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Primavera Charts/Graphs/Reports

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Mon, 2008-12-08 11:52
Ken Barrett
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Is there supplemental software to primavera that chart/graphs and reports can be done on? The charts/graphs that P6 provides are extremely basic and little can be done to enhance them, and to produce a report with the software is painful and little can be done to make the reports layout custom.

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Ken Barrett
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Thu, 2008-12-11 00:05
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A D
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Primavera Charts was available as a graphical tool to support P6, but eventually they have stopped selling from october 2008. Primavera charts will become an integral part of Primavera’s next version and will not be sold as an additional stuff

Cheers,

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Mon, 2008-12-08 19:19
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Barrie Callender
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I agree that Primavera has a poor reporting capability.

There was a Third-Party product that Primavera use to have called Primavera Charts (or similar). It had a development and run-time version. Though I couldn’t see it on their web site just now.

They also have products that perform ETL to Operational and Business Intelligence databases that can produce graphics using any of the typical reporting tools (Business Objects, Crystal reports etc).

There is actually quite a lot you can achieve with tabular reports if you can be bothered to modify ones created using the wizard.
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Mon, 2008-12-08 19:00
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Omar Grant
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Ken, I cannot agree more about Primavera’s negligence in providing a user-friendly grahical reporting tool; I always thought P3’s ability in this regard was terrible until I became a P6 user! How they can sell software for the price they do and not provide this ability is a disgrace.

cheers,

Omar
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Mon, 2008-12-08 14:31
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Ali Farhat
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Well there is a software that is linked to Primavera database, i forgot its name but i can remember it costs a lot...something like 30K $.
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