For managing multiple projects in an enterprise environment, its original "raison d'etre," it excels, proving to be a major time saver. Indeed, the publisher of Project Controls & BIM Report uses P6 on a daily basis and has reported it to be stable and essentially perform all needed functions previously available in P3. Moving to P6 It's been five years since P6 was introduced (originally P3e/c) and we do hear more frequently of contractors successfully updating.
PRIMAVERA P3 FOR WINDOWS UPGRADE
In so far as there have been no upgrades to P3 in recent years, the primary reason to continue to stay on a support contract is for the upgrade privilege and for application support for inexperienced users.
PRIMAVERA P3 FOR WINDOWS FREE
In the past, if you had a paid up P3 maintenance contract, which cost approximately $1,000/year, you were entitled to a free upgrade to P6. Upgrade Policy We're still waiting to hear from Oracle what the upgrade situation is. Application usage questions are often happily answered by the user community. Finding new bugs is rare, so support is really not an issue. All kidding aside, there are quite a few of you who will need to stay on the old programs for one reason or other, such as schedule analysis or contract requirements. The other choices are to keep using your copy of P3 or SureTrak, as many of you have been doing, switch to another product, or find an occupation that doesn't need scheduling. What does this mean to you? The obvious choice, as preferred by Oracle, is to move to Oracle Primavera P6 Project Management (now in version 7 version 8 due out this fall).