IT says cloud. Nobody says which one.
IT has a cloud plan, and P6 is on the list. The choices sound alike but are not. You can keep P6 on your own servers or move it to the cloud your IT already uses, take P6 SaaS (Oracle's P6 EPPM Cloud Service), or move to Oracle Primavera Cloud, which is a different product altogether. Each changes who looks after P6, when it is upgraded and what you pay, and no two quotes compare like for like. Staying where you are can be the right answer too.
We set the options side by side against how you work, which means your integrations, where your data has to stay, how much your IT can take on and how often you are willing to upgrade. Then we compare the costs like for like over the same years, including the costs that are easy to miss, which we list below. Our Licensing & Procurement page helps you work out the licence side of each option, and that goes into the same comparison. You get the best fit in writing, with the facts behind it, so the move is decided on facts, not on a deadline.
P6 on your own servers or your IT's cloud
The P6 you run today, on servers you own or on cloud servers your IT already uses.
- Who runs the servers
- Your IT, as today.
- Who decides when it is upgraded
- You, as today.
P6 on Skyhigh Cloud
The P6 you run today, on cloud servers we run for you. Hidden until the hosting facts are confirmed
- Who runs the servers
- Skyhigh.
- Who decides when it is upgraded
- You, on a schedule we agree with you.
P6 SaaS
Oracle's P6 EPPM Cloud Service: the P6 EPPM you know, run for you by Oracle as a subscription.
- Who runs the servers
- Oracle.
- Who decides when it is upgraded
- Oracle, on its own schedule.
Oracle Primavera Cloud
A different Oracle product, built for the cloud. It is not P6, so your planners would have to learn it.
- Who runs the servers
- Oracle.
- Who decides when it is upgraded
- Oracle, on its own schedule.
Oracle's own pages describe Primavera P6 EPPM, including P6 EPPM Cloud Service, and Oracle Primavera Cloud. Oracle's data sheet covers moving P6 EPPM to the cloud (PDF).
One P6 for the whole JV
When a joint venture forms, each partner brings its own P6 and its own sign-on, and IT doesn't want to create accounts for another company's people in its own domain. Once outsiders are in, keeping them out of everything that isn't for the JV depends on nobody ever making a mistake.
Each PMO has a portfolio it won't share. Even when IT opens the door, the PMO wants the partners' planners kept away from its other projects, its resource dictionary and its rates, and every partner follows its own governance, so the codes and the data quality drift.
A P6 set up for the JV itself, on P6 SaaS, Oracle Primavera Cloud or one partner's cloud, settles both. Each partner signs in through its own identity provider, nothing outside the JV is in the system to see, and the ground rules, standards and reporting are agreed on day one. We set it up and govern it, and the JV gets a clean archive when it ends.
Hidden until the hosting facts are confirmed
IT doesn't want to run P6. You don't want a new product.
Your IT would rather not keep servers, patch a database and plan upgrades for a system only the planners use. Oracle's cloud services take the servers away, but on Oracle's update schedule, and Oracle Primavera Cloud is a different product your planners would have to learn. What you want is the P6 you have, run by someone who knows it.
Skyhigh Cloud hosts your P6 on cloud servers we run, and looks after the database, backups, patches and upgrades on a schedule we agree with you. Your schedules, configuration and reports stay as they are, and your planners log in as they do today. The administration comes with Managed Support (your Pit Crew), which takes P6 administration off your planners, so one team answers for P6 and the servers it runs on. Our Primavera Support page shows what the crew does.
Your IT hands over the servers, and your planners keep the P6 they know.
What it includes
- P6 hosted in the region you agree.
- Backups every night, with restores tested.
- Patches and upgrades planned with you, and tested by your planners before they go live.
- The servers and P6's job services watched, with the response times in your support agreement.
- P6 administration through Managed Support (your Pit Crew), which takes the administration off your planners.
What the cloud really costs
Cloud quotes rarely compare like for like. A subscription bundles some costs your servers hide, and leaves out others you'll still pay.
Before you decide, count these costs for every option over the same years.
- Servers or the subscription
- Database licences and support
- Backups and disaster recovery
- IT time to run, patch and upgrade
- Upgrades and the testing that comes with them
- Your Oracle licences and annual support, and what happens to them when you move
- The move itself, including planning, data, integrations and training
- Running old and new side by side while you switch
We put that comparison together for you, in writing, with every assumption shown, so finance can check it.
Weighing up Oracle Primavera Cloud? Our Primavera Cloud page lists the costs that come on top of the subscription.
A simple lift and shift? Find out before you move.
Moving P6 to the cloud sounds like a lift and shift, until something breaks. The integrations with finance, document control and reporting were built years ago, and nobody is sure which will survive the move. Your planners want to know what will change for them, and your team wants to know how much more work the cloud will mean, during the move and after it.
We help you decide whether P6 moves or stays. If it moves, we do the P6 side. We analyse your current configuration, build the new environment for your planners to try, test every integration before cut-over, and cut over in an agreed window. If you've been running one database for years, we can also help you clean up the data first, if you'd rather start with a cleaner slate. You get a written list of what changes, for whom, and who looks after what once you're in the cloud.
Every move goes through the ten checks below, which you can use to test any plan.
