OpenProject closes the gap by allowing users to create custom table views very similar to Excel while providing full collaboration and professional project management features. When taking the next step from a rough project plan to actual project collaboration and implementation, OpenProject is the optimal solution. While initial top-down project planning may be possible in Excel, effective project execution is not due to the lack of collaboration, user management and workflows. While there are templates to address this, Gantt charts with complex dependencies often cannot be displayed in a good way.
Excel also offers limited options when it comes to Gantt chart creation: Easy visualization is therefore not possible.Users are not notified about projects, milestones or work packages they are assigned to. Due to the lack of automation, no effective assignment to project members is possible.While it is now possible for more than one user to work on a spreadsheet at the same time, it becomes increasingly challenging with the rising complexity of a project. Excel provides only limited collaboration.However, while widely used, Excel has several limitations when it comes to effective project management: When companies introduce project management, it is only logical that many start out with Excel. The application is often already installed and users are already familiar with it.
Excel is a widely used standard application.