Earlier this year, Oracle announced that it had acquired Skire and would be combining it with Oracle Primavera to create Primavera Unifier. In keeping with Oracle’s broader strategy, the system will be both cloud-based and available on-premise, and is set to create the most comprehensive enterprise project portfolio management platform. As outlined at Open World
When creating a project schedule, prior to applying any progress to that schedule, it’s necessary to first create a Baseline. This extract from the Primavera Tip we shared with our Support Clients explains why we need a Baseline, and shares a couple of common traps you can fall into when baselining projects. WHY BASELINE?
Laying the foundations for increased productivity and ROI Since our September update, we have been fortunate to meet with several clients and colleagues at a number of events both in Australia and overseas. The consistent theme at each of these events, and in all of my recent meetings with clients, has been the need for
With more than 50,000 people from around 140 countries in attendance, it’s not surprising that Oracle Open World 2012 was a constant whirl of breakfasts, presentations, workshops, dinners and entertainment. Oracle did truly take over the city of San Francisco, with even the famous Union Square bearing an Oracle marquee: there was no doubt the
New online training program helps businesses address skills gaps and drive productivity Business leaders and government representatives frequently demand more innovative, cost-effective training to help meet the need for skilled staff. In the resources, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, financial and public services industries, highly capable project management staff are essential to ensure that forecast capital and
In this Tip we share an extract from our update to our Primavera Support clients about how to export and import Layouts and Filters in Primavera P6. This is especially helpful if you want to share Layouts with other users or for example provide your manager with a Layout to refer to your own
Following on from last month’s post, in this extract from the monthly newsletter we provide to our Support clients, we share some tips on the capabilities and restrictions of what data can be imported and exported from Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM using the XER file format. Using the XER file format XER supports all
Importing to and exporting from Primavera P6 projects using Excel spreadsheets is a necessarily complex process but it can save you time if you are working with hundreds of activities. It’s particularly helpful, but not limited to, tasks like assigning new (or modifying existing) activity names, assigning or modifying activity resources, importing activity codes
With dozens of date field options in both Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM (Web Client) and Primavera P6 Professional, it can be tricky figuring out exactly which one to use at any given time. Date Fields Two date fields that often get confused are Planned Start / Finish and Early Start / Finish. For any Activity that has not
John Wilson is a Prescience Technology Oracle Functional Consultant currently engaged in a major R12 upgrade for a manufacturing client. He is a Chartered Accountant with more than 16 years experience working hands-on with the Oracle ERP system, 11 of those years with Oracle Australia and NZ. In this article he addresses some of the
