Primavera P6 ®

Primavera P6 is the most powerful, robust, and easy to use solution for globally prioritizing,
planning, managing and executing projects, programs and portfolios. P6 is an integrated
project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy
each team member’s needs, responsibilities and skills. It provides a single solution for
managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and
intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your
organization.

P6 provides executives with a real-time view of their organization’s project, program and
portfolio performance. It equips managers with the right blend of usability, power and
flexibility to effectively and efficiently execute on projects, and enables individuals across all
levels of an organization to analyze, record, and communicate reliable information and make
timely, informed decisions. P6 makes it easy to:

Select the right strategic mix of projects

Assure project, IT and corporate governance
Enhance processes and methods
Improve project team collaboration
Measure progress toward objectives
Complete more projects successfully and with the intended payback.

Project Management

Anytime, Anywhere Access

Web Project Management gives the project team anywhere, anytime access to the projects
they are assigned to work on. A 100% Web-based user interface covers the full project
management lifecycle from project initiation through to project closeout. This includes
requesting approval for a new project, the creation of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and
activities, documenting and managing project risks and issues, managing status updates, and
reporting on key performance indicators like earned value. By using Web Project Management,
organizations can ensure that the project team members are communicating with each other,
whether it is regarding activity status updates, scope changes, revisions to documents, or
issue(s) resolution.

Resource Management

Right People on the Right Projects at the Right Time

P6 fully supports the resource request and staffing process, from both a top-down planning and
a bottom-up assignment perspective. This gives project managers and resource managers the
platform they need to easily communicate their requirements and decisions throughout the
entire project lifecycle.

Portfolio Management

Effectively Prioritize Projects and Optimize Organizational Capacity

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P6 Portfolio Management helps organizations align their portfolios of projects and programs
with strategic objectives by taking advantage of advanced what-if scenario modeling, capacity
analysis, tabular scorecards, rich graphics, and optimization functionality. It enables
organizations to better manage incoming demand, seek the right balance of projects, ensure
that resources are not overstretched, and easily communicate the performance of projects and
programs to stakeholders.

Planning and Scheduling Management

Plan and Execute Projects with Confidence

Many organizations have hundreds—even thousands—of projects underway at any given time.
These projects cross normal business hierarchies and chains of command, making project
management an organization-wide challenge. The P6 Planning and Scheduling functionality
enables power users manage the entire project lifecycle from Project Initiation to Project
Closeout. It provides multi-user, multi-project functionality, with scheduling and resource
control capabilities, support for multi-tiered project hierarchies, resource scheduling,
capturing of actual data, customizable views, and the ability to extend functionality based on
user-definable data.

Time Sheets

Track and Analyze Time for Increased Visibility into Resource Use

Organizations may track, capture, and analyze the time that team members spend on a project
or program. Project team members work with timesheets that are automatically populated
with their own resource assignments across all projects. They may record both project time
spent working on each task, as well as non-project time such as personal time off In addition,
they may provide additional information directly to the project manager, such as document
updates, status notifications and any additional notes or other pertinent feedback.

Collaboration and Content Management

Improve Organizational Performance by Optimizing Team Collaboration

P6 facilitates team-based collaboration to improve decision-making, streamline execution, and

improve efficiency. P6 provides personalized connectivity to the people and data needed to
accomplish organizational goals. Most importantly, P6 enables easy communication as part of
the typical work process, rather than requiring users to put work aside to communicate and
collaborate.

Reporting and Analytics

Access the Right Information at the Right Place at the Right Time

P6 includes a powerful Enterprise Reporting database that enables users to create operational
reports and business intelligence on any project or portfolio, using any third-party reporting
and business intelligence tool. The Enterprise Reporting database provides: 1) an Operational
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Data Store (ODS) for day-to-day operational views and 2) a Project Star Schema for advanced
business intelligence.

Architecture

Deploy with Confidence

Primavera P6 architecture is a JAVA, standards-based, multi-tier enterprise application

platform providing scalability, availability, security, recoverability, manageability, and
interoperability. This architecture simplifies integration with external applications (ERP, CRM,
SFA, etc.) and their resulting business processes. Some of the key features of the Primavera
architecture include:

A flexible, object-based design that allows rapid incorporation of new features and
functionality;
JAVA-based portability that provides flexibility to support multiple operating
environments;
A Web-based presentation layer;
Application Server clustering to provide scalability for large sophisticated
organizations.

Technical Overview & Supported Platforms

Primavera can be deployed to support both small and large organizations. Hardware
requirements vary significantly depending upon a variety of factors including the size of the
organization, deployment methods, modules being used and platform selection. The following
is a technical overview. For detailed hardware guidelines, please contact a Primavera
representative for your specific needs.

Application Server Support

ApacheTomcat
BEAWeblogic
IBMWebSphere
RedHat Jboss

Database Support

Oracle9ior10g
MicrosoftSQLServer2000and2005
Microsoft SQL Express 2005 (<=8 users)

Client Operating System

MicrosoftXPProfessional
MicrosoftWindowsVistaBusinessEdition
Citrix
Internet Explorer 6 or 7