Smartsheet
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Smartsheet is an online project management and crowdsourcing
tool. It allows owners of information to comprehensively involve contributors through authenticated access, publicly-accessible published sheets, or via embeddable survey forms. Functionality is focused on the ability to organize, share, and update tasks and files. A new iPad version was released March 2011. A core feature was added in February 2009 that enables project managers to leverage the research of anonymous workers through the integration of Amazon Mechanical Turk
. The application is free to try, but follows a tiered subscription model.
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
tool. It allows owners of information to comprehensively involve contributors through authenticated access, publicly-accessible published sheets, or via embeddable survey forms. Functionality is focused on the ability to organize, share, and update tasks and files. A new iPad version was released March 2011. A core feature was added in February 2009 that enables project managers to leverage the research of anonymous workers through the integration of Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk
The Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables computer programmers to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are unable to do yet. It is one of the suites of Amazon Web Services...
. The application is free to try, but follows a tiered subscription model.
History
Founded in June, 2005, Smartsheet was privately funded and commercially launched its online project management solution in August, 2006. In March, 2007 Smartsheet was named Best in Show Overall by UnderTheRadarBlog.com and also won the title of Best Online Collaborative Software in March 2007. In June, 2007, Madrona Venture Group completed Smartsheet's $4 million Series A financing. Madrona also participated in a subsequent Series B financing in January, 2009 and a Series C financing in September, 2010. Matt McIlwain, Madrona Managing Director, serves as a Smartsheet board member.Integrations
- Google AppsGoogle AppsGoogle Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and...
and Google Accounts Sign-In: Integrated sign-in enabling Google Accounts and Google Apps users to sign up or log in to Smartsheet using their existing Google credentials. - Google Docs: Native support for attaching, importing from, and exporting to Google Docs.
- ZimbraZimbraZimbra Collaboration Suite is a groupware product created by Zimbra, Inc., located in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was purchased by Yahoo! in September 2007, and subsequently purchased by VMware on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The software consists of both client and server components...
: Embedded within Zimbra Collaboration Suite, integration with Zimbra Contacts, Calendar, and Briefcase. - LiveWork: Smartsheet serves as a workflow engine to LiveWork crowdsourcing platform
- Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com...
: S3, CloudFront, and Mechanical Turk are utilized to deliver secure file storage, web acceleration, and crowdsourcing on a global basis.