| Capability | Kadence | Microsoft Places |
|---|---|---|
| Stack and scenario planning. Model floors, teams and cost before you commit. | Yes | No |
| Move scheduling and execution. Turn an approved plan into scheduled moves. | Yes | No |
| Occupancy data. Bookings, badges, Wi-Fi and sensors in one view. | Yes | Stated |
| Desk and room booking. The daily layer for every employee. | Yes | Stated |
| Visitor management. Invite, register, host and audit. | Yes | No |
| Mobile apps. Book, check in and see who's in from a phone. | Yes | Stated |
| Neighborhood manager and controls. Give teams their own zones, schedules and rules. | Yes | Stated |
| Floor plan editing. Update your own floor plans as the office changes. | Yes | No |
| Smart suggestions for when to join colleagues. Help people pick the days their team is in. | Yes | Stated |
| Announcements. Reach the right people with office news. | Yes | No |
| Events. Bring people in for the moments that matter. | Yes | Stated |
| Surveys. Hear from employees about the office. | Yes | No |
| Custom dashboard reporting. Build the reports your leaders ask for. | Yes | No |
| Open MCP for your own AI assistants. Your company's AI assistants acting on workplace data. | Yes | No |
| AI for end users. Employees booking and getting help with AI. | Yes | Stated |
| AI for admins. Workplace and real estate teams using AI to analyze and plan. | Yes | Stated |
"Yes" means Kadence offers it, "Stated" means the vendor states it publicly as of October 2026, and "No" means it is not stated publicly, or is only announced, in preview or via outside BI tools.
Kadence works inside Microsoft 365: in Teams, through an Outlook add-in that books rooms with two-way calendar sync, and with sign-in through Microsoft Entra ID. Places covers work plans, in-person events and booking in Outlook and Teams. Kadence adds visitor management, space planning and moves, and Kadence Agent check-ins feed the same occupancy data that planning runs on. Tell us how you use Places today and we will show where each one fits.
Microsoft lists Places core features for Microsoft 365 Business, Microsoft 365 and Office 365 E1, E3 and E5, education, frontline and Teams plans: work plans, in-person events, room and desk pool booking, desk assignment and Places analytics. Since April 1, 2026, Microsoft licenses these per space: individual desk booking, auto-release and occupancy reports for a desk need a Microsoft Teams Shared Space or Shared Space Single Space license, and auto-release and occupancy reports for a room need a Teams Rooms or Shared Space license. Customers with an active Teams Premium subscription keep those features until renewal. Copilot room booking needs a Microsoft Copilot license. Kadence bills by active user; see kadence.co/pricing for details.
Yes. Kadence leads on AI for the workplace, and it's built into the platform rather than bolted on as a chatbot. Kadence MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to Kadence, so people book desks, rooms and parking, invite visitors, and ask occupancy and planning questions from the assistants they already use, each signed in with your SSO and working under their own permissions. Kadence AI also works in Teams and Slack, and admins get the SpaceOps AI planning agent with guided workflows to restack, consolidate or find space for a team. In Places, Microsoft says Copilot recommends rooms, rebooks them when meetings change and suggests the best days to come in. Copilot room booking needs a Microsoft Copilot license.
We did not find visitor management in Microsoft's Places documentation or on its product page. In Kadence, visitor management is part of WorkOps: hosts invite guests, guests register and check in at a kiosk or by QR code, and admins keep a central log of every visit.
Microsoft describes Places analytics for planned versus actual attendance and for room and desk use. We did not find stack planning, scenarios or move management in its documentation. Kadence SpaceOps builds scenarios and stack plans on live occupancy, and Move Manager turns the approved plan into seat moves.
Last reviewed: Oct 2026
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