Course Good for All Project Roles
Really good course that was well presented and allowed project execution people from all roles to follow along.
Kelly Sehn, Primavera Basic Online Training Attendee, June 2022
Really good course that was well presented and allowed project execution people from all roles to follow along.
Kelly Sehn, Primavera Basic Online Training Attendee, June 2022on Tuesday, 12 July 2022.
CAPPS allows your project engineering team to update Oracle Primavera P6 schedules with ease. Get feedback on drawings and quality steps, as well as hours worked, right from your engineering leads and specialty vendors. No knowledge of Primavera P6 is required.
on Thursday, 22 July 2021.
CAPPS allows your team to update Oracle Primavera P6 schedules with ease. Get feedback on drawings and quality steps, as well as hours worked, right from your engineering leads and specialty vendors. No knowledge of Primavera P6 is required.
on Thursday, 22 July 2021.
Learn how a large engineering firm moved to the Emerald Cloud.
Written by Sue Hopkins
Client is an employee-owned multi-disciplined engineering, planning, architectural, and environmental services firm in the United States. With nearly 700 employees spread between more than 30 offices in 12 states, they offer a wide range of services with a focus on aviation, construction, facilities design, federal, power, transportation, survey, and water. They sit in the top 150 of the Engineering News-Record's prestigious Top 500 Design Firms list, while Zweig Group has recognized client as a best firm to work for in the multi-discipline category for six consecutive years.
Client was looking for an alternative to the Oracle Cloud for them and the Department of Transportation (DOT) they were working with.
The Program Controls manager wanted faster response time on support tickets for four databases.
Needed a reliable environment for 80+ DOT users to fulfill their contract commitments.
Moved hosting of four databases to the Emerald Cloud.
Decreased supported response time from days to hours
Able to bring their DOT client online with their environment in less than two months, including upgrade of P6 and rollout of new business processes.
Added a second DOT client to Emerald's hosting environment two years later.
on Thursday, 17 June 2021. Posted in Case Studies
Project Managers do some of the heavy-lifting to lighten the project controls team workload.
Written by Nicole Jardin
When you are working in an operational plant with daily maintenance, small upgrade projects and major expansion capital projects all going on at once, it is critical to manage schedule inter-dependencies and potential impacts so that nothing goes off the rails.
Reporting weekly progress and monthly costs to date on over 50-100 projects
Reviewing inter-dependencies, schedule impacts, and coordinating crews with area holds
Balancing the project controls teams' overtime each week and at the end of the month
Ensuring interproject critical path analysis was done
Getting updates from remote engineering firms in different time zones
With CAPPS, weekly status updates were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6
Monthly cost updates and forecasting of EAC were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6
Key management milestone reporting was streamlined significantly
Project controls teams were freed up to deal with larger turnaround projects
Project controls teams were able to focus on P6 re-scheduling and critical path analysis
on Thursday, 29 April 2021. Posted in Case Studies
CAPPS was used on large infrastructure projects to help with timely updates.
Written by Nicole Jardin
Running large infrastructure projects that are highly time sensitive requires easy updating of P6 project schedules. This is not easy to do when you have highly specialized suppliers and contractors scattered around North America.
Timely updates from multiple specialty engineering, suppliers and contractors
Weekly status reporting including costs to date and estimate at completion
Updating resource usage and forecasting on a weekly basis from over 15 specialty suppliers
CAPPS was deployed to key project managers and suppliers
Weekly updates were prepared and reviewed in meetings prior to submission to keep the communication flowing smoothly
Used percent complete, resource usage and cost to date
Reporting improvement and better forecasting was achieved
on Wednesday, 28 April 2021. Posted in Case Studies
Remote PMs get updates in on time with CAPPS
Written by Nicole Jardin
When managing a multi-million, country-wide building upgrade and retrofit program with over 150 project managers, getting timely updates is very challenging.
Getting bi-weekly status updates from 150 remote project managers was taking over a week to accomplish
Capturing monthly costs in a timely manner to get the program reporting reviewed and validated without major overtime for the project controls team
Ensuring consistent updating of key milestones and schedule slippage analysis
Getting all PMs to take responsibility for the updates and the timelines and understanding inter-project dependency impacts
P6-Loader was used to clean up project templates for some 500 projects in play to acquire consistency
CAPPS is used for weekly updates by over 150 PMs
The project controls teams review and approve all updates in P6 and discuss any anomalies with the PMs right away
CAPPS is allowing meeting updates to run more efficiently with the on-screen grid
Program management reporting is now being done with a lot less stress and overtime
P6-Calculator allows for flagging of variances and easy filtering of late and overdue items for the schedulers to find across hundreds of projects
on Monday, 26 April 2021. Posted in Case Studies
Introducing CAPPS Version 10.0
Release brings user controls and layouts to the tool
May 27, 2020
Introducing CAPPS Version 10.0
Release brings user controls and layouts to the tool
On-Screen - Layout Saving
On-Screen - Column Controls
On-Screen - Filtering Controls
On-Screen - Sorting Controls
On-Screen - Tab Controls
Configurable - P6 Columns for Baselines, Total Float
Configurable - Columns to Include UDFs and Codes
Performance Improvements
Support for Brave Browser
Notebook Improvements for Feedback
on Tuesday, 26 May 2020. Posted in News
Latest release makes updating and approving easy
February 4, 2020
Latest release makes updating and approving easy
On-Screen - Approvals
On-Screen - Rejections
On-Screen - feedback status data
Configurable - Pre-Filtering for users
Configurable - database interactions
Performance improvements for extracting and loading into CAPPS
Support for Chrome Browser
Support for IE 10 Browser
Technology changes and enhancements
on Monday, 03 February 2020. Posted in News