Three kinds of schedule software
Schedulers
Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project build and maintain the critical-path schedule — activities, logic, durations and resources. They are the system of record for how a project gets delivered.
Schedule optimization
Tools such as ALICE Technologies generate and test alternative construction sequences from a baseline schedule, looking for faster or cheaper ways to build the same scope.
Schedule and cost risk analysis
Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis and Safran Risk are common examples. They run Monte Carlo simulation on a project schedule to estimate the probability of finishing by a date and within a budget, and to identify the activities driving the risk.
Each answers a question about one project's plan. None of them is built to decide how much capital that project should get relative to everything else competing for it.
Side by side
| Dimension | Scheduling and schedule risk tools | Capvium |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | One project schedule | The capital portfolio, and each project in it |
| Core question | When will this project finish, and how confident are we? | How much should we commit to it, and when, given the rest of the portfolio? |
| Typical users | Planners, schedulers, project controls, risk managers | CFO, portfolio and strategy teams, capital committee — with project controls |
| Main output | P50 / P80 finish dates and costs, critical drivers, contingency | Recommended commitments in dollars, staged options, portfolio downside |
| What happens to the risk | Contingency and schedule buffer on the project | Delay and overrun carried into the value and size of the commitment |
How they work together
The schedule stays in your scheduler. Capvium accepts schedules exported from Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, and takes the completion and cost ranges from your schedule risk work as inputs to the capital decision: what a later finish does to project value, whether a phase should be committed now or staged, and how the delay interacts with the other projects in the portfolio.
Teams without a dedicated schedule risk practice can run the project-level simulation in Capvium itself and get P50 / P80 / P90 completion dates — but the point of Capvium is the decision those dates feed, not the dates alone.
Bring a schedule and the decision it feeds
Use the P6 or Microsoft Project schedule you already have. We'll show you what a later finish costs and how much to commit.
Book a demo →Frequently asked questions
Does Capvium replace Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project?
No. Your scheduler stays the system of record for the plan. Capvium accepts schedules exported from Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project and uses them to inform the capital decision.
Does Capvium replace Primavera Risk Analysis or Safran Risk?
Not necessarily. Teams with a mature schedule risk practice keep it, and Capvium uses its completion and cost ranges as inputs. Teams without one can run project-level schedule simulation in Capvium. Either way, Capvium's job is the capital decision: how much to commit, and when.
What does Capvium add to a schedule risk analysis?
A schedule risk analysis tells you how likely one project is to finish on time. Capvium tells you what that risk means for the capital: what a later finish costs, whether to commit now or stage, and how the project's risk combines with the rest of the portfolio.