Gain a competitive advantage in project delivery with
ORACLE PRIMAVERA P6 and POWER BI.
I am Shahin Qajar and I am 45 years old and I am talking to you from Tehran, the capital of Iran.
I have more than 20 years of project planning and control experience in the oil and gas and petrochemical
and power plant industries, focusing on MSP / PRIMAVERA software, and I only need an invitation letter and
a work contract to start working immediately.
Due to my great interest in software like Primavera P6 in the past 20 years, I tried to implement all topics
related to time and cost control and work limitation in this software and in large oil, gas and petrochemical
projects. I have also written books and articles that you can see on my website.
I started learning Power BI back in 2021 and I quickly learned that anything sophisticated and meaningful
cannot be achieved by just using drag and drop visuals.
Fancy visuals can look appealing at the start but they wear down soon enough. Any serious reporting needs
metrics and KPI to be calculated.
Calculations in Power BI are driven by DAX.
So, I had to learn DAX
By connecting Power BI to Primavera P6, users can create custom reports, visualize important data,
understand relationships between different data sets, transform and cleanse data, and highlight key
data points using conditional formatting.
This integration enables construction professionals to track project progress, identify bottlenecks,
predict project completion timelines, monitor resource usage, and make informed decisions for
better project management.
Establish a live connection between Power BI and Primavera P6's database using an ODBC driver.
This allows for real-time data updates in the dashboard.
«LINKING POWER BI WITH PRIMAVERA P6»
Linking Power BI with Primavera P6 can empower your project team with secure, on-
demand access to crucial data, enabling data-driven decisions anytime, anywhere.
integrating Power BI with Primavera P6 fosters a data-driven culture within project
teams, promoting better collaboration and informed decision-making throughout the
project lifecycle.
linking Power BI with Primavera P6 offers significant advantages for project teams:
Improved Accessibility:
Empowers project teams with on-demand access to project data. This eliminates the need to rely on IT or wait for
reports, allowing for quicker and more informed decisions.
Data-Driven Decisions:
Provides a platform for visualizing and analyzing project data in a user-friendly way. This enables teams to identify
trends, track progress, and make data-supported choices.
Enhanced Security:
Power BI offers secure access control, ensuring only authorized personnel can view sensitive project information.
Primavera P6 lets us make a professional schedule that calculates
many principles that help us track projects successfully. These outputs
need to be analyzed to take the perfect actions and these interactions
between Power BI and Primavera P6 will help us meet this purpose.
Power BI Management dashboards
Real-Time Drill-Down
Factual Data
Visibility Capability
Power BI Management dashboards are extremely useful when strategic decision-
making processes need to summarize often complex data and turn them into
actionable insights and reports.
This can be easily done by using a business performance across main metrics with
factual a Power BI Report Server that will enable CEOs detailed visibility of real-
time data.
In essence, Power BI Management dashboards empower organizations to leverage
data as a strategic weapon. They bridge the gap between complex information and
actionable insights, ultimately propelling strategic decision-making to new heights.
The information gained will empower high-level managers to get a clear picture of their organization, identify
business opportunities, determine what kind of KPI management improvements are needed, and, consequently,
generate more revenue and profit.
Effective planning and control are essential for project success.
Here are some key performance indicators (KPIs) to help you measure the effectiveness of your planning and
control processes:
Schedule Performance:
Schedule Variance (SV): This measures the difference between the budgeted value (planned cost for work
scheduled) and the earned value (cost of completed work). A positive SV indicates you're ahead of schedule, while
a negative SV indicates you're behind.
Schedule Performance Index (SPI): This is the ratio of earned value (EV) to planned value (PV). An SPI of 1 indicates
you're on schedule, while an SPI greater than 1 suggests you're ahead of schedule and less than 1 indicates you're
behind schedule.
Cost Performance:
Cost Variance (CV): This measures the difference between the actual cost of work performed (AC) and the earned
value (EV). A positive CV indicates you're spending less than planned, while a negative CV indicates you're
exceeding budget.
Cost Performance Index (CPI): This is the ratio of earned value (EV) to actual cost (AC). A CPI of 1 indicates you're
within budget, while a CPI greater than 1 suggests you're under budget and less than 1 indicates you're over
budget.
Scope Performance:
Scope Creep Percentage: This measures the amount of unplanned work that has been added to the project scope.
A low percentage indicates good control over scope changes.
Percentage of Completed Milestones: This tracks the progress of the project by measuring the completion rate of
key milestones.
We have prepared Many management dashboard templates that you can use for developing
a sustainable business and outperform your results.
By incorporating these elements, your sustainability management dashboards can be
powerful tools for businesses to track progress, make data-driven decisions, and achieve
their sustainability goals.
By implementing dynamic dashboards, project control professionals can gain a
comprehensive view of project health, identify potential problems early on, and make
informed decisions to keep projects on track.
Overall, dynamic dashboards are powerful tools that elevate project control from reactive to proactive. By providing
real-time insights and facilitating data-driven decision-making, they empower project control professionals to steer
projects towards successful completion.
Project Controls can leverage dynamic dashboards built with
Power BI to gain real-time insights from Primavera P6 data.
Here's how it works:
• Visualize key project metrics like Schedule Performance Index
(SPI), Cost Performance Index (CPI), Earned Value (EV), and
Actual Cost of Work Performed (ACWP).
• Track progress over time and identify potential risks or
deviations from the baseline plan.
• Drill down into specific areas for deeper analysis.
• Improve communication and collaboration among project
stakeholders.
Making them Dynamic:
• Utilize slicers and filters to allow users to view data for specific
departments, work breakdown structures (WBS), or timeframes.
• Employ conditional formatting to highlight critical information,
such as variances exceeding a certain threshold.
• Integrate time-based filters to show trends and progress over
time.
Please get in touch if you desire more
information about our solution.
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