Best for
Best for accounting, audit and consulting firms scheduling large teams where skills and independence rules constrain who can take the work.
- Enterprise
Resource Planning Comparison
Dayshape vs. EG Silverbucket
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for engineering, architecture and consulting firms that want capacity planning, project tasks and timesheets in one system.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Dayshape | EG Silverbucket |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Quote-based Licences are priced per resource managed in the platform, plus a one-off implementation fee. Dayshape publishes no amounts; quotes come from sales. | Quote-based Priced on the number of active people in the resourcing pool rather than on logins or feature tiers, with archived users free of charge; the subscription includes all features, while integration, maintenance and training are bought on demand. No amounts are published. |
| Free trial | Demo on request | 30 days, full access, no credit card required |
| Users | Not stated | EG cites over 40,000 users |
| API | Yes, an API is offered for feeding in data such as staff skill matrices, alongside prebuilt integrations | Yes, an API for people, projects, customers and actual hours, plus bulk CSV and XLSX imports and single sign-on |
| Hosting | Cloud, hosted on Microsoft Azure within a private network behind a web application firewall, with access via single sign-on | Not stated |
| Made in | United Kingdom (Dayshape, Edinburgh) | Finland (Silverbucket, Tampere, part of the Danish EG group since 2021) |
| Resource planning | Yes, an optimisation engine that scores suitability by skills, availability, location and experience across the whole portfolio, plus a drag-and-drop Gantt scheduler and forward-looking capacity forecasts | Yes, drag-to-select percentage allocation to named people or role placeholders, structured resourcing requests with best-match candidate comparison, tentative allocations for modelling unconfirmed bids, competency tracking and a portfolio overview |
| Task planning | No, planning stops at assigning people to work; task detail stays elsewhere | Yes, tasks within each project on an interactive Gantt timeline, with milestones at both project and programme level |
| Time tracking | No time entry of its own; timesheet data is integrated from other systems to compare billed against budgeted resource time | Yes, built-in timesheets with comments per entry and locking after a defined period; logged hours update allocation actuals directly, and an existing time registration tool can be integrated instead |
| Reporting and controlling | Yes, customisable dashboards and a drag-and-drop report builder over past, present and forecast data, plus real-time project financials | Yes, forecast and actual reports on utilisation, income, hour budgets and invoicing, a performance dashboard for billability, fee recovery and margins, a custom export builder to PDF or Excel, a filtered activity feed and a Power BI connection |
| AI features | Yes | Yes |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based |
| Support | Not stated | Email helpdesk, Phone |
| Onboarding | more entries Guided onboarding, Live online demos and webinars, Personal consulting | Documentation and knowledge base, Personal consulting |
| Company size | Enterprise | more entries Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | more entries Workday, SAP, SAP HANA, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Deltek, IRIS, CCH, OpenHR, CatalystOne, Flowcase | Power BI, Microsoft Excel |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Free trial Dayshape Demo on request EG Silverbucket 30 days, full access, no credit card required
- Company size Dayshape Enterprise EG Silverbucket Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Made in Dayshape United Kingdom (Dayshape, Edinburgh) EG Silverbucket Finland (Silverbucket, Tampere, part of the Danish EG group since 2021)
- MCP-ready Dayshape No EG Silverbucket Yes
- API Dayshape Yes, an API is offered for feeding in data such as staff skill matrices, alongside prebuilt integrations EG Silverbucket Yes, an API for people, projects, customers and actual hours, plus bulk CSV and XLSX imports and single sign-on
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Dayshape
Strengths
- Suitability scoring by skills, availability, location and experience, weighed across the portfolio rather than project by project
- Resource plans and budgets are built in the same step, so financial overruns show up as the schedule changes
- Audit trails and assignment restrictions that enforce independence, supporting ISQM1 and QC1000
Limitations
- No task planning and no time entry of its own; both have to come from the systems it connects to
- No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
- Aimed squarely at professional services firms, and the audit and independence features carry little weight outside them
EG Silverbucket
Strengths
- Planning, tasks and timesheets sit in one system, so actual hours update allocations without an export or reconciliation
- Tentative allocations model several unconfirmed projects at once and convert to confirmed in a single click
- An MCP server over HTTP lets an AI client read and write projects, allocations, actuals and capacity
- 30 day free trial with full access and no credit card
Limitations
- No published amounts, so the per-person price comes from sales
- Parts of the AI assistant are dated to the second half of 2026, and the product pages do not agree on what is available now
- The bill scales with the number of people planned, which suits a stable pool better than a fast-growing one
Plans
Pricing
Dayshape
- Quote-based Not stated Priced per managed resource, plus a one-off implementation fee. No amounts are published.
EG Silverbucket
- Free trial $0 30 days, full access to all features, no credit card required.
- Subscription Not stated Priced per active person in the resourcing pool, with archived users free and all features included. Integration, maintenance and training are available on demand. EG publishes no amounts.
What users say
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Dayshape
- Ease of use
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EG Silverbucket
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- Value for money
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- Features
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Dayshape https://dayshape.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-30
EG Silverbucket https://www.silverbucket.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-11
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