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P6-Reporter Self-Serve Dashboards for Turnarounds
If you’re still building your green up reports using Excel, there’s an easier way.
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist on Tuesday, 17 May 2022. Posted in P6-Reporter, Turnarounds
P6-Auditor v4 - Where Did My EPS Node Go?
How do we find what has happened to our EPS?
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist on Tuesday, 10 May 2022. Posted in P6-Auditor
TAPS Mobile – Quick, Easy Primavera P6 Schedule Updates
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist on Friday, 06 May 2022. Posted in TAPS
TAPS is Now Available on Mobile Devices
All updates do not have to be received from the same source - just computer, just phone, or a mix of both – whatever works best with your project team. If you have some activities where a field report returned to the office to complete the scanning, TAPS easily addresses that. In the same schedule, if some activities are better updated using TAPS on a phone to submit the updates, TAPS easily addresses that as well. You can even use TAPS and other tools like CAPPS or P6-Loader to update your schedules.
Are you wondering how you might update your schedule with activities of all three P6 activity percent complete types? TAPS allows processing of updates for any of the activity percent complete types, mixing as you require with no issues.
TAPS also allows you to use barcode scans to update steps. Yes, steps and resources also. So no matter the mix of update types you may require, TAPS has a number of options available.
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist on Thursday, 14 April 2022. Posted in TAPS
P6-Scrubber v04
P6-Scrubber is the answer to your data pollution woes. This tool designed by Emerald Associates will take care of clearing out that unwanted garbage prior to importing the XER/XML by allowing you to easily decide what is acceptable in the file. The P6-Scrubber Definition Configurator allows you to set up and save definitions for each client to be used over and over without rebuilding it each time. Definitions can also be edited, so if a new cleansing definition is needed, it can be added to the existing one.
P6-Scrubber can be deployed stand alone or it can be pointed at one or many database so data can be validated against what is already in the database.
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist on Thursday, 24 March 2022. Posted in P6-Scrubber
P6-Scrubber - Demoting Versions in XERs
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist on Tuesday, 15 March 2022. Posted in P6-Scrubber
A Look into P6-Reporter Custom Views
As you’d likely expect, EP-datawarehouse delivers you data in tables that represent your common P6 items: Projects, Activities, Resource Assignments, and Resources. There’s a lot you can do with these, but to create great reports, you’ll often want to manipulate these tables too:
- prepare the data, so it’s ready to feed your visuals
- prepare the data, so it can describe relationships between your data
- reduce the amount of information being passed in so that your reports are light and responsive
Written by James Andrade - Integration Specialist on Tuesday, 01 March 2022. Posted in P6-Reporter
P6-Reporter - Self-Serve Dashboards
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist on Monday, 14 February 2022. Posted in P6-Reporter
P6-Auditor v4- How to Find What Happened to a Missing Activity Code
In P6 we sometimes discover data anomalies that do not make sense and need to find out what happened. Emerald’s P6-Auditor tool provides an easy and quick way to investigate these anomalies. The P6-Auditor reads the data in the P6 audit tables in a spreadsheet format, making these tables much more legible and searchable.
Let’s take a look at how to go about finding what has happened to an activity code that is no longer in our project that once contained values for the activity code.
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist on Tuesday, 24 August 2021. Posted in P6-Auditor
Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 6
I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.
In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).
Written by Ian Nicholson, P.Eng. - VP Solutions on Tuesday, 12 May 2020. Posted in Safran
Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 5
I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.
In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).
Written by Ian Nicholson, P.Eng. - VP Solutions on Friday, 16 October 2020. Posted in Safran
Is the P6-QA Tool Only Relevant During Your Planning Phase? Absolutely Not!
Something we are asked is whether our P6-QA Tool is useful through-out the life cycle of your projects. Its use throughout the planning phase is obvious, of course; it helps with schedule development. Even after you’ve planned out your work though, the QA tool can help while you’re executing your plans. Let us examine a couple examples of how.
Keep in mind - it is beneficial to equip your team with the best tools for the job! Work Smarter, Not Harder!
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist on Monday, 20 July 2020. Posted in P6-QA
Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 4
I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.
In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).
Written by Ian Nicholson, P.Eng. - VP Solutions on Wednesday, 08 April 2020. Posted in Safran
Why You Should Upgrade From Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis to Safran Risk – Part 3
I’m Ian Nicholson, VP Solutions at Emerald Associates. I have been working with Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis (OPRA) since 2001 when it was Pertmaster, Emerald being the exclusive Canadian distributor for Pertmaster until their acquisition by Primavera in 2006.
In this series of blogs, I will explain why I feel that all OPRA users should upgrade to Safran Risk (SR).
Written by Ian Nicholson, P.Eng. - VP Solutions on Monday, 09 March 2020. Posted in Safran