Kadence vs Microsoft Project

Kadence handles desk and meeting-room booking, workplace coordination, and space-use reporting for hybrid workplaces. Employees can reserve desks for set times, including places near teammates, and use check-in for desks and bookings. Interactive floor plans display space and support team neighborhoods and assigned desks. Kadence says its AI can suggest bookings and reserve multiple desks for a user and teammates. Its workplace analytics cover desk availability, popular spaces, attendance patterns, and space usage. Integrations include Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, HRIS, and ticketing systems; a public API is also available. The product runs on Android, iOS, and the web, and includes single sign-on. Kadence offers a free plan, with pricing on request. Billing is based on active users—people who booked during a month. Plans require a minimum one-year commitment, billed annually, and floor-plan upload and setup costs $250 per floor. Kadence states that it is SOC 2 compliant and Cyber Essentials certified, and that it meets GDPR and CCPA requirements.

Microsoft Project is presented through Planner, an online work management experience that combines tasks, to-do lists, plans, and projects. Core views include Grid, Board, Schedule, and Charts; Planner Plan 1 adds Timeline, People, and Goals. That plan also includes premium templates, backlogs and sprints, task dependencies, milestones, and project goals. Planner and Project Plan 3 adds portfolios, baselines, critical path, advanced dependencies, resource requests, and the Project desktop app. Plan 5 adds advanced portfolio management and enterprise resource management and allocation. The included Planner in Microsoft 365 is listed at free and includes basic templates, core views, task management, and Teams integration. Named integrations include Loop, Outlook, Teams, Copilot, and Power Automate. The comparison lists workflow automation, APIs, Microsoft 365 Groups access control, and compliance tools. Time tracking and guest access are listed. A one-month trial requires a credit card and converts to paid service unless canceled.