Unless your organization has made the investment to integrate Oracle’s Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher with your Primavera P6 EPPM system, you probably haven’t seen the additional Reports tab at the top of the P6 page. So what does it look like and what standard reports does it offer?
Free Webinar – Earned Value with Primavera P6 & Deltek
Join our webinar Earned Value with Primavera P6 & Deltek Today’s enterprise tools come with so many capabilities and it’s often challenging to understand which tool is best to use to solve specific business problems. Enterprise project management and earned value management tools are no different. With the choice of products and seemingly overlapping […]
More on Primavera P6 Fill-Down Examples
In versions up to and including R7.0, the Fill Down feature could be invoked using the Ctrl + E shortcut for almost any “fill down” situation. However in P6 version R8.3, that same option is almost always greyed out in the Edit menu and thus unavailable as a shortcut option.
Scheduling Practice Standard Conundrums
[…] logical successor. These come up from time to time and are always problematic: particularly if they are in the earlier months of a project’s lifecycle. In our Primavera P6 Professional Fundamentals training class, we use the Wellmont electrical substation sample project. In this project, there is a good example of an activity that doesn’t have […]
Deltek Acumen Fuse Schedule Diagnostics
[…] data. In this article we will take a look at the Acumen Fuse schedule diagnostics tool and walk through the process of analyzing a schedule from the Primavera P6 system. The analysis featured in this article is a general analysis based upon practice standards of scheduling in the industry. Other analysis such as the […]
Primavera P6 Level Of Effort Activity Type
Quite a few folks have been asking about how and when to use the Primavera P6 Level Of Effort activities, so we though we would make a short movie explaining how they work. This video takes you through what Level Of Effort type activities are and how to use them in Primavera P6. These […]
PMO Enterprise Tool Training
Enterprise Tool Training An integral part of any PMO is a centralized tool suite, most commonly, enterprise tool suites from Oracle Primavera, Deltek and Microsoft. These tools enable the PMO to create a central repository of all projects within an organization, often termed as a single source of truth for project information. These enterprise […]
Steelray’s Project Analyzer Now Supports Primavera P6 XER Files
Good news! Steelray’s recently released Project Analyzer (version 3.2) now offers support for Primavera P6 Export Files (XER Files). XER files can now be analyzed by Project Analyzer
Variance Reporting in Primavera P6 Professional
Variance reporting in Primavera P6 requires that the project has a baseline and it is assigned as either a Project Baseline or a Primary Baseline.
Primavera P6 Database Connection Configuration Details
The Primavera P6 Professional is installed as a standalone application, it installs a copy of Oracle XE for use as its database. If for some reason you are unable to login to P6, you need to know the steps to reconfigure the connection information. The following steps will give you the information you need: