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Microsoft Outcome Management
What it is
Microsoft Outcome Management is a free, open-source template app for nonprofits, built on Microsoft Power Platform. It helps teams set programme goals and indicators, measure results and combine impact across activities. Users can create individual and organizational constituent records, including participant and stakeholder demographics, relationships, contacts and communication preferences. The app follows programme and project lifecycles from strategic objectives through stakeholder measurement, while allowing teams to define outputs, outcomes and results. Indicator values can store baseline, actual or target measurements over time and link to participants through benefit-recipient records. Its data foundation is the open-source Common Data Model for Nonprofits, intended to support interoperability and transparency. The maker describes connections with other applications through Power Platform data flow. Deployment requires installing the Common Data Model first, then building and importing the solution into Dataverse with .NET and Power Platform CLI. A GitHub build imported over an AppSource or PPAC build becomes an in-place managed upgrade, after which the customer owns future updates.
For and against
For
- Free and open source
- Tracks goals, indicators and outcomes
- Stores constituent and stakeholder records
- Supports lifecycle-based programme data
- Built on Common Data Model
Against
- Requires Dataverse deployment
- Common Data Model installation required first
- Needs .NET and Power Platform CLI
- GitHub migration ends automatic updates
The verdict
Outcome Management provides a structured nonprofit framework for linking programmes, constituents and measured impact. Deployment and ongoing update ownership require technical planning.
Who it suits
This app is for nonprofit teams and partners building programme-measurement solutions on Dataverse and Power Platform. It suits users able to manage the listed development tools and deployment steps.
On the record
- Constituent records
- Users can track individual and organizational constituents, including participants and stakeholders, with demographics, relationships, contact methods, and communication preferences.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Customization
- The maker describes the app as an extensible template designed to help partners build program measurement solutions for nonprofit customers.microsoft.github.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Data foundation
- Outcome Management is built on the open-source Common Data Model for Nonprofits, which Microsoft describes as supporting interoperability and data transparency.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The solution is built on Dataverse and can be imported into a Power Platform environment using Power Platform CLI.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Deployment environment
- The guide describes building and importing the solution into a Dataverse environment using .NET and Power Platform CLI.microsoft.github.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment prerequisite
- Microsoft instructs users to install Common Data Model for Nonprofits before installing Outcome Management.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Goals and indicators
- The app lets program managers establish goals and indicators, measure results, aggregate impact across programs, and share outcomes with stakeholders.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Indicator measurements
- Indicator values can record baseline, actual, or target measurements over time and can be linked to program participants through benefit recipient records.learn.microsoft.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Microsoft says the Common Data Model and Power Platform foundation lets Outcome Management connect with other platforms and applications, but the page does not name specific integrations.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Migration constraint
- For migration from the managed AppSource or PPAC version, the guide requires a managed build at the same or higher version and warns that customers own future updates after importing their build.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Product type
- Outcome Management is an extensible, model-driven template app built on Microsoft Power Platform.microsoft.github.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Program lifecycle
- The app manages key information across program and project lifecycles, from strategic objectives to stakeholder measurement.microsoft.github.io · read 4 Oct 2026
- Program lifecycles
- The app manages information across program and project lifecycles, from strategic objectives to stakeholder measurement.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Outcome Management is an extensible, model-driven template app on Microsoft Power Platform that helps nonprofits measure and understand program impact.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Results tracking
- Its Results page tracks outputs, outcomes, and impacts for delivery frameworks, with results configurable in a hierarchy.learn.microsoft.com · read 9 Oct 2026
- Technical requirements
- The build guide lists .NET SDK 4.6.2 or later, the latest .NET and Power Platform CLI, Node.js 18.18.0 or later, and a Dataverse environment with required permissions.microsoft.github.io · read 9 Oct 2026
- Update ownership
- After importing a GitHub build during migration, the environment leaves the AppSource automatic update channel and the customer owns future updates.microsoft.github.io · read 4 Oct 2026
