Lucen Software

"I've written a review before on Office Timeline (now Lucen) and again it's incredibly frustrating to find features that I use now as part of my Plus plan will no longer be available to me when I eventually update the software. Whilst the software is useful, improvements have been made throught with improved UI etc, responsive customer service. I can't really fault these things, but the constant diminishing of features being hidden behind the most expensive plan is annoying. First, excel refresh was taken and hidden behind the top tier and now I find other features have moved behind the most expensive tier - the project performance tracking features which overlay progress bars and I've only noticed this as it's due time for my renewal. Please don't make this about to improve customer experience, you've noted down which features people use and have hidden them behind the top tier."

"Pure crap. there is no sync between the Powerpoint plug-in and the web app, plus you can't import Powerpoint. So you have to export to excel, then import to the web version. The expert version is so slow it's completely un-useable. Unless all users are premium you get a water mark on the web app, and unfortunately even once all users are premium you can't remove it without completely rebuilding the project. Lucen obviously has put more time in to monetizing the product than making sure it remains a value added product."

"Office timeline pro worked great, but when we upgraded to Expert the program runs so slow and sometime crashes to the point when sometimes I avoid using it."

"Too heavy. Ununderstandable restriction, e.g., unreasonable and uncustomizable space on the right in the slide."

"Really slow software. Not user-friendly. Making changes to the timelines is too manual - tasks need to be more automated."

"At the beginning was a little bit difficult to use it (I didn't saw any training videos), but after keep using the tool, it works great, very friendly, I love it. Just a comment, my laptop got slow after installing this add in, so I'm taking a look to see if this add in is causing the issue or not."

"It s a pretty handy tool, however I struggle sometimes to fit the timeline I ve created in a PPT slide for example...We often have to cxreate a screenshot of the schedule prior to insert it in a PPT page."

"This tool became indispensable in creating attractive visuals for executive presentations. It immediately added clarity and decreased the number of follow-up questions. Definitely worth adding to your "arsenal" of PM tools."

"I started using Office Timeline early 2018 and since then it has been my go-to tool for all my planning work. I've created more than 300 timelines these past years and I can't thank you enough for such a wondeful app"

"Office Timeline is an excellent tool for producing visually compelling timelines and plans. The presentation capabilities are the strongest suit of this PowerPoint Add-On. It is a valuable tool but does take some time to learn how to operate in order to generate the display qualities that you desire. One major limitation which should be understood is the page sizing which is restricted by the MS PowerPoint page orientation / parameters."

"Once you get used to it, it is quite easy to use. it looks great for HL timelines. Only downfall is the amount of info that you can fit on a slide, which is a PowerPoint issue, not a timeline issue. Very happy over all."

"The templates are not user friendly. Also I find it difficult to move the plan towards the top once it's completed. I would just like to move the whole thing around without having to re-do the boxes and everything else. It quite time consuming."

"Download and setup was simple. I used Office Timeline at my previous job and have gotten use to the differences between editing an Office Timeline slide and a regular PowerPoint slide. Once you are comfortable with that it is a breeze to setup and maintain. I love the new features, with actual vs. planned and the timeline edit is much improved over a couple of years ago. Also, so many new templates to choose from. My co-workers at my new job are very impressed with the professional timelines I am able to produce."

"Would be great if there was mac compatibiity. I am struggling with basic connection to Jira with the web app (your team is helping me! 5 stars for them)."

"I recommend Office Timeline to my colleagues. Office Timeline makes it easy to illustrate complex schedules and makes changes to schedules easy."

"The Edit timeline feature is actually so good. you drag things around and the dates just... update. dependencies follow along, you can see planned vs actual, critical path is right there. And you can add a new swimlane project directly on the timeline which sounds small but saves me every single day. not much else to say, it just works."

"I've mainly used the Smartsheet for tracking items/initiatives and the Office Timeline for the presentation part. Having them connected simplifies things and makes sense. I just pull it in and with a bit of time, tweaking the colors, formatting, and voilà the slides look right an ready to go. It's one of those things you don't really think about once it's set-up, saving you time throughout the day."

"Been using Office Timeline and honestly it just makes things way easier. Timelines look good without much effort and it saves me a ton of time. Super useful overall."

"Mac user: ineffective and very slow tool using PC and parallels desktop or a PC directly. Other item to resolve is the ability to link both plan and actual from different sheets - that can be shown on the same timeline schedule"