How to Migrate from Asana to Microsoft Planner

Asana is a web and mobile workflow management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage their work. This helps coordinate team tasks so everyone knows who is doing what. It also allows everyone to share reviews, files and status updates. Asana offers a holistic work perspective, allowing teams to work on the right tasks at the right time. While the platform provides a host of features, a significant segment of customers are moving towards MS Planner due to its integration capabilities, ease of use and advanced features. MS Planner is a Microsoft planning application used to create plans, assign tasks, discuss tasks, and view team progress charts. This easy-to-use tool allows you to schedule tasks and manage projects without complex planning efforts. In this article we will talk about migrating Asana to Microsoft Planner.

What are the benefits of switching from Asana to Microsoft Planner?

• With Microsoft Planner, organizations can effectively manage and organize time and tasks.
• Helps you set deadlines, share files, and even team members can communicate with each other.
• The My Tasks feature displays all tasks, and team members can comment and attach files to a task in Outlook, Outlook Groups, Teams, and other destinations.
• Microsoft Planner offers a main hub where users can get an overview of a project and track its overall progress. This feature allows users to track who is meeting deadlines and who is open to new assignments.
• MS Planner contains analytical tools that allow an organization to evaluate project status and task progress graphically in the form of a pie chart and a bar graph.

How to switch from Asana to Microsoft Planner?

Follow the given steps to migrate from Asana to Microsoft Planner.

• Go to the Project Migrator home page.
• Select the migration script "Asana -> Planner".
• Click the Connect button to connect to your Asana account.
• Provide your credentials and sign in to Asana.
• Click Allow in the Grant Permission window that appears.
• In the next step, click the Connect button to connect to your Microsoft Planner account.
• Provide your credentials and sign in to Planner using your Office 365 account.
• Decide what data needs to be transferred. Select data in Asana software to transfer all or part of it to Microsoft Planner.
• Map objects, cards, and users to determine the Asana data that needs to be migrated to the Office 365 Planner environment.
• Review the input information in the Migration Summary to ensure it is accurate.
• Finally, start the data transfer process.

Fanetech can help with the transition from Asana to MS Planner

While MS Planner has become a leading collaborative workflow management tool due to its unique features, migrating Asana to Microsoft Planner often comes with many challenges. The main challenge is transferring the data from Asana to the appropriate fields in the Office 365 Scheduler environment.

Fanetech has extensive experience in porting various applications to Microsoft Planner. We can provide the appropriate Microsoft 365 licenses and customize the solution to suit your business requirements. Seek help from certified migration specialists Fanetech and get advice.