Simplex has been helping organizations streamline their project management systems since 1984. Our breadth and depth of experience across a variety of industries means that we’ve seen—and conquered—a diverse array of complex challenges.
We understand if you already have the resources you need to manage your system on your own after purchase, but most of our clients value our unparalleled implementation expertise (and the savings that come with it).
Software alone won’t solve the problem.
Purchasing an Oracle® Primavera solution might seem like a logical answer to your organization’s project management problems. But software all by itself won’t guarantee success. And simply implementing the software isn’t even the first step.
It all begins with Simplex Step1.
If you’re considering an Oracle Primavera solution, send an email or call us at 800-847-7539. We’ll schedule a time to take you through the Simplex Step1 Demo, in which we’ll listen and learn about your requirements, analyze them together, and arrive at a solution that will maximize your return on your investment.
And then, you’ll experience Simplex StreamlinePro.
Simplex StreamlinePro
This is our highly customized methodology for ensuring your Primavera implementation goes off quickly, without a hitch. We follow the same steps every time to ensure we don’t miss anything—but we also tailor the process to your needs. By engaging seasoned Primavera professionals to guide your implementation, your organization gains more than time and budget efficiencies—you also gain the assurance that the system will work right, right away.
Our extensive multi-industry experience and nuanced insight allow us to select and customize just the right Primavera solution for you. Our professionals are experts in asking the questions that provide the answers they need to get to the root of your business requirements and expectations. We guide you through the decision-making process to ensure a solid foundation for implementation and future success.
By deciding up-front on the processes your organization will use in conjunction with Primavera, you can ensure that the program becomes an active management tool. We’ll work with you to define global configuration settings and integrate Primavera with your existing line of business systems. We can also help you determine which members of your organization need to be trained on the system.
Simplex StreamlinePro is fast, comprehensive, flexible, and efficient. We’ll follow these steps together:
- Readiness Assessment
- Design
- Prototype and Test
- Production Validation
- Rollout
- Assessment of Results
When it’s all over, your Primavera solution will be up and running—faster than you could have done it yourself, without over-committing your internal resources or interrupting your normal business routine.
Real-Life Successes
Industrial Manufacturing Organization
Challenge: A power conversion manufacturing company with €1,093 M in sales needed to streamline every aspect of its operations and allocate its resources more efficiently, so the management selected Oracle Primavera as an enterprise solution. They hoped to manage everything through Primavera—proposals, customer-driven projects, field service projects, and more. By consolidating all of the company’s project information into one easily accessible system, the management team hoped to eliminate the overwhelming number of spreadsheets and other documents that created informational clutter and took up too much of everybody’s time. The only problem with implementing a Primavera solution, however, was that nobody in the company had the expertise necessary to get the system up and running quickly and efficiently.
Solution: Simplex guided the company on Primavera implementation. We helped them define processes and procedures to determine how people would use the system, and we further refined each user’s responsibilities and explained them through a customized training program. With our help, the company was able to begin using Primavera quickly to reduce its project cycle times, to maintain adequate staffing on each project, and to meet customers’ time and budget expectations.
Energy Supplier Organization
Challenge: A $14.3 B energy company that had been using a traditional Windows-based Oracle Primavera project management system for years decided to upgrade to a new version of Oracle Primavera to take advantage of the latest Web-based tools. The company sought to make it easier for its project teams to access information so that they could react more quickly. But the company didn’t know how to begin going about the upgrading process; nobody on staff knew how to develop the dashboards or necessary modules to make the system work for them.
Solution: Simplex offered expert guidance on upgrading the company’s project management system. We helped them create a developmental roadmap so that everybody understood where the company was in its improvement journey, and then we used the information to determine which processes and procedures would change after the technology upgrade. We worked closely with the core team to redefine processes and design training sessions for all end-users (including contractors); we also developed a process to bring contractors into the online collaborative process to manage schedule development.
Higher Education Organization
Challenge: A respected university’s facilities management department had been using Oracle Primavera SureTrak to oversee its construction schedules. Department procedures required contractors to submit resource and cost-loaded schedules to the university so that the university could determine whether the contractor could complete the project on time. SureTrak was a useful tool for this purpose, but unfortunately, Oracle discontinued SureTrak.
Solution: Simplex helped the university upgrade to Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM), which consolidated all of the facilities management department’s project information into one easily accessible system. The department was able to standardize its procedures across the board and quickly produce the reports needed to ensure performance and visibility on high-level projects.
Call us now to get started.
Whether you’re a current Primavera customer or want to get started on improving your efficiency and profitability through better project management, send an email or give us a call today at 800-847-7539. We can show you how to make the most of your options.
