Microsoft Project Online is ending. Find a modern alternative.
Microsoft Project Online is officially retiring on September 30, 2026. Switch to Easy8 and keep working the way you always have. Same workflow, familiar Gantt Charts, without data loss.
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Microsoft Project Online vs Easy8 comparison
While Microsoft Project is a standard for pure Waterfall PM, it often forces you to use additional software for complex project execution. Get the flexibility of Agile (Scrum/Kanban) with the structure of Waterfall (Gantt, WBS, Resource Management) in a single platform. Self-hosted or cloud.
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Why is Easy8 the #1 MS Project alternative?
Agile & Waterfall project management in one platform
Easy8 offers far more robust, native tooling for both Waterfall (with advanced interactive Gantt charts, milestones, and WBS) and Agile (including customizable Kanban and Scrum boards and velocity tracking) compared to Microsoft Project's more template-driven and less hybrid-focused approach.
Knowledge base available
Easy8 provides a superior Knowledge Base solution compared to Microsoft Project due to its native, fully integrated wiki (powered by MediaWiki technology) that captures content directly from tasks and projects with advanced full-text search, AI recommendations, and seamless HelpDesk integration.
MS Project lacks a built-in wiki and requires fragmented external tools like SharePoint or Loop.
Service support by HelpDesk
Easy8 stands out with its fully integrated HelpDesk module offering ticketing, AI answers based on closed tickets, SLA management, self-service portals, and seamless project linkages to streamline IT support.
MS Project lacks any native Helpdesk capabilities and relies on separate Microsoft 365 tools like Planner or Dynamics for basic ticketing.
Git sync in Easy8
Easy8 offers GitLab and GitHub integration, providing native, bidirectional synchronisation of repositories, commits, pull requests and tests via webhooks and task referencing. This allows for seamless DevOps visibility and dashboards without the need to clone code.
In contrast, MS Project offers no built-in Git support and requires external Azure DevOps or GitHub connections.
Workflow Automation and AI agents powered by n8n
With n8n integration, you can connect Easy8 to over 1,000 apps and build no‑code workflows that sync tasks, trigger actions and reduce manual effort.
By embedding AI agents and automation workflows via n8n, your team can get real‑time alerts on risks, automatically escalate issues and standardise processes without constant supervision.
Case studies of Microsoft Project migration to Easy8
Ayesa unified Jira, MS Project, and Excel into one project workspace
IT services
Easy8 helped Ayesa standardize project processes across departments, improving team collaboration and visibility into delivery milestones.
Visible resource control added for 45,000 carriers with Easy8
IT solution in logistics
Transporeon gained clear resource control and unified planning for teams and carriers across its global logistics platform.
How to easily migrate MS Project to Easy8
Choose between the cloud or server deployment. We recommend starting with the Easy8 free trial. Your team can migrate to on-premises at any time.
Our experts will migrate your data from Microsoft Project into Easy8. We transfer your projects, tasks, milestones, dependencies, assignments, and custom fields, and we replicate your planning approach in Easy.
Check the result side-by-side to confirm your schedules, owners, and timelines match. Make sure your Gantt, WBS, and reports work as expected in Easy8 before you switch your team over.
Use Easy8 as an MS Project Online alternative
With expert guidance, Easy8 simplifies the process of migrating your MS Project data with a dedicated import tool that transfers your data directly into the application. You can migrate entire projects, including tasks, subtasks and milestones, with automatic user mapping and optional manual adjustments, as well as a simple import setup.
Projects are imported one by one, with each MS Project file corresponding to a single project.
Where all your tools finally talk to each other
Easy8 serves as an integration node in your tool stack ecosystem, connecting internal apps through our robust API.
As an official n8n Expert Partner, we help you build automation workflows connecting Easy8 to 1,000+ apps. From syncing tasks with your ERP to triggering alerts in your monitoring systems – your workflows, your rules. Enhanced by AI agents.
