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CH2MHILL, a $5 billion-a-year construction company with 24,000 employees, recently migrated to Primavera P6 after having used Primavera P3 for about five years. Erik Tuma, a project planning and controls specialist with the firm, said that, while he finds the software invaluable, he has felt challenged at times with minor bugs, poor technical support and a security flaw that sometimes sees him reverting back to P3.
Traylor Brothers Inc., which has been using Primavera software for bidding, claims, payment tracking and project management since 1996, upgraded to Primavera P6 from P3 and P3E in January 2007.
Jeremy Saperia, project controls manager at Evansville, Indiana-based Traylor Brothers, which specializes in underground construction, had looked at other project management tools, including Microsoft Project and Primavera SureTrak. However, neither was as powerful as Primavera P6, he said.