Late December 2011 saw the release of Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM 8.2 and it’s certainly been living up to its promise of improved performance and usability over the earlier R8 versions. Now that we’re well into Q3 of 2012, you may want to know what new releases we’ll see this year and understand the strategic plan for Primavera P6 EPPM going forward.
Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project 2013
The recent announcement from Microsoft (July 16th) that launched ‘The New Microsoft Office’ has certainly been generating a lot of interest, and a lot of questions. The question that we wanted to answer was whether or not the new Microsoft Project XML files would load into the current R8.2 version of Primavera P6.
Installing Oracle Primavera P6 Professional Stand-alone
Installing Oracle Primavera P6 Professional Stand-alone. One of the contributing factors to the continued popularity of Primavera P6 Professional, apart from its rich and varied functionality, is the ability to install the software on a PC or laptop machine independent of a centralized multi-user database. While Primavera P6 is essentially an enterprise system, it functions very […]
Creating Custom Activity Bars in Primavera P6 Professional
Since Henry Gantt conceived the idea around 1910, displaying a project schedule graphically with bars along a timescale has persisted into today’s most sophisticated and popular project scheduling systems. In this article we take a closer look at the Gantt chart in Primavera P6 Professional and explore some intriguing ways to customize its appearance.
Global and Project Security Profile Settings in Primavera P6
During the configuration of a Primavera P6 EPPM system, one of the main tasks is to develop the access privileges for all the different users. Users in Primavera P6 require two different profiles to control what they can do in the system; a Global Security Profile and a Project Security Profile.
Deltek Cobra n-Tier Configuration for P6 Integration
The question recently came up regarding Cobra’s Integration Wizard (IW) and how to get it to connect to a P6 database from within an n-Tier deployment; specifically where should the ODBC data source and Primavera Integration API be installed to get this working.
Primavera P6 R8.2 EPPM Resource Leveling
When you have limited resource availability for your projects, you may wish to use leveling techniques available in Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM to determine what impact these limitations will have on your project portfolio.
Setting up an Oracle ODBC Driver and Data Source
Setting up an Oracle ODBC Driver and Data Source requires more steps than the Microsoft SQL Server database setup. This article explains the steps including tnsnames.ora configuration. Connecting to an Oracle database via and ODBC driver requires the following steps
Exploring the Primavera P6 R8.2 EPPM Portlets
There are many portlets in the P6 EPPM Dashboards tab, so many in fact, that we thought it would be a good idea to publish a free eBook that shows examples of the available portlets and how to configure them. So, we hope you enjoy our free eBook – Primavera P6 EPPM Portlets. P6 EPPM […]
Oracle Primavera P6 Professional – Get Group Interval Savvy
Primavera P6 Group and Sort There’s a cool configuration in Primavera P6 Professional for the Group and Sort dialog that I’d like to share. If you’re ever grouping by dates, you get an interesting option appearing in the Group Interval column. You can define an interval into which the tool will further group your activity […]