Introducing PowaPlanner™ by Nonsuch. Powering up your Microsoft Planner to deliver insights & successes with a suite of integrated project, programme, portfolio management along with change control and benefits management functionality.
PowaPlanner™ has been developed on the Microsoft Power Platform ensuring seamless integration with your Microsoft 365 applications and wraps itself around Microsoft Planner. You can access it directly or via Teams ensuring enhanced visibility of the project data in your organisation.
Say goodbye to your sensitive project portfolio data being hosted externally using shadow IT applications! Your data sits on your Microsoft 365 tenancy.
Say goodbye to unusual and quirky interfaces and user experiences! Your team will almost instantly begin using the familiar interface thereby driving usage and productivity upwards.
PowaPlanner™ is a robust, flexible and highly configurable toolset to support all your governance, management, reporting and delivery requirement.
PowaPlanner™ is the perfect partner to your ambitions to enable data-driven decisions by providing real-time information across all aspects of project, programme, and portfolio deliverables including:
- progress
- financials
- risks
- milestones
- governance
- resource tracking
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
For very large organisations with
more complex portfolios
PowaPlanner™ Building Blocks
Our Powa™ products wrap themselves around Microsoft Planner to provide your organisation with a bespoke project interface.
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.
Enterprise resource management
Ability to view and allocate project resources to optimise utilisation and manage any delays or variables to timeframes.
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.
Flexible pricing & 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.
PowaPlanner™ and PowaTahi™ in Action
Features and Capabilities
Selecting the Right Projects
- Project Requests:
Criteria and scoring mechanisms and workflow to manage project approvals. - Portfolio Visualisation:
Provides a visual representation of the entire project portfolio, including project statuses, timelines, and resource allocation. - Project Prioritisation:
Criteria and scoring mechanisms to objectively prioritise projects based on strategic alignment and potential business impact. - Decision Support:
Provides data-driven insights for informed decision-making by showing aggregated data and dynamic views to uncover risks and issues that may alter prioritisation decisions.
Deliver your projects right
- Governance and Compliance:
Supports adherence to organisational standards, regulatory requirements, and best practice throughout the project lifecycle. - Effort Tracking:
Enable accurate tracking of project-related effort, aiding in project performance assessment and cost management. - Performance Tracking:
Track key performance indicators (KPIs) for individual projects and the entire portfolio, enabling continuous monitoring and performance evaluation. - Risk Management:
Risk identification, assessment, and mitigation / treatment of risks across the project portfolio, ensuring proactive risk management. - Reporting and Dashboards:
Generate customisable reports and dashboards that provide stakeholders with insights into project status, KPIs, and overall portfolio health. - Capacity Planning:
Assists in evaluating resource availability and capacity for upcoming projects, aiding in the balanced distribution of workload. - Resource Management:
Enable tracking and allocation of resources across projects, helping to optimise resource utilisation and prevent over commitment. - Learning & Improvement:
Captures lessons learned from completed projects to facilitate continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. - Financial Tracking:
If integrated into financial system allows for monitoring of project budgets, expenses, and financial metrics to ensure projects stay within financial boundaries.
Integration Capabilities
- Sharing & surfacing data with Microsoft365™
tools, operational systems, and ERP systems - Change Requests:
Support the evaluation of changes in project & programme priorities and provide mechanisms to adjust project portfolios accordingly. - Workflow Automation:
Streamline project initiation, approval workflows, and project lifecycle processes for improved efficiency and consistency. - Document Management:
Provide a centralised repository for project-related documents, ensuring easy access, version control, & document sharing
FAQs
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Project Group
The sole resellers for The Project Group (TPG) in ANZ since 2023.
Van Hattum Corsbie
Quick-start fixed-price packages to get your PowaPlanner™ project across the line.