Powell Software

Powell Software sells a digital workplace that runs on Microsoft 365. Its homepage says the intranet runs entirely inside the customer's own Microsoft 365 tenant, with no migration, and the product pages describe a personalised homepage, multilingual publishing, search, self-service pages for HR, IT and communications, a mobile app, communities and analytics.

Powell Governance is a separate product for content governance and control by IT teams. The packaging has three tiers: Foundation, Boost and Advanced, with the higher tiers adding AI-assisted content creation, grounded AI assistants, dynamic knowledge bases and an MCP server architecture. It positions itself against building the same thing in SharePoint Online.

Powell Software SAS has its registered office at 36 rue du Sentier in Paris, SIREN 815 141 874, with Cyril de Quéral named as president and share capital of EUR 7,768,325 in its legal notice. The French company register shows the company created in December 2015.

The homepage shows ISO 27001 and a CyberVadis Gold medal, and says Powell was independently audited for security. Because the product runs in the customer's tenant, data location is whatever Microsoft 365 region the customer has chosen. The notice shows the marketing website itself is hosted by a US provider, which concerns the site rather than the customer data.

No prices are published. The pricing page says plans are priced by user count on a custom quote, with a demo and a virtual product tour offered.

A rollout can take days for a basic setup and about four months for an enterprise with more than 1,000 employees, according to the vendor. Powell suits organisations already committed to Microsoft 365 that want a better intranet without moving content out of their tenant. It is a weak fit for a company that does not use Microsoft 365, because the product assumes that tenant.

What Powell Software does well

• Runs inside the customer's own Microsoft 365 tenant with no migration
• Separate Powell Governance product for IT-side content control
• ISO 27001 and a CyberVadis Gold medal shown on the homepage
• Multilingual publishing and a personalised homepage by role and location
• French SAS with a published register number and named president

Where Powell Software falls short

• No prices published; plans are quoted by user count
• Requires Microsoft 365, so it is a poor fit without it
• Data residency follows the customer's Microsoft tenant, not a Powell choice
• Higher AI features sit on the upper tiers

Standout feature. An intranet that runs entirely inside the customer's Microsoft 365 tenant, from a French company, with governance sold as a separate product.