there’s definitely a trend that is growing steam amongst companies that use enterprise project management systems like primavera p6. it’s integrating cost and schedule data into a single system. we’re finally realizing that there a just too many cost management spreadsheets that get produced every time a project manager asks for a progress report.
oracle primavera’s inspire solution allows cost and schedule data to move back and forth between p6 and sap. oracle has just released primavera inspire version 8 with some improvements:
- better performance and memory management: a known bug in inspire caused the tool to essentially hang when syncing large projects to sap. that bug has been fixed with release 8.
- improved materials management integration with sap
- compatibility with all versions of primavera p6 eppm upto release 8.2
oracle published a press release for primavera inspire for sap release 8 as well on their site here.