“Smartsheet vsActual is the company’s clearest move yet from managing tasks to governing strategy, budget, and capacity, and the [Engage] keynote demo made a strong case,” said Keith Kirkpatrick, vice president and research director at The Futurum Group, in a blog post on Wednesday.
vsActual competes with a range of existing applications that address strategic planning, financial operations, and objective and key result (OKR) tracking, said Miller. These tools pull in data for strategy, but are “largely tethered to the primary platform,” such as an ERP or HCM system, and “can fall short of establishing workflows that actually recommend or act,” she said.
The launch involves an expansion in Smartsheet’s target customer base, said Kirkpatrick, moving from bottom-up adoption among project managers and operations teams to also cater to the requirements of senior executives and strategy offices.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
