Comparisons

Written for people standing at a fork, by people who have had to defend the choice afterwards. Each one leads with the answer — including where the honest answer is that the comparison does not apply to you.

We sell project controls software, and every page here says so at the bottom. None of them pretends a competitor is bad, and where the right answer is "keep what you have", it says that instead.

Scheduling tools

Primavera P6 vs Microsoft Project A SWOT of both, and the programme submission clause that usually settles it before features come into it. Primavera P6 vs Asta Powerproject The comparison Australian builders actually need, and the one nobody writes. Why building and infrastructure split along this line.

Platforms and alternatives

Airtable vs Aegis Command What the Bending Spoons acquisition means for construction teams, and where a flexible database stops and project controls software starts.

Categories people buy interchangeably

Project management vs project controls software Not competitors. One runs the doing, the other runs the knowing — and confusing them is the most expensive mistake in this category. Excel vs project controls software The honest case for the spreadsheet, and the five structural points at which it stops being a reasonable decision. Project controls engineer vs software What the role costs in Australia, what it really does, and which parts of it software can honestly take. They are not substitutes.

Methods

Deterministic vs probabilistic forecasting Why a single completion date is optimistic by construction, what P50 and P80 mean, and when simulation is not worth running.

Keep the tools you run. Fix the reporting.

Aegis reads what P6, MS Project, Excel or CSV already export each period and turns it into earned value, a quantified risk position, a probabilistic forecast and a written assessment — with every rating traceable to the number behind it.

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