Emerald Associates is well known in the US and Canada for our homegrown add-on tools for Primavera P6. We have assisted numerous companies in many diverse areas to get the most out of their P6 software. You may wonder how our tools can assist in the Department of Transportation (DOT) field to get more done in P6 with less time while still providing useful data to your stakeholders and remaining good stewards of the public's funds. Our tools will help you do more work in less time, so that your project management group has more time to analyze and perfect their schedules.
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist
on Friday, 27 July 2018.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Loader
In P6, identifying each specific project using each of the Global Calendars in a concise, fast, easy to use manner is challenging. Some may think this is not necessary very often, but in my experience, it has been quite the opposite!
Is this functionality already handled in Primavera P6, Client or Web? A very good question - let’s have a look.
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist
on Tuesday, 24 April 2018.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Loader
When you have a large number of users in your P6 database, it is surprising how quickly that database can get “clogged up” with a lot of unwanted data. This happens even when using Sandbox databases, restricting privileges and every other trick you have thought of; long time P6 users know what I am talking about.
Written by Nicole Jardin, P.Eng. - CEO
on Wednesday, 14 February 2018.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Loader, Primavera P6
On every Turnaround there are Pre-Turnaround activities that do not get done prior to the actual Turnaround and need to be moved into the Turnaround phase of the schedule.
The challenge is how to record actual hours earned in the PRE phase vs the TA phase, since a large number of these activities already have earned hours associated with them. Simply moving the activities would decrease the reporting of hours in PRE and create earned hours in TA for work that was actually done in PRE.
This can be done simply and quickly with P6-Loader.
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist
on Wednesday, 10 January 2018.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Loader
Gathering work packages and manually inputting the data into Primavera P6 can be a daunting task. Not only can it be extremely time consuming to enter work packages into P6, but it often requires multiple dialogues with many different teams to ensure that all of the required work package information is there. On top of this, when you are gathering hundreds of tasks on a daily basis, it can be extremely painful to ensure that everything is correct and present.
Take a look at this short video to find out how the P6-Loader can help with these issues and more.
P6-Loader is a custom Primavera P6 add-on tool that was developed by our team of Primavera specialists here at Emerald Associates in order to simplify the process of loading, extracting, and updating Primavera P6 data, ensuring the process is smoother, easier, and much faster. In addition, P6-Loader boasts multiple utilities that allows you to clean up and work with your data in Primavera P6. The user-friendly nature of the P6-Loader solution means that it can be used by any user without requiring database administrator knowledge or security privileges. Cloud-enabled and Oracle Cloud marketplace approved, P6-Loader can make your job a whole lot easier!
on Tuesday, 17 February 2015.
Primavera P6-EPPM has activity codes and calendars that can be shared across projects, at the EPS level or at the project level. Maintaining the activity codes and the calendars can be time-consuming, especially with multiple project divisions or departments. Oracle Primavera P6 does not have the functionality to move activity codes and calendars from the top Global level to Project level, or to merge codes together if needed, but Emerald's P6 Cleanup Utility via P6-Loader does.
The P6 cleanup utility allows the administrators of P6 and superusers to move activity codes and calendars to different levels in P6's hierarchy in an easy to use tool. This tool can move activity codes and/or calendars up the hierarchy - for example, from project level to EPS level and/or Global level. This is a function that P6 currently does not have, so using P6-Loader to move codes up into global data is very helpful and user friendly. This rollup feature can also do merging and remapping or renaming of fields. P6-Loader also lets you move activity codes and calendars down the hierarchy from Global to EPS and/or to Project level. Keeping your activity codes and calendars standardized is important for corporate project and portfolio management. This feature is now built into P6-Loader, and makes P6 schedule development and consistent database maintenance so much easier.
on Wednesday, 31 July 2013.
Posted in P6-Loader
