About this Guide
This guide explores the requirements, considerations, and best practices for moving your organization's project data from P6 EPPM to Oracle Primavera Cloud. The individuals responsible for migrating data between applications, such as the P6 and Primavera Cloud application administrators, should read this guide. Project and resource managers, other administrators, and additional stakeholders may also be interested in this guide because it discusses the organizational and functional differences between the two applications. The guide is organized into the following sections:
- Navigation: Oracle Primavera Cloud enables users to work with a variety of different objects, including projects, portfolios, and programs. Feature functionality for each object is broken down into related apps and pages. The Navigation section provides high-level overview of the application's user interface and where you can find the most common functionality.
- Functional Differences: Explore enhancements to object organization and management through the use of workspaces. Shared data, user security, and user privileges are configurable at each workspace level. Changes to administration, security profiles, resources and roles, costs, timesheets, and other functionality are also discussed.
- Terminology Differences: Many of the common project management concepts remain the same between P6 and Primavera Cloud, but the terminology of certain items may be different. If a P6 concept has a different name in Primavera Cloud, it will be included in this section.
- Best Practices and Recommendations: Workspaces, shared data, user security, and project information can be configured in a variety of ways depending on your existing setup and organizational preferences. This section provides best practices and recommendations for the overall configuration of your Primavera Cloud environment.
- Migration Methods: Primavera Cloud supports several methods for migrating your project data from P6. This includes importing your data using the XML or XER file format, integrating directly with the P6 application, integrating Primavera Cloud and P6 using the Primavera Gateway middleware application, using the Project Integration Framework (PIF) tool, which is managed entirely by Oracle Consulting Services, or using P6 EPPM Web Services and the Primavera Cloud API. This section provides links to the documentation necessary to migrate your data. Each link contains information on preparing your environment for migration and the steps required to do so. This section also lists the objects that are transferable using any of the migration methods, the objects that cannot be transferred but are still supported in Primavera Cloud, and the objects that cannot be transferred and are unsupported in Primavera Cloud.
- Data Validation: Follow these steps to ensure your data was successfully and accurately migrated to Primavera Cloud.
For More Information
- Migrating from P6 to Primavera Cloud Course on Oracle MyLearn: Access the Migrating from P6 to Primavera Cloud course on Oracle MyLearn to learn about the functional differences between P6 and Primavera Cloud.
- Oracle Help Center for Primavera Cloud: Access the full suite of documentation materials, learn where to access self-paced training content, and where to find additional customer support for Primavera Cloud.
- P6 EPPM User and Integration Documentation: View P6 EPPM user documentation by product version.
- Oracle Help Center for Construction and Engineering: Access help documentation for any Construction and Engineering solution.
Last Published Wednesday, March 20, 2024