Oracle Primavera P6 is a more complex tool, but it has more features. Project Online is intuitive and easy to use it is well suited for working with both projects that do not expect long-term tracking of the schedule and control of resources. Primavera is a relational database tool, which allows for a greater number of activities to be inserted without conflict. Project online maintains the maximum number of activities up to 400,000 more than that, and the data becomes unstable and tends to be unreliable in the stand-alone format. This creates a question of how many projects does your enterprise develops simultaneously. When creating logic ties in project online where only one relationship is allowed between any two activities, in many instances, functional project schedules require a greater level of detail and need to account for the overlap of two activities by tying together both the start and finish to correctly represent the logic of how the work will be executed. When considering long-term Waterfall-based projects, that are planned for years in advance, it can result in irregular schedules that do not pass integrity checks and cannot be accurately tracked and progressed. To appeal to a modern agile and flexible user base, Microsoft removed scheduling rules from Project Online to enable people with minimal scheduling experience to create spreadsheet-based schedules. Using the solution requires a high level of project management culture in the company (as a rule, significantly higher than the level that is found today).The methodology of the solution implies redundant requirements for the formalization of processes (excessive compared to what most companies need in real practice).If necessary, use the services of partners of Oracle. Oracle does not provide cloud computing services (SaaS).Oracle financial stability ensures the stability of Primavera products.One of the most mature solutions on the market in the context of project management with long-term duration.Enhanced integration capabilities allow for the most optimal use of the scheme: Primavera in the management company, and MS Project Server in the subsidiaries and divisions. Using Primavera as a tool for managing project portfolios and as a decision support system.The solution does not have strong tools for managing budgetary indicators of projects, but it is possible to connect budget models from Power BI, as well as the use of Microsoft partner solutions to support project budgeting.Lack of pre-configured analytical tools.The solution provides a tool to customize the automation of the life cycles of the process of collecting project data as part of project initiation (considering the specifics of each type of project separately).As part of the solution, there are possibilities for managing projects and project portfolios.The information space of the solution is built based on the SharePoint platform, which makes it possible to implement effective means of communication and coordination in projects, to provide a single user interface, powerful tools for information retrieval and reporting on it.Project Online and Primavera are similar in some ways, but each product has advantages and disadvantages that distinguish them from each other. However, a primavera user usually understands the limits of the tool when entering the portfolio management plan. Primavera is widely preferred as a budgeting tool for project management due to its feature-rich capabilities. Project online is better for agile owners and S&M companies than Primavera. And the evolution of these tools over the years hadn’t changed the main treats deep-rooted in the initial design. While Oracle Primavera was initially designed as a budget management and scheduling tool. Project Online was initially developed as a flexible and vibrant version of Project Server, which is basically a PPM solution.
Understanding the limits of the tools you’re choosing and identifying some of its major user issues is important in choosing the most convenient way for your organization to deal with both day-to-day and long-term tasks and goals.