Why is it important to build the right plan, the first time? These days traditional CPM tools are good for tracking project execution, but they don’t effectively support the upfront planning process or the ongoing quality schedule checking that is required to produce a schedule you are confident in throughout the project lifecycle.
A sound schedule is the key to a successful project. Many of our clients use Deltek Acumen to quickly diagnose and resolve project schedule shortcomings, reduce risk exposure, accelerate and align schedules with project goals and benchmark quality and performance. If you’ve recently upgraded to the latest version of Deltek Acumen, you will have noticed the
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
Last month we explained how Primavera Unifier uses business processes to drive transactions and collaboration. In this edition of Tips and Tricks, we will explain how to further develop business processes by using workflows. Just as we discussed last month, some business processes have a single purpose of storing data, also known as non-workflow
Primavera Unifier transaction and collaboration functions are driven by business processes. Information is entered and stored in Primavera Unifier using electronic business process (BP) forms. Each time you fill out a business process form, you are creating a new record in Unifier. Business process records are stored in logs, which are accessible in the
Primavera P6 and Unifier work exceptionally well together. Primavera P6 is widely considered the industry standard solution for the execution and visibility of projects across the organisation. On the other hand, Unifier provides excellent contract management, cost management, capital planning and Portfolio Management capabilities. There are two options to leverage the combined strengths of
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
