Explains about the Oracle Primavera Unifier.

1. Oracle primavera Unifier
Oracle’s Primavera Unifier is the best-in-class project lifecycle management solution for capital
planning, project delivery, cost control, and facilities and real estate management.
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Primavera Capital Planning.
Primavera Project Delivery Management.
Primavera Cost Controls.
Primavera Facilities Management.
Primavera Real Estate Management.
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Primavera Capital Planning:-
Oracle’s Primavera Capital Planning gives planners and project
execution personnel a common platform for the collaborative management of
project portfolios to ensure the most-efficient use of capital funds.
A) From Ideas to Approved Portfolio :
Primavera Unifier’s Web-based platform fosters and controls the
collection of project requests from across the organization. You can use
preconfigured project attributes or configure your own forms. All prospective projects
are available for inclusion in portfolio scenarios for comparison and ultimate
selection for approval.
B) Detailed Cash Flow Forecasting :
Primavera Unifier’s best-in-class cash flow forecasting engine provides
an unparalleled ability to manage both top-down and bottom-up planned, actual, and
forecasted costs. Adding and removing prospective projects to the portfolio allows
direct comparison to the target amounts per cash flow period.
C) Linked Project Information :
Projects can be individually linked or unlinked, allowing planners to
capture alternate project information to be compared as baselines to the project
already in execution.
D) Document Management :
Primavera Capital Planning includes the robust Document Manager
module, with the ability to store documentation at the overall organizational level or at
any level of the hierarchy. High-level basis-of-design documents or detailed
specifications, all documentation utilizes tight permission controls to manage access
across the enterprise and supply chain.

2. E) Dashboards and Reporting :
Manage capital planning at any level of the organization’s hierarchy,
with each level utilizing Primavera Unifier’s standard dashboard module. Additionally,
the Primavera Unifier User-Defined Reports module allows fully configurable reports
during project execution.
 Primavera Project Delivery Management.:Oracle’s Primavera Project Delivery Management is a powerful, easy-to-use
solution for managing collaboration and communication across projects. It provides
configurable business workflow to capture and record all aspects of documentation
required during project execution.
A) Document Management :The ability to access the most-current documents and designs by all project
team members is critical to driving efficiency and reducing errors. Users can also
launch any Unifier business process form and automatically attach documents
from within Document Manager.
Referenced records can be viewed in a graphical reference map, providing a
simple understanding of the relationships between documents and business
process records.
B) Communication and Collaboration :RFIs, daily progress reports, meetings, and submittals are the fabric that
binds a project together. The ability to quickly record, access, and review these
elements often determines the successful outcome of a project. Unifier’s Webbased architecture allows internal and external users to access the information
they need.
C) Best Practice Processes :Dozens of standard business processes are available and preconfigured.
This allows for quick implementation or a starting point to further configure to your
specific requirements. The preconfigured collaborative project delivery processes
are complementary to the Primavera Cost Controls solution, providing a rich
project execution platform for all project phases.
D) Control and Compliance :Keep informed whenever a team member adds a document or makes a
change. Set alerts to notify users when certain thresholds are met.

3.  Primavera Cost Controls.:Primavera Cost Controls provides superior cost visibility and control of all
cost aspects of your capital program. Track and manage budgets, commitments,
spends, and forecasts. Primavera Cost Controls empowers cost management
professionals with 100percent Web-based solution either installed on premises or
delivered via the cloud with an intuitive, graphical interface.
A) Cost Management :Cost management is essential to maintaining the financial integrity of any
project, contract, or portfolio. Primavera Cost Controls includes best-in-class
automation of all cost processes, including estimates, commitments, spends,
variances, forecasts, and more.
Constantly changing information is managed through Oracle’s Primavera Unifier
workflow engine, where budget changes, contract changes, and risks are all
tracked to ensure decisions are responsibly made with current data.
B) Cash Flow Management :The cash flow management feature of Primavera Cost Controls is fully
integrated with the business processes, cost sheets, schedules, and portfolio
manager within Primavera Unifier.
The cash flow management feature automatically pulls project information and
transaction data directly from sources such as enterprise resource planning
systems or supply chain management applications including Primavera P6.
The intuitive interface of Primavera Cost Controls is flexible enough to handle
virtually any custom or manual cash flow curve, and the full-color graphical
display facilitates analysis by allowing easy comparison. You can group any
curves to summarize all types of costs for comparison against your forecasts. In
addition, you can create sets of curves and compare them side by side in the
cash flow worksheet to analyze trends.
C) Funds Management :The funds management feature in Primavera Cost Controls provides
unparalleled tracking, reporting, and assignment capabilities. As such, it can
handle the most-complicated funding structures right down to individual contracts
and specific cost codes.
Users can even employ a combination of both manual and automated
processes to gain ease of use and full control over how project funds are spent.
The funds management capability is fully integrated with the cost sheet, ensuring
visibility of funding against project budgets, actual spend, and forecasted spend.

4.  Primavera Facilities Management.:Primavera Facilities Management provides a powerful, flexible and
easy-to-use solution to plan, manage and maintain smooth operation of your
facilities. From defining and tracking building spaces to performing facility inspections,
the solution provides a flexible toolset that can adapt to customer-specific needs.
A) Maintenance Management:Maintenance management is essential to the smooth operation of any facility
keeping interruptions, system failures, and safety incidents to a minimum.
The many preventive maintenance features in Primavera Facilities Management include
best-in-class automated processes for things such as service requests (with a portal
interface), preventive and corrective work orders, preventive maintenance books, job
plans, meter readings, invoices and payments, material and parts inventory, material
orders and receipts, material moves, material adjustments, and more.
B) Facility Condition Assessment :This task includes inspecting, collecting, analyzing, and reporting on the
condition of the entire facility or each building system (for example, foundation, roof
construction, exterior enclosure, elevators and lifts, plumbing, HVAC, and more).
This ability to calculate the FCIs (facility condition index for each facility gives
management professionals a way to objectively compare facility and/or building
conditions. As a result, decision-makers gain visibility into building-renewal funding needs
and comparisons.
C) Space Management :Primavera Unifier’s space- and move-management solutions facilitate not only
strategic planning and tactical reassignment of space but also the move process itself
(including all associated tasks, dates, and assignments).
The Space Manager feature provides a flexible and configurable solution to create,
classify, and organize building floors and spaces by types such as usable spaces,
common spaces, vertical penetrations, gross exterior measured areas, and so on.
Users can also employ the Space Manager feature to track space standard compliances
and room availability, and to compute occupancy rates. In addition, the configurable
Stacking Plans capability provides a visual representation of an entire facility or building,
broken down by floor or level, to show how space is being used and assigned. The Space
Manager feature also supports the Building Owners and Managers Association standards
for space classification.

5.  Primavera Real Estate Management. :Oracle’s Primavera Real Estate Management provides tools for planning,
tracking, and managing your real estate portfolio, including leased and owned
properties.
A) Lease Management :Primavera Real Estate Management offers a comprehensive set of flexible
and configurable lease management capabilities.
In addition to supporting both tenant and landlord lease types, Primavera Real
Estate Management addresses lease payment terms, contacts, key dates, clauses,
tenant improvement allowances, security deposits, and more.
In addition, lease payments can be allocated to different parties, departments, and
so on. And whether the payments are an expense (tenant lease) or income (landlord
lease), the system allows you to track these amounts separately.
B) Transaction Management :Primavera Real Estate Management supports a variety of common real
estate transaction types such as site selection and acquisition, dispositions, new
lease initiation, subleasing and lease termination, and more.
Transaction projects can be created for complex real estate transactions such as
new site selection and acquisition or disposition.Primavera Real Estate Management
provides task reminders, notifications, document management, messaging, and
reporting.
C) Portfolio Management :Primavera Unifier provide a flexible solution for planning, organizing,
managing, and tracking the performance of your portfolio against strategic business
objectives. , with Primavera Real Estate Management you always have access to
dashboards, providing real-time portfolio data at any level.
With Primavera Real Estate Management, you get a single integrated real estate
and facility lifecycle management solution that lets you view, compare, and report
on any information for a single property or across your entire real estate portfolio all
in real time. Primavera Real Estate Management delivers a Web-based solution
with an intuitive graphical interface to real estate professionals.