The Smartsheet Blog

Smartsheet Available Inside Google Apps

Brent Frei — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:43:29 +0000

Kudos to the Google Apps team for an elegant design that puts customers first, and treats ISV solutions like peers rather than an entourage. Google’s universal navigation enables customers to assemble the solutions they need in a single place, and vendor solutions to participate like peers with Google’s own applications. It’s truly a ‘customers before all else’ approach.... Read more

Top 10 Tips for Effective Team Task Management

Mark Mader — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:34:47 +0000

Smartsheet is used by teams within large organizations and small businesses to track and manage work ranging from online project management and task tracking to CRM related functions like sales pipeline management and issue tracking. ... Read more

Climb Into Your Spreadsheet Avatar

Brent Frei — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:10:34 +0000

At some point we’ve all wished for a smarter, faster, better looking version of ourselves. Jake Sully in the movie Avatar goes from paraplegic to 10 foot tall blue humanoid with carbon fiber-laced bones. His consciousness is networked inside the new body that in form and function is oriented like his old body, only way better.... Read more

Alternatives to Bloated Products

Brent Frei — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:01:20 +0000

In today’s TechFlash, I commented on the effects that innovation or lack of innovation are having on our (and other ISVs) incentive to partner with Microsoft in online business applications. I should mention that I am a huge Microsoft fan, and have been frustrated that our closest technology giant neighbor has been missing the boat in online apps.... Read more

Product Update - Gantt chart view

Eric Browne — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:23:35 +0000

In our most recent product release, we added a Gantt chart view to Smartsheet. You can now switch easily between a grid view, calendar view and Gantt view of key tasks and their start/end dates. A large number of our customers found Smartsheet as they searched for a better project management tool. While encouraging us to avoid the complexity of project management software like Microsoft Project, many did ask us to add a Gantt chart that they could use in the project kickoff meeting with a client or at status meetings with the project team. You can display a task's % ... Read more

Stop Losing Your Children in Pipelines and To Do Lists

Mark Mader — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:12:48 +0000

If you've used hierarchy (a.k.a. 'Indent/Outdent') in Smartsheet, you may have noticed a new 'make life easier' feature that we introduced last Wednesday. It's the CHILDREN function and it enables you to reference rows that are 'direct descendants' (one level removed) of a parent row. ... Read more

Smartsheet - The One Productivity App to Bind Them All

Brent Frei — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:46:37 +0000

Remember the all powerful Ring in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic novel? I can’t help but draw an analogy between the Ring’s malevolent central role in the story’s plot, and the role Email and the attached files play in today’s business operations.... Read more

Collaboration is Good, but Work Management is Better

Eric Browne — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:41:14 +0000

Many people describe Smartsheet as a collaboration tool, and they're right. A big part of Smartsheet's value lies in enabling team members to share a project sheet, task list, sales pipeline or some other list of work that needs to get done. However, when people say collaboration they're often thinking of chat, web meetings, shared appointment calendars, brainstorming and a lot of other 'Web 2.0' ways to interact with colleagues. We're all for that, but we're not looking to emulate WebEx, or replace your Outlook or Google Calendar, or compete with Google Wave on the ... Read more

Smartsheet for Film Music Projects

Brent Frei — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:58:59 +0000

Jim Well is an author, composer, guitarist,… the list is long. He’s also a Smartsheet customer that just seems to be good at everything. We’ve taken particular notice of this fact here at Smartsheet in that he seems to have effortlessly written a description of our product that bests our internal efforts.

I was hacking away at it again today making notes like:... Read more

Thank You and the Year Ahead

Mark Mader — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:24:02 +0000

Whether you have been with us since 2006 or signed up earlier today, we value your business and hope that Smartsheet has been a valuable service for you.

Before sharing a few comments about the year ahead, we would like to thank you for contributing to these milestones:... Read more