Global Engineering Consultant Enhances P6 Usage
Learn how Emerald's tools are enhancing this Engineering Consulting Company's use of P6
P6-Loader and P6-Auditor provide the means to Enhance P6 Usage
Client Overview
Power Engineers is a global consulting engineering firm that offers complete and multi-discipline engineering, architecture and program management services.
Challenges
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Power Engineers needed a way to easily administer multiple P6 databases and also update many projects on each update cycle.
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Administration challenges were maintaining users and user profiles, and global data like activity codes.
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On the updating side, updating actual costs and maintaining cross project relationships between contractor and owner schedules after each update cycle was really time consuming and error prone.
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Administrators needed an effective way to view audit information in multiple databases for their large user base.
Results
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One administrator is able to handle all user and codes maintenance for 10+ databases.
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P6-Loader allows the team to continue to cost load much more quickly each month.
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Handling cross project relationships is much less error prone now after receiving XERs from contractors on each update; it is a simple extract logic, change the project reference and reload!
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The project controls team is able to tackle problems that they could not prior.
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P6-Auditor has allowed them to keep a finger on the pulse of their schedules and gives them a means for disaster recovery.
From Our Customer
"P6-Loader enables me to do things that I wouldn't otherwise be able to do. It facilitates the ability to tackle problems that the infrastructure doesn't support. P6-Loader has been a quality and service enhancement."