Introduction to Primavera software

1. Primavera Software
The information cooperate Project Management system will provide each participant of the
project with program modules that help to achieve their goals. Primavera allows to provide all
role participants of projects with specialized tools for solving most diverse tasks. The interface
of each program module allows the user to receive necessary information by projects at the
same time without being overloaded with excessive functionally or data.
Primavera Software allows to create an interaction environment for all projects participants.
Working in this Environment, projects participants receive information on their projects no
matter whether their role is that of an executor, a supervisor or the manager. Each of
participants can be sure that his/her contribution to the work on projects management shall
not remain unnoticed and the addressee shall receive the information.
Primavera Software is intended for automation of project management processes in
accordance with PMI and IPMA requirements and ISO standards.
Primavera Software, Inc Company has been developing and continuously improving
specialized software for project management since 1983. During this period 2 generations of
Primavera software products have seen the market. You can see the history of Primavera
software including continuity of generations and change of names of program modules here.
All Primavera program modules store and process data for all projects of the company in the
unified data storage created on the basis of Oracle database management system or Microsoft
SQL Server (depending on the customer’s choice).
Project Management is intended to be used as a part of cooperate information system though
it can work independently to solve schedule planning problems, calculate critical way, align
resources, what-if analysis and other tasks of modeling projects, groups of projects, portfolios
and programs.
Methodology Management allows to store and further use the company’s project management
knowledge base.
My Primavera functional modules, designed using modern web-technologies,, form a web-
portal of the company’s projects and have all options for data control and analysis by projects
portfolios (My Primavera Portfolios), project management, design our and actualization of
schedules (My Primavera Projects), resource and roles management (My Primavera
Resources), tracing of initiation and project change processes, management of document
circulation etc (Collaboration). The special module Primavera Pert Master is intended for
identification and a qualitative and quantitative estimation of risks.
Even the most perfect network schedules will instantly turn into a beautiful but useless
picture if the factual data collection and schedule actualization procedure is not supported

2. with special program tools. The choice of software depends on the detailed elaboration of
resources, requirements for factual data and communications available for the participants. If
all executors have access to a local network of the company or to the Internet and the factual
information needs to be collected regularly and to be approved of after a certain time passes,
then users need a simple and convenient tool to get the structure of work for a period of time
and to report on it in real-time mode. These options are provided by the Primavera Timesheets
functional module. However, a company’s not always able to provide constant network access
to its employees. Also a situation is possible when contractors report on the customer’s work
and they are denied access to the customer’s corporate network. In these cases other tools for
of control and accounting of works by projects become important, which should work even
when there is no steady access to network. PM. exchange is one of such tools. A solution for
handheld computers — Sensory Pro tracker — is provided wor those working at remote
objects.
Modules expanding basic primavera functionality
When large-scale projects are realized, the project’s time and costs is greatly influenced by
participant’s interaction processes. The PM contract and PM procurement modules provide for
automation of contracts and deliveries management processes respectively. They enable the
information on the contracts signed and equipment to be delivered to be aligned automatically
with network schedules in Primavera. Documents circulation processes between companies
(i.e. documents approval, delivery Project Estimate Documentation and Work Documentation,
procuring of permissions, information, information quarries, incoming and outgoing
correspondence, meeting’s minute) and also current reports from contractors on site and
weather conditions etc can be automatized as well. Project administrative support system.
Contract management will ensure that these processes are made automatical and the risks of
documentation support for projects are minimized.
Primavera Contractor also solves problems of network planning. Its feature includes single-
user work with project schedule at a time, limited in number of works.
Primavera is a brand name under which several project management software packages are
marketed. The current publisher of these packages is Oracle Corporation.
The core product, Primavera P6, was developed by the US Company Primavera Systems; in
October 2008 Oracle acquired Primavera Systems.
The long-standing P3 product in its various forms is used by 25% of the heavy construction
industry, its predominate customer base; the next popular software is used by 11%. Nearly
40% of general contractors with an annual revenue of $5M to $10M use Primavera P3. In
comparison the P6 version does not register in a CFMA 2008 survey of the United States
construction industry. The P3 version to P6 version change is based in a move from DOS-type
shortcut keys to mouse-based icons.