Last week, Prescience Technology teamed up with BASIS for an APAC-exclusive webinar to unveil BASIS next generation planning software. BASIS is the latest innovation from Dr. Dan Patterson, who many of you will know as the brains behind such tools as Pertmaster and Acumen. Prescience is excited to once again partner with Dan on
Since the release of Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM 15.2 (and later), a number of functions have been changed to run as background tasks in Job Services. This includes functions such as Adding Baselines, Copying and Pasting Projects and XML Exports. Moving these tasks from the client to Job Services has benefits in performance and
Oracle has released the latest version of Primavera P6 this week. P6 R17 delivers significant improvements on R16. Enhancements in functionality will help organisations create schedules more seamlessly and deliver projects on time and within scope. The P6 experts at Prescience Technology road-tested the new release to assess the new features and enhanced functionality. We
Participants of this month’s Prescience User Experience Exchange (or PUXX for short) witnessed “Digital Transformation in a Project Driven World” in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Presenters included esteemed project and industry experts, with topics ranging from “Embracing the Digital Tipping Point” to the “Role of Technology in Project Risk Analysis”. After being invited to present at
How Oracle Users Plan to Tackle Cloud Adoption The results of a survey into Oracle Cloud adoption and usage have been released this week at the COLLABORATE 17 Forum in Las Vegas. The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) joined with Oracle to conduct the OAUG user community survey. The results showed that 70 percent of respondents
Technology is Here to Stay Did you know that 20 of the global top 20 oil and gas companies are powered by Oracle, along with 20 of the top 20 Insurance companies and banks? In fact, over 96% of the Global Fortune 500 is running Oracle, including Australia’s largest companies. It’s no secret that
There is no better time than now to start a career in Project Management. A boom in major projects in different industries has created demand for project professionals, with opportunities opening up in the likes of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) industries, entertainment industries, health sectors, and many more. The odds are, if
When you look at the business world, Oracle technology is everywhere. Oracle enterprise systems are incredibly powerful, but can also be necessarily complex. Using these systems to their full ability requires advanced users. Oracle accreditation gives users the edge. Oracle University courses have been developed by the same teams involved in the development of
As a project manager, there never seems to be enough time for training. Certainly if your experience is anything like mine, you move from one project to the next, often finishing one and starting another simultaneously. That means when you do make that commitment and schedule (pun intended!) time for training, you need to
To kick off the New Year, we’ll be providing some useful tips on working with project baselines in Primavera P6. Before you update a schedule for the first time, you should create a baseline plan. The simplest baseline plan is a complete copy, or snapshot, of the original schedule. This snapshot provides a target
