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Capittance vs Microsoft Project.

MS Project is a general-purpose planning tool. Capittance is a purpose-built delivery operating system for SAP S/4HANA and Microsoft Dynamics 365 transformations. The rows below are why programmes worth £100M+ move.

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15-row capability grid · Read straight through
Capability
Microsoft
Project
Capittance
Harmonizer
Core design
General-purpose task, schedule & resource planning for any project type.
Purpose-built delivery OS for SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Oracle Cloud ERP transformations. Every module knows what phase you're in.
SAP Activate alignment
None — generic WBS / Gantt structure. Teams reinvent the framework in Excel.
Native 134-step SAP Activate methodology baked into governance & tracking with 12-gate criteria.
Live ERP tenant connectors
No S/4HANA, D365 or Oracle Cloud data connection. Screenshots and CSV exports become the source of truth.
Live OData/OAuth connectors to S/4HANA, D365 (Finance/Sales/SCM/CX) and Oracle Cloud ERP (Financials/SCM/HCM). Secrets never leave the server.
Delivery-domain coverage
Tasks, timeline, resource assignment, basic budget. Everything else lives elsewhere.
10 dedicated domains — Governance, Fit-to-Standard, Data Migration, Integration, Testing, OCM & Training, Cutover & Hypercare, Value Realization, Reusable IP, AI Layer.
Executive reporting
Manual export → hand-built board deck. Someone loses a Sunday every steering-committee week.
One-click 20-slide Board Pack generated from live KPIs, RAID and budget in 60 seconds.
AI assistance
Copilot for Project offers generic scheduling help. No portfolio grounding, no board-level answers.
NAVBOT (Claude Sonnet 4.5) trained on your programme's own RAID, milestones and KPIs — answers board-level questions in plain English.
Diagnostics engine
None. Users must interpret Gantt, BCWS and EAC themselves.
Deterministic RAG-signal engine automatically fires Schedule Slippage · Budget Overrun · Critical-Path Delay · High-Risk Exposure · Go-Live-at-Risk · Benefits-at-Risk — with AI-drafted remediation plans.
RAID management + schedule linkage
Not native. Excel add-in or SharePoint list. RAID never connects back to the schedule.
Full RAID log native. Every risk links to the schedule tasks and milestones it threatens — flags surface on the Gantt itself.
Value Realization
None. Benefit tracking happens (or doesn't) in a separate spreadsheet.
Planned-vs-Achieved tracker with benefit-owner attribution across CFO / COO / CRO / CIO views.
Baseline + task dependencies
Parity — both sides ship this
Multi-baseline + FS/SS/FF/SF dependencies. This is what MS Project was built for.
Single active baseline with red/amber variance chips + FS/SS/FF/SF + lag/lead cascade. Full parity.
Multi-tenant workspace
.mpp files on desktop + SharePoint gymnastics. No native concept of an organisation.
Native multi-tenant SaaS. Every org gets its own private workspace on signup — data isolated at the DB layer with per-org audit trail.
Learning curve to board-ready
100+ hours to master the ribbon, PERT, WBS, resource levelling, custom fields.
Board-ready in under 30 minutes. Guided onboarding, no ribbon, prompts written for CIOs and CFOs.
Update & deployment cadence
Version-locked desktop app + annual releases. IT owns the upgrade cycle.
Continuous SaaS deployment. New capabilities land the moment they ship — no upgrade project.
Pricing (per user / month)
Project Plan 5 · $55/user/mo · complex mins · Enterprise add-ons for Server + Portfolio.
Basic $200/mo flat · Platinum $350/mo flat · 14-day pilot at $0. One line item on the invoice.
Total-cost trajectory (12 mo · 8-person team)
≈ $5,300 licences + Excel/PowerBI/SharePoint plumbing + ≈ 120 hrs Board-deck labour = $18-25K.
≈ $2,400-$4,200 subscription. Board decks generated in-app — zero prep hours. ≈ 80-85% TCO reduction.
60-second Board Pack

Every steering-committee week you lose 4-8 hours to slide-building. Capittance generates a 20-slide deck from live data — that Sunday-night work vanishes.

Diagnostics that name what's off

MS Project shows you a Gantt. Capittance tells you "Aurora is 45 days off baseline because Task T3 slipped when SI staffing dropped 40%." That's the difference between data and decisions.

NAVBOT — activates the moment you pay

Claude 4.5 executive AI grounded on your tenant's data only. Available exclusively inside the C-Suite portal — answers board-level questions in plain English.

What tenants said after switching
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The Board Pack replaced three PowerBI dashboards and a Monday-morning fire drill. We haven't opened Project since.

— CFO, £2B UK retailer
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NAVBOT told me our S/4HANA cutover was 12 days off baseline before my delivery lead did. That's the whole product.

— CIO, ASX-listed manufacturer
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MS Project got us to detail. Capittance gets us to decisions. Both matter, but only one saves us from Sunday-night decks.

— Programme Director, EU insurer
See the whole platform in 15 minutes
Every capability above ships in the free 14-day pilot.
Card up-front — activates full Platinum immediately (NAVBOT, Board Pack, D365/S4HANA cockpits). No charge until day 15. One-click cancel from the dashboard. Private per-tenant workspace from signup.
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