To put it simply, Deltek PM Compass is an easy to use, web based reporting, managing and data mining system for managers and executives. It provides easy access to data that currently exists in a Cobra and/or Open Plan database through the use of dashboard, project and reporting pages…
The point of completing projects is to get the benefit from the change that is delivered. Projects are done to improve things, so it is important to know what benefits you can expect from a project and how these will be measured…
If you’ve created any new cost sets in Deltek Cobra lately, you can apply them to other projects in the system using the Copy Cost Sets… button in the Cost Sets tab of the Project Information dialog…
We know it’s a little early to start thinking about the Deltek Insight which will be held on October 15-18, 2012 in Nashville, TN…but we too are excited to not talk about it…
Primavera P6 R8.2 provides myriad portlets in the Dashboards tab, so many in fact, that we thought it would be a good idea to publish a free eBook that shows examples of the available portlets and how to configure them…
The Primavera P6 Integration API doesn’t work with the PPMDB Professional database with release 8.1 or later. You can only integrated with a P6 EPPM web client database schema if you intend to use the API to load daily time-phased data resource spreads…
You may see the message “[Warning]Invalid cost set” in the log report when running a CPR Format 1. This shows how to correct the issue that generates [Warning]Invalid cost set CV and Invalid cost set SV in the report wizard’s log…
There’s a cool configuration for the Group and Sort dialog that I’d like to share. If you’re ever grouping by dates, you get an interesting option appearing in the Group Interval column…
I and my Ten Six colleagues have worked with numerous clients who have successfully used Primavera P6 to run rudimentary earned value reporting systems; that is, until a big contract comes along…
Following on from the HotFix 12 blog, now seems like a good time to throw in some pointers about Cobra 5 installs and updates. And this time round, I’d like to talk a little about n-Tier environments. The arrival of a new version is when having n-Tier deployments makes life much easier for the IT folks…
