New platform extension announced: Smartsheet Advance

Smartsheet has announced Smartsheet Advance, a new premium capabilities offering to extend the value of the platform and empower customers to more effectively manage work at scale. Smartsheet Advance reportedly provides a robust set of enterprise-grade dynamic work capabilities that customers require to drive their business forward with speed and flexibility while also meeting their standards for security and compliance.

“Smartsheet Advance is the culmination of over 15 years of insights and a deep understanding of the enterprise,” said Mark Mader, Chief Executive Officer at Smartsheet. “It provides a more effective way for our enterprise customers to deploy Smartsheet’s premium capabilities as their needs advance. Every customer is on a journey, and we are here as guides to help solve current needs, but also, more importantly, help future-proof them for a changing landscape.”

Smartsheet Advance customers will find added value from; achieving process management at scale through Control Centre, managing secure requests with Dynamic View, plugging Smartsheet into systems of record like Jira and Salesforce with Data Connections, creating intelligent workflows to automate business processes across platforms with Bridge, multi-level security including around-the-clock monitoring, physical security, data encryption, and user authentication as well as adding powerful governance and administration capabilities through Admin Centre.

Smartsheet Advance is also designed to work with Smartsheet’s resource management and digital asset management offerings that empower customers to deploy skill-based Resource Management through 10,000ft by Smartsheet and manage the full lifecycle of their digital assets with Brandfolder.

Customers can now select from three tiers of Smartsheet Advance—Silver, Gold, and Platinum—to start, scale, and expand more quickly by selecting the optimal offering for their needs:

• Advance Silver empowers businesses to manage their projects, programs, and processes at full functional scale, with access to a majority of our premium products applicable to a wide range of use cases.
• Advance Gold adds the power of intelligent workflows and connectors, enabling customers to connect Smartsheet to other systems of record for increased efficiency.
• Advance Platinum layers in advanced compliance, security, and governance controls for enterprises that need additional levels of control and protection while running their business on Smartsheet.

“Enterprises today require a platform built for their demands, combining scalable collaboration and workflow capabilities with the necessary security and governance to keep business moving forward,” said Wayne Kurtzman, Research Director of Social and Collaboration Technologies at IDC. “Smartsheet Advance brings together many of the features that business and IT leaders have been seeking to help them meet the needs of a modern, distributed workforce.”

Read more about Smartsheet Advance here.