For years, project teams have relied on Excel and Power BI to manage schedule data. But using spreadsheets and dashboards for schedule analytics is slow, manual, and resource-heavy.
IQ‑Insights changes the game by delivering real-time, AI-powered schedule analysis—no spreadsheets, no dashboard builds, and no developer time required.
Why Excel + Power BI Fall Short for Schedule Analytics
1. Long Setup Time
With Excel and Power BI, you don’t get schedule analytics out of the box. Teams spend weeks—or even months—building dashboards, creating formulas, and maintaining custom templates.
2. Manual Maintenance
As projects evolve, dashboards break. Formulas need updating, new data sources require rework, and reporting becomes a never-ending cycle of patching and fixing.
3. No Built-in Schedule Intelligence
Schedule health checks, delay analysis, critical path shifts, and risk insights all require manual builds. There’s no plug-and-play solution for this in Excel or Power BI.
Why IQ‑Insights Is Better
Instant Setup
IQ‑Insights works out of the box. Upload your schedule export, and the platform handles the rest. No formulas, no modeling, no custom visuals.
Conversational AI
Ask questions like,
- “What’s driving the delay to Project X?”
- “Show me how the critical path changed.”
IQ‑Insights responds instantly with explanations you can actually use—no coding or dashboard design required.
Automatic Health & Change Tracking
IQ‑Insights monitors schedule health, tracks changes across versions, and highlights delay drivers—all automatically.
Real-Time Reporting
Reports are generated instantly with charts, tables, and natural-language summaries—ready to share with your team or client.
Zero Maintenance
Because IQ‑Insights is cloud-native, you never have to rebuild models or maintain dashboards. The system updates itself automatically.
Summary
| Feature | IQ‑Insights | Excel + Power BI |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment Speed | Live in hours | Weeks or months to build dashboards |
| Ease of Use | Plain‑language AI copilot, no training required | Requires ETL, data modeling, and advanced skills |
| Out-of-the-Box Health Checks | Built-in schedule quality & delay analytics | Must custom build metrics and visuals |
| Change Tracking | Automatic version comparison & delay detection | Manual version loads and data diffing |
| Reporting | Auto-generated, shareable narrative reports | Manual report creation and formatting |
| Maintenance Load | Zero—automatic updates included | High—requires constant dashboard upkeep |
| Cost Model | Flexible SaaS pricing, free to start | Software licenses plus developer and IT support |
The Bottom Line
If your team is tired of cobbling together spreadsheets and dashboards to understand schedule data, IQ‑Insights is the smarter path forward.
No build time. No maintenance headaches. Just real answers—instantly.
