Testimonials

Why customers love Lucen Software

Customer feedback is what motivates us to make Lucen Software a better project reporting tool. Check out some of the reactions top project managers have had once they made the switch to Lucen Software.

What customers tell us

By far the best tool to create professional timelines for stakeholders.

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"Timeline is a great tool for creating visually appealing and easy-to-understand PowerPoint schedules. The ability to import existing data into Timeline (e.g. MS Project) and then edit is invaluable. I use this on a weekly basis and would not want to be without it!"
Christer Hiort, PMP
Director of Project Operations
Ericsson
"I am constantly required to provide executive-level views of project plans in an uncomplicated way. Lucen Timeline makes vibrant, easy to understand Gantt charts, and the import and refresh functionality make it a must-have application in my project toolkit."
Kegan Copas
Program lead
SQWARE PEG
"I love this software. This product saves a Project Manager so much time. There are circumstances where you don't need a full-blown project plan, or even a WBS, you just want a simple yet elegant Timeline to show your clients. This is the solution."
Brad Teeters
Manager of operations, PMO
Core BTS
"It looks sleek. Using Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] is quickly changing the way things look, the colors, the styles. Even though we've got consistency of color palette, of where everything goes on the slide, and how we're going to use it, people do have the ability to quickly change it. It’s adaptable while keeping everyone consistent, and that's what we needed it to be."
Matt Russell
R&D Program Manager
Reckitt
"Lucen Timeline creates professional project schedules by reducing often complicated information and presenting it in an easy-to-digest PowerPoint slide. The ease with which a person can quickly pick up Lucen Timeline and instantly create timelines is remarkable."
Peter Mar
Construction Management
CRB
"Over my career I have managed many projects using various project tools, but to create timelines I now use Lucen Timeline. It’s simple and easy to use, and it quickly produces impressive looking executive timelines for my clients, board and teams."
Geoff Hales
Director
Barnewall Resources Pty Ltd.
"Simple to use. Excellent look and feel. This product is very simple, stunning to see and use. It is a great tool everyone can make complex tasks visual and show co-dependencies. I've used it in customer information as well as internal documentation within our organization."
David Myers
"Great tool, perfect for reporting – Perfect tool to show roadmaps. The designs are so easy to customize. It really improved my overall reporting. It also features "predecessors" and other dependencies, where changing the duration of a wp by x changes another by that amount!"
Rui Carvalho
"This tool is very useful to publish macro schedule in Client or Top Management presentation. The critical path functionality is a key function to gain time and efforts and to facilitate the decision making."
Paul Lambert
"This is a super intuitive way to create an executive level summary of a project's timeline. I've used in executive briefings to explain project dependencies and inform of impending preparatory work that will be required. Super helpful!"
Jamie Tuggle
"If you're doubting to get this tool, just get it. It makes super easy to use Gantt charts and timelines, it's easy to change the template and edit it right in PowerPoint. In consulting where our timelines change frequently, it is very easy to keep our clients up-to-date on project progress and illustrate dependencies. "
Carter Boyle
"Excellent and easy-to-use tool. MS Project import worked seamlessly. Creates PowerPoint documents that anyone can view, even if they don't have Lucen Timeline. Absolutely no complaints."
Rob Alexander
"Freedom for PMs – Lucen Timeline gives me a lot of freedom as a PM. A lot of times at the beginning of a project, you don't have the timeline nailed down, or you want to see scenarios and high-level overviews of what the timeline looks like. Lucen Timeline has been key for this. I love being able to import from Project and give clients and executives an easy-to-read 8-week look ahead of projects. I’ve barely touched the surface of the product, but thus far I have no complaints."
Stefanie Lannan
"Five stars for project management reporting – Every project manager on our team loves Lucen Timeline! We use Lucen Timeline in project meetings and for reporting project status on a weekly basis. We leverage the MS Project import function heavily so our slides can reflect the schedule's reality in a more digestible format while keeping our project teams informed."
Kiera Mcnelis
"Excellent tool for Gantt chart and timeline creation. The ease of use and the ability to import and sync data from MS Project and Smartsheet make Lucen Timeline a great tool!"
Dorit Berlin
"I really like using Lucen Timeline! I am a visual person, and so it is helpful to view the project's progress and definitely helps to identify bottlenecks slowing down progress. To be able to take an entire schedule and view it in one PowerPoint slide is groundbreaking. The fact that you can import your Excel spreadsheet and don't have to type everything all over again in PowerPoint is truly what makes this PowerPoint add-on a game-changer. Thanks!"
Sharon Reynolds
"Amazing. Couldn't believe that such a product exists. In just a few clicks I have in my hands a powerful presentation with a timeline that being a project or an entire program. I took off my hands hours of work with Lucen Timeline. Very easy to use, great templates and highly customizable."
Michel Michaelides
"The ability to quickly create visual artifacts to show scope and timeline is impressive! I love the ability to quickly and effectively present a timeline in PPT. The predefined "styles"& templates help speed up the process dramatically. I have used it for internal and client-facing presentations, and the visual clarity it brings helps to pull the audience's attention back - when the volume of data is overwhelming."
Frank Callanan
"The software is fantastic, saves so much time and editing is so easy. The software is really user-friendly and has so many great features and options / templates. I used to create these charts from scratch before and it took a lot of time and edits were not easy."
Damien Rosney
"The templates for timelines were very user-friendly and provided me with fantastic optics! I look forward to my continual use of this product!"
Paul Connell
"This is a great tool for automating creation of project roadmaps and other timetable visualizations. The built-in templates also have a nice selection of design elements and scenarios to choose from. Making changes and updates is also quite intuitive. Overall, this has helped create consistency in the outputs within the team I am a part of, who all use this as well. This also makes our work more efficient as opposed to the tediousness of shifting, resizing, etc. of chevrons or shapes if done manually."
Bjorn Andrew Chua
"Excellent and efficient! Very straightforward and simple add-on with stellar outputs. A must-have for Project Managers or Executive presenting Timelines. I will add that I was also pleasantly impressed by Lucen Timeline’s latest offering (swimlanes). Kudos to their work and ongoing success."
Alan Roney
"Saves hours! I love how simple it is to create timelines with Lucen Timeline. The feature I like the most is the swimlanes. This tool saved me hours of PowerPoint empirical search."
David Salvatore
"Lucen Timeline makes it possible to create timelines and Gantt charts very fast, easy, and overseeable. Even complex multilayered swimlanes are handled with ease. I started to use it in the company, and meanwhile, many who are also in need to create charts have started to use it as well. Very recommendable."
Tobias Appenzeller
"Lucen Timeline is simple to use, gives you lots of flexibility, and looks great. Not all my customers can understand complex Gantt charts, but they all love simple-to-read timelines. The swimlanes allow you to add more information while keeping it easy to understand."
Damian Cast
"I love this tool! Thank you! I tried others, and this tool is so intuitive and efficient for maintaining many projects and the interdependencies between multiple projects. The swimlanes were a hit during presentations, and now others want this. It makes the user look good in addition to the ease of use."
Trish Wilson
"Lucen Timeline is the best project management tool I have every used. The amount of information that can be packed into a single PowerPoint slide is astounding. The micro-fine control I have over all the visual elements allows me to organize a project plan into a visual tool to communicate milestones, major tasks, critical paths, and status is invaluable. If you are not using this tool for project management, you are truly missing out."
Dan Milliorn
"Great tool to visually present project tasks, milestones, and progress."
Esther van der Linde
"It’s perfect for presentations to colleagues and investors. It shows milestones and tasks clearly."
Jordan Pollack
"This is an amazing plugin. Super intuitive. It's both great for a polished view as well as "whiteboarding" timelines with the visual view. You can drag milestones and tasks around in relation to one another and dates will auto-calculate on the fly. I was able to scramble an entire portfolio of deployment dates and have a clean output in real time."
Klay Jones
"Storytelling at your fingertips – This product makes summarizing project timelines and milestones a breeze. It’s customization is completely unique and allows you to really tell a story to both members of a project team as well as C Suite execs or stakeholders. I love it so much I bought it with my own money and use it every single day."
Reem Alzubeidi
"This is a unique product and helps us quickly communicate project timeline with milestones much better than any other product, commercial, open-source or home-grown."
Gary Roby
Faster decisions through clearer executive visibility
"We've used it for long enough that I don't know how we would be able to quickly demonstrate where we are in the project and what the forecast and work streams look like without a tool like Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline]."

Complex programs generate a constant flow of updates, but without a consistent way to surface what matters, leadership discussions revolve around interpretation rather than action. Lucen Timeline changes that by giving leadership a shared, structured view of progress, dependencies, and forecasts. What once took over an hour to prepare now takes 15 minutes, shifting conversations from "What are we looking at?" to "What do we do next?"

Amy Bales
VP, Project Manager III
BOK Financial
Standardized signals that accelerate cross-business decisions
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] is helping us absorb a great deal of information much more quickly. With Lucen Timeline, it was a 'win-win' for everyone involved."

At scale, the real bottleneck isn't data availability, but comparability. When each team reports differently, leadership spends time normalizing inputs before any meaningful evaluation can happen. Lucen Timeline removes that translation layer, cutting executive project review time by half and allowing initiatives to be assessed side by side, with risks and dependencies understood in context rather than in isolation.

Peter Taylor
Head of Global PMO
Aptos
Financial data that can be trusted, not just compiled
"We've used it for long enough that I don't know how we would be able to quickly demonstrate where we are in the project and what the forecast and work streams look like without a tool like Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline]."

At BOK Financial, communicating project progress and forecasts required constant manual effort across multiple stakeholders. Reporting cycles were time-consuming, and each update required rebuilding views from fragmented inputs. With Lucen Timeline, project data is transformed into consistent, structured visuals that make reporting more reliable and repeatable. For finance stakeholders, this means greater confidence in the accuracy and comparability of reporting inputs, reducing ambiguity and supporting more informed evaluation of cost, performance, and emerging risk.

Amy Bales
VP, Project Manager III
BOK Financial
Cost visibility that supports pricing & profitability decisions
"Another significant benefit of using Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] is that I receive weekly reports directly in my inbox… Ultimately, this helps ensure that we are pricing our projects correctly."

For DACI, tracking time across long-running projects was essential to understanding cost distribution and maintaining pricing accuracy. Without structured data, financial decisions relied heavily on assumptions and fragmented reporting. With Lucen Track, time tracking becomes consistent, structured, and directly connected to project delivery. Weekly automated reports replace manual consolidation, and integrated Power BI analysis creates a clearer reconciliation between effort and cost across projects and teams, turning operational data into a trusted input for financial control and decision-making.

Adam Fraser
Technical Manager
DACI
"Give-back has been such an important and fundamental part of our company culture ever since we started. The Pledge 1% philosophy is very much aligned with that ethos. We are grateful to be a part of this community of like-minded businesses who also prioritize philanthropy."
Jonny Stumbles
VP Customer Success
Lucen Timeline
"In the finance department, categorizing hours into development time is crucial, and Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] allows us to associate these hours with their respective costs through hourly rates. This way we have an overview of how our company is doing."
Alex
Business Analyst
Spectral Energy
Executive communication & visibility
"We've used it for long enough that I don't know how we would be able to quickly demonstrate where we are in the project and what the forecast and work streams look like without a tool like Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline]."

With structured visual planning, complex programs become easier to explain, forecast, and defend. Project leaders accelerate stakeholder alignment and deliver decision-ready updates – without rebuilding presentations every week.

Amy Bales
VP, Project Manager III
BOK Financial
"That’s why I chose Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye]; it’s very easy to use, the interface is intuitive, and my team actually uses it."
Michael Hancock
Lawyer
KLME
"It’s a core part of my management style and one of the key tools that I have my employees use to help them look ahead and manage their individual projects."
Kenward
Senior Project Manager
Healthcare software company
"Once we tried Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye], its simplicity and seamless integration into our workflow won us over. We've never looked back!"
Dan Trotter
Co-founder
PPC Geeks
"Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] has been a game changer for us because it is very user-friendly, making it a consistent presence throughout the years."
Leighe Weifert
Vice President of Product Development and Operations
TIPMed
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] is helping us absorb a great deal of information much more quickly. With Lucen Timeline, it was a 'win-win' for everyone involved."
Peter Taylor
Head of Global PMO
Aptos
"Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] is the ideal solution for us because it seamlessly integrates with our tech stack, and my team actually uses it."
Per Lolk
Managing Director
ECIT Automate
Client trust built through visual clarity
"Using this tool has saved me heaps of time and allowed me to get the right visualization for our clients, whether that's for an executive board meeting, a SteerCo, or a weekly team update meeting. It's the best tool out there for planning visualization."

For Precision Project Partners, credibility was hard-won in every client meeting. With Lucen Timeline, complex project data became a clear, audience-ready visual in minutes – tailored to the room without being rebuilt for it. Clients saw a plan they could understand instantly. The engagement opened with alignment, not confusion.

Jamie Christer
Founder & Director
Precision Project Partners
"Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] is crucial to our invoicing process because it serves as our source of truth for billing data."
Wlodek Bielski
CEO and co-founder
Pure Company
"We are using the Power BI integration to link Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] and Microsoft Planner together, allowing us to view the job description, our quoted costs, purchase orders, and profitability. I must say, it’s incredibly easy to integrate Track with Power BI! I don't have any coding experience, but I was able to download the connector and connect the two platforms without any issues."
Adam Fraser
Technical manager
DACI
High adoption without added support burden
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] could take a very complex project and boil it down into something that people around the world could understand, regardless of language barriers, time zone differences, or other challenges going on. That was my first experience with the tool."

After introducing Lucen Timeline on a high-stakes project, adoption spread organically across the organization. Teams started using it without requiring a structured rollout because the value was immediate. Tasks that once took three to four hours were reduced by more than 80%. At the same time, IT avoided the typical increase in support requests that often comes with new tool adoption. The result was more consistent outputs across teams and a shared standard for communicating plans across both technical and executive audiences.

Heather
Technology Manager
Fortune 500 Technology Company
"I spent a couple of months researching and testing different solutions for simple time tracking with automatic calendar capture for our team. Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] turned out to be the best solution we tested. Simple, not filled with hundreds of useless settings, and it has exactly what you need."
Boris K.
Head of Digital Transformation
"It is easy to use to track my time. When I invoice clients, it helps me get a quick tally of monthly hours. I like the simplicity of Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye], and I trust it. That is essential when my income is based on billable hours."
Sara B.
CEO, Marketing & Advertising
No more manual timeline rework
"If we can help someone avoid the painful exercise of lining up a bunch of boxes on a PowerPoint slide over and over again, that's a huge win for us."
Jennifer Greenough
Deputy Director, Project and Portfolio Management
PATH CVIA
"I love Lucen Track (formerly Timeneye) I use it every day; it allows me to have real control of my time with my clients. Without data, we cannot make the right decisions for our businesses, and time is our most valuable resource. Useful, practical reports. Incredible."
Wajari V.
SEO Consultant
"70 employees in different roles — project management, account management, sales, development, testing — can easily log their time. Very intuitive, and therefore very little training needed for new team members."
Helmut P.
Head of Account Management
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] is an amazing software that allows a large amount of data and information to be communicated in a graphic format. It is highly integrated with MS Project, Excel and PowerPoint. We are incorporating Lucen Timeline in our new business to demonstrate health care issues to providers and systems, that are typically done via pages of text. Timelines in 1-2 pages can easily tell a story over time that shows where there is great care or care that needs improvement."
Jeffery Thomas MD
"I'm incredibly pleased with this PowerPoint add-in. It makes taking complex projects (which we all run) and communicating project status and next milestones incredibly simple. It's easy to use, intuitive and connects with Excel, MS Project, and Smartsheet."
Anthony Reese
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] is one of the best office plug-ins I've ever used, if not the best one. It saves me so much time creating great looking roadmaps and Gantt charts for PowerPoint. I really appreciate how easy it is to update the data and make changes to formatting, while having the ability to save changes to the data in Excel or Smartsheet for further use. This was well worth the cost of the paid version for me!"
Judy Lai-Norling
"The biggest advantage of this add-on is its ability to connect timelines outlined from either MS Excel or MS Office and translate them into a visual timeline generated into MS PowerPoint. Therefore, any changes made into the MS Excel / MS Project timelines can be easily reflected into the visual PowerPoint timeline within the click of a button (the ‘Refresh Data’ button). This program has made it easy for me to present and communicate, changing timelines quickly and efficiently. The program also allows a variety of visual customizations for timelines generated on PowerPoint. This program has been very beneficial for me as a project manager."
Earl Lagmay
"Fantastic tool for bridging internal planning tools (Excel, Smartsheet) with a clean presentation to our clients. Great work Team Lucen Timeline!"
Jason Petras
"As we use Jira and Scrum for our projects, Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] helped us bring the epics on a timeline and then for each epic the most important user stories also in a timeline. Very nice, easy and fancy."
Nurol Arslan
"Great professional looking timeline. Integrates well with Wrike. Impressed stakeholders with the final product."
Andrew Lypko
"The tool is easy to use, and the integration to MS Excel and MS Project are valuable functionalities."
Andre Carrara
"I have been using the plugin for 5 years already. Favorite way to make timelines for PowerPoint slides, compatible also with plans made in Excel, Smartsheet, Microsoft Project."
Ruxandra Plesca
"The tool provides good visuals, an easy integration with Excel and Smartsheet."
Ash Pandit
"Excellent product. It saved me days in creating, maintaining, and changing POAP/timelines at work. Effortless import from MS Project, Excel, or Google with an easy-to-navigate menu and options. Even when the file is renamed, you just select a new name, and it will update the previously created timeline. Annoyed I didn’t get this sooner."
John Coyle
"Very helpful for summarizing complex timelines. I use it with Wrike, and it works great."
Eric van Tassle
Simple visuals for complex projects
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] was one of the best finds in my career. As a program manager interacting with senior leaders, I found it challenging to provide simple PowerPoint visuals of complicated projects. Lucen Timeline does exactly that. It is easy to use, saves me time and produces professional looking timelines. I would recommend this to any program or project manager who leads a large project with multiple dependencies."
Jineesh P R
Sr. Technical Program Manager
Amdocs Development Ltd
Finally, a better way to build timelines
"Do you live in PowerPoint? I frequently have sales decks, pitch decks, project summaries, and dozens of other materials which require timelines. I've done them in Excel, MS Project, Word, and the hard way, using drawings in PowerPoint, but by far the best tool I have used to create quick, easy, professional looking timelines is Timeline. It will make your presentations pop."
Thomas Simkiss
Director of Cloud Solutions
Creoal Consulting LLC
Easy high-level project schedules
"As a Project Manager in a global organization, I share high-level project schedules with stakeholders constantly, so I need a tool that's fast, simple, and produces clear results. Lucen Timeline Online [formerly Office Timeline Online] delivers on every count. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone building project schedules for executive audiences."
Marek Novotny
Senior IT Project Manager
Better presentations, less effort
"Simplicity drives efficiency and Lucen Timeline Online [formerly Office Timeline Online] does exactly that. I have been using it for the past 1 year and it has helped me deliver better customer presentations, far more efficiently than any other tool. It is now an integral part of my daily work and I cannot do without it."
Anup Babu, PMP
Associate Vice President - Technical Delivery
Candela Labs
Quick, clear timelines made easy
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] makes it simple to quickly create remarkable PowerPoint Timelines. It has a wide variety of stylish templates to choose from and my timelines are constantly getting compliments from management and customers. The ability for me to quickly and easily update a timeline for a project or presentation sets this software apart from any other product on the market. Well worth the money. In a word... #OfficeTimelineRocks!"
John Panico
Senior Manager
Hitachi Solutions
High-level clarity without the noise
"I managed a particularly challenging project and needed to create nice graphical timelines for exec reviews. The Timeline add-in provided me with a tool that quickly created impressive PowerPoint timelines in an easy-to-understand visual. It allowed me to effectively present high-level timelines to executives who did not need to see, or want to see, all the minutia and complexity of my project."
Mary Marshall
Lead project manager
FUJIFILM Medical Systems
End-to-end timeline visibility
"Lucen Timeline [formerly Office Timeline] helps 200 of our project managers clearly visualize some of the world’s most challenging timelines as our teams work to develop new medicines for patients."
Hannah Stott
Director, Global Portfolio and Project Management
AstraZeneca
Invoicing accuracy built on clean time data
"While we typically don't use our time reports for client billing, for those extensive projects spanning from 6 months to 2 years, Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] is invaluable for cost tracking... With Lucen Track, we can transparently present who contributed to the project and the hours invested. This level of transparency is something our clients truly value."

For DACI, accurate time tracking across long-running projects became the foundation for transparent, defensible client conversations. With Lucen Track, hours logged across projects, phases, and team members became structured data that justified pricing decisions and demonstrated the real value of every engagement – building the kind of client trust that sustains long-term relationships.

Adam Fraser
Technical Manager
DACI
Operational accountability & delivery performance
"Another significant benefit of using Lucen Track [formerly Timeneye] is that I receive weekly reports directly in my inbox… Ultimately, this helps ensure that we are pricing our projects correctly."

By replacing spreadsheets with structured time tracking and Power BI integration, DACI gained a clear, structured picture of how hours were distributed across projects, teams, and phases. Weekly automated reports replaced manual data consolidation – giving leadership the utilization insight needed to make informed delivery decisions, not just end-of-project reckonings.

Adam Fraser
Technical Manager
DACI
Easy high-level project schedules
"As a Project Manager in a global organization, I share high-level project schedules with stakeholders constantly, so I need a tool that's fast, simple, and produces clear results. Lucen Timeline Online [formerly Office Timeline Online] delivers on every count. I'd strongly recommend it to anyone building project schedules for executive audiences."
Marek Novotny
Senior IT Project Manager
"I absolutely love the Timeline PowerPoint add-in [formerly Office Timeline]! It is so very easy to use, very flexible and creates beautiful timelines quickly! It has been a valuable productivity tool for me and I highly recommend it."
Barbara Niksch
Medical Device Clinical & Regulatory Consultant
"Timeline has become an invaluable part of my toolset to create attractive and effective timeline slides for my clients. Since it runs in a browser, I am able to use it across both my Windows and Mac machines very easily."
Jeff Steadman
Iam strategist
Identropy
"As a marketing manager, I need to create marketing timelines in PowerPoint for my quarterly presentations. Timeline is a great tool for this. It is so easy to use, and it provides features and automation I just can’t get from Excel."
Karen Morris
Marketing Manager
Apogee Interactive
"I have been using Timeline for the past few years. The software is very well integrated into PowerPoint, and it has saved me a ton of time in preparing project updates for important executive reviews."
Philippe Giroux, PMP
VP of Transformation & IT Business Solutions
Aubainerie
Early user feedback
"You guys fill a huge gap in the PowerPoint space. I loved how easy it was to create. It took me under an hour, most of that was me thinking through the process, not the tool."
Derek McCauley
HEAD OF FIRM INTEGRATION
UNITED CAPITAL WEALTH
Verified beta user feedback
"Lucen Plan cut our project planning time in half and gave us visibility we never had before. Our PMO now delivers consistent reports across teams, and because it's all in Excel, adoption was instant."
James M.
PMO DIRECTOR
IT SERVICES
"The minute I got my first look at the product and saw the revolutionary changes it could bring to our project reporting process, I knew that including it as part of our PMO toolkit was a complete no-brainer."
Peter Taylor
Head of Global PMO
Aptos
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