Frequently Asked Questions

Any company looking to transform the scheduling and planning function into a strategic aspect of their business should talk with us about InEight Schedule.

Project managers, construction managers, engineers, and stakeholders involved in large-scale projects can benefit from InEight Schedule’s specialized tools for project scheduling, risk management, and collaboration. InEight Schedule is also ideal for smaller projects that can’t be staffed with a full-time scheduler, since project managers or other project team members can easily learn and use it.

Companies using Primavera P6 will find InEight Schedule more approachable and easier to use and will love the built-in collaboration features that make it easy for subject matter experts to contribute to the schedule without having to be a P6 expert. In addition, P6 users are now facing the decision to move to Oracle Primavera Cloud, which includes less robust scheduling capabilities than P6. InEight Schedule is a proven alternative to P6 that can reduce your software license costs while:

• Greatly simplifying scheduling and planning workflows.
• Making it easy to request and incorporate the perspectives of your expert field teams.
• Adding risk management as a capability built into the software.
• Providing, built-in intuitive tools for short interval planning that are connected to the master schedule for complete coordination at every level.

Companies using Microsoft Project will find InEight Schedule even easier to learn and use and will appreciate its industry-standard CPM engine. With built-in short interval planning and risk management capabilities, InEight Schedule takes construction planning well beyond the limited use of Microsoft Project.

InEight Schedule was built for the cloud, meaning it was purposely designed to encourage collaboration. Traditional scheduling systems are often siloed, with only a specialized expert running the software, and with painfully manual methods to get input from other contributors by way of e-mail and spreadsheets. With InEight Schedule, simply delegate scopes of work to subject matter experts and they can easily provide their input directly to the master scheduler for review and acceptance – no e-mails or side spreadsheets required.

InEight Schedule reads and writes in P6-compatible format (XER), which means you can meet your contract requirements with the push of a button. That’s why some companies choose to use InEight Schedule instead of P6, while others choose to use it in conjunction with P6 to take advantage of better collaboration, short-interval planning, and integrated risk management functions. Either way, you can reduce your schedule-related licensing costs significantly, while expanding the number of people involved in the planning process.

As a modern solution built for the cloud from day one, InEight Schedule can be stood up quickly and deployed with ease. You can get going on your projects immediately, adding your team members with zero IT involvement, and no setup or management of servers. Training is also minimal because the intuitive, modern user interface keeps it amazingly simple, whether you’re creating the master CPM schedule or conducting look-ahead, short-interval planning with the field team to orchestrate crews and subcontractors as easily as using the whiteboard in the job trailer.

It’s simple to import XER files to InEight Schedule. Companies routinely do so to populate their Knowledge Base inside of InEight Schedule with historical schedules to provide learning data for our practical AI-driven suggestion engine. Additionally, the ability to read and write in XER format enables you to use InEight Schedule in conjunction with other scheduling applications to take advantage of the powerful risk management and short interval planning capabilities of the InEight solution.

Yes, InEight Schedule is built on a proven and tested, industry standard CPM engine. As a result, you can seamlessly share schedules with Primavera P6 and without worrying about getting different durations.

InEight Schedule doesn’t require specialized training; your existing teams can use it confidently right away. A seasoned scheduler or planner will easily learn to use the full capabilities of InEight Schedule to modernize the scheduling function through collaboration and direct ties to field execution teams, along with AI-supported insight and analysis. Project managers or foremen stepping in to handle scheduling for projects that can’t be staffed with specialized schedulers also immediately engage with the tool’s intuitive interface to build and update schedules that follow good CPM practices. Field execution teams using InEight Schedule for their daily and look ahead planning use our simple yet powerful digital whiteboard tool with ease.

InEight Schedule reads and writes in XER format, the same format used by most of the scheduling add-on tools that are popular in the construction industry. That means you can continue to use those tools without issue. Of course, if you’re paying for add-on software for short interval planning or risk management, you can perform those functions with InEight Schedule and eliminate that extra cost.