I spent 13 years working at Artemis in the UK and many of my colleagues are from Artemis. Although we all used Artemis Views we align to either 7000 or 9000.

These new fangled tools may look pretty, but they’re not the real thing are they :-)

Hi John

I had no idea that people were still using Artemis.

It was the first planning software that I bought and jumped ship as soon as powerproject came along.

I am about to go live with a Powerproject enterprise programme on citrix - completely new territory for me - with 10 remote licenses for 40 users.

Currently the F9 runs in nano seconds - we’ll see what happens next week.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Performance problems at one organisation are not necessarily for the same reasons at another organisation. I’ve worked on optimising Primavera at different organisations and none required exactly the same changes.

I use an approach called Method R which always gets results.

Basically there are three places where performance may need optimising:

- Desktop PC - rarely an issue unless the PC being used is old or mis-configured in some way.

- The Network - frequently a problem and making changes to the network is expensive and can have a negative impact elsewhere in the organisation. There are ways around this such as using Citrix or putting users on the right tool. The Primavera Web products or the standalone application.

- The Servers (Database & Web server if you use one) - for now I’ll assume you aren’t using a web server. Most DBAs don’t know how to tell if an application is having a performance problem or not. It’s a bit like the office air conditioning system. On average the temperature and humidity is just right, but Alice in Stationery is freezing cold. She complains about the cold and the Office Manager just says "We checked the system and it’s fine".

The approach I take is to gather information about your system from yourself and the IT organisation. Basically a couple of phone calls. Then I arrange access with the IT folk - this is the biggest risk because they don’t always see it as someone coming in to help. I arrive on site and set up some benchmark tests of the user interactions i.e. Logging into Primavera, Opening a project, F9 etc. Basically whatever is slowing you down. Then I measure it and look at various logs that have been created. From this we can find out where most of the time is spent and we deal with the biggest first. We stop when performance is improved enough.

There is no clutching at sraws or guessing with this approach. Feel free to contact me to discuss this further.

Barrie

we are working across continents with more than a hundred (small) projects, I can open all at the same time in less than 20 seconds,...yes our projects are all resource loaded

Hi John

The biggest project I ever worked had 191000 activities - so 382 K activities inclusive BL. To load it was limited by the speed of the network and after some optimization took about 2 minutes. "F9", calculation of the schedule, was never an issue, so I never measured time. It must have been less than one minute because if more than I would have tried to improve.
With Oracle the number of projects and of activities shouldn’t be a problem. MS SQL seems limited, but outside of your quantities.

Reasons for low perfomance I found in the past was more related to parameter settings, e.g. "cost optimization" for the database, or was related to special projects. "Drive activity dates by default" can be nasty if not marked.

Check if bad performance is related to a special project, special functions, or users. If you want you can send me one of the projects with low performance and I’ll have a look.

Regards
Dieter