Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics provides business intelligence capabilities for analyzing project and resource performance. It includes over 140 pre-built dashboards and reports that can be customized. P6 Analytics extracts data from Primavera P6 EPPM and loads it into an Oracle Business Intelligence data warehouse for analysis. The latest release includes enhanced support for asset-intensive industries through new metrics, dashboards and samples aligned with nuclear power industry standards.

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2. Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics
Providing Critical Insight Into Your Projects,
Portfolios, and Resources
Doug Larkin
Principal Product Manager
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The following information is intended to outline our general product
direction.
It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated
into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or
functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality
described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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• Every day, Primavera P6 projects
under go operational changes
• Understanding the impact of
these changes is critical to
project success
• The challenge is how to
transform all this incoming data
into new and meaningful metrics
to gain valuable insight and
direction
Transform Your P6 EPPM Data….

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• Use business intelligence for
valuable analysis, insight, and
corrective action
• Access pre-built analytics and
dashboards based on Oracle
Primavera’s PPM best practices
• Customize reports and
dashboards to meet your
individual business needs
• Leverage the power of the Oracle
Business Intelligence (OBI)
platform including mobile support
and geospatial visualization
Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics

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• Gain transparency and
visibility into project portfolio
performance
• Quickly identify potential
performance issues
• Effectively course-correct
problems throughout the
project lifecycle
• Ultimately make better project
portfolio decisions
Full Visibility Top Down
and Bottom Up

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Executive and PMO Benefits
• Business Decision Makers (from C-Level on down)
• What projects should we work on?
• How are my dollars and resources aligned to strategy?
• What is my organization’s project performance?
• PMO
• What projects are in the pipeline?
• What are the early warning indicators?
• What are the trends over time?
• How good are we at PPM governance?
• Do we have the skills to execute on our projects?

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Better-Informed Managers
• Program/Project Managers
• What is causing my project performance and trends?
• Is the project keeping to its scope and schedule freeze?
• What emergent work is creeping into the schedule?
• Are there over-allocated resources on my project that could
cause delays?
• Resource Managers
• What is the utilization of my resources?
• What upcoming demand is needed?
• How are resources performing my location, department and
role?
• What projects are causing my resources to be over-allocated?

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The Power of
P6 Analytics

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140+ Prebuilt
Analytics
and Dashboard
Pages

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Make Informed
Decisions
Based on
Project
Alignment

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Visualize Project Scoring
and Prioritization

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Gain Understanding of Project and
Portfolio Performance

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Get a Handle on Project Costs

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View Earned Value Metrics Over Time

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Call Attention to Problem Areas

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Use Past Performance to Predict the Future

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Analyze
Future
Resource
Capacity

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View Resource Allocation and Limit Over Time

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Use Geographical Analysis of Key Data

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Gain Insight with Guided Paths of Discovery
Drill in for more details

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Turn Insight into Action
Drill to the
actual project

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Easily Create New
Analytics on the Fly
• Intuitive
design for
easy analysis
creation
• Designed for
the business
user

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What’s New In
Primavera P6
Analytics R3.1

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P6 Analytics 3.1 Overview
• Focus on solutions for asset-intensive industries
• Support for INPO AP-928 nuclear metric standards
• New Daily History
 Activity and resource assignments
 Slowly changing dimensions
• Additional enhancements
 More UDFs
 Code hierarchies
 Updated catalog

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Solutions for
Asset-Intensive
Industries

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Industry Focus
• First release of P6 Analytics to include specific
focus on industry use cases:
 Shutdown/Turnaround/Outage
 Routine/On-Line Maintenance
• New ETL enhancements, metadata, and samples
to get customers up and running quickly

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Why Analytics?
• Large assets need to operate efficiently and safely
• Unexpected surprises can have a major impact to an asset
owner, including financial, legal, safety, and environmental
• P6 Analytics provides greater visibility and control into
planning and execution and helps to:
 Minimize downtime
 Quickly address risks to the schedule
 Increase the odds of a safely operating asset
 In some industries, help meet regulatory guidelines

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Industry Samples
Dashboard

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Shutdown/Turnaround/Outage

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Benefits
• Track daily performance based on snapshots for each day (true day-to-
day comparisons)
• Analyze emergent work surfacing in the schedule and drill-in for details
• Understand how the project is trending into the future
• Rich, intuitive graphical views into project performance

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Burn Downs
Resource Hours and
Activity Counts
Click on bars for
more details

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Burn Down Details

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Daily Performance

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Additional samples
highlighting day-to-
day performance
Average vs. Baseline

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Routine/On-Line
Maintenance

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Benefits
• Track planning for future execution workweeks
• Ensure schedule adherence during the execution workweek
• Compare current plan to scope and schedule freeze
• Analyze completed execution workweeks (T+1 critique)
• Out of the box KPIs based on INPO AP-928 standards
• INPO = Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
• AP-928: work process standards used by US nuclear power industry

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Supported AP-928 Metrics
 Out of the box, we provide the following metrics for routine/on-line
maintenance:
 Scope Stability
 Schedule Stability
 Scope Survival
 Emergent Work
 Schedule Adherence (Standard Approach)
• Additional AP-928 KPIs typically require separate WMS integration
either to P6 or directly to P6 Analytics
• Our OOTB samples show how customers can leverage P6 UDFs

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Include
timestamp of
last ETL run
Click on values
for more details
Workweek
identifiers
P6 KPIs
WMS KPIs
via UDFs
Look Ahead

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Work Planning DetailsDrill-in for Details

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T+1 Critique
Analyze a specific work
week’s history by
looking at KPI trends
over time.

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Schedule Adherence

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P6 Project Configuration Details
• Built-in processes simplify the project configuration process
• Set which projects are tracked for S/T/O or routine maintenance metrics
via pre-defined UDFs
• For S/T/O projects, set the outage start date via a pre-defined UDF. This
allows for pre-outage tasks within the project plan
• For routine/on-line maintenance projects:
• Weekly intervals are automatically generated. Start day of the week based on P6
setting (typically Mondays).
• Define scope and schedule freeze based on pre-defined UDFs (e.g., scope
freeze = T-6w).

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Daily History

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Daily History for Any Project
• Key requirement from customers and prospects
• Provides granular detail in order to perform valuable trending analysis:
– How has my project been performing day to day?
– Are there emergent activities appearing in the schedule?
– Based on these trends where is my project heading?
• Captures daily Activity and Resource Assignment history
• Provides the basis for our asset-intensive solutions
• Opens the door for solving many customer KPI requests
• No additional setup required. Select Activity-level History in P6

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• Provides historical record of
dimensional changes
• Capture changes made in P6,
such as:
• Project and Activity names
• Start dates
• Code values
• See the effective dates of each
change
Slowly Changing Dimensions

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Example Showing Milestones Slipping
Drill-down to
activity details
Milestone date
has changed
Daily
history

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See each change to
single activity
Activity History Detail

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Additional New Features

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Additional UDF Support
New UDF Support:
• Resource
• Resource Assignment
New Data Type Support:
• Date
• Text

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User Defined Fields:
• Project, WBS, Activity, Resource, Resource
Assignment
Facts:
• Cost, Number, Integer
Dimensions
• Date, Text
List of All UDFs Supported in R3.1

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New Code Hierarchies
• Global Project, Activity, and
Resource codes
• See the full path of code
values
• In-place OBI hierarchy allows
expand/collapse
• Current Dynamic Code
capability still there

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See the full path of any
code. Display as a
hierarchy or only show the
specific level desired.
Code Hierarchy Detail

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Custom ETL Calculations
P6 Analytics now allows you to edit ETL calculations for
customized counts and calculations within the metadata
When you edit a calculation, the next time you run the ETL
process, the affected column will be updated with the new
calculation
If the syntax is invalid, P6 Analytics will use the default
calculation
DBA or System Administrator function

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Catalog Updates
 Sample dashboards includes new views, analyses, and graphs
to highlight P6 Analytics and Oracle BI (OBI) features
 New Industry Dashboard samples
 Re-organized ‘Additional Samples’ folder containing dozens of
analyses not available on the dashboards. These provide
additional ideas and formulas for creating new analyses with P6
Analytics.

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Platform and Version Information
• P6 Analytics R3.1 supported on P6 8.2 SP1 (and upcoming P6
8.3)
• P6 Analytics requires OBI 11.1.1.6.0+ (11.1.1.6.2+
recommended)
• Reporting Database (RDB) updated to R3.1
• Works with Oracle DB Standard or Enterprise Edition:
• Limited functionality with SE and EE without Partitioning
• See P6 Analytics and Reporting Database Planning & Sizing
Guide for recommendations

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…..and P6 Analytics is
much more than
dashboards….

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Analytics Apps for Mobile Devices

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Distribute Analytics in Email

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Embed Analytics in MS
Excel and PowerPoint

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Automatically Create PDF Reports

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Stay in the Know – Proactive Detection & Alerts
Automated
notifications

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What if I already have a different
BI platform?

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Build from Scratch Analytics from Primavera
Weeks or MonthsQuarters or Years
DW Design
Back-end ETL & Mapping
Define Metrics & Dashboards
Training & Roll-out
Pre-built ETL Tailoring
DW Design Modification
Specific Metrics & Dashboards
Training & Rollout
 Faster deployment
 Lower TCO
 Assured business value

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Fully Customizable
 Combine with analytics from other data sources and applications on
the same dashboard
 Tailor the metadata to specific requirements
 Use the sample catalog as a starting point to build out specific
analyses for your business
 Create individual and role specific dashboards, analytics, and
navigation paths

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Make Better Decisions with Analytics
 Understand where you’ve been and where you’re going
 One place to look for relevant, complete and consistent information
 Guided navigation and proactive discovery
 Filter, slice, dice and pivot on the fly
 Large library of analytics and dashboards provided OOTB
 Easily create new ad-hoc analytics
 Tailor to suite the needs of your organization and individual users
 Access via mobile devices and share content by email, MS Office or
offline

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Upcoming P6 Analytics Sessions
Title Date/Time Oracle Speaker Location
#206530 - Get Started with
Oracle Primavera Analytics
and Enterprise Reporting
Tuesday, April 9
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Brian Diehl 712
#206560 - An In-Depth look
at P6 Analytics
Wednesday, April 10
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Shawn Lafferty 711

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The preceding information is intended to outline our general product
direction.
It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated
into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or
functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing
decisions.
The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality
described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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Q&A

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