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Hi Steinar ,
did you study all scheduling softwares on the market?
Best Regards,
Vladimir
Hi,
Just a comment to Mike Peyton's first comment about Longest Path in Safran Project:
The default calculation in Safran Project is "No Longest Path". This can be changed (individually for each project) to be "Longest Path". Do this under Setup>Networks>Analysis Options:
No other scheduling software on the market have a ritchness of Scheduling options that match Safran Project.
Steinar.
Rachel,
I work for a company that has one division that uses Safran and one that uses P6 v6.2. I don't use Safran but get to play with it when I need to convert Safran files to Primavera (for client purposes). A few things that I've heard/seen regarding the two:
1. Safran seems to have an inherent problem with Longest Path analysis (this comes from my counterparts using it). Additionally, P6 has the multiple float path analysis which is very useful, as well.
2. Safran has "more accurate" relationship lag determination (if you will) since it can determine lags based on individual activity calendar assignments (as opposed to requiring a general rule to be applied to all lags in a project).
3. Safran seems to do a good job (within the software) of being able to handle "shortened" time periods for histogram displays (I believe they are customizeable), where P6 uses a "linear" function.
4. Safran's "group and sort" functionality appears to be more robust than P6's; seems highly customizeable.
5. Safran's S-curves are more customizeable.
6. Safran doesn't appear to export to P6 very well (requires some massaging and "processing" to get it to work); so, if you are working with clients that require P6 native files you have to contend with this (but truth be told the processing doesn't take entirely too long once you get it figured out).
7. Safran doesn't export to Excel as "nicely" as P6 does; it likes to "combine" data in cells which makes it hard to deal with.
8. Safran does some "funky" things with zero duration "activities" with regard to Early dates; like to set ES after EF (which causes people to shy away from using zero duration activities).
That's all that I can think of, one way or the other, comparing the two based on my limited exposure to Safran. Hope some of it helps.
Mike
Dear Mr. Rachel
May know how can i get Demo version of soran to check it please and later on i can go for sofran.
let me advise please
do safran and primavera have similarities?
on my understanding they are different.
safran can utilize scurves while primavera dont have.
if you have any ideas regarding comparison please feedback here.
been using primavera 1st but now we currently using safran for planning portfolio.
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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