Primavera 6.0

hello

do you think they’ll support others OS like Macos and Linux; and more Database; or they release a complete new web client a la PS next.


friendly: mimoune

ps; héhéhé i have a one month experience in P5 and I speak about the next release; a typical newbie attitude.

If you want a list of the new features I have the document released by Primavera at the US and UK usergroup meetings.

The Beta should be released circa Feb 2007 with Gold release around June 2007 which means you can expect to see it around September if Primavera follow past tradition.


This information is available to members of the UK usergroup, for details go to the Primavera site and look up local usegroups where there is a direct link to the UKUG.

http://www.primavera.com/customer/usergroups.asp

Regards

Dave

What is new on Primavera 6.0 (From Primavera):

Scheduling

Future period bucket planning
Display or suppress grouping band totals
Narrow & wide setting for grouping bands
Search in pop-up dialogs (Easy to use)
Type-ahead in dropdowns (Easy to use)
New options for saving screens & layouts (Easy to use)
• Expand and collapse
• Adjust row heights
• Box positions & zoom factor in chart views
Project specific layouts and filters (Easy to use)
Filters saved & exported with layouts (Easy to use)
Improved Copy Project (Easy to use)
• Baselines
• Layouts
• Filters
Improved What-if Analysis (Easy to use)
• Retain baselines
• Retain timesheets
Import and export project includes project specific layouts, filters and baselines (Easy to use)
Granular import security maintains global dictionaries (Easy to use)
Approval of activity status changes made by team members

Contract Management

MS SQL Server 2005 support
Oracle 10G support
ASA Sybase 9.0 support
IBM WebSphere support
Decoupling of web & application server
Upgrade to InfoMaker 10.5
Better quality of printed reports

Project Management

New user interface & navigation (Easy to use)
• Import from Excel, schedule and baseline support
Interactive web based Gantt chart
• Drag and drop activities
• Draw relationships
• Adjust durations
• Inline data entry
Add, delete and modify WBS
Automatic date and duration calculations
Progress Spotlight (Easy to use)
Interactive columns
• Select columns to be displayed
• Adjust column widths
• Change column order
Grouping of activities
• Group by activity
• Format band
• Display or suppress empty bands
Interactive timescale
• Customize display intervals
• Auto size to see entire duration of project (Easy to use)
• Snap to see current activity (Easy to use)
Basic bar formatting
Customize filter for displayed columns (Easy to use)
Save views
Easy to print
Create new projects quickly (Easy to use)

Portfolio and Program Management

New user interface & navigation (Easy to use)
Subscription-based graphical dashboards available
• Multiple dashboards
• New graphics
• Advanced printing support
Multiple portfolio scorecards & views
Publish scorecards & graphics to dashboards
30+ new stoplight indicators (Easy to use)
Custom indicators
Create new projects using Excel-like interface
View portfolio/program level cost worksheet summary data from Contract Management
Side by side comparison of portfolios
What-if scenario modelling
• Save, recall, and share scenarios (Easy to use)
• Waterline analysis & optimization
• Resource capacity analysis with interactive Gantt chart
Export to Excel

Reporting and Analytics

Operational data store for “day to day” reporting
Star Schema for business intelligence
Works with any third party reporting tool
Trends analysis with periodic historical snapshots
Uses Primavera role-based security
Platform independent (Oracle, SQL)
Supports local languages

Resources Management

Top down planning of resources & roles
Plan at all levels of the WBS
Excel-like formatting and data entry (Easy to use)
• Cut, copy, and paste
• Fill-over functionality
• Configurable spreadsheet columns
Organize by resource or role team
Assign by percentage (%)
Assign projects directly to resources or roles
Rollup data live to the portfolio level
Automatic summarization of resource planning data

Timesheets

ADA Section 508 compliance for timesheets
Save user settings for timesheets (Easy to use)
Enhanced search in timesheets (Easy to use)
Assign to a new activity & add to the opened timesheet in one step (Easy to use)
Expose the ‘Assigned By’ and ‘Assigned Date’ fields in timesheets
View activities from inactive projects in timesheets
Preference to view completed assignments (Easy to use)

Subcontractor Management

New web user interface & navigation (Easy to use)
Ability to update activity status for approval by planner
Resource calendar portlets (Easy to use)
Bookmark most recently visited pages (Easy to use)

Administration

Configure web user interface (Easy to use)
Configure tabs and functions displayed (Easy to use)
• Select tabs
• Select functions
• Assign to users
• Lock down views or provide override
Limit number of baselines copied with a project
Additional timesheets project preferences
Allow resources to assign themselves to activities
Allow resources to modify their own resource assignment dates
Recommend fields for activity views (Easy to use)