Plan Smarter. Deliver Faster. Scale Confidently.

PowaPlanner™ is a powerful, Microsoft Power Platform-based PPM solution designed to help teams of all sizes manage projects, portfolios, and resources — all within your Microsoft ecosystem.

Built for Microsoft Ecosystems

Seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Teams, Power BI, SharePoint, and Azure AD — no need for third-party platforms.

Real-Time Portfolio Visibility

Track progress, risks, and resource allocation across all projects with live dashboards and automated reporting.

Modular & Scalable

Start small and scale enterprise-wide. Tailor features to your team’s needs using Power Platform tools your IT team already knows.

Automated Workflows

Streamline approvals, updates, and reporting with Power Automate — reducing manual effort and increasing consistency.

Smart Insights with Power BI

Make data-driven decisions with customizable reports and predictive analytics powered by Power BI.

Enterprise-Grade Security

Built on Microsoft’s secure cloud infrastructure with full compliance and governance support..

PowaPlanner™ is built on the Microsoft Power Platform, ensuring seamless integration with your Microsoft 365 applications. It wraps around Microsoft Planner, allowing you to access it directly or via Microsoft Teams—enhancing visibility and collaboration across your organisation’s project data.

Say goodbye to storing sensitive project portfolio data in external shadow IT applications. With PowaPlanner™, your data remains securely within your Microsoft 365 tenancy.

Empower Your Project Portfolio with PowaPlanner™

PowaPlanner™ is a robust, flexible, and highly configurable project portfolio management solution built on the Microsoft Power Platform. Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Planner, it provides a unified workspace accessible via Microsoft Teams, enhancing visibility, collaboration, and control across your organisation.

Secure, Familiar, and Fully Integrated

No more quirky or unfamiliar interfaces!

Your team will feel instantly at home with the familiar Microsoft interface—no steep learning curves, no quirky user experiences. Just intuitive tools that drive adoption and boost productivity from day one.

Real-Time Insights for Smarter Decisions

PowaPlanner™ supports your project governance, reporting, and delivery management needs—enabling data-driven decision-making with real-time visibility across:

  • Project Progress
  • Financial Tracking
  • Risk Management
  • Milestone Monitoring
  • Governance Compliance
  • Resource Allocation & Tracking

See PowaPlanner™ in Action

Whether you're managing a single project or an entire portfolio, PowaPlanner™ gives you the clarity and control to deliver with confidence. Want to see it in action? Click here!

Enterprise Ready

PowaPlanner™ is built on the Microsoft Power Platform for flexibility and extensibility.

Quick to implement

Pre-configured means it can be implemented in 1-2 weeks with PowaPlanner RapidStart configuration.

User-friendly

Consistent, discoverable user interface. Less than one day of user and admin training required.

Customisable Interface

Fields and forms are customisable, easy to update and configure, aligning project and portfolio management with naming conventions that make sense to your business.

Advanced Reporting

Gain insights with dashboards and visualise your project status. Start your journey of increasing PPM maturity. 

Pre Configured

Start with a right-practise set of PPM capabilities and more than 18 project and portfolio reports

Microsoft Planner Integration

Build on Microsoft Planner for a familiar and consistent experience

Scalable Solution

Flexible enough to fit the needs of small teams and scalable for large enterprises — all while being easily extended and maintained using your own in-house resources, reducing reliance on external vendors.

Future-Proof

Built on Microsoft Power Platform — the trusted backbone of Microsoft’s business innovation strategy for the next decade — giving you a future-proof foundation to scale, adapt, and innovate with confidence.

PPM toolset solutions for all portfolio sizes

Leveraging the expertise of PPM consultants with over 50 years combined experience during the design and development process, we have seamlessly integrated Portfolio, Programme and Project best practices into our PowaPlanner™ and PowaTahi™ solutions.

Our PowaPlanner™ and PowaTahi™ toolsets cater to the PPM needs of organisations of all sizes, from the smallest teams to the largest enterprises.

For smaller organisations focused
on delivering projects
For most organisations who are tackling projects, programmes, and portfolios of work

PowaPlanner™ Feature Comparison

Our toolset options cater to the PPM needs of organisations of all sizes, from the smallest teams to the largest enterprises.

Feature
Project for the Web (Planner)
Nonsuch PowaTahi™
Nonsuch PowaPlanner™
Scheduling, Gantt Chart, Task and Project Progress Tracking
Advanced Dependencies (SS,FF,FS) with Lead and Lag
Kanban Boards, Charts and Resource Assignments
Content-rich Tasks: Files, Checklists and Labels
Resource Planning at Project Level
Single Task Baseline
Multiple Project and Task Baselines
My Actions Dashboard
Pre-configured right practice Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions and Project Status Register
Project Requests
Drivers and Prioritisation
Business Case Capture
Project Types
Project Groups
High-level Financial Tracking
Monthly Financial Tracking
Programmes
Portfolios
Milestone Management
Assumptions, Changes, Deliverables, Lessons Learned
External and Inter-Project Dependency Tracking
Benefits Tracking
Resource Capacity and Demand
Approval Workflows
Project Workflows
Integrated Document Management with SharePoint
Project-Level Resource Planning
Power BI Reports
10 Pre-built reports
10+ Pre-built reports
40+ Pre-built reports
Feature
Project for the Web (Planner)
Nonsuch PowaTahi™
Nonsuch PowaPlanner™
TPG Project PowerPack
Scheduling, Gantt Chart, Task and Project Progress Tracking
Advanced Dependencies (SS,FF,FS) with Lead and Lag
Kanban Boards, Charts and Resource Assignments
Content-rich Tasks: Files, Checklists and Labels
Resource Planning at Project Level
Single Task Baseline
Multiple Project and Task Baselines
My Actions Dashboard
Pre-configured right practice Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions and Project Status Register
Project Requests
Drivers and Prioritisation
Business Case Capture
Project Types
Project Groups
High-level Financial Tracking
Monthly Financial Tracking
Programmes
Portfolios
Milestone Management
Assumptions, Changes, Deliverables, Lessons Learned
External and Inter-Project Dependency Tracking
Benefits Tracking
Resource Capacity and Demand
Approval Workflows
Project Workflows
Integrated Document Management with SharePoint
Microsoft Project Desktop Client Integration
Project-Level Resource Planning
Objectives, Requirements and Stakeholder Registers
Timesheets
Power BI Reports
10 Pre-built reports
10+ Pre-built reports
40+ Pre-built reports
40+ Pre-built reports

PowaPlanner™ Building Blocks

Our Powa™ products wrap themselves around Microsoft Planner to provide your organisation with a bespoke project interface.

Power Apps

Copilot

Power BI

Power Automate

Teams

Dataverse

PowaPlanner™ Benefits

Collaborative Work Management

Online workspace to enable teams to work collaboratively across projects and daily work, update and manage documents, and message in real-time. Receive alerts and do approvals on mobile devices.

Strategic Planning & Benefits Realisation

Sophisticated planning function to ensure projects are prioritised and aligned with KPIs to meet targets and optimise outcomes.

Customisable Interface

Fields and forms are customisable, easy to update and configure, aligning project and portfolio management with naming conventions that make sense to your business.

Faster Onboarding

Combine user friendly interfaces and flexible configuration to suit your specific needs and processes. Highly intuitive experiences mean faster user onboarding with less time spent in training and support internal adoption.

Flexible Pricing and Support

Both fixed price and SaaS licensing options. All offerings include base support and maintenance as part of the agreement. Ability to level up as you require new functionality.

Productivity Gains

Empowering users to better plan their time and focus their efforts on project tasks to support scope, timeframes and budget objectives.

Business Insights

Collate and display critical data sets across portfolios, programmes, and projects in easy-to-read dashboards, increasing visibility so the business can proactively manage investments and make informed decisions.

Enterprise Resource Management

Ability to view and allocate project resources to optimise utilisation and manage any delays or variables to timeframes.

PowaPlanner™ and PowaTahi™ in Action

Agricultural industry

PowaTahi™ users <40 

Our client was managing project information in multiple ways and systems. Project reporting was manual and time-consuming. The client identified they also needed a tool to plan and manage resourcing, improve visibility of project effort, and integrate information to enable them to track budgets and forecasts.

The Nonsuch team completed the implementation and configuration within a week, allowing the client access to the tool with speed and in their own Microsoft tenant.

Throughout the engagement, Nonsuch worked closely with our client’s project managers to understand their approach to current projects and to factor key processes into the system configuration. 

Financial Industry

PowaPlanner™ users >50 – Tailored

P3M functions at the client were delivered by the EPMO using standard Microsoft products such as PowerPoint, Excel, and standalone MS Project Desktop, remotely supported by the in-house financial system.

Although individually fit for purpose, none of these tools were integrated. The disparate P3M toolset had become too complex to manage, had reached the limit of usability and stability, and was a data security and integrity risk.

Nonsuch delivered PowaPlanner™ configured to the client requirements enabling them to manage and report on their Portfolios, Programmes, and Projects throughout the EPMO in a consistent manner.

FAQs

Who needs PowaPlanner™ and PowaTahi™?

The tools support any organisation that wants to plan and manage more than just a handful of projects. They are easy-to-use, have a modern interface and are highly adaptable, and therefore ideal for setting up professional project and portfolio management in a short time.

Can I plan my resources with the tools?

Yes, you can plan your resources in different ways: You can manage staff, external and generic resources. In addition you can analyse availability, capacity, demand and resource costs.

Where is my data stored?

The tools are based on the Microsoft Power Platform. They store all data in a Dataverse database in your own tenancy in the Microsoft Cloud.

How quickly can the tools be deployed?

The technical deployment takes place in under 3 days. The initial adaptation of the tools depend on the requirements. We offer a wide range of functions and ready-made configurations for standard project management use cases.

Can I integrate the tools with Microsoft Teams, SAP or Jira?

Yes, the tools are already deeply integrated with Microsoft Teams by default. A separate team or channel can be created for each project and the project documents are managed in Microsoft Teams. It is, of course, also possible to display further project information such as the project status or the schedule within Microsoft Teams. The tools use the same technical platform as Microsoft Dynamics and can be integrated with many different systems such as SAP, Jira or DevOps with our proven integration solution TPG PSLink.

What data can I import from existing systems? (Excel, Microsoft Project)

As the tools are set up on the Power Platform, almost all data for projects, portfolios, programs, resources, etc. can be imported from Excel. In addition, Microsoft Project mpp-files can be imported.

Our PowaPlanner™ Partners

Microsoft

Nonsuch has been a Microsoft Certified Partner for over a decade.

Van Hattum Corsbie

Quick-start fixed-price packages to get your PowaPlanner™ project across the line.

We are proud to be the Platinum Sponsor of PMI Conference 2026

Join us at New Zealand’s leading project, programme, and portfolio management event.

Nonsuch is supporting this year’s PMI Conference to drive conversations that go beyond theory and focus on what actually works in real world delivery.

Our team will be onsite in Auckland, sharing practical insights on governance, assurance, and delivery confidence with senior leaders from across New Zealand.

If you are attending, we would value the opportunity to connect.

We can work it out