Primavera P6 Vs. Microsoft Project

About Primavera (P6)

• Project Management Tool: • It helps in planning, managing and controlling project costs, activities and resources

effectively.

• Two Versions:• Professional Project Management – PPM

• Windows client with database locally installed for single user or can be centrally installed for multiuser.

• Enterprise Project Portfolio Management – EPPM

• PPM client functionality with additional web based & mobile modules

S. No. Primavera (PPM) MS Project Professional

1 WBS is created separated from activities. Once WBS has been created, then we can add activities with each WBSelement.

Activities are indented to make them look like WBS.

2 Steps in Primavera allows you to create sub-activities (steps) of an activity. Each step can have its own start and finish date, and acompleted step can be marked as completed.

Doesn’t have such feature.

3 Unlimited baselines can be created Only 11 baselines can be created.

4 In Primavera you can even specify what features of Primavera a particular user can use, and which he can not.

Doesn't allow multiple users to work on a single project at the same time.

5 Can record issues and risks. Lacks the feature of tracking project issues or risks. (In Project Server possible)

Primavera (PPM) vs. MS Project Professional

S. No. Primavera (PPM) MS Project Professional

6 In Primavera we can create a blank custom field, but can not setformulas to it, so users have to manually enter values in each in the field, for each column.

MS Project allows us to set complex formulas or usefields and add additional values to it, to use in the custom field.

7 It comes installed with over 200 columns, each giving you different information. Somecolumn category to name include EVM, Budgeting, Costs, etc.

There are only around 40 columns.

8 More than one type of relationship can be established between activities e.g. we can have FF and SS between thesame two activities.

Only one relationship can be made between two activities.

Contd…

S. No. Primavera (PPM) MS Project Professional

9 Can create a comprehensive website comprising of complete project details including activities,resources, reports, risks, issues, WBS, and everything that has been entered in the software..

Website feature not present (Present in Project Server)

10 Primavera plan, documents and other information can be converted to HTML directly from the software.

Doesn’t have such feature (Project Server possible)

Contd…

Best Practices

•When to choose Primavera P6• If working in a project or multiple projects, and you are requiring to computerize

every detail of your project, go for Primavera P6.

•When to choose MS Project• If working on a single project that doesn’t require record details other than

activity schedule, resource list, and assignment details, go for MS Project.

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