Newforma Project Center vs Oracle Primavera

Likelihood to Recommend

Newforma is a great tool to collaborate with large teams and between firms. It allows for great documentation of transfers, activities, and other procedural aspects of projects that require collaboration between disciplines, for example, MEP, electrical, architectural and technology. For internal use, Newforma has been great for communications tracking and archival, as well as for record-keeping of all the users in a team or number of teams. Many great options are features are unused due to a lack of training or exposure to them, for example, the graphical viewers that can preview CAD, Revit, and other formats, or the markup tool available with the desktop client.

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Gil Lopez CTS ING

Integrated Technology Architect

TEECOMDesign, 51-200 employees

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Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management is a utilitarian product of a yesteryear gone by. It's straightforward and to the point. It is well suited for a customer base who is not interested in frills, portability, or a multitude of OOTB ability. It's for those who like to restrict and manage all control over users, code in queries, functions, and create customized reports for end users. It does what it does very well however, just do not expect it to be pretty. It's a 2007 product, so curb your excitement. It does handle all aspects of portfolio management well; financials, budgeting, spend plans, contracts, projects, staffing, workflows, etc... however, it is not intuitive to navigate, and will require some training.

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Ryan Weller

System Administrator

NetImpact Strategies Inc.Government Administration, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Newforma Project Center

Oracle Primavera

Plan distribution & viewing

Plan markups & sharing

Issue tracking & punchlists

Photo documentation

Jobsite reports

Document sharing

RFI tools

Collaboration & approvals

As-built drawings

Mobile app

Submittal design and management

Pros

Newforma sits on top of our previous filing system (Windows Explorer). This was very important to us because we didn't have to change the project numbering system in order to fit Newforma's design. Also, if we were to decide we didn't like it, we could easily revert back to our previous methods.
Newforma does a great job of indexing information, making searches much easier by being able to use keywords instead of knowing the exact file location. No more traversing through countless folders before finding what you need.
Newforma keeps a read receipt for everything that you submit through it for issue tracking, and keeps an easy to read record of your workflow.

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Civil Engineering Company, 11-50 employees

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Primavera as a scheduling software can manage large project schedules regardless of complexity.
P6 is powerful enough to identify the longest pathway to the completion of a project. This is also known as CPM.
P6 can handle multiple scenarios and save them as a separate baseline schedule. This can be helpful for figuring theoretical sequences.

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Kevin Edward B. Lao, P.E.

Project Manager

Suffolk ConstructionConstruction, 201-500 employees

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Cons

File downloads.
User-interface.

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Verified User

Professional in Professional Services

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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The software is high end with rich features, hence its rich price.
There is room for improvement in their customer service.
Oracle is doing its best in coming up with new features, and has a planned roadmap. It would be good if the enhancements are delivered faster.

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Shiva Krishna

Oracle Cloud Consultant

School Construction AuthorityReal Estate, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support

Newforma Project Center 7.0

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While I have never asked for support myself, a Newforma representative has been in the office annually to give training seminars and info sessions on how to fully use the product. I find this essential to keep the product relevant and make sure everyone knows its full capabilities and an important part of customer support.

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Professional in Professional Services

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

A good competitor against other similar solutions and support is excellent.

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Verified User

Manager in Customer Service

Architecture & Planning Company, 51-200 employees

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The other scheduling software I used is Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project is a great tool, but it is not as robust as Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management. It can help build a much simpler
looking project, but if the project is most complex, it is best to use Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management.

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Verified User

Manager in Professional Services

Construction Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Newforma makes it easy to transfer, share, archive, and search extensive data sets in a single GUI
For it to be effective, all users in a team must receive a basic training and use it consistently
Adoption in the industry is good (A/E); many teams use it consistently. Learning to use it once produces time-saving in subsequent projects

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Gil Lopez CTS ING

Integrated Technology Architect

TEECOMDesign, 51-200 employees

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P6 is critical to the execution of all of our projects. Without it we would have less control of our projects.
One of our key business objectives is to deliver projects on time or ahead of schedule. P6 supports us in this goal and allows our superintendents to manage complicated construction projects.

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Verified User

Professional in Engineering

Construction Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Newforma Project Center vs Oracle Primavera