Laying the foundations for increased productivity and ROI Since our September update, we have been fortunate to meet with several clients and colleagues at a number of events both in Australia and overseas. The consistent theme at each of these events, and in all of my recent meetings with clients, has been the need for
With more than 50,000 people from around 140 countries in attendance, it’s not surprising that Oracle Open World 2012 was a constant whirl of breakfasts, presentations, workshops, dinners and entertainment. Oracle did truly take over the city of San Francisco, with even the famous Union Square bearing an Oracle marquee: there was no doubt the
New online training program helps businesses address skills gaps and drive productivity Business leaders and government representatives frequently demand more innovative, cost-effective training to help meet the need for skilled staff. In the resources, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, financial and public services industries, highly capable project management staff are essential to ensure that forecast capital and
In this Tip we share an extract from our update to our Primavera Support clients about how to export and import Layouts and Filters in Primavera P6. This is especially helpful if you want to share Layouts with other users or for example provide your manager with a Layout to refer to your own
Following on from last month’s post, in this extract from the monthly newsletter we provide to our Support clients, we share some tips on the capabilities and restrictions of what data can be imported and exported from Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM using the XER file format. Using the XER file format XER supports all
Importing to and exporting from Primavera P6 projects using Excel spreadsheets is a necessarily complex process but it can save you time if you are working with hundreds of activities. It’s particularly helpful, but not limited to, tasks like assigning new (or modifying existing) activity names, assigning or modifying activity resources, importing activity codes
With dozens of date field options in both Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM (Web Client) and Primavera P6 Professional, it can be tricky figuring out exactly which one to use at any given time. Date Fields Two date fields that often get confused are Planned Start / Finish and Early Start / Finish. For any Activity that has not
John Wilson is a Prescience Technology Oracle Functional Consultant currently engaged in a major R12 upgrade for a manufacturing client. He is a Chartered Accountant with more than 16 years experience working hands-on with the Oracle ERP system, 11 of those years with Oracle Australia and NZ. In this article he addresses some of the
In Primavera P6 Professional, the Summarize function updates a set of Summary Tables in the Primavera P6 database. These Summary Tables provide huge performance benefits for the system because they allow the user to see a list of projects, and some high-level details about them, without loading vast amounts of unnecessary activity and resource
Have you ever wondered why, no matter what data you enter, your reports just don’t seem right? It may be because in P6, by default, actuals are distributed evenly across the time periods. This means that the reports don’t reflect what has actually happened in a business in a specific time period. As an
