What is Microsoft Planner?
Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress.
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89 Likeliness to Recommend
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96 Plan to Renew
87 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Planner?
Pros
- Client Friendly Policies
- Reliable
- Acts with Integrity
- Trustworthy
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Feature Ratings
Task Assignment
Task Status
Task Categorization
List Tasks
Notifications
Due Dates
Add Notes
Task Prioritization
Dependencies
Shared Task List
Drag and Drop Prioritization
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Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Ease of Data Integration
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Microsoft Planner Reviews
Eleonora A.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2024
A snapshot of marketing data mastery
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
Planner is unique among project management tools due to its customizable views and dashboards. Its flexibility allows users to switch between lists, boards, and charts, providing clarity for complex data. Additionally, it can integrate with a wide array of apps, ensuring that all marketing instruments play in sync.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Successful marketing campaigns rely on meticulously collected, analyzed, and interpreted data. Efficiency and precision are key for any marketing team. Planner is a versatile project management tool that can help orchestrate this flow. The platform allows for the creation of workflows that trigger data collection and analysis without manual intervention, providing an extra set of expert hands. This automation ensures that data flows seamlessly into actionable insights, keeping campaigns on a steady beat.
What do you dislike most about this product?
However, the platform's native reporting features for marketing-specific analytics could use improvement. Currently, it heavily relies on external integrations for in-depth marketing data analysis. This reliance can sometimes disrupt an otherwise smooth workflow.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Planner is not just a tool for grand marketing performance; it is the conductor that ensures every bit of information has a home, every insight is finely calibrated, and every campaign achieves peak performance. I recommend using it to streamline the collection and analysis of marketing data. Planner's automated workflows are a standout feature, freeing up marketing professionals to focus on strategy and creativity instead of data management.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Bùi H.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2023
Amazing Task Management tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
One of the main features that differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products is its integration with Microsoft 365
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect of this product is its Kanban board view. You can drag and drop the cards to different buckets, which represent different stages or categories of your project
What do you dislike most about this product?
One of the things I dislike most about this product is its limited features. Microsoft Planner is more of a task management tool than a project management tool, and it lacks some advanced features that you’d find in many competitors. For example, Microsoft Planner does not support recurring tasks, subtasks, dependencies, Gantt charts, time tracking, or budgeting. It also has fewer integrations than other platforms, mainly with Microsoft apps
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Explore the various integrations and add-ons that Microsoft Planner offers. Microsoft Planner can work with many other Microsoft apps, such as Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and more. You can also use some of the add-ons to enhance your task management, such as web push notifications, email chat, and video email marketing
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
José Antonio P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Food and Beverage
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jun 2025
A great way to optimize your time with Planner
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
Microsoft Planner is included with the standard licences of Microsoft 365, this make it very convinient to have track your teams projects, to delegate activities and document every step. Also you can create multiple plans if you have different teams and no everybody need to have access to all the activities. Planner also can be integrated with Power BI to much better graffic and overview of all the activities for each group.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Is very easy to use, you don't need to have an extra training to use it, you can access the planner anywhere and every change someone of the team makes in the planner is notified to all the members in order to be updated.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Nothing to dislike, but I would like to include extra comments in the notes, like a note over a note.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Is very friendly and easy to use, give it a chance to optimize your time and better track of your projects.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
