Microsoft Project alternative
Microsoft Project and Intlexl, side by side.
Microsoft Project is built around the schedule. Intlexl keeps schedule logic (four dependency types, lag, a calculated critical path, and what-if through the assistant) and adds what surrounds it: live multi-user editing, dashboards across projects, resource capacity from owners and dates, and agents that keep status current. Project files saved as XML (MSPDI) import as sheets.
Who is evaluating
Schedule-led PMOs that want to keep dependency logic and add visibility across projects and live status without routing every change through one scheduler.
Stay with MS Project if
- Deep resource levelling and advanced scheduling are the core of your practice.
- Your delivery model depends on desktop files and offline scheduling.
- A small number of specialists own the schedule and that works well.
Consider Intlexl if
- Schedules are accurate but stale because updates wait on one person.
- Stakeholders need cross-project views the scheduling tool does not produce.
- Capacity clashes surface after the fact rather than as plans change.
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.