FAQ

PlainPPM is suitable for any organization that wants to manage more than a handful of projects professionally. Its simple, intuitive interface gives you quick access to key project information and tools for planning and managing projects. PlainPPM offers modules such as Idea Management, Portfolio Management, Resource Planning, Single Project Management, Time Tracking, and more.

Yes, comprehensive Idea Management, including project applications, is already part of the PlainPPM standard. During implementation, we work with you to define the data, forms, and approval workflows your organization needs.

Yes, with PlainPPM you can plan employees, skills, or generic resources for your planned and ongoing initiatives. The structured collaboration between functional management and project managers provides information on capacity, current plans, availability, and resource conflicts.

Yes. With PlainPPM, you can map any type of workflow and refine it with a multi-level roles and permissions model. You can also add data, forms, and approval steps to the process.

PlainPPM stores all data in the Dataverse database within your Microsoft 365 tenant.

Yes, PlainPPM is seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Teams, whether you manage a portfolio or individual projects. We can provide tailored templates for all project types, set up a separate team or channel for each project, and manage your project documents in Microsoft Teams.

PlainPPM is easy and intuitive to use. Typically, users need one hour of training and administrators need no more than three hours.

Yes, your requirements can include minor or major design changes. We implement them alongside content changes and deploy them to your Microsoft 365 tenant.

Yes, PlainPPM is based on the low-code standards in the Microsoft Power Platform, which can be easily customized and extended. With Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, adjustments in the app, workflows, and reports can be made easily and purposefully. If you are interested, we are happy to share our Microsoft Power Platform expertise so that you can expand PlainPPM yourself according to your ideas.

Yes, in PlainPPM you can define your own project plan templates, folder and document structures, and Microsoft Teams functions for each project type.

You can find information on the effort required for design, customizations, installation, testing, and go-live under “Pricing”.

No PlainPPM user licenses: PlainPPM is licensed through one annual package for your entire organization, with no limit on the number of users. You only need your existing Microsoft 365 licenses – Power Apps, Power BI or Planner Premium, depending on the role. These are covered by your Microsoft agreement as before, and licenses you already have reduce your costs.

Nothing changes – the number of users is unlimited. New users join at no additional PlainPPM cost; only their Microsoft 365 licenses are covered by your Microsoft agreement.

We implement PlainPPM in collaboration with your IT. The standard scope (Lean) takes about 4–6 weeks; with custom processes, fields, and workshops (Business), implementation takes about 10–12 weeks.

Yes, the resource pool in PlainPPM is ideally based on your Active Directory data. If needed, additional attributes can also be added in PlainPPM.

Yes, PlainPPM makes use of Microsoft 365 standard connectors for data exchange with many different systems such as SAP, Jira, or DevOps.

PlainPPM is based entirely on Microsoft 365 standards, so almost all project, portfolio, program, resource, and other data can be imported from Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Project files (.mpp) can also be imported.

Yes, we continuously work to improve PlainPPM and have released new product versions regularly since 2021. Our roadmap also includes many improvements and extensions for PlainPPM in the future.