Through Primavera’s full range of browser-based, client/server and desktop solutions, the right tool will be placed in the right hands. Obtain the information needed to make smart business decisions and give everyone on your team information needed to finish projects - on time and on budget.
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.
Primavera provides personalized workspaces that deliver appropriate information to users, depending upon their role in the project. Browser applications provide anywhere, anytime access without the need to install special software on your desktop.
Guided to Action
The project dashboard provides vital statistics to assist the program manager in highlighting key performance metrics for a project. Project managers can highlight where action is needed - including important project milestones - with a list of critical activities that are behind schedule. This helps open team discussions and provides a true project picture to those who need it.
Anticipate and Mitigate Project Risks
Integrated risk management features enable your project team to identify, quantify and mitigate risks such as weather delays, late materials or sophisticated installations. Risks can be categorized and control plans can be documented as part of the overall project plan. Primavera also helps teams prepare for the unexpected through a “what-if?” project and resource simulation engine to determine the schedule and cost exposure of project risks. With this information, project managers and schedulers can flag potential risks and take necessary steps to plan an appropriate response.
Project Management Made Simple and More Effective
Now you don’t need to be a full-time project scheduler to stay on top of your projects. With a Web browser, your project contractors and subcontractors can record progress, update steps, identify activity constraints, change relationships, ask questions and identify potential issues - all with phenomenal ease.
Centralized Document Management
Need a more efficient way to store design documents, specifications and procurement documents? Publish documents for review, check out documents, revise and check in documents, track when drawings were submitted - and even who submitted them. Primavera is a full document management solution for all of your document needs.
Flexible Workflows
With Primavera, you’ll know instantly where you are in the approval process. Take advantage of our flexible workflow engine for creating, sharing and reviewing specifications and documents in real time. Our solution helps you accelerate reviews and approvals, get answers faster and increase accountability among the project team.
Collaborative Access for Clients and Owners
Build a competitive advantage by offering your client interactive access to project performance. Using a Web browser, team members - including design consultants and owners - can view up-to-date project status information, such as a 60-day look-head, graphical reports, summary level schedule and cost information. Users can even drill down for detailed activity information, such as notes identifying status, scope or problems encountered at the site.
Mobile Management Primavera
mobile management allows companies to take advantage of the mobility offered by handheld devices, enabling users to review and update project information on the go. Using handheld devices with the Palm OS® or Pocket PC platform, field engineers and superintendents can review and update project status information any time, anywhere - at the job site, on the plant floor or in a conference room. With Primavera, real-time status is in the palm of your hand.
Primavera Cost Management
Improve project control with enhanced cost management and earned value analysis capabilities. Primavera enables project cost analysis to quickly understand performance trends, generate statistical estimates at completion, and adhere to ANSI/EIA 748 earned value standards for all their projects. With comprehensive cost management and earned value analysis capabilities along with period-based reporting functionality and accounting system integration, Primavera Cost Management is the ideal module for organizations that work for the government or simply want to improve control.
Primavera Contractor
Subcontractors are often responsible for large portions of the overall project and it’s important to know their progress and assess their productivity. However, with older technology, integrating subcontractors’ schedules is difficult due to incompatible schedule formats and differing codes. Not any more. Now available is Primavera Contractor - an easy-to-use Windows® scheduling tool built for the subcontractor.
With the SendProject feature, you are only one click away from sending and importing schedules with all of your subcontractors. Primavera Contractor is built from the same engine as Primavera Project Management for lightning fast imports and superior ease.
