These are some of the features Primavera P5 that enhances P3 capabilities. and many other if you try to use it.
Plan and control large projects efficiently Primavera provides project schedulers with the basic tools to easily plan and control projects. Schedulers can quickly create optimum project plans, zero in to understand the critical path and easily create “what-if?” projects to simulate possible adjustments - including adding resources, shortening duration by working faster, working on weekends and holidays and doubling up on activities.
Schedule with confidence
Primavera project management provides easy-to-use analytical tools for all project scenarios. Schedulers can examine an activity - and its predecessors and successors - with trace logic. Determine why an activity is scheduled at a particular time, and answer questions such as: Why is there negative float? Were any of its predecessors delayed? Do any of its predecessors or successors have constraints? Is the logic correct?
PERT Diagramming made easy
You can control nearly every aspect of diagrams, including the appearance of activities, the contents of activity boxes and the spacing between activities. Schedulers use PERT Diagramming to graphically view relationships among activities and project workflow, focus on the driving relationships and examine, edit and create activities, as well as their predecessors’ and successors’ logic.
Eliminate subjective progress
What is the difference between 20% and 30% complete? Use the Step feature in Primavera to break down activities, each with weighted completion, costs, dates and instructions required for completing the task. Steps are ideal for quantifying progress because, after all, your payment depends upon it.
Keeping you on track Your project
controls team can create a snapshot of a project plan, providing a target against which you can track a project’s cost, schedule and performance. Primavera allows the project controls team to categorize and organize baselines by type, such as initial plan, customer sign-off, approved project plan and “what-if?” plans.
Superior project reporting
Primavera helps project control professionals manage single projects or complex programs. Professional project schedulers use Primavera to plan and analyze multiple projects to ensure that they’re completed on time and within budget and share progress.
Industry standard reports
There are more than 100 industry standard reports that are included in the solution. These reports have been used in many ways including proposals, client status reports, management reports, claim litigation, arbitration, even team building. Just in case these are not enough for you, Primavera comes integrated with a report writer so you can customize any of these reports to suit your specific needs.
Primavera’s browser access provides a collaborative platform through which team members can view current issues and risks facing project efforts to represent true project performance - including industry standard metrics, such as earned value - against all projects within a program.
Hows antarctica today ? Its been my long dreamt to visit your nice country. I prefer to use P5 rather than the previous p3 is mainly because for some reasons . i feel this tool will saves a lot of your time and effort in doing paper works and you have enough time to concentrate to some other issues to be more effective in project management..
Regards, ULY
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Submitted by ulysses garcia on Tue, 2007-06-12 11:02
How antarctica today ? Its been my long dreamt to visit your nice country. I prefer to use P5 rather than the previous p3 is mainly because for some reasons . i feel this tool will saves a lot of your time and effort in doing paper works and you have enough time to concentrate to some other issues to be more effective in project management..
im not a P5 user but i want to know if whats the function of P5 that you like most? or in Planning whats the most important matter that you think only P5 can produce?
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Submitted by ulysses garcia on Tue, 2007-06-12 06:46
What I believed, most of the planners are asking about on how to maneuver the tools especially primavera P3 , in a sense this tools is not categories as friendly unlike ms project , primavera P5...ect... Its time to leave p3 to look forward into a more friedly and powerful tool like Primavera P5.
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Submitted by Amreshwar Shukla on Tue, 2007-06-12 04:37
The initial posting was “The Power of P5 -Excellent and Incomparable”.
You said correctly in you previous post that “most critics of P5 are unsatisfied P5 users. Planningplanet survey shows that most Planningplanet members still use P3. And in any case it is a survey of English speaking planners “. I am agreeing with you.
So in other words - This survey of English speaking planers (reflecting the real active users of planning software) shows that out of 100, only 18 of them has adopted it.
So what it reflect??
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Submitted by Vladimir Liberzon on Mon, 2007-06-11 11:06
If I understood correctly the initial posting was not about the number of people who use P5 but about its exellence. It is not the same. As I wrote in one of my previous posts the large number of people who use some software does not mean that the software is exellent. The number of MS Project users in the world is much larger than the number of P5 users. It does not mean that MS Project is better tool.
I think that Amreshwar understands that the percent of Planningplanet members using P5 and the percent of English speaking people using P5 are not the same. Why he decided that most of them are unsatisfied I dont know. I know some active PP members who are not happy with P5 but most PP members are silent. I hope that they are satisfied. In any case it depends on their requirements and these requirements are different for different projects and different people and organizations.
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Submitted by Amreshwar Shukla on Mon, 2007-06-11 10:03
Now I understood that you wrote about Primavera Enterprise. This package was launched to the market in 1998 (9 years ago!) by small company later bought by Primavera. In 1998 it was called Eagle Ray. In 1999 it became known as Primavera Enterprise. That is why I did not understand what package was in the market only a couple of years.
Product may be called excellent if it meets user requirements and expectations. So it depends on requirements and expectations and there are many Planningplanet users of P5 that are not happy with this software.
You may call some product incomparable if you did comparative study with some other products and found that it has many unique features that are not supported by other software. That is why I asked incomparable with what.
I am sure that most critics of P5 are unsatisfied P5 users. Planningplanet survey shows that most Planningplanet members still use P3. And in any case it is a survey of English speaking planners.
What software is in the market a couple of years and has such large amount of sales? Please clarify.
In any case a number of sales does not show the quality of the software. If to use this criterion then MS Project is the best and Excel is even better.
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Hi Anoon
You are most welcome. Should you have any question I am at your sevice at all time.
regards
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Hello Ulysses,
even in summer, its still cold! i thought youll just say that there is an undo feature! sorry but im not interested in sales, but thanks anyway
good luck
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20 years 2 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
Hi anoon,
These are some of the features Primavera P5 that enhances P3 capabilities. and many other if you try to use it.
Plan and control large projects efficiently Primavera provides project schedulers with the basic tools to easily plan and control projects. Schedulers can quickly create optimum project plans, zero in to understand the critical path and easily create “what-if?” projects to simulate possible adjustments - including adding resources, shortening duration by working faster, working on weekends and holidays and doubling up on activities.
Schedule with confidence
Primavera project management provides easy-to-use analytical tools for all project scenarios. Schedulers can examine an activity - and its predecessors and successors - with trace logic. Determine why an activity is scheduled at a particular time, and answer questions such as: Why is there negative float? Were any of its predecessors delayed? Do any of its predecessors or successors have constraints? Is the logic correct?
PERT Diagramming made easy
You can control nearly every aspect of diagrams, including the appearance of activities, the contents of activity boxes and the spacing between activities. Schedulers use PERT Diagramming to graphically view relationships among activities and project workflow, focus on the driving relationships and examine, edit and create activities, as well as their predecessors’ and successors’ logic.
Eliminate subjective progress
What is the difference between 20% and 30% complete? Use the Step feature in Primavera to break down activities, each with weighted completion, costs, dates and instructions required for completing the task. Steps are ideal for quantifying progress because, after all, your payment depends upon it.
Keeping you on track Your project
controls team can create a snapshot of a project plan, providing a target against which you can track a project’s cost, schedule and performance. Primavera allows the project controls team to categorize and organize baselines by type, such as initial plan, customer sign-off, approved project plan and “what-if?” plans.
Superior project reporting
Primavera helps project control professionals manage single projects or complex programs. Professional project schedulers use Primavera to plan and analyze multiple projects to ensure that they’re completed on time and within budget and share progress.
Industry standard reports
There are more than 100 industry standard reports that are included in the solution. These reports have been used in many ways including proposals, client status reports, management reports, claim litigation, arbitration, even team building. Just in case these are not enough for you, Primavera comes integrated with a report writer so you can customize any of these reports to suit your specific needs.
Primavera’s browser access provides a collaborative platform through which team members can view current issues and risks facing project efforts to represent true project performance - including industry standard metrics, such as earned value - against all projects within a program.
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ulysses,
cold! my question is straightforward, i want to know what makes you really believe in P5
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Hi Anoon,
Hows antarctica today ? Its been my long dreamt to visit your nice country. I prefer to use P5 rather than the previous p3 is mainly because for some reasons . i feel this tool will saves a lot of your time and effort in doing paper works and you have enough time to concentrate to some other issues to be more effective in project management..
Regards, ULY
Member for
20 years 2 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
Hi Anoon,
How antarctica today ? Its been my long dreamt to visit your nice country. I prefer to use P5 rather than the previous p3 is mainly because for some reasons . i feel this tool will saves a lot of your time and effort in doing paper works and you have enough time to concentrate to some other issues to be more effective in project management..
Regards, ULY
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19 years 1 monthRE: The Power of Primavera P5
ulysses,
im not a P5 user but i want to know if whats the function of P5 that you like most? or in Planning whats the most important matter that you think only P5 can produce?
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20 years 2 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
What I believed, most of the planners are asking about on how to maneuver the tools especially primavera P3 , in a sense this tools is not categories as friendly unlike ms project , primavera P5...ect... Its time to leave p3 to look forward into a more friedly and powerful tool like Primavera P5.
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22 years 6 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
Dear Vladimir
The initial posting was “The Power of P5 -Excellent and Incomparable”.
You said correctly in you previous post that “most critics of P5 are unsatisfied P5 users. Planningplanet survey shows that most Planningplanet members still use P3. And in any case it is a survey of English speaking planners “. I am agreeing with you.
So in other words - This survey of English speaking planers (reflecting the real active users of planning software) shows that out of 100, only 18 of them has adopted it.
So what it reflect??
Regards,
Member for
24 years 9 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
If I understood correctly the initial posting was not about the number of people who use P5 but about its exellence. It is not the same. As I wrote in one of my previous posts the large number of people who use some software does not mean that the software is exellent. The number of MS Project users in the world is much larger than the number of P5 users. It does not mean that MS Project is better tool.
I think that Amreshwar understands that the percent of Planningplanet members using P5 and the percent of English speaking people using P5 are not the same. Why he decided that most of them are unsatisfied I dont know. I know some active PP members who are not happy with P5 but most PP members are silent. I hope that they are satisfied. In any case it depends on their requirements and these requirements are different for different projects and different people and organizations.
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22 years 6 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
So only 18% of English speaking peoples are using the P5 and most of them are unsatisfied……
So garcia , I think message are now loud and clear.
Regards
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24 years 9 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
Now I understood that you wrote about Primavera Enterprise. This package was launched to the market in 1998 (9 years ago!) by small company later bought by Primavera. In 1998 it was called Eagle Ray. In 1999 it became known as Primavera Enterprise. That is why I did not understand what package was in the market only a couple of years.
Product may be called excellent if it meets user requirements and expectations. So it depends on requirements and expectations and there are many Planningplanet users of P5 that are not happy with this software.
You may call some product incomparable if you did comparative study with some other products and found that it has many unique features that are not supported by other software. That is why I asked incomparable with what.
I am sure that most critics of P5 are unsatisfied P5 users. Planningplanet survey shows that most Planningplanet members still use P3. And in any case it is a survey of English speaking planners.
Regards,
Vladimir
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24 years 5 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
Vladimir,
I believe the survey of planningplanet is a users survey, not number of licenses sold.
This is exactly my question, how do you say a product is excellent? and incomparable?
Uly, dont assume that all critics of P5 are not P5 users.
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Did you understand my question? Do you have any answer?
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Wait it will become 90% including youself
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What software is in the market a couple of years and has such large amount of sales? Please clarify.
In any case a number of sales does not show the quality of the software. If to use this criterion then MS Project is the best and Excel is even better.
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24 years 5 monthsRE: The Power of Primavera P5
After a couple of years in the market, only 18% use it(as per planningplanet, maybe lower in other surveys. Is that excellent enough?
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Incomparable with what?
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Thanks for information.