Primavera Software

The information corporate Project Management system will provide each participant of the project with program modules that help to achieve their goals. Primavera allows to provide all role participants of projects with specialized tools for solving most diverse tasks. The interface of each program module allows the user to receive the necessary information by projects at the same time without being overloaded with excessive functionality or data.

Primavera Software allows to create an interaction environment for all projects participants. Working in this Environment, projects participants receive information on their projects no matter whether their role is that of an executor, a supervisor or the manager. Each of participants can be sure that his/her contribution to the work on projects management shall not remain unnoticed and the addressee shall receive the information.

Primavera Software is intended for automation of project management processes in accordance with PMI and IPMA requirements and ISO standards.

Primavera Systems, Inc Company has been developing and continuously improvings specialized software for project management since 1983. During this period 2 generations of Primavera software products have seen the market. You can see the history of Primavera software including continuity of generations and change of names of program modules here.

All Primavera program modules store and process data for all projects of the company in the unified data storage created on the basis of Oracle database management system or Microsoft SQL Server (depending on the customer’s choice).

Project Management is intended to be used as a part of corporate information system though it can work independently to solve schedule planning problems, calculate critical way, align resources, what-if analysis and other tasks of modelling projects, groups of projects, portfolios and programs.

Methodology Management allows to store and further use the company’s project management knowledge base.

MyPrimavera functional modules, designed using modern web-technologies, form a web-portal of the company’s projects and have all options for data control and analysis by projects portfolios (myPrimavera Portfolios), project management, design out and actualization of schedules (myPrimavera Projects), resource and roles management (myPrimavera Resources), tracing of initiation and project change processes, management of document circulation etc (Collaboration). The special module Primavera PertMaster is intended for identification and a qualitative and quantitative estimation of risks.

Even the most perfect network schedules will instantly turn into a beautiful but useless picture if the factual data collection and schedule actualization procedure is not supported with special program tools. The choice of software depends on the detailed elaboration of resources, requirements for factual data and communications available for the participants. If all executors have access to a local network of the company or to the Internet, and the factual information needs to be collected regularly and to be approved of after a certain time passes, then users need a simple and convenient tool to get the structure of work for a period of time and to report on it in real-time mode. These options are provided by the Primavera Timesheets functional module. However, a company s not always able to provide constant network access to its employees. Also a situation is possible when contractors report on the customer’s work and they are denied access to the customer’s corporate network. In these cases other tools for of control and accounting of works by projects become important, which should work even when there is no steady access to network. PM.exchange is one of such tools. A solution for handheld computers — Sensory Pro Tracker — is provided wor those working at remote objects.

Modules expanding basic Primavera functionality

When large-scale projects are realized, the project’s time and costs is greatly influenced by participants’ interaction processes. The PM contract and PM procurement modules provide for automation of contracts and deliveries management processes respectively. They enable the information on the contracts signed and equipment to be delivered to be aligned automatically with network schedules in Primavera. Documents circulation processes between companies (i.e. documents approval, delivery Project Estimate Documentation and Work Documentation, procuring of permissions, information queries, incoming and outgoing correspondence, meetings’ minutes) and also current reports from contractors on site and weather conditions etc can be automatized as well. Project administrative support system Contract Management will ensure that these processes are made automatical and the risks of documentation support for projects are minimized.

Primavera Contractor also solves problems of network planning. Its features include single-user work with project schedule at a time, limited in number of works.