Excel alternative
Excel and Intlexl, side by side.
Excel can model anything, which is why PMO workbooks drift: structure lives in formulas one person understands. Intlexl keeps the familiar grid, with its own formulas and Excel import and export, but makes owners, dates, hierarchy and dependencies real, so rollups, capacity and agents work without rebuilding the workbook.
Who is evaluating
PMOs running their projects out of spreadsheets that have become fragile, versioned by email, and costly to maintain.
Stay with Excel if
- The project list is small and one owner maintains the workbook comfortably.
- Ad hoc modelling matters more than shared structure and permissions.
- You do not need multi-user editing, history or approvals.
Consider Intlexl if
- Several versions of the truth circulate by email.
- Reporting means consolidating workbooks by hand each cycle.
- No one can say who is over-allocated next month without rebuilding a sheet.
How Intlexl approaches it
Four things a PMO is trying to do.
Keeping status current
The Status Chaser agent finds overdue, unfinished tasks, asks each owner in the app on a cadence you set, and records the answer, so a project manager is not the chase.
Visibility across projects
Dashboards, reports and the resource manager read across every plan in scope, so cross-project views are a live rollup rather than a report assembled by hand.
Resource capacity
Owners carry percentage allocations. The resource manager turns owners and dates into weekly utilisation per person, with over-allocation flagged.
Acting on what the data shows
Six PM agents run at Observe, Propose or Act, per agent. Every output is marked Automated or AI, and anything that changes your data waits for a person unless an administrator has enabled Act.
FAQ
Questions people ask.
Bring one plan. See it run.
In 30 minutes we set up a workspace like yours and show sheets, Gantt, dashboards, capacity and a PM agent at work.