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Many organizations invest in powerful planning systems, but only planners ever log in. Everyone else works from exported files that are out of date almost as soon as they’re sent. That leads to confusion about “which version is correct” and forces planners to spend time maintaining static reports instead of managing the plan. Gantt by Profitbase connects to the same data that feeds your planning tool and visualizes it as an interactive Gantt chart inside Power BI—without turning Power BI into yet another place to maintain plans. Planners remain in charge of changes, while managers and team leads can explore timelines, drill into tasks, and stay informed through the reports they already use.

Traditional Power BI visuals aren’t designed for project timelines. It’s hard to show multi‑level work breakdown structures, dependencies, milestones, and “curtains” for shutdown periods or holidays in a way that project managers recognize. The result is often a mix of tables and charts that still don’t look like a proper Gantt chart. Gantt by Profitbase is built specifically for this use case: it supports unlimited and ragged hierarchies, multiple milestones per task, static events, event ranges shown as curtains, and dynamic event markers pulled directly from your data. You can format each hierarchy level differently, zoom the timeline from years down to minutes, and add extra columns for status, owners, or KPIs—so everyone sees the project in the structure they’re used to, but with the interactivity of Power BI.

If every manager can edit dates and durations wherever they view the plan, it quickly becomes impossible to know which version is the truth. Changes to one task can impact others in ways that are hard to see, and ad‑hoc edits in reporting tools undermine data integrity and governance. Gantt by Profitbase is intentionally not a planning tool. It is a read‑only Power BI visual: managers and stakeholders view and interact with the plan, but any changes must still go through the dedicated planning system. Combined with the fact that the visual is Microsoft‑certified and runs in a sandboxed Power BI environment, this gives you a secure way to distribute sensitive project data at scale without opening up uncontrolled edit paths.