About Primavera 

Primavera is an enterprise project portfolio management software.

It includes project management, product management, collaboration
and control capabilities and integrates with other enterprise software
such
as Oracle and SAP’s ERP systems. Primavera was launched in 1983 by
Primavera Systems Inc. and was acquired by Oracle Corporation in
2008.

Advantages of Primavera P6 Software

Primavera P6 is amazing software, which is used not just by planners,
but
also managers,  engineers, schedulers, and anyone else involved in
planning,
management, reporting of  a project. Primavera P6 has benefited
every industry
from aerospace to manufacturing,  electronics to IT, Telecom to Civil,
any more.
 
The benefits of using Primavera P6 software include:
1.  It reduces the risk of schedule overrun.
2. It reduces the risk of cost overrun.
3. It helps easily plan and manage project activities.
4. It optimizes management of all resources.
5. It gives clear visibility of what’s going on in the project.
6. It allows quick and easy forecasting of WBS’s, activities or
projects.
7. You can keep track of progress and view past period
performance for
reporting purposes.
8. Use of Primavera P6 by companies worldwide allows better
communication between each other. Furthermore creating,
management,
and understanding of schedule, costs information becomes simpler.
9. Helps you easily breakdown projects’ and activities’ structure.
10. It allows easy collaboration between all projects users 

Career Opportunities
Due to worldwide use of Primavera P6 software and demand of its
expert users, there is huge number of vacancies available for those
who know the use of Primavera P6 software.
  
Global Benefits of Using Primavera P6
According to statistics, more than 375 of 400 top engineering
companies in the USA use and benefit from Primavera P6 software. In
addition to these all military and federal agencies also use Primavera
P6.
 
From the above, one can easily conclude the benefits of Primavera P6
software. Primavera P6 is an amazing project management application
that is used worldwide and which helps in planning, managing and
controlling project costs, activities, resources, effectively and easily.
There are many institutes worldwide that offer Primavera P6 training.
No matter which field you belong to, it is good to sit in a Primavera P6
course and practice it. Once you've obtained Primavera P6 training,
you may easily find better career opportunities, you may be offered
better position in your company, and your salary may be raised.

Training Topics (Basics to Intermediate)

 Introduction to project management

 Setup of software system setting etc.
 Log in
 Describe enterprise and project-specific data
 Open an existing project
 Navigate in the Home window and Activities window
 Open an existing layout
 Customize a layout
 Save a layout
 Calendars - defining hourly, daily, weekly calendar
 Project Portfolio Management
 Defining the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
 Defining Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS)
 Defining the Project Structure under the EPS
 Define and Setup Calendar 
 Application of Global change
 Activities - Definition, sequencing & Estimating duration
 Effectively using the four types of PDM relationship
 Scheduling the project
 Defining constraints & overcoming conflicts
 Defining & Assigning activity codes
 Defining & assigning WBS codes
 How to organize the activities by using activity Codes &
WBS codes
 Activity Types 
 Constraints
 Filtering activities
 Defining and assigning Work products and Documents
 Changing currency setting
 Defining Roles
 Defining Resources
 Assigning by Roles
 Assigning by Resources
 Estimating the cost of the project
 How to analyze the resource by using resource profile & resource
table
 Defining project codes and resource codes
 Practice Project
 How to do resource leveling
 Baselining
 Updating the project progress & comparing the actual progress
with baseline
 Analyzing earned value management
 Preparing different types of tabular reports according to the
industrial needs
 Preparing Customized and Graphical reports
 Highlighting the progress in the Gantt chart