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What are the most basic advantages between Primavera and Ms Project?
I am asking this because I might be thinking in changing myself to ms project becasue of the high costs of maintaining primavera (upgrades)
Any comments or thoughts?
Thanks,
Cesar Baquerizo
www.conbaquerizo.com
Guayaquil, Ecuador
I am asking this because I might be thinking in changing myself to ms project becasue of the high costs of maintaining primavera (upgrades)
Any comments or thoughts?
Thanks,
Cesar Baquerizo
www.conbaquerizo.com
Guayaquil, Ecuador





RE: ms project
2. No S-curves or complex Histograms in MSP.
3. Early/Late calculations not present in MSP.
4. Only one baseline(target) in MSP, 2 in P3.
5. Exchange with MS-Office products is better in MSP.
6. Microsoft look-and feel and use of macros is an advantage to MSP.
7. Better use and more codes in MSP than P3.
8. Probably more developments for MSP than P3.
9. Percentage relations in MSP, not possible in P3.
10. Outline / structure options in MSP better than P3.
Only 10 .. there are more. Hope this will help
RE: ms project
Guy
RE: ms project
If you're doing simple projects, then maybe you should look at SureTrak. If you're doing complex projects, forget MSP. It's so useless in really managing complex projects.
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RE: ms project
Narendra K. Roy
Gramya Research Analysis Institute,
PO box 4016, Vadodara 390015, India
Website: www.gramya.com ; www.charismaglobal.com
RE: ms project
Try to visit. www.primavera.com. im sure you can learn something about primavera.
RE: ms project
Best,
gaultz
RE: ms project
We used MSP for an outage once about 5-years ago and we had a real hard time tracking progress correctly. I can't remember exactly but it used the resources to calculate your remaining duration and it would do funky things. My memory is not what it used to be so I can't remember exaclty what was going on but we never seemed to have the same problem with P3.
RE: ms project
RE: ms project
i am a user of project and primavera project planner but not have an in-depth knowledge
regards,
javier fernandez (Spain)
RE: ms project
RE: ms project
Anyone able to compare the dif in how MSP vs P track cost based on assets and deliverables. I work in Media and Mail Advertising campaigns.
Must optimize Project for this or find a better tool.
Any thoughts?
RE: ms project
"1. Only single relations between 2 act's, so no SS/FF possible in MSP."
Simply not, and never has been, the case. Unlimited relations and all types are supported.
htt
"2. No S-curves or complex Histograms in MSP."
There are S-curves but they are rubbish. Complex histograms also not possible.
"3. Early/Late calculations not present in MSP."
Not the case. MSP has always been a PERT based program.
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"4. Only one baseline(target) in MSP, 2 in P3."
Not the case. There are in fact 10 baselines in MSP, and you can define more using the customisable date fields.
htt
"5. Exchange with MS-Office products is better in MSP."
True.
"6. Microsoft look-and feel and use of macros is an advantage to MSP."
Visual Basic is even better. Interface compliant design in MSP is also a bonus.
"7. Better use and more codes in MSP than P3."
True.
"8. Probably more developments for MSP than P3."
Very true. 2003 pro is the first planning package I've used in 10 years that feels like an imrovement over Open Plan's functionality. Project 98 is perfectly functional though.
"9. Percentage relations in MSP, not possible in P3."
Yes, they are.
"10. Outline / structure options in MSP better than P3."
True.
Some other differences.
P3 can't handle cost assignments above a certain number of millions, a real pig to handle if you are using Roubles or other low denom currencies.
P3's output is superb, though fiddly and sometimes unflexible.
I have never managed to get p3 to handle documents including both cyrillic and latin text. MSP does it without any differentiation.
Project 2004 Pro will read straight from your Ms Access (or SQL) databases. This is a big deal if you are running a CTR or Jobcard system.