PRIMAVERA P3 SURETRAK UPGRADE
If you are on P3, we recommend you upgrade and just start using the program. What's Next What's next is not so much as important as what's next for you? P6 has turned the corner and can perform your scheduling projects more than adequately. Clearly, this was a learning experience for Primavera as well. The P6 learning curve is similarly slow, primarily because the transition included the substantial design and development of an enterprise system. It probably seems that way since our learning experience evolved over a multi-year period concurrent with Primavera's own evolution, particularly as it transitioned from DOS to Windows. Steeper Learning Curve We look back and think P3 was reliable, powerful and easy to use. Its steps feature is a boon for contractors and its enhanced WBS capabilities greatly improve schedule building and reporting. For managing multiple projects in an enterprise environment, its original "raison d'etre," it excels, proving to be a major time saver. Indeed, the publisher of Project Controls & BIM Report uses P6 on a daily basis and has reported it to be stable and essentially perform all needed functions previously available in P3. Moving to P6 It's been five years since P6 was introduced (originally P3e/c) and we do hear more frequently of contractors successfully updating. In so far as there have been no upgrades to P3 in recent years, the primary reason to continue to stay on a support contract is for the upgrade privilege and for application support for inexperienced users.
PRIMAVERA P3 SURETRAK FREE
In the past, if you had a paid up P3 maintenance contract, which cost approximately $1,000/year, you were entitled to a free upgrade to P6. Upgrade Policy We're still waiting to hear from Oracle what the upgrade situation is. Application usage questions are often happily answered by the user community. Finding new bugs is rare, so support is really not an issue. All kidding aside, there are quite a few of you who will need to stay on the old programs for one reason or other, such as schedule analysis or contract requirements. The other choices are to keep using your copy of P3 or SureTrak, as many of you have been doing, switch to another product, or find an occupation that doesn't need scheduling. What does this mean to you? The obvious choice, as preferred by Oracle, is to move to Oracle Primavera P6 Project Management (now in version 7 version 8 due out this fall).
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