Connect Microsoft Teams and
Planful with AI

Sync Microsoft Teams with Planful to automate financial notifications, streamline budget approvals, and deliver planning insights where your team already works. Stop manually copying forecast updates into channels or chasing down stakeholders for budget sign-offs.

No code required
Live in minutes
SOC 2 Type II

What you can automate today

Redbird gives your team ready-to-run workflows — just connect your accounts and go.

Send budget variance alerts to departmental Teams channels when thresholds exceeded

Automatically post notifications to department-specific Teams channels when actual spending deviates from budget by preset thresholds in Planful. Include variance details, affected cost centers, and direct links to drill-down reports so managers can address issues immediately.

Route forecast approval requests to finance leadership in Teams with context

When forecasts are submitted for review in Planful, automatically create approval threads in designated Teams channels with forecast summaries, change commentary, and approval buttons. Track responses and update Planful approval workflows based on Teams interactions.

Post monthly board report packages to executive Teams channel on close completion

When monthly close is marked complete in Planful, automatically generate and share final board-ready financial reports, variance commentaries, and dashboard links to the executive leadership Teams channel. Eliminate manual report distribution and ensure stakeholders have immediate access.

Capture budget justification discussions from Teams threads into Planful assumptions

Monitor designated Teams channels where business units discuss budget proposals and automatically extract key assumptions, justifications, and decisions. Sync this commentary to corresponding budget line items in Planful as audit trail documentation.

Notify FP&A team in Teams when new actuals are loaded from ERP

When Planful completes a data load from your ERP system, automatically alert the finance team in their dedicated Teams channel with load statistics, data quality flags, and links to variance reports. Accelerate the review process and catch integration issues early.

Send rolling forecast submission reminders to department channels with deadlines

Automatically post reminders to departmental Teams channels as rolling forecast submission deadlines approach in Planful. Include completion status, outstanding submissions, and direct links to planning forms so department heads can act immediately.

Live in four steps

No engineers, no pipelines to maintain. Redbird handles the connectivity — you focus on the outcome.

01

Connect your accounts

Authorize Microsoft Teams and Planful with OAuth or API credentials. Redbird never stores your data — it just passes through.

02

Describe what you want

Tell Redbird what to do in plain language — no SQL, no code, no configuration files required.

03

Review and activate

Redbird shows you exactly what it will do before running anything. Approve the workflow, set a schedule, and switch it on.

04

Let it run — and iterate

Workflows run on your schedule or on triggers. Every run is logged. Adjust with natural language at any time.

Built for data-driven teams

Redbird understands Microsoft Teams' channel structure, threading model, and user mentions alongside Planful's planning hierarchies, approval workflows, and financial data structures.

AI that speaks finance and collaboration

Redbird natively understands Planful's dimensional structures—entities, departments, accounts, scenarios, and versions—and maps them to appropriate Teams channels, tabs, and notification recipients. The platform recognizes approval states, forecast lock periods, and data validation rules in Planful, then translates financial events into contextual Teams messages with proper formatting, @mentions, and actionable links. No manual mapping of cost centers to channels or building custom webhook logic.

Planful dimension mapping
Teams channel routing
Approval workflow sync
Financial context formatting
10×

faster than building custom Power Automate flows with Planful API connectors

No JSON parsing, webhook configuration, or Teams adaptive card templating required

Auto-generated reports

Redbird can pull from Microsoft Teams and Planful simultaneously, merge the results, and format a polished report — sent on a schedule or on demand.

Trigger-based alerts

Set conditions in natural language. Get notified in Slack or email the moment a threshold is crossed in either Microsoft Teams or Planful.

Enterprise-grade security

SOC 2 Type II certified. Data flows encrypted in transit and at rest. Fine-grained permission controls with full audit logs.

Bidirectional sync

Push data from Microsoft Teams into Planful, or from Planful back into Microsoft Teams. Resolve conflicts with configurable merge rules.

Full audit trail

Every workflow run is logged — what ran, what changed, and why. Replay or revert any individual step at any time.

Triggers & actions for every team

Start automations from any event in Microsoft Teams or Planful—from budget submissions to channel messages to forecast locks.

Microsoft Teams
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

New message posted in channel

Trigger when a message is posted to a specific Teams channel or contains certain keywords.

Trigger

User @mentioned in conversation

Trigger when a specific user or group is mentioned in Teams messages or threads.

Trigger

File uploaded to channel

Trigger when documents or spreadsheets are shared in specified Teams channels or tabs.

Action

Post message to channel

Send formatted messages with financial data, links, and mentions to specific Teams channels.

Action

Create approval request

Generate adaptive card approvals in Teams with context and route responses back to systems.

Action

Update channel tab content

Refresh embedded dashboard links or report views in Teams channel tabs with latest data.

Planful
Triggers & Actions
Trigger

Budget or forecast submitted for approval

Trigger when users submit planning data through Planful workflows requiring management review.

Trigger

Variance threshold exceeded

Trigger when actual results deviate from budget or forecast by configured percentage or amount.

Trigger

Data load completed from ERP

Trigger when Planful finishes importing actuals from connected financial systems.

Action

Update planning assumptions

Write commentary, justifications, or driver values to specific planning line items or metadata.

Action

Change approval workflow status

Progress or reject approval steps in Planful based on external inputs or Teams responses.

Action

Generate financial report

Trigger report production in Planful and retrieve URLs or file exports for distribution.

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Planful

Ready to connect your stack?

Start syncing Microsoft Teams with Planful in minutes. Redbird handles the complexity of connecting collaboration and financial planning so your team can focus on analysis, not manual updates.

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