Primavera 6.0

What is new on Primavera 6.0 (From Primavera):



Scheduling



Future period bucket planning

Display or suppress grouping band totals

Narrow & wide setting for grouping bands

Search in pop-up dialogs (Easy to use)

Type-ahead in dropdowns (Easy to use)

New options for saving screens & layouts (Easy to use)

• Expand and collapse

• Adjust row heights

• Box positions & zoom factor in chart views

Project specific layouts and filters (Easy to use)

Filters saved & exported with layouts (Easy to use)

Improved Copy Project (Easy to use)

• Baselines

• Layouts

• Filters

Improved What-if Analysis (Easy to use)

• Retain baselines

• Retain timesheets

Import and export project includes project specific layouts, filters and baselines (Easy to use)

Granular import security maintains global dictionaries (Easy to use)

Approval of activity status changes made by team members



Contract Management



MS SQL Server 2005 support

Oracle 10G support

ASA Sybase 9.0 support

IBM WebSphere support

Decoupling of web & application server

Upgrade to InfoMaker 10.5

Better quality of printed reports



Project Management



New user interface & navigation (Easy to use)

• Import from Excel, schedule and baseline support

Interactive web based Gantt chart

• Drag and drop activities

• Draw relationships

• Adjust durations

• Inline data entry

Add, delete and modify WBS

Automatic date and duration calculations

Progress Spotlight (Easy to use)

Interactive columns

• Select columns to be displayed

• Adjust column widths

• Change column order

Grouping of activities

• Group by activity

• Format band

• Display or suppress empty bands

Interactive timescale

• Customize display intervals

• Auto size to see entire duration of project (Easy to use)

• Snap to see current activity (Easy to use)

Basic bar formatting

Customize filter for displayed columns (Easy to use)

Save views

Easy to print

Create new projects quickly (Easy to use)



Portfolio and Program Management



New user interface & navigation (Easy to use)

Subscription-based graphical dashboards available

• Multiple dashboards

• New graphics

• Advanced printing support

Multiple portfolio scorecards & views

Publish scorecards & graphics to dashboards

30+ new stoplight indicators (Easy to use)

Custom indicators

Create new projects using Excel-like interface

View portfolio/program level cost worksheet summary data from Contract Management

Side by side comparison of portfolios

What-if scenario modelling

• Save, recall, and share scenarios (Easy to use)

• Waterline analysis & optimization

• Resource capacity analysis with interactive Gantt chart

Export to Excel



Reporting and Analytics



Operational data store for “day to day” reporting

Star Schema for business intelligence

Works with any third party reporting tool

Trends analysis with periodic historical snapshots

Uses Primavera role-based security

Platform independent (Oracle, SQL)

Supports local languages



Resources Management



Top down planning of resources & roles

Plan at all levels of the WBS

Excel-like formatting and data entry (Easy to use)

• Cut, copy, and paste

• Fill-over functionality

• Configurable spreadsheet columns

Organize by resource or role team

Assign by percentage (%)

Assign projects directly to resources or roles

Rollup data live to the portfolio level

Automatic summarization of resource planning data



Timesheets



ADA Section 508 compliance for timesheets

Save user settings for timesheets (Easy to use)

Enhanced search in timesheets (Easy to use)

Assign to a new activity & add to the opened timesheet in one step (Easy to use)

Expose the ‘Assigned By’ and ‘Assigned Date’ fields in timesheets

View activities from inactive projects in timesheets

Preference to view completed assignments (Easy to use)



Subcontractor Management



New web user interface & navigation (Easy to use)

Ability to update activity status for approval by planner

Resource calendar portlets (Easy to use)

Bookmark most recently visited pages (Easy to use)



Administration



Configure web user interface (Easy to use)

Configure tabs and functions displayed (Easy to use)

• Select tabs

• Select functions

• Assign to users

• Lock down views or provide override

Limit number of baselines copied with a project

Additional timesheets project preferences

Allow resources to assign themselves to activities

Allow resources to modify their own resource assignment dates

Recommend fields for activity views (Easy to use)

If you want a list of the new features I have the document released by Primavera at the US and UK usergroup meetings.



The Beta should be released circa Feb 2007 with Gold release around June 2007 which means you can expect to see it around September if Primavera follow past tradition.





This information is available to members of the UK usergroup, for details go to the Primavera site and look up local usegroups where there is a direct link to the UKUG.



http://www.primavera.com/customer/usergroups.asp



Regards



Dave

hello



do you think they’ll support others OS like Macos and Linux; and more Database; or they release a complete new web client a la PS next.





friendly: mimoune



ps; héhéhé i have a one month experience in P5 and I speak about the next release; a typical newbie attitude.