Hallmark
From Cards to Calendars: Hallmark Enhances Visibility with OnePlan’s Project Tools
Company Overview
The Hallmark Global business sells greeting cards, gift wrap and related products in more than 30 languages with distribution in nearly 100 countries and 100,000 rooftops worldwide, including a network of company-owned and independently-owned Hallmark Gold Crown stores in five countries.​
Headquarters: Kansas City, Mo
Why OnePlan: Tailored flexibility with user-friendly interface to standardize processes and enforce governance with robust reporting.
Industy: Retail
Departments: Marketing
Featured Highlight
  • Schedule Management in Work Planner
  • Centralized document repositories
  • Custom workflows & governance
  • Seamless integration with Microsoft cloud technologies
  • Enterprise grade security
Top Challenges

Siloed operations within its IT Portfolio, as each department operated independently, leading to a lack of transparency, collaboration, governance and effective problem-solving

Customer Challenges

Hallmark was using Planview as their previous PPM solution. Planview was becoming too costly and complex to manage projects for the marketing team. The marketing team needed a new PPM solution that had the ability to schedule work for marketing teams without relying on multiple tools. They were looking for a  new solution that could support the team with formal project schedules and the ability to create templates for projects.

Integrations
OnePlan
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Teams
Solution

OnePlan’s easy-to-use technology with the capability of project scheduling attracted Hallmark’s marketing team to Oneplan. Hallmark can easily create templates for different projects. Integration capabilities with Project for the web, Office 365, and Microsoft Clouds provided more visibility to projects in a central location within OnePlan. With automated Power BI reports, Hallmark has the ability to create reports in specific formats to stay updated on the status of the projects. Within OnePlan, Hallmark can perform forecasting and what-if scenarios around project information especially around project schedules.

Customer Benefits:​
Simplify usage from the existing toolset
Simplified scheduling in OnePlan WorkPlan and Project for the web
Task Management focus for Team Members
Ability to access Power BI Reports for all stakeholders