Scheduling with Primavera Project Planner P3

Oracle's Primavera Project Planner (P3) is designed for planners and schedulers. Professional schedulers can create project plans, schedule resources with advanced levelling options, and interact with project data through PERT charts, bar charts, and time scale logic diagrams.

BENEFITS         

• Plan and schedule projects and resources
•  Organize project dates for quick status reports
• Compare actual performance to original plans

Primavera is one of the technology leaders in the Project Portfolio Management. Primavera Project Manager is a critical path method (CPM) scheduling tool. This tool is often referred to as Primavera P3/5/6 depending on version and is used by many construction companies.

Primavera Systems, Inc, (Owner of Primavera) was founded in May 1983 and was a private company based in Pennsylvania (USA).

In October 8, 2008, Oracle Corporation announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Primavera. Before the deal closed, each company operated independently.

On January 1, 2009 Oracle Corporation took legal ownership of Primavera.

Pro-plan's Scheduling services rendered using Primavera Project Planner:

·                     Preparing Baseline or original schedule of work from project work package

·                     Adding and linking activities with relationships

·                     Estimating durations and assigning constraints. 

·                     Calculate, review and identify critical path of a schedule.

·                     Defining and assigning codes and resources

·                     Organizing, filtering and printing layouts. 

·                     Creating resource-driven schedules.

·                     Defining and setting resource calendars and unit rate limits.  

·                     Reviewing resource profiles. 

·                     Create Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

·                     Define project codes, additional activity codes and ID coding.

·                     Modify standard workweek and sequence of activities. Specify non-work  days.

·                      Establish target plan and highlighting activities for updating.

·                      Compare current and target schedules. Schedule analysis.

·                     Estimate activity progress automatically and manually.

·                     Update task activities manually.

·                     Keeping activity logs.

·                     Customize activity columns, adjust timescales, format bars, show data on bars,  summarize data print     reports and graphics.

·                     Group activities into bands, sorting activities and outlining activities.

·                     Manage change, variances, criticality, relationships and revisions.

·                     Trace progress using progress line.

·                     Designate interim milestones.

·                     Remote sharing of project data: Send and receive E-mails to update a project in P3.

·                     Publishing HTML reports and layouts on an intranet or on a World Wide Web

·                     Change management and customizing presentation