Primavera P6V8.2 is the world’s leading solution for prioritizing, planning, and executing projects, programs and portfolios. It is an integrated Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to match each team member’s needs and responsibilities.
P6 Web client
This tool eliminates the need to load software on to a PC.It is used to manage the EPPM database, functions such as adding users and user access etc. P6 Progress reporter is a time sheet application accessed through a web browser. P6 Team member is a progress update application accessed through a web browser and was extended to provide the ability to update progress via iphone application or email.
New Exclusive Mode You can now open one or more projects exclusively. This enables you to prevent others from updating a project while you run reports, schedule projects, level resources, or take other actions while ensuring the project data do change.
New Location Data
New global enterprise data for locations enable you to create a list of locations, including the street address and the longitude and latitude. If you do not know the longitude and latitude, you can find them if you have geolocation\service connected to P6. You can also find an address based on the longitude and latitude. You can assign locations to projects, resources and activities, and you can report on data by location in P6 Analytics. You can also group, sort, and filter by location in various views. You can also import new locations into P6 from a Microsoft Excel (.xls) file.
New Import/Export Support for Microsoft Project 2010
You can now export P6 projects as Microsoft Project XML 2010 files, as well as import Microsoft Project 2010 files.
Enhanced Scaling Options when Printing Three new scaling options are available when printing from the Activities, EPS, and Assignments pages.
New Dissolve Activities Support
When you delete an activity, a chain of logical activities might be broken. You can use the new Dissolve option to delete the activity but join the predecessors and successors and create the appropriate relationships between them. The dissolve option is available from the right click menu, Actions menu, and the toolbar of the Activities view when you select a single activity that has both predecessors and successors.
New Copy Issue Forms Support
When you copy projects, create templates, or create projects from templates, issue forms are also copied.
Additional Fields in Predecessor/Successor Tabs
Additional fields are now available in the Predecessor and Successor tabs of the
Activities page to help Project managers better analyze their project schedule. The
new fields are Driving, Critical, Total Float, Free Float, Early Start, Early Finish, Late Start and Late Finish.
Release 8.2 includes the following major features in the web:
- All administration is now in the web (and not in the client)
- Schedule checker that performs the DCMA 14 -point schedule analysis.
- One dialog for Baseline Management
- Email links to specific Activity Views
- Management of all job services now performed from the web
- Custom toolbars
- Multi-project resource assignments view (without needing to open projects)
- Resource assignments Gantt view
- Users can update their own Personal Calendars and have an ability to synch with other calendar tools
- Integrated Project Risk Management
- Web based reporting (BI Publisher is integrated into P6) – reports can be output in different formats, scheduled and distributed via different methods ( printers, file, email, content repository etc.)
- Integration with Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) for workflows – replaces old workflow approach