What is Oracle Primavera?
Oracle Primavera is a robust project portfolio management software suite used by project managers and project controls professionals to plan, schedule, and control various types of projects across industries like construction, oil and gas, aerospace, utilities, and more.
Some of the key capabilities of Oracle Primavera include:
- Resource management - Manage resource pools, roles, skills, schedules, allocations, costs, and optimize assignments
- Scheduling and cost control - Create integrated schedules, budgets, and forecasts with activity durations, dependencies, calendars, baselines, and more
- Portfolio analytics - Gain visibility into portfolio health with role-based dashboards, reports, metrics, and executive scorecards
- Risk analysis - Identify, analyze, and respond to project risks through Monte Carlo simulations and advanced analytics
- Change control - Understand change impacts through visual Bi-directional trace logic
- Collaboration - Collaborate with stakeholders through document and workflow management
- Integration - Seamless two-way data integration with ERPs, BI tools, and other PM tools
Some of the key modules in the Oracle Primavera P6 suite include Primavera P6 EPPM, Primavera Unifier, Primavera Contract Management, and Primavera Analytics. It's considered one of the most powerful project portfolio management tools in the industry.
Redmine, Microsoft Project, OpenProject, Microsoft SharePoint, GanttProject, Microsoft Planner, ProjectLibre, Gantter, Zoho Projects, RANGA, LibrePlan, XER Schedule Toolkit, Shelf.io, ONLYOFFICE Projects, Project Tracker, ScheduleReader, cnstruction are some alternatives to Oracle Primavera.