CAT timesheet VS ESS timesheet

Dear Friends
Urgently Looking forward for your help/suggestions,as we are upgrading from 4.6 to ECC^. and for timesheet(time confirmation) , we need to go for either of these options.
1) CATW
2) CATS in ESS
This is very urgent. Request you kindly provide overview and advantages and disadvantges of above methods for timesheet and your recommendation.
Suitable points would be rewarded for the answers.
Regards
Sam

want me to do the upgrade also?

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