Migration to Microsoft Planner Premium: Benefits and Best Practices

Elena Humeniuk

PPM Consultant

The power of Microsoft Project for the web, the clarity of To Do, and the collaboration of Microsoft Planner are all present in the New Microsoft Planner Premium. Users will enjoy a familiar interface with a clean and uncomplicated design, making tasks easier and faster to work on than ever. The new Planner can be used to organize tasks in one place and manage work for individuals, teams, and even large-scale enterprise projects. Read on to learn why you should choose this system, best practices for migrating to New Planner Premium, and other insights.

Microsoft Planner Premium Overview

Users can track and organize their work in single-user and multi-user modes, with numerous options available. These include My Tasks, which allows you to view assigned tasks, the Grid, List, and Board plan views, as well as My Day, and others. Additional features include adding and updating tasks and plans.

This new project management platform will allow you to create individual Planner boards unrelated to any team. You can find information about the project’s task history, specific fields, goals, and objectives, the teams’ workload, and the agile sprints.

The migration to Microsoft Planner Premium isn’t entirely a technical transformation, but a strategic move that signifies a significant organizational shift. By undertaking this migration, organizations unlock new opportunities, boost productivity, and foster a culture of collaboration. This type of initiative must be carefully planned, thoroughly understood, and executed strategically to ensure that the migration to Planner Premiu proceeds smoothly.

Challenges with Project Migration

IT administrators often choose manual Planner Premium migration, increasing complexities and risks:

• It is time-consuming and increases the possibility of lengthy downtime, data loss, and delays.
• Matching objects in the source tenant to the related fields in the target tenant is a lot of work.
• Manual transfer is prone to errors and omissions. One wrong click can result in the loss of important data.
• Proper data management is complicated, and data security can be compromised
• Additionally, the financial loss associated with project migration complexities is a significant challenge that businesses face.
• Human mistakes can lead to unintentional removal or data deletion.
• You must go through re-migration if you skip any tasks. This increases the level of unpredictability and may cause delays, resulting in additional losses.
• These complexities can cause operational disruptions within the organization, leading to delays in project delivery.

Organizations must adopt a reliable tool for such complex migration to Planner Premium. In this regard, FluentPro Project Migrator is the ultimate platform for automated migration from various PPM systems. It reduces the risks mentioned above by automating and streamlining the process.

Planning a Successful Planner Premium Migration

Project Migrator is a cloud-based solution that enables quick and automated data migration between project management systems. This software supports not only partial or full migration but also custom data-mapping. Project Migrator enables the following New Planner migration scenarios:

• Asana to Planner Premium
• Project Online to Planner Premium
• Monday com to Planner Premium
• Microsoft Planner basic plans to Planner premium plans
• Planner Premium between tenants
• Trello to Planner Premium
• Smartsheet to Planner Premium

With the help of Project Migrator, you can carry out the process of migration to Planner Premium automatically in a few steps:

STEP 1: Project Migrator lets you integrate the source and target platforms. You can also choose whether you need to migrate only a few items to the New Planner or migrate the data in bulk.

STEP 2: This tool’s user-friendly interface provides helpful object-mapping features. This enables mapping data from the source tenant to specific fields in the target tenant.

STEP 3: Project Migrator’s built-in functions automatically migrate to New Planner.

STEP 4: You can estimate successfully migrated project data in the migration summary window. If you encounter any issues, please contact our support team for assistance.

Benefits of using Project Migrator

Project Migrator provides the following advantages for organizations:

• Save Time: Microsoft Planner Premium migration is quicker than manual data transfer. It can save you time, and, as a result, there is no risk of delays.
• Eliminate Errors: Project Migrator provides object mapping that guarantees 100% accuracy, eliminating the problems of human/manual mistakes, as well as the expense of re-migrations.
• Increase ROI: This quick Planner Premium migration resolves the issue of the transition period, ultimately minimizing the overall cost. It enables your company to make more profit.
• Data Security: The Project Migrator is a cloud-based solution that runs on the safe Microsoft Azure and uses reliable data security features.

Organizations use Project Migrator to ensure their Planner Premium migration results are successful.