The new version of Primavera P6, r8.3, has been released recently, and one of the new features is a stand-alone software, called the Primavera P6 Visualizer. This software provides you with a visual, read-only version of the plans you’ve stored in the P6 database. The Primavera P6 Visualizer is a good choice for those team members [...]

This week we’re starting a new Discussion feature on PlannerTuts.  Each week we’ll be kicking off a discussion that is insightful or particularly helpful in the day-to-day world of project controls. Share your opinion, add your thoughts to these debates. We all have smartphones and there are hundreds of thousands of apps out there. But [...]

Today is an exciting day here at PlannerTuts, home of the best Primavera P6 tutorials in town, as we have a really incredible announcement to make.  For many months we’ve been working night and day on developing a service that will help anyone who uses Primavera P6.  And its finally ready to be unveiled.  We [...]

2012 is proving to have set a notch for Primavera books from Packt Publishing. They have released 2 books on Oracle Primavera software in 2012. We have already let you know about the first one – now let’s have a look the second; the first Primavera Contract Manager book ever written (to my knowledge) – [...]

The race is on! Oracle is competing on a global stage against companies like SAP and SalesForce.com, companies who are further ahead in their offerings for cloud-based applications. Trying to play catch-up, Oracle announced earlier this year it was acquiring Skire (our take on Oracle’s acquisition of Skire) – a cloud-based enterprise capital portfolio management platform with core functionality similar to [...]

We all know that some days feel longer than others.  And on those long long long days, we might not be feeling our most productive.  It’s well known that if you inject a bit of music into your day, things start to look brighter.  So we recently sat down and came up with the ultimate [...]

It’s a reason to celebrate….a new book on Oracle Primavera P6 has just been released! The selection of reference books (and authors) for Primavera P6  users are very few.  So I’m delighted when new books are published, especially this one – Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management by Daniel L. Williams and [...]

We get a lot of questions here at PlannerTuts about Primavera P6 and it’s associated software components.  Occasionally there’s a question that gets asked a lot and today, as part of a new series called Ask PlannerTuts, we’ll start sharing those questions and answers with you. Today’s question came from Gary who needed to purchase [...]

WHAT: Our friends over at Gold Group recruitment  are looking for your participation in their Planners Salary survey.   The survey is also sponsored by Planning Engineers Organization (PEO) and aims to gather intelligence about the state of the Planning industry, the salaries paid to professionals and their opinions about the salaries.  The results will be [...]

I was chatting with my assistant the other day (someone who has just gotten her toes wet in the big world of planning software) and she asked me, “So what kind of people are using Primavera? Do they know where their keys are in the morning?” So we thought we would ask the people who [...]