The unexpected happens during a Turnaround project - Let TAPS help
“No battle plan survives contact with the enemy” - Helmuth von Moltke
When you are a scheduler on a Turnaround project you cannot expect everything to go as planned. Often at the end of your shift, when entering progress, you’ll find out something unexpected has happened in the schedule. For example, activities have been marked as completed while their predecessors are not yet started.
on Monday, 28 November 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera P6, TAPS
Primavera Unifier allows users to assign a proxy. The final tab in the User Preferences is where a “Proxy” is set.
Setting a proxy allows you to assign another user the rights to login for you and move your tasks to the next step of the workflow on your behalf. You may also be given proxy rights for someone else.
Written by Nicole Jardin, P.Eng. - CEO
on Tuesday, 22 November 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Unifier
What the P6-Auditor and a Flight "Black Box" Have in Common
I love watching the TV show Mayday – the forensic work that goes into understanding how and why a plane crashes is fascinating to me. Key in any investigation of what went wrong is recovery of the flight data recorder. This “Black Box” records virtually everything that happens in the control system of the aircraft and enables investigators to understand exactly what went wrong.
We implemented our P6-Auditor for one of our clients a couple of years ago, and a few days after go-live, we got a call from the help desk that users across the organization were reporting that all of their activity code assignments for a particular Global Code had disappeared.
Written by Ian Nicholson, P.Eng. - VP Solutions
on Friday, 18 November 2016.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Auditor, Primavera P6
How to Install Ravello GUI VM Import Tool for Primavera Application Prep for IaaS Deployment
Below is a quick guide on how to install Ravello.
From the Ravello login click VM Import Tool. Once you see the window below, click the download GUI VM Import Tool.

Written by Paul Jardin - VP of Technology
on Wednesday, 16 November 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Cloud
“Tagging and Bagging” - One of the Best Tips I can Share After Working With Primavera for 27 Years
In doing consulting with an IT PMO client the other day I was faced with this comment:
“The last P6 consultant we had told us not to use activity coding because it is an administrative headache!”
Now I have to say, after 27 years of doing P3 and P6 consulting, this demonstrates one of the most unpleasant parts of the role of “Expert”. How do you politely explain to your client that they paid good money for bad advice? And how can I know exactly what was said and in what context for the client to come to that conclusion? However, in this particular case, when in comes to activity coding in P6, it is clear cut no-brainer – THEY GOT TERRIBLE ADVICE.
on Thursday, 10 November 2016.
Posted in P6-Calculator, Primavera P6
Integrating with Primavera P6 and Unifier - Where do we stand?
Primavera Gateway is an integration web application being developed by Primavera that allows data to be moved between a Primavera application and another application. Primavera Gateway consists of an Integration Broker in the middle, and at least two providers, one for each application that is involved in the integration. All Primavera providers are built-in including the P6 Provider, Unifier Provider, Enterprise Track Provider and Prime Provider. Third-party vendors can create additional Primavera Gateway providers to integrate non-Primavera applications with Primavera applications.
Written by Nicole Jardin, P.Eng. - CEO
on Thursday, 10 November 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Other, Primavera P6, Primavera Unifier
A Brief Overview of the changes in Primavera Unifier 16.2
It is that time of year again where we celebrate the harvest and look forward to the latest release of Oracle Primavera. Once again the Oracle Construction and Engineering teams have got some great new improvements in Primavera 16.2 for us.
On the Unifier side they are working hard to make Unifier easier to administer, easier to integrate with, easier to load documents into and easier to get reports out.
Written by Nicole Jardin, P.Eng. - CEO
on Friday, 30 September 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Unifier
A brief overview of the changes in P6 EPPM 16.2
P6-EPPM - HTML5 almost there
P6v16.2 again is focused on driving the P6-EPPM Web platform into HTML5 and out of Java. Not quite sure the percentage just yet, but it is looking like we are almost there. For those wanting a tool to help with the Java issues take a look at Ericom, it is working well in our PCM Cloud and with several clients.
Written by Nicole Jardin, P.Eng. - CEO
on Thursday, 29 September 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera P6
A step-by-step guide on how to create new users in P6 using the P6-Loader
The P6-Loader helps streamline and accelerate many processes, one of which is creating new P6 users. The P6-Loader is a flexible and secure solution that allows users with the correct security access on their P6 profile to extract and upload nearly every data element in P6 data. Let’s have a look at how easy it makes creating new P6 users.
Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist
on Tuesday, 27 September 2016.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Loader, Primavera P6
Huge potential for improvement in API performance in applications that create objects with uniqueness rules in Primavera P6 based on user-entered values
We have a client in the US who was reporting performance issues with a 3rd party client application that creates large numbers of activities in the P6 database using the Primavera P6 API. I was called to help isolate the issue.
When I joined the meeting, they already had Oracle Enterprise Manager up and running, and it was easy to isolate the query that was taking a long time to run (and using almost all the CPU in the server).
Written by Ravi Wallau - Integration Specialist
on Monday, 15 August 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Cloud, Primavera P6
Emerald Productivity Cloud Can Solve Your Java Problems
While Oracle is busy working on removing Java applets from Primavera P6-EPPM, the same cannot be said for Primavera Contract Management (PCM). With the announcement that PCM v14.2 is the last planned major release for PCM, the Java applets will potentially remain an ongoing issue.
Some creative solutions have been worked up over the years with CITRIX and controlled versions of IE, but all were problematic when other tools needed other versions of Java.
Written by Nicole Jardin, P.Eng. - CEO
on Monday, 04 July 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Cloud, Primavera Contract Management
Locating and Displaying Specific Relationship Types and Lags In Primavera P6 16.1
In Primavera P6 V16.1 you can now simply include relationship type (and lag) information in a column!

Written by Mary Lynn Backstrom, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-BA – Implementation Specialist
on Monday, 06 June 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera P6
Working With the New HTML5 Standard View
Adding a new view in either the EPS or Activities screen using the new HTML5 Standard View is identical in both windows, except the options that are available for the Gantt chart.
Log in to P6 16.1 Web and navigate to the EPS or Activities screen.
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist
on Wednesday, 27 April 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera P6
Written by Paul Jardin - VP of Technology
on Tuesday, 19 April 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Cloud, Primavera P6
Since the earliest days of cloud computing technology, the question “why move to the Cloud?” has been asked over and over again. The truth is, every new technology faces doubt and suspicion at first, especially when it pretends to replace well established norms and infrastructures. But now, in 2016, more and more companies have already migrated over.
When working with the Oracle Primavera suite of products, scenarios vary a lot from one corporation to another, and each case must be studied carefully before decisions can be made.
on Friday, 01 April 2016.
Posted in All Articles, Primavera Cloud, Primavera P6