Which Primavera product do you need?
These three products overlap enough to be confusing and cost enough to get wrong. The choice is usually decided by what you're trying to control, not by comparing feature lists — and the honest answer is often "not the one you were about to buy."
We implement all three, so we have no reason to steer you toward any of them.
Start with what you're controlling
Almost every Primavera decision comes down to one question: is your real problem seeing across the portfolio, the schedule itself, or the money?
- If it's visibility across projects, plus risk analysis, and you'd rather not run infrastructure — you're looking at Primavera Cloud.
- If it's the schedule — logic, float, resource loading, progress — you're looking at P6 EPPM.
- If it's the money — budgets, commitments, change orders, invoices, approvals — you're looking at Unifier.
Plenty of organizations need two of them. Very few need all three on day one.
Oracle Primavera Cloud
Choose it when
- You want scheduling, risk analysis and portfolio planning in one place
- You'd rather not run your own infrastructure
- The people who need visibility outnumber the people who build schedules
- You need quantitative risk analysis without buying a separate tool
- You're starting fresh rather than migrating a mature estate
Look elsewhere if
- You have deep P6 customization, heavy integration or years of history — it is not a drop-in P6 replacement
- Your problem is cost and contract control — that's Unifier, and the two work together
Primavera P6 EPPM
Choose it when
- Critical path scheduling is the discipline you're building around
- You need resource and cost loaded schedules that roll up consistently across many projects
- Contractors submit schedules you have to review, merge and baseline
- Schedule quality and defensibility matter
- You have planners whose job is building and maintaining schedules
Look elsewhere if
- Your real pain is commitments, variations and approvals — that's Unifier
- You have a handful of projects and no dedicated planner; P6 is more system than you'll maintain
- Most people who need the information don't build schedules — they need access, not a scheduling tool
Primavera Unifier
Choose it when
- Cost control is the problem: budgets, commitments, forecasts, change orders, invoices
- You need approvals with an audit trail that holds up when someone asks how a number was reached
- Contract and document workflow matters — submittals, RFIs, correspondence
- You're managing capital programs across a portfolio of assets, not just projects
- Your cost position is currently a spreadsheet estate
Look elsewhere if
- Your problem is genuinely scheduling — Unifier is not a scheduling tool
- You want it configured quickly with minimal decisions. An unconfigured Unifier does nothing; an over-configured one becomes a system only its author understands
The combinations we see most
P6 and Unifier together. The classic capital projects pairing: schedule in one, money in the other, integrated so a commitment, an accrual and a forecast reconcile. This is what most mature capital programs end up running.
Unifier on its own. More common than people expect. If your cost and contract control is broken and your scheduling is adequate, fixing cost first delivers more than replacing a schedule tool that works.
Primavera Cloud as the entry point. For organizations formalizing project controls for the first time, it's often the proportionate starting position — less to run, broader access, and room to add P6 or Unifier when the need is proven.
Our applications
Applications for Oracle Primavera
Two products we've built and support, because the gaps they fill came up on enough engagements to be worth solving properly. Both sit on systems you already run, and both install in a fraction of the time a custom build would take.
For Primavera Unifier
Forecasting application
A planning and budgeting tool that gives Unifier proper project and program forecasting.
- Comprehensive planning and budgeting on top of Unifier
- Project and program forecasting that planners will actually use
- Brings Unifier and ERP cost data together in one view
- Connects to any data source through a data integrator
For Primavera P6 EPPM
Scheduling dashboards
A straightforward, cost-effective way to add dashboards and analytics to P6 EPPM.
- A lightweight application that sits on your existing P6 EPPM system
- Installed and set up in hours, not weeks
- Customizable by end users, not just administrators
- Pre-built industry-standard KPIs and data dashboards
- Low install and maintenance cost
- Can be extended to read data from Primavera Unifier as well
Contact us for pricing and terms.
Signs you're about to buy the wrong one
- You're choosing on feature lists rather than on what you're trying to control. Every one of these products has an impressive feature list.
- Nobody has agreed what the reporting needs to look like.
- The decision is being made by IT without project controls in the room, or vice versa.
- You're buying the biggest option to avoid buying twice. That usually costs more than buying twice would have.
- You're migrating because the current system is disliked rather than because it's the wrong one. Most Primavera problems are structure and practice problems, and they follow you to the new system.
Still not sure?
Tell us what you're trying to control and what's failing now. We'll give you a straight answer, including when the answer is that your current system is fine and the problem is somewhere else.
If you're being asked to commit budget to a decision you'll have to defend, a fixed-scope health check gives you an independent read first — a review of schedule quality, structures, baseline discipline and reporting, with written findings. Considerably cheaper than discovering the answer after implementation.