Microsoft Planner vs. Planview AgilePlace

Microsoft Planner

Planview AgilePlace

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Planner	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.	N/A
Planview AgilePlace	Score 9.9 out of 10	N/A	AgilePlace is a project management solution built around flexibility, data-driven analytics, and workflow automation. The software was acquired by Planview in December 2017 to expand that company's capabilities.	$19 per user, per month

Pricing

Microsoft Planner

Planview AgilePlace

Editions & Modules

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Teams: $19
per user, per month
Scaled Teams: $29
per user, per month
Custom: Contact Sales for Quote
per user, per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Planner	Planview AgilePlace
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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All editions include unlimited boards.

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Planner	Planview AgilePlace
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Planner Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner In my experience, Microsoft Planner has much less features and less effective than other project management tools. But, it's free and included as part of Microsoft 365, so senior management may think it's saving them money. However, the poor productivity and the inefficient … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner The Planner has a more straightforward and intuitive interface, making it ideal for teams that want to get started quickly without a steep learning curve. Additionally, Planner is more budget-friendly, making it a better option for smaller teams like mine. Additionally, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We used Microsoft Planner because it was free to our organization but ended up paying for Asana for more features we needed for our team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner stands out for its seamless integration with Microsoft 365, making collaboration with tools like Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint effortless. Its user-friendly interface, with drag-and-drop features and color-coded labels, simplifies task management. Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Aldridge Learning Analytics Lead Chose Microsoft Planner Compared to the other options, we already had access to Microsoft Planner, preconfigured accounts, and support and ordination from tech internally to use it. We previously used Wrike, I wanted to use Asana, and other people in the organisation either used Microsoft Project, or … Incentivized Helpful? francesca turra Project Manager Chose Microsoft Planner The integration with Microsoft Teams is a must that other platform doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? DA Deepika Arora Digital Marketer Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner was included in our package of Microsoft email. Thus, we [don't] have to pay anything separately. This is was the main reason. However, the functionality we required was similar. [Microsoft] Planner also gives a schedule calendar where we can add tasks as per … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft Planner While Asana and Trello are mature products, Planner is getting there pretty quickly. Since our organization is on the Microsoft ecosystem, it helps to use SSO for most of the apps that are within the same license. It helps save money and does the work. For proper project … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner won out over Todoist due to it's ability to integrate other software and allow us to be able to do more work in one software. The project management functions were superior as well. Probably the biggest advantage was the task management. We liked how it worked … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Have moved to JIRA in my recent project. I can say Microsoft plan is a good option but JIRA is more powerful compare to this tool. The only thing is its integration and easy communication feature between teams or assigned groups stand it out while comparing with the similar … Incentivized Helpful? DS Darshil S Assistant Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner has a clear cut edge over all the other project planning software of having its native and extensive capability of integrating with the Office 365 apps which everyone uses heavily. Also, it is highly accessible and usable to a large extent through PDAs and … Incentivized Helpful? Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Chose Microsoft Planner Pros: Communicating with all members of the plan is easy since it’s part of the Office 365 suite. This allows you to easily communicate via Outlook. You can quickly view all the tasks everyone is working across Boards Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner provides better integration with Microsoft products that are used across the organization as a whole. It provides better connection to SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Office products, and even in MS Outlook, which is the company's email client. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Chose Microsoft Planner Many areas of the company still use Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I would recommend Planner for light project / team management with strong MS Teams integration. For a PMO / large project with resources/cost/gantt management, I would really recommend MS Project. Incentivized Helpful? John Bayerl Director of Teaching Excellence Chose Microsoft Planner I have not used any other products that serve a similar function to Microsoft Planner. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner, tho its user interface could be improved, was leaps and bounds better than TYA suite. Their user interface is difficult for many at our job site to use, especially the older generation. The decision to bring it in was largely a corporate decision. Individuals likely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I've used Asana and prefer it to Microsoft Planner. Asana has more functionalities than Planner and I think it is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Trello is better as a one off product, but if you use the Microsoft suite then Planner integrates better into the rest of your day-to-day apps. The integration into team members' calendars and mail makes the ease of assigning tasks across our organization well worth using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Project Incentivized Helpful? RH Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner is far superior and doesn't require expensive training to give people access to it. It is far easier to customize and allows for people to add projects and milestones without the cumbersome interface that Agility offers. I would far rather use Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We tried to select software from various tools, and in the end we chose Planner both for economic reasons (it is included in the Microsoft 365 license we have in the company) and for its ease of use (we have no particular or specific needs, such as advanced scheduling or ticket … Incentivized Helpful? MC Micaella Cirilo Talent Acquisition Specialist Chose Microsoft Planner Main reason is that it is cost efficient because we're already using Microsoft 365 and it's literally part of the ecosystem. No need to purchase any other software. Microsoft is also a well known company, credible for providing business solutions and has a strong enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner is free and integrated with other Microsoft products that we use. We don't have a need for something more sophisticated given the price it would have cost to purchase licenses for a dedicated task/project mgmt tool. Incentivized Helpful?	Planview AgilePlace Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace AgilePlace is better than JIRA when it comes to ease of use and intuitiveness of the tool. Card based model and ability to customize/tailor the way you want makes AgilePlace is a great tool. Look and feel as well as colored cards, makes the board layout much more easier to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace All these tools are different and have different uses. Depending upon SDLC your organization uses, you would use any of these tools. They all have their plusses and minuses. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace We use both tools together as they have different benefits and provide value in various ways. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace I personally much prefer AgilePlace over Jira. It is much easier to organize your work and keep track of a wide variety of different types of work. Incentivized Helpful? MM Mateo Méndez IT PMO Manager Chose Planview AgilePlace Better performance and service. Incentivized Helpful? KB Karen Bruno PMO Portfolio Chose Planview AgilePlace Great integration between PPM Pro and AgilePlace and AgilePlace and Jira. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace Another poorly designed question that forces me to choose a random response from the list of products, in order to allow me to move on in this survey. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace Much easier to use for simple projects. Incentivized Helpful? Pablo Martin Cuomo  PPM & Agile Associate Consultant, Presales Chose Planview AgilePlace Miro, Asana and Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central) Incentivized Helpful? DS Daniel Schleusener Director of Operations Chose Planview AgilePlace Originally, we had evaluated two other tools next to Planview LeanKit: Kanbantool and Kanbanflow. The latter was a close contestant for productive use, as it was also very customizable and a joy to work with and look at. It also had lower user fees and a mobile integration. In … Incentivized Helpful? Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education Chose Planview AgilePlace I use Trello a bit for personal use. It's much less powerful than LeanKit, but it's also a better design and simpler to use. ServiceNow has some kanban board stuff built-in, but I wasn't super impressed with it. JIRA seemed to be even more complex than LeanKit for the short … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace LeanKit functionality and usability make it a perfect tool for agile project management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace LeanKit seems to be more baked and more mature. The others listed are a little more siloed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace I think that LeanKit is very similar to Asana's Kanban feature and Trello, but is much less sleek looking than Asana. Asana's clean and sleek UI makes me enjoy project management much more than LeanKit. It might sound silly that the UI makes so much of a difference to me, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace Leankit was already in use when I joined the organization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace Our company uses LeanKit, Pivotal Tracker, and Trello. It all depends on what team you're on. There's even a team that just does KanBan on a whiteboard. In the end, I would tank LeanKit above Pivotal Tracker, but below Trello. The differences are relatively subtle between … Incentivized Helpful? Scot Wolcott Vice President - Information Systems Director Chose Planview AgilePlace Both VersionOne and Trello are good products. VersionOne is for the real hardcore Agile shops who want to track and report on everything related to the Agile process. Trello is a tool that works for Agile, but really is just a simple list making/tracking tool. Both tools serve … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace [We selected LeanKit over alternatives because it is an] All in one solution. Incentivized Helpful? Melissa Perri Founder & CEO Chose Planview AgilePlace I have used Trello, which is not as robust for tracking and customizing workflows as LeanKit is. It does not scale well to big teams. JIRA is the standard project management software but does not support Kanban well. Incentivized Helpful? Heather Neisen Director of HR & Administration Chose Planview AgilePlace Nearly all the other tools I evaluated against are free, so that's one area where LeanKit is not as competitive. LeanKit does allow the experience to be much more customizable, though. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Planview AgilePlace Being from QA I prefer Spiratest and QC for the fact my team can do all our work in one program and it is linked. But the tech department as a whole prefers Leankit as it is the tool of choice based on ease of use and overall performance. Incentivized Helpful? Deron Austin Director, Marketing & Communications Chose Planview AgilePlace While LeanKit was not designed for project and task management, we selected it because of its collaborative nature as a project and task management platform for our marketing team. It was also selected because our engineering and product management teams were using Leankit. We … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Planner

Planview AgilePlace

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	Planview AgilePlace 7.4 Ratings 3% below category average
Task Management	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Resource Management	00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Gantt Charts	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Scheduling	00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	00 Ratings	4.00 Ratings
Document Management	00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Email integration	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Mobile Access	00 Ratings	2.10 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	00 Ratings	6.40 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	00 Ratings	7.20 Ratings
Visual planning tools	00 Ratings	7.30 Ratings

Agile Development

Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	Planview AgilePlace 8.8 Ratings 7% above category average
DevOps Tool Integrations	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers	00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Planner	Planview AgilePlace
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	3.0 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Planner	Planview AgilePlace
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Planner is a user-friendly visual tool for organizing tasks and workflows. It’s great for team collaboration, integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Outlook, and offers flexibility for projects of all sizes. Additionally, it provides mobile and web access for seamless productivity on the go. That’s a big plus right there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	AgilePlace is a great way for teams, or individuals, to bring visibility to the work in process and in their backlog. The color coding and icon use helps to quickly analyze the type of work or status of the work. The product team is doing a good job at listening to their user's feedback and implementing improvements. Where it falls short is when reporting needs to occur. PS Pam Sargent Planview Systems Delivery Manager Read full review
Pros	I love the ability to tag and untag others as needed I love the ability to customize the tag labels and that there are so many options I love the ability to add comments and it notifies the others tagged in the task I love that the task description can be changed as needed without notification to others assigned to the task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Okta Integration: We love using SSO for all our SaaS apps, and as new team members join, they can be automatically joined to the appropriate LeanKit boards. Filtering and viewing: Can filter and refine by several fields as well as custom fields. Assigned Users, Tagged, Card Type, Date, etc Their analytics and reporting can be helpful for PMs, especially if they have several teams they oversee. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Does not allow you to view all tasks and sub-tasks (checklist) in a nested view. Comments have character limits that can make it harder for teams to communicate exactly what they want to share. There is no way to mention a teammate in a comment and share files and documents in the conversation (collaborative tool???). Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Read full review	The formatting of what they call "cards" could be better. They can be clunky if you have a lot of text in just one. Needs better support for media, attachments. Not the most pretty interface in my opinion, though it works. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It is a very useful tool that brings teams in sync with one another. The integration with other Microsoft products makes it an obvious choice because you don't have to purchase a license for a completely different tool that doesn't have cross-functional capabilities with the software you already use on a daily basis. Incentivized Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Read full review	we are happy with the tool and the service and continuos improvement of the tool so there is no need yet to change to another one. MM Mateo Méndez IT PMO Manager Read full review
Usability	The tool is easy to use, but it is just as easy to set up. No specific skills are required, but its usefulness in our work is immediately apparent. Colors are very helpful in creating a clear interface and providing a very precise overview of the tasks to be performed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	LeanKit isn't the best designed Kanban system I've seen, but overall it's pretty usable. The boards I've used are pretty complex, so it can be difficult to find things. I found that searching and filtering for specific cards was somewhat of a challenge. Dragging a card from one lane to another is kind of a fun way to get things done though. Incentivized Nate Dillon Front-End Web Developer, Office of Mediated Education Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	Not experienced any outage Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Larger boards take longer to load Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Every time I have reached out to the AgilePlace support team I have received a timely response in addition to professional & personal feedback. Their consultants are knowledgeable and the management team is happy to jump in and help when needed. PS Pam Sargent Planview Systems Delivery Manager Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Very easy. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the current program intend to use MS Planner due to its poor functionality. We will likely be pivoting to Jira instead. Incentivized Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Read full review	Originally, we had evaluated two other tools next to Planview LeanKit: Kanbantool and Kanbanflow. The latter was a close contestant for productive use, as it was also very customizable and a joy to work with and look at. It also had lower user fees and a mobile integration. In the end, we picked Planview LeanKit because of several reasons: Aesthetics: The look was much more clean and professional. Reporting: It was obvious from the start that we could use Planview LeanKit as a tool for improvement. API: We needed to integrate the Kanban into our central systems and Planview LeanKit API was (and still is) a way to do it. Card Headers: This sounds like a simple thing, but the headers above the titles fit our work perfectly and looked perfect, which helped the decision. Incentivized DS Daniel Schleusener Director of Operations Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	Good use cases for small/large teams Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved over $1000 each year by not having to purchase a third party tool for our content planning Not sure that I can provide a hard number to this, but having the oversight to see when something is coming due and making sure everything gets executed in time Incentivized Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Read full review	Our team meetings are more direct and quick to get through thanks to the better visibility of the workload Easily being able to move cards between team lanes gives instant visibility to where the responsibility for the next step is needed. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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