What is P6 Professional?
P6 Professional is a comprehensive, multiproject planning and control software, built on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server relational databases for enterprise-wide project management scalability. It can stand alone for project and resource management, and it enables your organization to store and manage its projects in a central location. The module supports work breakdown structures (WBS), organizational breakdown structures (OBS), user-defined fields and codes, critical-path-method (CPM) scheduling, and resource leveling.
P6 Professional enables you to budget, prioritize, plan, administer, and manage multiple projects; optimize limited, shared resources; control changes; and consistently move projects to on-time and on-budget completion. It provides customizable interfaces, scalable and flexible tools, and easy integration with project management software outside of the P6 suite, including Oracle Contractor, Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Excel.
Recommended
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User Guide | |
Administration Guide |
How can I find out what is different between releases?
Use the Cumulative Feature Overview (CFO) to see a list of changes we've made between releases.
To use the CFO offline, download the CFO zip file. Unzip the file to a local folder and open EPPM_CFO.html.
What configurations work on my computer for a cloud deployment?
Here is information about the configurations (including browsers) that we've tested and verified to work on your desktop or laptop.
What configurations work for an on-premises server deployment?
Here is information about the configurations that we have tested and verified to work when you deploy P6 Professional on-premises.
How can I tell if your information applies to a cloud deployment, an on-premises deployment, or both?
Our documentation covers both on-premises and cloud-based deployments, and in most cases is identical for both. However, some content (mostly installation and configuration) might be specific for on-premises while other content is specific for cloud. Any content that applies to only one of these deployments is labeled accordingly. If you are unclear whether you are using a cloud-based deployment of P6 Professional vs an on-premises deployment, check with your company's site administrator.
What documents have we updated recently?
Here is a list of significant changes we've made recently. See the Cumulative Feature Overview (CFO) for details on new features that have been added that affected our documentation.
Date | Change |
|---|---|
March 2022 | Updated the P6 Professional Tested Configurations with support for Windows 11. |
February 2021 | Updated P6 Professional Installation and Configuration Guide (Microsoft SQL Server Database) for On-Premises to include the connection string format for named instances of databases using SQL Server. |
December 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.12 changes. On-premises documents added. |
November 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.11 changes. |
October 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.10 changes. |
September 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.9 changes. |
August 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.8 changes. |
July 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.7 changes. |
June 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.6 changes. |
April 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.4 changes. |
March 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library to reflect 20.3 changes. |
February 2020 | Updated P6 Professional library with improved information about searching documentation. |
How do I search documentation?
Our search functionality is a full-text search, which means that it will search both the titles and the text of topics. You can enter text to search for in the search box and select whether to search for All words, Any words, or the Exact phrase you entered.
When you use the All words search option, you can further narrow your search using the following terms and wildcards:
- AND: Finds topics which include both the words supplied.
For example, searching for
summary and tablewill find topics that include both the words summary and table. - NOT: Finds topics which do not include the word supplied.
For example, searching for
weight not stepwill find topics that include the word weight but will exclude from the search results any topics that include the word step (even if they include the word weight). - *: A wildcard used to represent zero or more letters or numbers.
For example, searching for
custom*will find topics that include the words Custom, Customize, Customizing, Customizable, and Customized.
You can combine these terms and wildcards. For example, searching for activ* and critical not schedule will return topics which include the words active, activity, and activities as well as the word critical, but will exclude from the results any topics which include the word schedule.
You can use all these search methods in both the help and the documentation library.
Where can I find documentation for earlier versions?
If you are on a version prior to Version 20, go to Previous Releases to access your documentation.
Please note that we update our version Version 20 documentation on a regular basis as we add new features to P6 Professional. You will always see the most current content that is available. This means that if you are not on the most current version Version 20 release level, you might see documentation for features that you will not have access to until you upgrade.