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鈥檙e working on, and get updates on progress.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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Since last award
95 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Since last award
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 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
- Reliable
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Task Assignment
Task Status
Task Categorization
List Tasks
Due Dates
Task Prioritization
Drag and Drop Prioritization
Dependencies
Notifications
Add Notes
Shared Task List
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Breadth of Features
Microsoft Planner Reviews
Swarnim P.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Communications
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Jul 2023
Easy and Effective
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
It provides a better integration of all the things needed for planning and implementing a particular idea.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's easy and accessible features.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Can be a bit expensive for independent users
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Would suggest buying 100%
Pros
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Caring
Anthony M.
- Role: C-Level
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted May 2023
High potential product for MS Suite users
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
Seamless integration across the MS Product Suite, allows for direct integration with Teams and mobile accessibility, enabling real time synching across multiple platforms (desktop/mobile). Provides similar feel across all products, simplifying productivity ramp time
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Familiar UI and direct integration with MS Teams
What do you dislike most about this product?
Ideally should incorporate more functionalities (e.g. ability to more easily capture a wider range of content types to pull in, modify and collaborate with team members).
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
This is great for companies standardized on MS product suite. As a stand alone product, will be difficult to realize full potential if not leveraging the MS family to manage productivity and execution across your teams.
Pros
- Security Protects
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Faiz S.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2023
Good for Simple Task Management
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
- User friendly UI - Good integration with Teams and all M365 family - Email notification, if there's a task to be done or due date, we'll get notified in the email
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
- Easy to use task management - Good for small team assignment - Can be integrated into Teams channel for transparency
What do you dislike most about this product?
- there's no customized column, make it difficult to add another task description or classification
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Microsoft Planner is user friendly and simple task management that can be easily integrated with Microsoft Teams, make it easy for manager to track the progress of the assignment or project
Pros
- Caring
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
