Whether your projects are larger or small, the tasks of planning, scheduling and managing the activities are critical to overall project success. The schedule should help you establish the critical path for completing the project on time and on budget. The only constant in all schedules is change. You need a quick and easy way to know where to start, where you are going, and what resources you need.

For more than twenty years, Primavera has provided scheduling solutions that help you manage your project. With Primavera® Engineering & Construction, you can track multiple baselines to manage the changes in the schedule and use the built-in Claim Digger functionality to compare projects. Primavera also enables you to create project templates to establish standards for easy analysis of issues and risks. You can share the project schedule over the Web enabling access by the rest of the project team while you keep control.

Primavera provides project schedulers with the basic tools to easily plan and control projects. Schedulers can quickly create optimum projects plans, zero in to understand the critical path and easily create "what-if?" projects to simulate possible adjustments.

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Schedule projects with ease, establish company standards using template technology, perform baseline analysis to understand exact project progress and easily consolidate contractor schedules.

The daily responsibility of managing multiple projects across an area, region or globally isn't easy. Issues, cost and schedule overruns and managing changes on many projects are enough to drive you crazy. There has to be a better way to manage your project portfolio to reduce your risk, deliver on time and ultimately stay on budget.

Primavera enables you to look across a business unit, region, or organization to review project status, changes or issues that create schedule delays and cost overruns. On the dashboard you can see key performance indicators (KPIs) for all of your projects to quickly identify projects at risk. This gives you the visibility you need to manage even the most difficult set of projects.

Executives, general managers and operations managers see project information the way they need it - without becoming project schedulers.

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Management needs a way to view high-level project summaries that deliver KPI and management details at any given time across their business unit.

As project manager, you are the key individual in the success of a project. You need tools that provide information when you need it. Because you make critical decisions every day to handle the issues and changes on a project, knowing the whole picture can reduce the risk and keep you on track and out of trouble.

Primavera gives you access to schedule information when you need it. From easy-to-read bar graphs and Gantt charts to earned value reporting, Primavera helps you make critical decisions because you can see the whole picture. With percent complete reporting, you know where you are today and with look-ahead functions, you know what resources you'll need tomorrow. Using Primavera gives you the right information to get your job done on time.

Primavera provides personalized workspaces that deliver appropriate information to users, depending upon their role in the project. Browser applications provide access anywhere, anytime without the need to install special software on your desktop.

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Project managers can highlight where action is needed - including important project milestones - with a list of critical activities that are behind schedule. This helps open team discussion and provides a true project picture to those who need it.

Managing the project in the field is the lifeline to the project team. Collecting critical data on units installed and managing issues is essential to evaluating the project health. If only the paperwork didn't make the process impossible, you could focus on managing the quality of work.

Primavera gives you an easy way to update the project as it moves toward completion. Primavera enables remote and mobile team members to update their activities anytime, anywhere. Updates entered into a hand-held PDA can be efficiently transferred back to Primavera, providing project managers with the current information they need to quickly make decisions that impact project and business success.

Field managers can use Primavera as a mobile PD option that allows field managers and superintendents to update project status in the field without being tethered to a computer.

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Understanding the financial position and projected the final cost for a project can be next to impossible. Financial information from accounting, contract management and project control systems must be consolidated to get a real picture of the project's financial situation. Unfortunately, using manual processes, by the time the data is gathered and analyzed it's outdated.

Primavera simplifies this process by creating a centralized point where the data can be analyzed. Primavera collects direct and indirect project costs and allows for burden application for more accurate cost analysis. The costs are tied back to the schedule to create KPI and earned value reporting, providing more accurate estimates to completion.

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Primavera Cost Management is the ideal module for organizations that are pressured to better maintain control and measure performance of their complete project portfolio.

Primavera enables project cost analysis to quickly understand performance trends, generate statistical estimates at completion, and adhere to ANSI/EIA 748 earned value standards for all their projects.

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Managing subcontractors on the project is often the single most difficult and important factor in determining project success. Quality and performance levels vary from subcontractor to subcontractor. Each new subcontractor adds a new process to merge into yours.

Primavera Contractor changes the playing field for the project management team. Primavera Contractor is built specifically to facilitate communication between contractors and subcontractors. Schedule formats are 100% compatible because they are identical. This means easy importing and approving of subcontractor schedules, and enables contractors to establish standards on the project to help subcontractors perform better and report more accurately.

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Project schedulers can quickly and confidently communicate project plans and status to other project members through the schedule collaboration functionality within Primavera Contractor.

Primavera easily connects remote sites to the master schedule. Activities and steps are updated with units installed, hours and completion for easy field reporting.