Primavera Technical

What is Primavera?

Primavera is particularly useful for large organizations, where advanced features can be
exploited to generate maximum benefits. Primavera offers products that provide Project
Portfolio management (Primavera P6), Portfolio Selection and Management (Primavera
ProSight), Enterprise Resource Management (Primavera Evolve), Document management, job
cost and project controls (Primavera Contract Manager), Project Analytics and Risk
Management (Primavera Pertmaster) and Cost versus schedule performance (Primavera Cost
Manager).

Companies can familiarize themselves with Primavera by exploiting its scheduling features, like
activity and deadline tracking.

What Primavera can do?

Project portfolio management can streamline your processes and improve your efficiency.
Project portfolio management (PPM) is important to any business. It allows companies to
distribute resources effectively and catch issues before they become big problems.
Organizations need to be able to look at the projects, decide which have priority and assign
resources to the most important projects.

One of the best tools on the market right now is Primavera. Having received numerous rewards
over the years, it has established itself as a market leader in PPM software. Primavera has
served over 75,000 customers over the years and is very experienced in providing software
solutions to customers.

Primavera provides an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution consisting of

role-specific tools to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities, and skills. This solution
uses standard Windows interfaces, client/server architecture, Web-enabled technology, and
stand-alone (SQL Server Express) or network-based (Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server)
databases.

Why Primavera?

Oracle's Primavera P6 Professional Project Management gives today's project managers and
schedulers the one thing they value most: control. Primavera P6 Professional Project
Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project management software, is
designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects. It can be used to
organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it provides unlimited resources and an unlimited
number of target plans.

Primavera Project Management Major Modules and its functionalities:

Project Management: The Project Management module enables users to track and analyze
performance. It is a multiuser, multiproject system with scheduling and resource control
capabilities supporting multi-tiered project hierarchies, resource scheduling with a focus on roles
and skills, recording of actual data, customizable views, and user-definable data.

The module is ideal for organizations that need to simultaneously manage multiple projects and
support multiuser access across a department or the entire organization. It supports an
enterprise project structure (EPS) with an unlimited number of projects, activities, baselines,
resources, work breakdown structures (WBS), organizational breakdown structures (OBS),
user-defined codes, and critical-path-method (CPM) scheduling and resource leveling. Large-
scale implementations for organization-wide project portfolio management use it with Oracle or
SQL Server as the project database.

Methodology Management: The Methodology Management module is a system for authoring

and storing methodologies, or project plan templates, in a central location. Project managers
can select, combine, and tailor methodologies to create custom project plans.

Timesheets: Primavera also provides a Web-based interproject communication and

timekeeping system. As a team-level tool for project participants, Timesheets helps team
members focus on the work at hand with a simple cross-project to-do list of their upcoming
assignments. It also provides views of project changes and timecards for manager approval.

P6 Web Access: P6 Web Access provides browser-based access to project, portfolio, and
resource data across the organization. Every web user can create customized dashboards that
provide an individualized and focused view of the specific projects and categories of project
data that are most relevant to their role in managing project portfolios, projects, and resources.

Features of Primavera

Enterprise Based Solution

Primavera gives an enterprise wide application of its projects and resources. The projects,
resources and reports are managed in a centralized location which gives the various account
managers to have a birds eye view to know about the status of project, resource and reports
and modify accordingly.

Multiuser Role based environment

Primavera provides an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution consisting of

role-specific tools to satisfy each team member’s needs, responsibilities, and skills. It is a
multiuser, multiproject system with scheduling and resource control capabilities supporting
multi-tiered project hierarchies, resource scheduling with a focus on roles and skills, recording of
actual data, customizable views, and user-definable data.

What-if analysis

Primavera provides flexibility in analyzing each project schedule before freezing. This feature
allows each user to work on the project and based on the changes they do the comparative
report as an analysis we will be able to get and finalize the project schedule based on the
acceptance.
Claim Digger

Claim Digger provides the capability to compare two projects, or a project and an associated
baseline, to determine what data has been added, deleted, or modified from the schedules.
Based on the data fields you select for comparison, this feature creates a project plan
comparison report in one of three file formats csv, html or text file.

Primavera Capabilities

Enterprise Level Plan

Prepare the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)

Prepare the Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS) and make accountability

Prepare roles and user level rights

Scheduling

Create the Calendars and use at the project, activity and resource level

List the activities and generate the network based on PDM

Make use of the WBS, WBS milestones and activity steps for the activities and can
calculate earned value based on WBS Milestones.

Schedule and find critical path and finish date of the project.

Resources and Cost

Can make use of the centralized resource pool

Allocation based on the availability from the centralized resource pool.

Cost analysis based on the resources

Top down budget planning can be done for better control and to calculate ROI of the
project

Resource Analysis

Analysis based on the tabular and graphical method

Find overallocation and do the leveling.

Baseline

Baseline the project n number of times.

 Restore the baseline to update the changes between the project

Track based on duration, physical and resource units

Calculate Earned Value Analysis

Claim Digger

Compare two projects for finding the claim

Up to 5 projects can be compared

Can compare the project and baseline information

Output in the selected form

What-if Analysis

Compare reports before finalizing the schedule

Do analyses with different users input?

Reports

Built in reports are available in plenty.

Tabular reports can be customized.

On screen view of graphical reports can be taken as output.

Grouping of reports is possible.

Industries using Primavera

 Engineering and Construction

 Public sector

 Aerospace and Defense

 Utilities

 Oil and Gas

 Manufacturing and High tech

 IT and services
Primavera Course

Primavera Project Management

This course is designed for professionals in Planning, Scheduling, and resource control and project
managers. This covers EPS, OBS and how to create and use activities, resources, and cost. Also this
covers the claim digger, global change concept, user defined fields and using of reflection in projects.

Primavera Web

This course will help all the team member level to the portfolio level professionals in project
management. This covers projects, resources, portfolio and dashboards. Also covers how to create
workspace in projects, creating resource teams, creating dashboards, capacity planning, calculating ROI
for project.

CADD Centre Advantage

 Exhaustive course curriculum

 Industry standards program

 World class course material

 Training with industry projects

 Practice Examples and Practice Exercises for practice

 Well qualified facilitators