Moving to the Primavera Cloud Made Easy
Used the P6-Loader to move a client to the Primavera Cloud in two weeks.
In 2 weeks - all projects were ready
Client Overview
Project Management specialist overseeing a large building remediation program after Hurricane Sandy needed to move from on-premise P6 program development to the Primavera Cloud to share schedule information with Contractors and Owners Representatives.
Challenges
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Setup a new P6 environment in the Primavera Cloud within 2 weeks
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Transfer all P6 program data for over 750 projects in a standalone PPM database
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Over 400 baselines needed to be moved as well
Results
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Emerald provided P6-Loader aaS
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Enterprise Data: built and loaded for EPS, OBS, Users, User Profiles
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Global Data: merged and cleaned up while loading over 400 Resources and 50 Calendars
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Project Data: 756 projects, 455 Baselines, 265,802 activities. Activity codes, resource assignments, and relationships were all transferred.
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Approach - used a combination of XER and P6-Loader functionality
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Saved weeks of manually re-creating global data, users/profiles, and baseline management. Went live 1 week after getting files.
