THE CLIENT Southern Water are a private utility company who provide water and wastewater services across Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. THE BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Southern Water have a complex programme of works to deliver, with a continuous stream of live projects diverse with variety, and were using MS Excel spreadsheets, alongside other…
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Primavera P6 version 18.8 released by Oracle – What’s new?
For users of Primavera P6, the major release 18.8 is now available. With enhancements previously only available to Oracle cloud users this is big news.
A huge advantage of the new release is that Oracle has removed the last of the Java applets from Primavera P6 EPPM. The HTML-based pages load faster and do not require additional plug-ins. You will find that some of the HTML pages have the same functionality as before while others have been redesigned.
Below are a few more of the enhancements available with Release 18.8
o Performance Percent Complete Field Based on Labour Units.
o Upload Graphics to the P6 Database to View and Print from Any Location.
o 32-bit Operating Systems not supported. It is recommended you now use 64-bit Operating Systems.
o Import Zipped XER Files.
o Activity Owner Functionality Improvements.
o Choose Whether to Update Actual and Budgeted Units and Costs When Updating Baselines with New Assignments.
o Managing Personally Identifiable Information.
o Prime Lean Task Integration with P6 EPPM.
o Improvements in Offline Working for P6 Professional.
We could go on for days about how great these enhancements are, we are also experts in upgrading P6 systems so if you are unsure about how to go about it, or what the upgrade will mean for your business just get in touch with us on 0845 075 5886
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We’re now part of the GCloud Framework!
Today we are thrilled to announce that we are an approved provider on the GCloud Framework, with both our software as a service products Programme Insight Manager and Asset Insight Manager. G Cloud (short for Government Cloud) is the government’s flagship cloud services framework, through the G-Cloud, UK public sector bodies can access a wide…
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New Year, New Release
We are all familiar with New Year resolutions, made with the intention of improving ourselves and our lives. Some believe in this, others don’t and either is fine with us. At Asset Handling we prefer to put our energies into improving our services that is our resolution for 2018, as it has been in previous…
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