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Zentrix Advanced Gantt

The Gantt Power BI should have shipped.

A Gantt chart for real project schedules, not toy demos. Unlimited hierarchy depth with WBS numbering, sorting that actually works, parent bars that roll up correctly, and five thousand tasks that render without collapsing. Milestones sit as diamonds on the bar, baselines ghost underneath, dependency arrows route around rows, and a deterministic engine calls out what has slipped — all computed inside the Power BI sandbox.

Data roles: 30 — Task, Start and End required; the rest optional
Scale: 5,000 tasks with virtualised rows and a sticky task column
Zoom: Day, week, month, quarter, year + auto-fit
Baselines: Up to 3, ghosted or side by side
Accessibility: Keyboard nav, focus ring, show-as-table, high contrast
Privacy: No external calls, no telemetry

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Free tier, foreverNo sign-inRuns in-sandbox

The Zentrix Advanced Gantt running in Power BI — The shipping visual, running on real data.

Features

Built to surface
what matters

Hierarchy that holds up

Unlimited depth from a multi-field parent path, with WBS numbering, chevron expand/collapse and expand-to-level. Parent bars are a true envelope of their children, and parent progress is duration-weighted rather than a plain average — so a summary row stops lying about where the project actually is.

Sorting that actually works

Start date, alphabetical, a custom sort-order field, or hierarchy order — with parent-level and task-level sort set independently, and the model's own “Sort by column” respected. It behaves identically in Desktop and the Service, which is the single most common complaint about the Gantt people use today.

A timeline you can read

A two-tier header at every zoom — quarters over months, months over weeks — with locale-aware formats and an ISO work-week option. Day through year presets plus auto-fit on first render, Ctrl-wheel zoom at the cursor, weekend and holiday shading, a today line and a separate data-date line.

Baselines and variance

Up to three baselines drawn as ghost bars below the current schedule, or side by side, with a primary-baseline selector. Slipped bars colour one way and early bars the other, and the variance in days is available in the grid and the detail panel.

Dependencies & critical path

Finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish arrows read from a predecessor field, with 12FS+2d lead and lag notation and elbow routing that dodges rows. Critical path comes from a model flag when you have one, or a forward/backward CPM pass in the visual when you don't — marked with hatching, not colour alone.

Resource lanes & workload

Group the schedule into swimlanes by resource — or by any category you bind — and see where someone is booked past capacity, flagged by overlap rather than a guess. A workload histogram reads the same data underneath.

Progress insights

A deterministic engine anchored on your data date, not the wall clock, that names the biggest slippages, the tasks running behind where they should be by today, and the longest dependent chain — as a chip band above the timeline. No AI, no external calls.

Built for real reports

Cross-filter and multi-select, keyboard row and cell navigation with a visible focus ring, a context menu, show-as-table, and high-contrast support that replaces colour cues rather than re-tinting them. Expand state, zoom and sort persist, so bookmarks survive. Interface strings localise across about ten locales.

Screenshots

The real thing,
not a mock-up

Every image below is a capture of the shipping Advanced Gantt. Where a shot needs a paid plan, its caption says so.

Advanced Gantt — A two-programme plan with WBS numbering. Parent bars roll up weighted by duration, so a two-day task cannot count the same as a two-month one — and the rolled-up number is printed rather than implied. — FreeA two-programme plan with WBS numbering. Parent bars roll up weighted by duration, so a two-day task cannot count the same as a two-month one — and the rolled-up number is printed rather than implied.

Advanced Gantt — Zoomed into the build phase. Dependency links route around the bars in all four types with lead and lag, and the computed critical path is hatched with its float. — PaidZoomed into the build phase. Dependency links route around the bars in all four types with lead and lag, and the computed critical path is hatched with its float.

Advanced Gantt — Baseline ghosts under the live bars with a finish-variance column that prints the slip in days — here on a dark report theme, because the visual takes its surface from your report rather than shipping one look. — FreeBaseline ghosts under the live bars with a finish-variance column that prints the slip in days — here on a dark report theme, because the visual takes its surface from your report rather than shipping one look.

Advanced Gantt — The same plan regrouped by resource: one lane per person or team, a load column, an overallocation flag on Dev Guild A, and a workload histogram along the bottom. — PaidThe same plan regrouped by resource: one lane per person or team, a load column, an overallocation flag on Dev Guild A, and a workload histogram along the bottom.

Advanced Gantt — The Insight view reads the schedule back in sentences — progress, what is behind baseline, what is at risk, the longest dependent chain and what lands next. — PaidThe Insight view reads the schedule back in sentences — progress, what is behind baseline, what is at risk, the longest dependent chain and what lands next.

The Insight Engine

Paid

Insights that never
leave your tenant

The Advanced Gantt computes its insights with transparent, deterministic logic — entirely inside the Power BI sandbox. No external calls, no telemetry, nothing leaves your tenant. The read-out itself is a Paid capability; the privacy promise below holds at every tier, free included.

Biggest slippages against baseline
Tasks running behind where they should be today
The longest dependent chain through the schedule
A this-week digest of what moved

Runs in the Power BI sandbox

Every insight is computed inside the Power BI visual sandbox. The visual makes no external network calls and sends no telemetry — nothing about your data leaves your tenant.

Correct before clever

Parent bars are the envelope of their children and parent progress is weighted by duration, with milestones excluded — the rollup convention project managers already expect. Critical path is a real forward/backward pass, not a heuristic.

Anchored on your data date

Progress findings are measured against the data date you bind, not the wall clock, so a report refreshed on Monday doesn't quietly rewrite what was true on Friday. Same data, same findings, every time.

Free and paid

What's free,
and what isn't

Power BI Desktop is free and fully unlocked — every feature, no task cap, no watermark, forever. You can build an entire production schedule without being asked for money. A licence starts when that report is used in the Power BI Service, and there everyone who opens it needs a seat, author and reader alike. Both paid plans unlock the identical feature set; they differ only in the per-seat rate.

Free

Free forever — and unlimited in Desktop

500 tasks in the Service

A complete, publishable Gantt. In Power BI Desktop nothing is capped at all — every feature below and every paid one too, with no watermark and no sign-in.

Multi-level hierarchy with WBS numbering and duration-weighted parent rollup
Dependency arrows in all four link types, with lead and lag
One baseline as ghost bars, under the bar or beside it
Milestones, today and data-date lines, and the working-day calendar
Zoom presets from years down to seconds, fiscal years and ISO weeks
The task grid with “Use as” column promotions, search and the detail panel
Resource lanes, the summary-table view, cross-filter, bookmarks and PDF export

Pro (1–500 users)

$4.99/user/month or $49.90/user/year

Uncapped tasks

The whole visual in the Power BI Service. One paid tier — nothing is held back for a higher plan. One month free, run by Microsoft.

Uncapped tasks
Critical path and float, computed from your own schedule
Resource analytics — overallocation, the load column and the workload histogram
The plain-English Insight view
Conditional rules on progress, variance or slack, with a badge and a status dot
Earned value, the planned/earned/actual S-curve and DCMA 14-point health
Baseline variance colouring, the variance column, and a 2nd and 3rd baseline
The rollup KPI row, the KPI overlay band, annotations, CSV and Excel export

Enterprise (501+ users)

$3.74/user/month or $37.40/user/year

Uncapped tasks

Exactly the same product at 501 seats and up — the identical feature set at a 25% lower per-seat rate. Not a bigger tier, a bigger band.

Everything in Pro, feature for feature — there is nothing extra to unlock
A 25% volume rate from the 501st seat
Sold and billed by Microsoft against your Power BI account
One-month free trial, run by Microsoft

Everyone who opens the report needs a seat

Advanced Gantt is licensed per person in the Power BI Service, readers included. Seats are assigned to named users in your Microsoft 365 admin centre, so you buy them only for the people who actually open a report containing the visual, not for everyone employed. Building in Power BI Desktop stays free and fully unlocked, plans are sold and billed by Microsoft, and Microsoft runs a one-month free trial on both of them.

Start free

Start free, and stay free if that's enough

The free tier of the Advanced Gantt is permanent, not a trial — no watermark, no sign-in, no clock running down. Add it from AppSource, drop it on your canvas, and you're running. Everything is unlocked in Power BI Desktop; a licence applies once the report is used in the Power BI Service.