Primavera P6
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
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The most powerful solution for prioritizing, planning, managing and evaluating projects, programs and portfolios.
- Align strategy, execution and results: ensure all projects are aligned to enterprise objectives
- Manage incoming demand and prioritize work to select the right projects
- Improve decisions and accountability
- Reduce the risk of cost and schedule overruns
- Optimize management of all resources – human capital, budgets, facilities – for maximum ROI
What's new in P6 Version 23
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Project Count
This functionality allows the addition of the ‘Project Count’ column to a grouped project page providing a display of how many projects are in each group. -
Activity Critical Path Toolbar
The Activity Critical Path Toolbar provides access to view Resource Critical Paths, select and adjust the number of paths to show, and enable group and sort. Also, you can show activity critical paths including backward and forward or either backward or forward critical paths. -
Check Schedule Toolbar
The Check Schedule toolbar provides icon access to filter the view to only those activities that fail specific tests of the Check Schedule Report. -
Range Copy/Range Paste
P6 provides the functionality to copy/past from Excel to P6 or P6 to Excel using ranges (multiple cells) with the addition of Range Copy/Range Paste. -
Addition of the ‘Exclude Inactive resources’ option to the Calculated Primary Resources’ limit in the User Preferences, Resource Analysis tab. If the user chooses to display the role limit calculated according to the primary resources' limits, they can choose to calculate the limit using only active resources.
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CPP Format Export
The user can export P6 projects to the CPP Format. The CPP format export generates a collection of JSON files which constitute the CPP data.
Primavera P6 EPPM
Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management software is the most powerful, robust, and easy to use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing and executing projects, programs and portfolios. Primavera P6 is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization.
Problem
Project management is not easy. Many companies are involved in large projects that involve many different workers across different levels resulting in multiple challenges arising including lack of standardization, no visibility across different projects, little collaboration both internally and externally, and reporting not meeting the right needs or "real time" requirements. Also, companies tend to use multiple tools, such as Excel and MS-Project, and everyone maintains their own schedules as unconnected islands which results in data latency. Furthermore, project controls professionals or project managers literally chase people down by phone, e-mail and meetings to obtain their latest progress. This is exacerbated by multiple technologies, and companies end up struggling to obtain just 90% of the actual progress. At the end of the day, you are trying desperately to follow your standard operating procedure, but the SOP is ideal and NOT real life.
Solution
Primavera P6 provides executives with a real-time view of their organization's projects, programs and portfolio performance. It equips managers with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility to effectively and efficiently execute on projects and enables individuals across all levels of an organization to analyze, record, and communicate reliable information and make timely, informed decisions.
Primavera P6 makes it easy to:
- Select the right strategic mix of projects
- Assure project, IT and corporate governance
- Enhance processes and methods
- Improve project team collaboration
- Measure progress toward objectives
- Complete more projects successfully and with the intended payback
Primavera P6 is a multi-platform solution offering many choices that are role-appropriate for each type of user. No matter which way you choose to obtain project intelligence, it all points to a single data source on your project or program. For project engineers who are out at a job site, they can have disconnected or mobile access, and Project Managers and Project Control professionals may choose desktop access for early warning indicators and other power features they require. Subcontractors may update their part of the schedule or clients may want to gain visibility into project progress through the flexibility of a browser access. And the management team may want to see high-level project summaries via an interactive browser interface that delivers KPIs and management reports. It also centralizes project information which results in:
- Project lifecycle management
- Integrated detailed cost information
- Enhanced processes and methods
- Measured progress toward objectives
- Comprehensive resourcing
- Powerful enterprise reporting
- Integrated project teams
- Standardized processes
ROI
Primavera P6 allows for standardized processes that are consistent and can be analyzed, templated and improved upon. It also facilitates collaboration both internally and externally and provides visibility across multiple project or group of projects. With web capabilities, Primavera P6 is much more flexible and extendable to both smaller projects as well as more complex ones. Margin for error is also dramatically lowered with the elimination of manual/multiple entry systems. Real-time information is at hand, and the application is "role based" and is set up by an administrator and access to the enterprise data is pre-determined by your organization, again allowing your organization to develop best practices.
Furthermore, Primavera P6 facilitates project prioritization and mitigates project risk consistency including:
- Web project management
- Collaborative scheduling
- Resource allocation & capacity planning
- Integrated job costing
- Flexible deployment
- Allows usability for all project members on projects of all sizes
- Enhanced processes and methods
Videos
Case Studies
P6-Loader Used to Help Client Upgrade P6 and Clean Database
Emerald Hosts Primavera P6 for US Engineering Company
Emerald Helps Utility Company Move to the Oracle Cloud
Several Databases Consolidated and Migrated to the Oracle Cloud
Integration of Oracle Fusion Projects and Oracle Primavera P6
P6-Loader Used to Help Cleanup Old Versions of P6 Before an Upgrade
Resources
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FAQ
What is Primavera P6?
Primavera P6 is a multi-user, multi-project based enterprise project management software used for scheduling and managing the execution of projects including tasks, resources and costs.
What is Primavera P6 used for?
Primavera P6 is an enterprise project management software used for planning, managing and executing your project work. It is used worldwide in large and small projects in many diverse industries such as construction, manufacturing, mining, energy, and IT.
Is Primavera worth learning?
Primavera P6 is the industry standard in many global sectors. Learning Primavera can be beneficial in expanding a person’s skill base in the project management job market since Primavera is used in many industries. It may be used a little differently in each, but knowing the fundamentals will make a project manager or project controls scheduler more marketable.
What is the difference between P6 PPM and P6 EPPM?
P6 PPM can be installed as standalone software on a single computer or it can be installed to share the database on a server and be accessed by many users. In both cases, P6 PPM must be installed on a PC. P6 EPPM is available for a shared database environment. The Web version is accessed through a URL, so it does not need to be installed on individual PCs.
Why P6 is better than MS Project?
P6 is truly a multi-user, multi-project tool without the need of checking projects in and out. Its enterprise design makes it much more functional than MS-Project for large projects and enterprise portfolio management.
Primavera P6 Add-Ons by Emerald Associates
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P6-Loader
Load or extract any P6 data - global or project, instantly from Excel. Now cloud enabled.
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TAPS - Turnaround Progressing System
A barcode-based Primavera P6 updating solution, increases your accuracy and cuts P6 statusing time by 75%.
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CAPPS - Capital Project Progressing System
A secure P6 updating tool that allows non-schedulers to access information from outside of P6.
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P6-Calculator - Primavera P6 Automated Calculations
Automate calculations that go well beyond out-of-the-box Primavera P6 functionality.
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P6-Auditor - User-Friendly P6 Reports
Display information from P6 audit tables in a user-friendly format to gain better control of your EPPM database.