Business Problem

P6 Professional is a thick client with most of its required data loaded up-front. The price of loading data is paid mostly during login and when opening projects. This approach has a number of advantages:

However, there is a downside to this "greedy" approach. Drawbacks include:

In essence, P6 Compression Server is a layer between P6 Professional and the database that compresses data before sending it to the client over the WAN. P6 Compression Server solves the WAN data load problem. There has been and continues to be efforts in reducing the up-front data needs on P6 Professional. In spite of these efforts, we cannot entirely avoid the need for large amounts of data on P6 Professional.

A compression server has a number of advantages:

Note: P6 Compression Server is supported in this release, but might not be supported in a future release. Oracle recommends using Cloud Connect.

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