In this edition of PrescienceAdvantage® Tips and Tricks, we’ve invited our friends from BASIS Planning to share with you their new knowledge-driven planning tool, BASIS, designed to help build more accurate plans, faster. This topic will be a two part series introducing this revolutionary software to our readers and the benefits of using it
Wondering how to use Primavera P6 more efficiently? We've compiled some of our favourite time-saving tips that web believe will benefit all our support clients and P6 schedulers by improving their productivity and saving time. Note: These tips are relevant for Primavera P6 R8.x onwards. Fill Down A great P6 time-saving function is the
Oracle announced last week that Prescience Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd, the younger sibling to long established Brisbane based Prescience Technology Pty Limited, has been granted Primavera Specialization status, along with four important industry Specializations. A long-established Platinum member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Group CEO Loretta Bayliss explained how the Specializations augment the existing
Daniel Nimmo, Senior VP International It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Daniel Nimmo to the role of Senior Vice-President International, based in Singapore, and welcome him to the Prescience Technology team. Daniel will spearhead Prescience Technology’s international expansion into Singapore as well as Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
Why do projects fail? Projects, whether they are system, transformation or operationally focused, are too often judged to be “failures”, while the question of why they fail seems akin to asking “What is the meaning of life?” Every program and Project Manager has their view of why projects fail. The way a Project Manager answers
Understanding how calendars are defined in Oracle Primavera P6 is an important factor in maintaining the duration and date integrity of projects. Problems with project activity dates and durations can occur when a different calendar is assigned to an existing activity. An example of this could be changing from an 8-hour day to a
Why is it important to build the right plan, the first time? These days traditional CPM tools are good for tracking project execution, but they don’t effectively support the upfront planning process or the ongoing quality schedule checking that is required to produce a schedule you are confident in throughout the project lifecycle.
A sound schedule is the key to a successful project. Many of our clients use Deltek Acumen to quickly diagnose and resolve project schedule shortcomings, reduce risk exposure, accelerate and align schedules with project goals and benchmark quality and performance. If you’ve recently upgraded to the latest version of Deltek Acumen, you will have noticed the
Last week, Prescience Technology teamed up with BASIS for an APAC-exclusive webinar to unveil BASIS next generation planning software. BASIS is the latest innovation from Dr. Dan Patterson, who many of you will know as the brains behind such tools as Pertmaster and Acumen. Prescience is excited to once again partner with Dan on
Since the release of Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM 15.2 (and later), a number of functions have been changed to run as background tasks in Job Services. This includes functions such as Adding Baselines, Copying and Pasting Projects and XML Exports. Moving these tasks from the client to Job Services has benefits in performance and
