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. Tempus Resource
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for enterprise PMOs forecasting capacity across a portfolio whose project plans already live in several different tools.
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Dayshape | Tempus Resource |
|---|---|---|
| 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 ProSymmetry states that pricing is tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals; no price list is published. |
| Free trial | Demo on request | 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both |
| API | Yes, an API is offered for feeding in data such as staff skill matrices, alongside prebuilt integrations | Yes, a REST API included for all users at no additional cost |
| Hosting | Cloud, hosted on Microsoft Azure within a private network behind a web application firewall, with access via single sign-on | Cloud or on-premises |
| Made in | United Kingdom (Dayshape, Edinburgh) | United States (ProSymmetry, Beachwood, Ohio) |
| 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, capacity and demand planning from a central resource catalogue with custom attributes, heat maps for over- and under-allocation by role, department or skill, forecasting six to thirty-six months out, and What-If resequencing of the portfolio |
| Task planning | No, planning stops at assigning people to work; task detail stays elsewhere | No task planning of its own; project plans come from connected tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira and Smartsheet |
| Time tracking | No time entry of its own; timesheet data is integrated from other systems to compare billed against budgeted resource time | Yes, timesheets are part of the platform, so planned time can be compared against actual time spent |
| 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, standard reporting plus the Insight+ module for dynamic dashboards, and audit logging that records the before and after of every change |
| AI features | stated Yes | No |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Not stated | Phone, Email helpdesk |
| Onboarding | more entries Guided onboarding, Live online demos and webinars, Personal consulting | Guided onboarding |
| Company size | Enterprise | Enterprise |
| Integrations | Workday, SAP, SAP HANA, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Deltek, IRIS, CCH, OpenHR, CatalystOne, Flowcase | more entries Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Jira, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Excel, Smartsheet, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Wolters Kluwer |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Free trial Dayshape Demo on request Tempus Resource 30-day free trial, covering Tempus Resource, Tempus Portfolio or both
- Deployment Dayshape Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Tempus Resource Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
- Hosting Dayshape Cloud, hosted on Microsoft Azure within a private network behind a web application firewall, with access via single sign-on Tempus Resource Cloud or on-premises
- Made in Dayshape United Kingdom (Dayshape, Edinburgh) Tempus Resource United States (ProSymmetry, Beachwood, Ohio)
- AI features Dayshape Yes Tempus Resource No
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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
Tempus Resource
Strengths
- What-If modelling resequences the whole portfolio by priority and availability, showing the effect of new work or a departure before it is committed
- Timesheets sit in the same platform as the plan, so planned and actual time are compared without a second system
- REST API included for all users at no extra cost, plus prebuilt connections to Workday, ServiceNow, Jira and Microsoft Project
- Available on-premises as well as in the cloud, which few tools in this category still offer
Limitations
- No task planning; it is a planning layer that expects project plans to come from elsewhere
- No published prices, so every quote comes from sales
- Aimed at enterprise PMOs, and the forecasting machinery is more than a small team needs
Plans
Pricing
Dayshape
- Quote-based Not stated Priced per managed resource, plus a one-off implementation fee. No amounts are published.
Tempus Resource
- Quote-based Not stated ProSymmetry prices per quote, tailored to planning needs, team size and implementation goals.
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Dayshape
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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
Tempus Resource https://www.prosymmetry.com/product/tempus-resource · no check date recorded yet
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