Export the .xer you already produce each period. Aegis turns it into earned value, critical path and float movement, a forecast completion date with a confidence range, and a written assessment of where the numbers and the narrative disagree — the monthly report, without the week of spreadsheet work in between.
Primavera P6 is the best scheduling tool in the business and nothing here suggests otherwise. It builds and statuses a programme, and it holds the logic, the dates and the resource loading. What it does not do is interpret them.
The built-in report wizard and layout exports produce activity listings and time-phased cost tables. They will tell you that an activity's total float is −12 days. They will not tell you that the float on your driving path has been falling by nine days a month since March, that the trend puts practical completion three weeks past the contract date, or that the status your project manager submitted says "on track". So every month somebody exports to Excel and rebuilds the report by hand — and the report is only as current as the day that person had time to build it.
That gap is the entire reason this page exists.
Every figure traces back to the source line in your schedule or cost data. Treat the assessment as an analyst's read, not a professional sign-off — it is auditable, which is a different and more useful property.
| Approach | Interpreted? | Effort each period | Honest verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| P6 report wizard | No | Low | Accurate tables nobody outside the controls team can read. |
| Export to Excel, build by hand | Yes — by a person | Days | What most contractors actually do. It works, and it stops the month the person doing it goes on leave. |
| BI dashboard over P6 data | No | High to set up | Beautiful charts that still need a human to say what they mean. Real projects, real cost, long implementation. |
| Aegis | Yes | One upload | Reads the same export and writes the interpretation. Doesn't schedule, and doesn't try to. |
Every comparable tool is built for a North American or European market and priced per seat. That matters more than it sounds. Reporting here has a principal and often a superintendent on the other side of it, progress claims and extension-of-time entitlement run off the same programme, and the people who need to see the reporting — the client, the certifier, your subcontractors — are exactly the people a per-seat licence discourages you from inviting.
So the pricing tracks combined contract value under management rather than headcount, and every plan includes unlimited users. Two $1.5M builds is $3M combined on one plan, not two subscriptions. Prices are quoted including GST, monthly, with no lock-in.
The comparison worth making is not against another piece of software. One in-house project controls hire runs $120,000–$160,000 a year plus on-costs. Aegis starts at $395 a month.
A contract value is enough to create a project — the schedule can follow. You do not need an existing PMO, a clean baseline or a mature risk register. Aegis grades the data you have and shows exactly which gaps are limiting the analysis; closing them is the first month's work, not a prerequisite.
The 14-day trial is the full product with no limit on the contract value you load into it, so you can put the real portfolio in and see the assessment on your own jobs rather than a demo dataset.
Still deciding which scheduling tool the job should sit in? Primavera P6 vs Microsoft Project — a SWOT of both, and the contractual clause that usually settles it before features do.
No. Your planners keep building and statusing the programme in P6. Aegis sits over the top: you export the .xer as you already do, and it produces earned value, critical path, float movement, forecast completion and a written assessment. Nothing is rebuilt elsewhere and nothing is written back.
P6's report wizard and layout exports give you activity listings and time-phased cost tables — the numbers, but not what they mean. Most teams export to Excel and rebuild a report by hand each period. Aegis takes the same .xer and produces the interpreted report directly.
A standard .xer export: File → Export → Primavera PM (XER). It also reads MS Project schedules saved as XML, plus Excel and CSV. The wizard maps your columns and tells you what's missing before computing anything.
No. A contract value is enough to begin and the schedule can follow. Aegis grades the data you have and names the gaps limiting the analysis. Most first projects are live the same day.
From $395/month including GST, priced on combined contract value rather than per seat, with unlimited projects and users. 14-day free trial with no cap on the value you load into it. Full pricing.
Yes, at no extra cost on every plan — the price tracks contract value under control, not how many people log in.
Export the programme you already have, upload it, and read the assessment on your own project. Fourteen days, full product, no limit on contract value.
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