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INDIANAPOLIS (April 9, 2018) — The promise of the cloud meets the power of construction project scheduling with a new partnership formed today.   Catalyst, a top U.S. seller and services provider for Asta Powerproject and Oracle Primavera, has joined forces with cloud hosting giant LoadSpring to offer the software packages on reliable, access-anywhere cloud…
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There is negative float in your schedule and yet you’ve checked for constraints on your activities and can’t find any…puzzling, right? Unfortunately, there is a sneaky type of constraint at the project level that can also force negative float through the schedule even if none of the activities are constrained. It’s totally invisible when you’re…
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A code field can be used to color code the bars. The example I usually use is a need to quickly see conflicting simultaneous operations (SimOps) in an outage/shutdown schedule. To demonstrate, this procedure will use a very simple example consisting of two modules and three different types of work.   This procedures suggests creating…
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As the third-largest school system in the country, the Chicago Public School System tends to have plenty of irons in the fire. When it first implemented Primavera P6 into its construction management process, it was managing 1,000 remote workers across 175 active capital projects worth approximately $1.4 billion. Despite these large numbers, however, it had…
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As the market leader for construction management software, Primavera P6 appears to have it all. That’s why so many of our clients are shocked to find out that there is software with all of Primavera’s functionality at a fraction of the cost. No, this isn’t a small startup looking to get new users. In fact,…
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