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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Planner

Composite Score
8.6 /10
CX Score
8.7 /10
Category
Microsoft Planner
8.6 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Planner won the following awards in the Task Management category

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Microsoft Planner Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

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95 Plan to Renew

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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+88 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?

3% Negative
5% Neutral
92% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Saves Time
  • Respectful

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Task Status

87

Task Assignment

87

Task Categorization

87

List Tasks

86

Dependencies

85

Task Prioritization

84

Due Dates

84

Shared Task List

84

Add Attachments

83

Drag and Drop Prioritization

83

Add Notes

82

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

86

Ease of IT Administration

85

Business Value Created

85

Quality of Features

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Ease of Data Integration

83

Ease of Customization

82

Availability and Quality of Training

82

Vendor Support

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Breadth of Features

78

Microsoft Planner Reviews

Allan N.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Transportation
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Perfect Task Management Software For Business

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?

With Microsoft Planner, it's easy to streamline your team and make them do more with features such as Creating tasks, assigning, tracking, sharing, chat features among others.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

By using Microsoft Planner, we have realized an increase in production. It makes creating task, assigning, tracking, and delivering easy. The software enhances team collaboration with Chat feature Using it is straightforward and is affordable too

What do you dislike most about this product?

No bad experiences with Microsoft Planner

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For task management and to increase team productivity, I recommend Microsoft Planner. It's affordable, easy to use, and houses many features.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Kgaugelo Shakira M.

  • Role: Student Academic
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

Be well-organized with Microsoft Planner!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?

Microsoft planner is so simple to use which makes it quick for one to organise work; from creating a new plan to assigning tasks, it is so easy.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Not only does Microsoft planner help my team stay organised, as we create plans, share files, chat about what we are busy with, it also makes it easy to get updates on our progress.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It let's one add documents that are in the teams document folder only. It requires one to have an office 365 work or school account and not personal account.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Assign, organise tasks, share files at ease. It's user-friendly. It allows team members to see who is working on what when working together. The price is good for the value offered

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service

C B.

  • Role: Industry Specific Role
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2022

"Features disappoint."

Likeliness to Recommend

5 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?

Probably only unique feature would be Microsoft office suite integration which minimizes setup time if the company uses Microsoft products

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of implementation within team if the company already uses Microsoft products

What do you dislike most about this product?

Requires the creation of a Microsoft "Group" to be able to collaborate across team members. This makes it useless for multiple small projects!

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If your team has multiple small projects then other products have better features

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Commodity Features
  • Less Inspiring

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