EVALUATION OF MICROSOFT PROJECT AND PRIMAVERA P6 AS CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE IN INDIA
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Since 2000’s, construction sector an observing use of Software for various activities. The last decade a seen a substantially increase in use of project management software. However,the companies still don’t have the process to compare two software and find which software is suitable for their use. The objective of this study is to compare two commonly used project management softwarebased on efficiency and effectiveness.The software consider are Primavera P6 R16.1 Professional Project Management and Microsoft Project 2016.To achieve the comparison objective, Performance features of the two software were selected, and a Questionnaire survey methodology was used. The survey was floated among people from different role in construction sector and were familiar with both the software. The survey results help us to compare the two software on various parameters and understand its efficiency and effectiveness. The results show that Primavera is a much more efficient software, but when it comes to effectiveness Microsoft Project is much better than P6. Also, higher star rating given to Microsoft Project further strengthen the point that people use ofsoftware is not largely govern by the advance tools and feature that the software provide, but by relatively simpler tools that gives user ease of working with the software and helping him complete his work. Microsoft Project turns out to be overall better than Primavera P6.
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