Microsoft launched Planner, own analog Trello

Line Microsoft Office products, received today a new addition. Planner will help you and your team to develop plans, organize and distribute tasks, exchange files, discuss current affairs and control the execution of tasks.

microsoft Planner It is a comfortable space for individual and teamwork, a little reminiscent of the familiar to us service Trello. In it all the activities organized with the help of boards, which can be placed in the order card with the objectives and other information.

it will be possible to set the deadline, attach the necessary files and assign a responsible person for each card-task. Particular attention is paid to ensuring the joint work on the project. To do this, you can invite the participation of their colleagues, who will be able to edit the contents of the board, upload files, to comment on any card or participate in the general chat.

In order not to get lost in a complex project and always know how advanced the execution of a task in Microsoft Planner has a special control panel. On it as a visual diagram shows the progress of the project, the percentage of individual tasks and the productivity of each team member.

Convinced users of Microsoft Office, no doubt, enjoy Planner integration with other programs of the office suite. This makes it easy to post text documents from Word, tables in Excel or an entry from OneNote Planner on the boards, with all the changes made to the document will be automatically synchronized.

In Microsoft's announced, what Planner It will be available in the next few weeks for all Office 365 subscribers. In addition, in the near future it is expected to launch apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.