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 […]
Oracle Primavera P6
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.
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 […]
The Value-add of Deltek Cobra in a Primavera P6 Environment
I and my Ten Six colleagues have worked with numerous clients who have successfully used Primavera P6 to run rudimentary earned value reporting systems; that is, until a big contract comes along.
Primavera P6 EPPM – Using Excel to Change a Global Activity Code into an EPS Activity Code
Many Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM deployments are developed ad-hoc, often without much in the way of ownership and putting it “right” can be nearly as big a technical challenge as it is a human one.
Primavera P6 EPPM R8.2 Enhancements – Video
Want to see Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM R8.2 new capabilities in action? Here’s a short 3 1/2 video overview taking a look at the latest enhancements introduced in Primavera P6 EPPM R8.2. It shows the performance improvements together with real time speed test and