Ever since Oracle Primavera has been published, it has been of great help to various industries including utilities, aerospace, construction, communication, industrial manufacturing and others. It has been created as an enterprise project portfolio management software on the web that can help business allocate their resources and reduce their cost with the use of real time data. Various updates has also been available for the Oracle Primavera as well.
What is it?
It is a known fact that managing a lot of projects all at the same time is quite challenging. Nevertheless, with the help of this software intended for project and portfolio management, everything would surely become much easier. What makes this software even great is that you can select your function and from there on, you would be provided with the tools and resources that you need. It is very helpful in increasing transparency and meeting the deadline.
Pros
- Sub activities creation. It is very much possible for you to create sub-activities using this portfolio management software in which you can allot a start and finish date that would allow you to determine which one has already been completed in order for you to proceed to the next one.
- It contains a variety of tools. This agile software is capable of providing you the tools that you would ever need to manage your projects including scheduling and path calculations. Not only that, through it, you can also update your products easily. Through it, you can also create plan template and the project manager can even customize it for each project.
- It can be used to manage large projects. One great thing about this portfolio management software is that it can manage large projects. In fact, it is more than capable of managing projects with over 100,000 activities. In addition to that, it supports bug tracking and customer issues as well. Also, if it can manage large projects then it would surely do a better job in managing small projects.
Cons
- It may take some time for you to get used to it. You should be willing to spend an ample amount of time getting used to it for it is not that intuitive. This only means that you might have a hard time using it for a couple of days, weeks or even months. So, if you are looking for a software that you can master fast, then better look for another software.
- It is not suitable for presentations. Unfortunately, this software does not come together with aesthetic tools for presentations but on the bright side, you can just export it to the Microsoft Project where you can change its format to your liking.
Pricing
Oracle offers 3 Primavera products which includes the P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio, P6 Professional Project Management and the Contract Management. Nevertheless, if you want to know its price, you can just visit their site and you would be asked whether you already have a system or not. From there, you would be provided with a suitable plan for you together with its pricing.
— Slimane Zouggari