What is Primavera?
Oracle Primavera Project and product management application set. Primavera is the best alternatives of Microsoft Project in construction and engineering and also for enterprises and small to large businesses. Primavera first release was in 1983 by Primavera Systems Inc, which was acquired later by Oracle Corporation and named as Primavera P6. Primavera is one of the best online cloud based construction scheduling software. It is all in one solution for planning, prioritizing, managing and evaluating projects, portfolio and programs.
Primavera P6 Features
- Primavera function in real time view of project maintenance.
- Because it is full cloud based application, you don’t have to worry about losing data.
- Colleagues or team member can connect with online collaboration and they can access and change or modification if needed.
- Also includes graphical representation in Gantt chart.
- Primavera has multi-project features with multiple user access and resource control capability with customizable views in one monitor.
- It has project risk management tool that help if projects are in need.
- Content management tool helps all project tools.
- User functions based ob rules.
- Project status update by email.
- Activity and Calendar views.
- Real-time Reporting.
- Real-time Analytics.
Difference between primavera and Microsoft project
- In Primavera amount of baseline is unlimited while in MS project is limited.
- Multiple user supports in Primavera but not in Ms Project.
- Multiple project view supports only in Primavera.
- The amounts of activities you can add in a MS project are far less than what Primavera allows.
- Indeed Ms Project suitable for small project and businesses while Primavera suitable in large business or complex projects