Lucen Timeline Add-in
Lucen Timeline is a powerful add-in for PowerPoint that helps business professionals quickly turn complex project data into clear, eye-catching visuals that executives and stakeholders will easily understand.
challenge
Presenting the outline of a project to stakeholders, execs or team members has always represented a major pain point for project managers. Usual project management tools produce visuals that are either too complex or unappealing and creating one from scratch is a time-consuming ordeal.
Frustrated by this experience, two project managers envisioned a timeline maker that works directly in PowerPoint and approached RomSoft to help them develop their product idea, called Office Timeline.
technologies
Programming Language:
C#
Technology & Framework:
.NET 4.8, VSTO, WPF
Azure technologies (Azure Insights, App Services,
Azure Storage, Azure Functions)
solution
The RomSoft engineers agreed to take on the project and, since 2012, Office Timeline and RomSoft have been working together in a strategic partnership to build the world’s best timeline and Gantt chart maker. Over the years, the Office Timeline project team in Iasi has grown to around 70 people covering not just Development but also UX, Marketing, Support and Sales.
With new powerful features released constantly, Office Timeline has quickly become the timeline creator most popular with professionals, with more than 3 million users around the world.
Today, the app is the only project management tool that creates native PowerPoint Gantt chart, timeline, and roadmap slides, with just a few clicks. Its users love the easy integration and import options from other project management software, the stunning templates, and the drag & drop simplicity.
“We simply could not have accomplished what we have without this partnership. And I don’t mean this just from a product development point of view, I mean it as I think of all the things required to incubate, launch and grow a business” Tim Stumbles, co-founder Office Timeline (2021)
Fast forward May, 2026: Following the bootstrapped bet phase (2012) and the organic growth – product first era (2013 – 2024), Office Timeline became Lucen Timeline Add-In, part of the Lucen Clarity Platform – a Microsoft-native suite designed to help enterprise teams convert fragmented information into shared understanding.
RomSoft has been part of this story since 2012 – through the product’s early stages, its adoption across 80% of the Fortune 500 companies, and the new mission for clarity.
Find out more about this powerful add-in on the Lucen Software website.
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further readings
Built to evolve: 14 years of product partnership
Behind a product used by 80% of Fortune 500 companies is a partnership that started in 2012, when the product was just a prototype. What follows is the account of how that partnership grew alongside the product – and how it held together through the biggest change ...
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