  We perform a systematic comparison of soft-gluon resummation in SCET and in a
standard "direct" QCD (dQCD) approach, both from an analytical and a
phenomenological point of view. In particular, we concentrate on Higgs boson
production in gluon-gluon fusion at a hadron collider. Using specifically a
saddle point argument, we arrive at a detailed understanding of the
quantitative differences between these two approaches.
