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IPM Global Signs Prescient Solutions Group As It’s Newest Channel Partner In North America

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IPM global has currently signed PSGINC as their newest partner in the region of North America. On 6th February 2013. IPM global is very pleased to announce the signing of prescient solutions Group Company, as it’s newest channel partner in the region of North America. The new signing allows PSG to provide AEC firms in the United States with the access to and support for IPM Global’s project management software. In this regard the principal controlling post bearer Lance Drossman at IPM said: IPM has been at the forefront of developing technology targeted at the needs of professionals related to construction for years. Nowadays project managers, owners; stakeholders of the project are mainly tasked with managing the ever-changing needs of capital projects. PSGINC is delighted as well as excited about our relationship with IPM and the new journey we are about to start with a hope that it would prove to be great success and an example of a success story for the years to come. We also feel the product offers easy to use functionality that will give assistance our customers project management, collaboration and document management needs through IPM’S intuitive and very familiar software interface embedded in Microsoft outlook for windows. In this era, the need for technology and the rapidly changing environment. More then ever, projects have become increasingly and rapidly more complex, continually straining and placing burden on an organization’s time and resources. As a partner and reseller for leading and innovative technology. The companies like IPM, oracle, citizen, IBM and INMAGE, is able to meet our client’s most important and prestigious needs and requirements. Which specialise in project management, application consulting systems integration, application development and the support for infrastructure.

The basic purpose of this project management system is to ensure the provision of needs to the project managers and fulfilling their needs and requirements, with the project managers, the construction staff as well, the main purpose is to operate how they already think. The main key features are as follows:

1. Centralised project visibility

2. High adoption rate due to the extension of Microsoft outlook

3. Customisable and flexible, which can meet the customer’s

4. Seamless integration to back end financials.

PSGINC is a next generation project management software suite that provides scalable solution with all the functionality needed to meet the requirements of today’s busy project managers.

Presented through Microsoft outlook and seamlessly integrating mail and calendar services with day-to-day delivery of services and operations. IPM by joining hands with PSGINC in the region of North America puts project management squarely where project staff spends more off their time for beneficial outputs.

The most important thing we learned about this was, IPM global supports integration with outlook; it gives us a way to track email and store them in the project management system. Microsoft outlook has been used for most of the communications purposes these days and the emails are now automatically tracked.  “Nothing has to be done, everything is automatically done.”

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Have Problem Listing Open End Activities In Primavera P6

If you want to list up open-end activities in Primavera P6 and you can’t find any option in p6. A simple way is exporting activity relation detail to excel and separate predecessor with only SS successor. But that is a too lengthy process because at times you don’t know what formulas to apply in excel for fast working.  In excel one predecessor can have more than one successor. So you have to select predecessors with fully SS relation successors only.  Download are free to use schedule viewer from www.xerviewer.co.uk . We have a project health check section which provides various checks including ‘ACTIVITIES WITHOUT SUCCESSORS’

There is a checkbox under this section where you can include or exclude activities with SS successors only. You can then export the activities to excel.  Hope this would be of great help for you on your project. You can still contact our experts if you face any ambiguity on provided email addresses globally or contact to the vendor who provided you with the software.

Here are some problems that you might face and we are giving solution to it in advance so that our blogs could be of great help for you. If you use the above mentioned schedule viewer which is, www.xerviewer.co.uk and if it proves to be good there might a problem arise that it shows activities without predecessors or successors. It might not show open end activities. Only showing milestone activities with no successors and predecessors, this might create a lot of confusion or ambiguity. The problem can be, your, not tagging the checkbox. Consider, start to logic as missing.

Done. The other problem can be how to export that list to excel. When you try to export the whole project is exporting. Well that is a big issue but you need not to worry. When all the project activities are exporting including those without successors but you just want to export the list, not the Gantt then what you need to do is after clicking export and the options box comes up, you ought to select ‘expand to level 1’ and deselect the ‘ draw Gantt option’.

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Another problem that can rise is, what can be the formula or any other method for extracting SS relation activities in excel. The solution is using the formula count if (). You could sum up the total number of successors for each activity ID and the subtract the number of SS successors.

Another problem can be with the registration code being invalid there can be multiple reasons of it but one that have been commonly witnessed is moving or copying the existing file if you have copied or moved the file, the new file would need it’s own registration key. For the key that has been generated to you, you must use it for the existing file and not for any have new, moved or copied file.

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Construction Claim Support

At prescient solutions group we give you the expertise that is reliable and you can count on it. In construction every step can have massive consequences, which are why you have to take care of each and every minute step you take and every decision you make. Failing to act to some situation adverse or not may be worse. Make sure every single step you take is on firm grounds and the step you take you are sure about the consequences will go in your favor. If it’s not obvious one thing can be make sure that the situation is always in your hands and you are prepared for the worse.

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PSGINC and its consulting services provide the extra measure of guidance needed to act with confidence. We work daily on multimillion-dollar deals and at times more than this. The markets include virtual markets in every sector globally e.g. from construction claim analysis to CPM scheduling or from drafting initial contract language to provide expert testimony.  TRAUNER’S has done it all. It has given us a very valuable and much needed perspective on how, when and why a problem arises and the UN paralleled expertise to guide our clients to the best of our knowledge and to lead them towards success.

Guidance up front:

Call it street smarts. Our breadth and depth of experience enables us to recognize red flag immediately. Our expertise systems recognize what’s wrong and act immediately according to the situation. So you can avoid or resolve disagreements before they enlarge and are changed into bigger, expensive and bitter disputes.

Dogged detective work:

When a project does derail. TRAUNER can determine what’s wrong, what step should be taken in order to rectify it. Precisely to determine why it went off the track. We methodically dig through the project, digging through each and every detail, identifying the source of an issue it’s effect on the parties, how it may result into a dispute or create a problem for the stakeholders and it’s credible resolution without being assumptions or being biased.

Impartial expertise:

You can trust in what we say, you don’t have a choice. Do you. Or let’s take it this way: you will never need another choice when you will experience our TRAUNER once. Drilldown the truth is affecting the health of your project. Whether it’s good or bad or otherwise and effectively communicates those findings. We bring the solutions accurate to your need and will help fixate the error affecting the health of your project. We bring the kills that resolve the issues and get you back to business. That’s the major reason PSGINC is a name of trust for many of the major owners, builders, sureties, stakeholders and the authorities. Not only the big guns but also the entrepreneurs that are new to the business yet have the same passion and interest to take their business to heights and give their customers the best of the best possible.

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Energy & Utility

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Energy and utility has been a growing industry and like every growing industry, sectors related to energy and utility has been facing challenges. Oracle primavera has given them solutions to their management needs. This blog mainly covers Primavera P6 EPPM for energy and utility . the solutions include earned value, risk management, cost management and related factors. The elaborative factors includes balancing your company’s capital investments, maintenance operations and resource allocations. This factors can highly effect the progressive and success strategies of your business. This is very important to make sure that your maintenance and capital projects are fully aligned with company’s strategic goals and are delivered on project and are within the estimated cost. The most important factor that it is in the proposed budget. With the primavera proposed solutions , oil and gas companies are able to meet their goals , overcome resource shortages and capture best  practices. The energy sector includes gas, oil and coal. The goals are CapEx , lower OpeX costs , manage and mitigate the risks effecting the success of your business. The progress can be done when the risk effecting factors are mitigated.

So that your project can offer high ROI’s . With oracle’s primavera portfolio management discover how a single management system can drive various capabilities, the capabilities include

1. absolute alignment between company strategy, execution and results. Goals that are important.

2. managing the program lifecycle from the idea generation to the execution of project lifecycle.

3. project cost controls and financial management which include the strategies of earned value systems.

4.transperancy and visibility into business decisions.

5. internal and external resource management, which includes resource identification, resource allocation and resource management.

The methodology of prescient solutions group is proven to assist you in anticipating future business needs, assistance and requirements.  The energy services and utilities are combined with hundred of laws proclaiming the various needs. The regulations, codes and regulatory agencies that effect the way you carry out the business strategies.

Technology solutions provide the most reliable and effective solutions in the industry , response time. Efficient customer service is critical to all organizations. Do you ever struggle with decision making due to lack of quick information? Let Prescient solutions group serve you as your partner and carry your business to the heights you aim to get it. Your go-to technology partner. Constantly providing and anticipating your business and technology needs.

The experience of prescient solutions group in working the utility and energy  industry goes up to 25 years. We use the domain knowledge of your industry to make sure and ensure that every software solution we develop for you  100% compliant with the domain we are offering it to. Your industry and your corporate strategy. Our main focus is on quality and ever changing industry needs delivering solutions that will help accelerate your business progress as well as meet the changing dynamic and vast needs of your energy and utility industry.4

The focus is also on exceeding expectations. Solutions that make the objectives clear and attainable , that makes your company’s growth possible.

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Earned Value Management

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Talking about management systems, earned value management is really of major importance. We first need to understand, what exactly is earned value management. It’s importance in our business sectors. And how we need to implement it for best outcomes and results for our business and it’s success.

Earned value management , can also be known as performance management is a worldwide known technique for performance measurement and progress in objective manner. It’s the ability to combine the measurements of three important factors. Scope , schedule and cost. When talking about a single integrated system, performance management or earned value management is usually able to provide accurate forecasts of project performance problems which is an important contribution towards your earned value management system.

The essential features of earned value management system includes:

1. A proper completely designed project plan that identifies work to be accomplished.

2. an evaluation of planned work , which is called planned value (PV) or budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)

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3. pre defined ”earning rules” (also known as metrics) to measure or quantify the accomplishment of work. Called earned value (EV) or budgeted cost of work performed(BCWP)

Earned value management implementations for large or complex projects include a number of features such as forecasts and indicators of cost performance (over budget or under budget) and schedule the performance , which may be behind schedule or ahead schedule.

Earned vale management originally emerged in US as a financial analysis in the 1960’s , but has since become a vital part in project management and cost engineering . implementation can be implemented to fit projects of all sizes and complexities. Research investigating the contribution of EVM to project suggests a moderately strong positive relationship.

Primavera earned value management helps organizations better manage project costs, measure earned value  and analyze budget , actual, forecast and performed costs. Without a comprehensive earned value performance, troubled projects can get out of control without the problem being recognized. With primavera earned value management , organizations can generate the statistically accurate estimates needed to understand and communicate project performance while there is still time to deal with  and address the issues.

Main features are:

1. monitor project performance using earned value management techniques.

2. calculate project costs using the direct and indirect costs per source.

3. accurately measure both cost and schedule performance.

4. track the differences between what was budgeted and how it was executed.

5. produce reports that comply with the U.S office management and budget (OMB) 300 directive.

The benefits that can be earned through earned value systems:

1. analyze and communicate the project performance data

2. increase program visibility through different factors like effective and stream lined communication with all stakeholders

3. systematically determine some factors, which may include

-> whether the project is behind the schedule

->ahead of schedule

->under budget

->over budget

This all can be done by analyzing the earned value KPI’s

It can nearly be impossible to build annual budgets that consider forecasted budget and program plans with detailed data of cost management and cost effectiveness. The more challenging part is uniting the actual program costs and actual program scheduled tasks. Oracle’s primavera project management’s earned value system’s gives the best solution in this regard.526

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Construction Software

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Oracle primavera P6 and phoenix project management for construction.

Primavera and phoenix PM is designed for construction professionals.

It is believed and acknowledged that primavera  P6 provide the most reliable services in the construction industry.

At prescient solutions group we focus on providing relentless attention to quality by using our experience . Solutions that meet the demands and needs of construction industry.  Response time and efficient delivery are critical to any organization or industry. Don’t struggle with slow decision making because of lack of information.

With the changing trends the construction industry with it’s ever changing projects face unique conditions that require new approaches in satisfying demands and meeting the exact solution for the ambiguity faced during a project that also includes contractual requirements. The architecture and structure of many projects require the ability to accommodate and adhere to the recent business implications and continually changing guidelines. Prescient solutions group is your go to technology partner for primavera P6 software that includes implementation as well as installation, constantly anticipates and researching the trends to ensure your business and technology needs are met.

 PHOENIX CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE:

Developing an easy project plan to get the work done right, on budget and on time just got a lot easier.

Phoenix is a powerful project , portfolio and resource management solution to benefit traditional AEC clients who want and easy to install and use construction scheduling solution that is compatible with sure track and primavera P3 plus it can easily import or export to primavera P6 . XER formatted data.

Phoenix project management is relied on by ENR 400 CONTRACTORS LIKE Turner, Gilbane , Mosser, more than 100,000 users and schedulers worldwide.

For more information about how phoenix project manager can improve your scheduling jobs, contact us at 866-823-1890.

Phoenix project manager:

The roles that are played by a phoenix project manager are as follows:

  1. Provides seamless schedule integration from the owners, contractors and sub ordinates etc.
  2. Fits into the supply chain, integrating with Microsoft project and primavera giving contractor a new and more promising option.
  3. Adds a CPM checker to ensure the quality of the schedules throughout the project.
  4. Provides the tools to and solve the problems even before the construction begins.

Phoenix project managers are committed to the construction industry, and are constantly bringing new horizons to the way things are sorted out and solutions are given in the construction industry. It’s the first choice and is chosen as a priority to meet the unique solutions that the changing trends of industry demands.

Phoenix project manager is a valued partner on some of the largest projects in the world. Allowing firms to maximize up- time while reducing overall project costs and delivering earned value management to the organization through improved planning and execution.

Phoenix project manager is ideal for helping construction, engineering and utility and energy companies  develop a more cost effective and earned value work plan that help them achieve the positions they reserve in the industry and constantly improve them.

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