easy to use the service. SmartSuite user interface is intuitive and user-friendly. The capabilities of the platform are immense - from the overall solutions and applications to within the records themselves, automation, Zapier integration, ability to customize each individual report and view.

Pros

  • Task Management

Cons

  • Performance

Most Important Features

  • Reports

Return on Investment

  • Team Collaboration

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft), Trello, Airtable

Great tool with extreme flexibility and customizability!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The company uses SmartSuite as a bug tracking system. We are created a custom form to make tasks with a more understandable workflow and it helps to do the job better. There is always time to edit form with new ideas

Pros

  • SmartSuite is a good collaboration tool
  • The capabilities of the platform are immense
  • The customization features allow users to set up the report type and view it exactly as they want
  • The choice of the fields to be used in the records and reports is really wide

Cons

  • Need to make video tutorial how to use SmartSuite for new users
  • Need to make help articles how to user SmartSuite for new users

Most Important Features

  • Flexebility
  • Very big choise of field types more that 40 various
  • Customisation of the report

Return on Investment

  • You need time for understanding how everything works

Alternatives Considered

Jira Service Management (Jira Service Desk), Redmine and Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)

Love to work with!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it as a task manager. The Project Manager creates tasks for me, makes it dependent on the sprint, function, date, adds their estimates, documentation, connects them with other tasks if needed, etc. So I can have everything I need for work in one task. During my job process I change statuses, and also I can add comments into the task, so I can have all communications inside - do not be afraid to lose some information, or search it in messengers. Also, it has easy-to-work applications with a lot of different filters and settings to make your work experience super comfortable and individual.

Pros

  • Usability friendly interface
  • Flexible individual decisions
  • No code

Cons

  • Need a timetracker inside

Most Important Features

  • Tasks records with all kinds of fields I need
  • Applications and Solutions with differents settings
  • Templates

Return on Investment

  • Can't tell

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Jira Align (formerly AgileCraft)

Other Software Used

Shared Contacts for Gmail

Usability

Getting things Smart

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SmartSuite on a daily basis. It's customizable and convenient, nice and SMART. More and more smart features appear all the time. Why don't start using them?

Pros

  • Tasks progress monitoring
  • Tasks management, assignment, collaboration
  • Flexibility of the system

Cons

  • Filter by unassigned records is not allowed

Most Important Features

  • automated notifications
  • flexibility
  • design

Return on Investment

  • It saves time on custom task management tool creation and support, and it's the most valuable resource!