Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management Reviews and Ratings
Rating: 7.8 out of 10
Score
7.8 out of 10
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Pros
User-Friendly Interface: Users have praised the intuitive and user-friendly design of the Primavera application which makes it easy to navigate and use efficiently. The well-designed interface contributes to a smooth user experience allowing for enhanced productivity and reduced learning curves for new users.
Enhanced Collaboration Features: Some reviewers have emphasized the positive impact of the integrated social network on facilitating seamless communication and document sharing among project teams. This feature promotes teamwork and leads to better decision-making processes.
Comprehensive Project Oversight Tools: Customers appreciate the software's combination of project scheduling, resource management, and portfolio oversight functionalities. These tools provide a holistic view of projects which helps enable stakeholders to make informed decisions based on real-time data while ensuring timely delivery and efficient resource allocation.
Effective Execution Management: Users find the software valuable for overseeing project execution and tracking dependencies accurately, which helps ensure accountability throughout the project lifecycle. By effectively managing tasks, monitoring progress milestones, and identifying potential risks early on, organizations can achieve successful project outcomes within set timelines and budgets.
We are end-users of Oracle, as it is used by one of our Clients. This program is used for the management of construction-related projects, the issuance of contracts, changes, monthly draws, and hold-back applications. It also manages documentation related to compliance and contracts compliance, H&S back up, and more.
Pros
Contract Management
Progress Billing
Construction Management
Change Order Issuance
Payment Applications
Cons
Ability to request a change.
Upload of documents directly by the end user.
Direct inquiry of the client on a draw.
Likelihood to Recommend
This program is well suited for online database management for construction-related fields and their contract management. It has many features which allow for reporting, issuance of changes, applications for payment and HB, and related construction-related documentation for both client and user. It also allows one to print and review in PDF any required documentation needed as per contracts.
Oracle Primavera is the best software in the market used to track construction projects. Like most applications from Oracle, Primavera comes with rich functionality. Customers have the option to use the features which suit them and ignore the rest. Oracle has by far the largest suite of applications, catering to various facets of the Enterprise. Primavera comes with various dashboards, which help project teams stay on track.
Pros
Oracle has invested heavily in user experience. The Primavera application is intuitive and user-friendly.
Collaboration among the project teams can be enhanced with an integrated social network, where users can share documents and tag comments.
Project budgeting, costs, capitalization, expenses, embedded analytics, and data visualizations come in built-in with the software.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management has high security and comes with role-based access control. It has all the features of a comprehensive project management software like a work break down structure, Gantt charts, dashboards, business process automation, resource allocation, and analysis. The software is scalable for any number of projects. The project outcome can be improved by the use of Primavera as it will optimise resource allocation. However, this software is on the high end of pricing and not a cheap alternative.
Primavera is used in my company to build, manage, and analyze project schedules. P6 is used widely in our product management R&D across the company. P6 is helpful in the regard that it houses our project schedules for planning and controls. Because we are able to better predict our major deliverables, we can become better meeting our customer expectations.
Pros
Project Scheduling
Resource Management
Portfolio Management
Cons
Analysis
UI Experience
Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Good for: Enterprise, because you can aggregate multiple projects.
Bad for: Personal Use, the UI isn't as friendly for the novice or personal user.
It is currently used to track all of our projects through execution. It is used by all engineering departments. It solves the problem of not knowing when your products are going to be done!
Pros
Manages execution.
Track inter-dependencies.
Gives accountability.
Cons
Scheduling.
User-friendly.
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Primavera is well suited for organizations that are dealing with lots of data. Smaller scale organizations could use something like Microsoft Project that may be more cost effective.
We use Oracle Primavera 6 across our organization to manage schedules for the projects we build as a company.
Pros
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.
Cons
P6 is not as intuitive as other scheduling software. It usually requires someone who is trained in the program to use it exclusively.
P6 can have multiple versions of the baseline schedule. This is not intuitive like saving a file, which usually leads to confusion.
P6 is very costly for smaller companies to afford.
Likelihood to Recommend
P6 as a scheduling software is very useful to manage construction projects. I've used it exclusively for construction projects and it has been successful in influencing how projects are sequenced.
On the other hand, it can be cumbersome to use and still requires a dedicated "P6" person to set up the initial schedule.
I am currently a system administrator for Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management on a government contract. It is the primary tool within the agency, robust in ability, but a bit limited in user friendly feel and ease of use. It offers the client the ability to manage all levels or portfolio management, such as financials, deliverables, resources, workflows, document management, and much more. For the backend user, sql and javascript knowledge is essential, but not mandatory, as the built in help does allow the novice developer to get by.
Pros
CAC authentication is required in my arena, and OPPM can work in conjunction with a secondary application to allow for this added layer of security.
Allows for security/permissions by customizable roles via user types and user groups. This keeps users in check with only certain abilities to edit or read, etc...
All kinds of abilities to build custom reports, as well as built in. Export formats include: CSV, Excel, PPT, Word. Customers like reports, and OPPM does a good job at its offerings.
Visual aids such as charts and graphs offer some eye appeal. This is useful for presentations, for depicting data.
Has the ability to offer document storage via attachment. Attaching supporting documents is a must with portfolio management.
Cons
We are in a portable age, but OPPM is not an option for use on mobile devices.
OPPM workflow is not extensive compared to other products, only offering linear ability.
Front-end is fairly vanilla with few clicks and clean interface. Due to limited browser support, users often have difficulties when browsers upgrade or settings are changed.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
Used prior to purchase of Procore software. Used by all employees, for all project related activities - Implemented for filed use during Close -Out & Punch.
Pros
Clean, Clear, Easy to Read Reporting
Easy to learn
Easy to Use
Cons
Ability to custom sort data for review online
Ability to customize reports
Behind the scenes data fixes so each field doesn't have to be populated to generate quality reports
Oracle Primavera is primarily used my internal innovation stakeholders in order to manage internal cross-functional new product launches, services, or enhancements. It helps to solve the problems of launching the aforementioned projects on-time, within a budget, and in line with its scope. It is used as a centralized hub in order to manage, organize, and create reports for projects.
Pros
Project Task & Graphics Manipulations
Relatively Responsive in Comparison to Similar Tools
Simple Information Extraction
Cons
The system feels a bit manual at times, primarily in entry.
Graphics could used to be spruced up to deliver more professionally looking outputs.
Likelihood to Recommend
Certainly well suited for Project Managers, Product Managers, Brand Managers, and Portfolio Managers working on multiple projects leading cross-functional teams. Less appropriate if your projects are less complex, you'll spend more time doing data entry more than anything.
Oracle Primavera was used across the whole organization. This was introduced as a cloud based solution for program management.
Pros
Ease of usage and navigation.
Excellent reports functionality.
Cloud implementation is supported.
Cons
Scalability issues as we had to restart the application.
JVM issues and the Java process has to be killed manually to get Primavera work.
Likelihood to Recommend
[It's a] good solution for a company looking for an enterprise-wise rollout of a portfolio management solution and to save cost by a cloud implementation instead of in-house.
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