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Primavera Gateway
John Pikovskiy – Principal Product Manager PGBU Strategy
April 2014

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Outline
 Integration Strategy Overview
 Current Capabilities in PG 1.1
 Roadmap and Planned Features

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Gateway Overview

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Oracle Primavera Integration Strategy
Integrating Primavera with 3rd Party Product
 Complete
– Spans across all asset intensive industries
– Supports all project driven use cases
– ERP agnostic design
 Extensible
– Adjustable to customer specific needs and requirements
 Supported
– All Oracle Solution
– On-going development to enhance the Gateway and stay current with platforms and current
versions of integrated products

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Integration Strategy
Architectural Overview
Primavera Gateway
NonPrimavera
Applications
PrimaveraEPPM
Integration Broker
Graphical User Interface
Configuration ; Role-based security; Ad-hoc
synchronizations; Monitoring
Maximo
Provider
by Pipeline
SAP
Provider
Unifier
Provider*
EBS Provider
by Project
Partners
EAM
Provider^
JDE Provider
by Morpheus
P6 Provider
VCP
Provider^
PublicAPI
IntegrationSynchServices
Compare
Industry-Specific Flows and Data Maps
Routine Maintenance; Shutdown and turnaround; Capital
Project
Logging
Scheduling Audit
Customizations
Sample
Provider
Ventyx
Provider
by Pipeline
EnterpriseTrack
Provider
* Not available in Primavera Gateway v1.1. Planned for next major version of Primavera Gateway
^ Not included in Primavera Gateway v1.1. Will be developed by partners after initial release of Primavera Gateway
“Prime”
(CPM)
Provider

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System Breakdown
Technical Overview
Web Tier
Business Tier
Database
Client
Browser based (HTML, JQuery, Bootstrap, RequireJS)
Primavera Gateway
J2EE / Weblogic
ERP Specific Oracle
Oracle,
SQL Server
P6ERP/EAM
Integration Broker
Java Interface definitions for providers, Canonical
data model, Orchestration of flows, Job scheduling
P6 ProviderERP Provider
HTTP / HTTPS
JPA Eclipse link
Vendor
Specific
API
SOAP – based
Web Services

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Complete
Framework Features
 Flexible Data Exchange
– Definition of data ownership – separate flows for import vs. export
– Customer defined attribute mappings for each flow
– Support for non-common attributes – UDFs, Codes.
 Error Handling
– Automatic notifications
– Partial error handling
 Scalability and Ease-of-Use
– Synch by entity (resource assignments, Activities, WBS, etc.)
– Synch changed data only
– Synch for a range of projects

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Extensible
Integration Strategy
 Primavera Framework provides common/standard integration
– Support for recommended / best practice flows
– Support for commonly shared attributes
– Configuration and scheduling
 Consulting Services or Custom Work should be expected and
planned
– ERP Providers
– Custom Flows
– Mapping of user defined attributes and non-common attributes
– Logic to handle data exceptions and specific business rules
• On-going development to enhance integration solution

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Supported
Overall Framework Benefits
 Reduced cost of ownership
– Licensing, Installation, Hardware, Maintenance, Customization, Support
– Customizations require standard Java skills
 Time To Market
– Pre-build industry-specific flows and data maps
– Providers for each version of Primavera and ERP which ensures compatibility.
– 6-8 month development cycle
 Performance and Scalability
– Java versus XML based payloads are much quicker
– Less layers data has to pass through

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Data Flow Example
ERP to P6 flow
ERP
P6PI Data
ERP
Data
P6 Data
P6 Data
Parallel
Read
Canonical Data
Format &
Compare
Service
Delta Only
Writes

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Common Integration Flows
Conceptual Object Data Map
Resource Dictionary
Project / WBS / Work Orders
Tasks / Operations
Resource Assignments
Material Component
Budget / Forecast
Actual Cost
Resource Dictionary
Project / WBS / UDF
Activities
Activities / Assignment
Budget / Progress
Cost / UDF
Resource Assignments
ERP/EAM P6
Actual Hours Actual Hours

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Primavera Gateway 1.1

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Primavera Gateway v1.1: What is new
Target: FY 2014
• Global Calendars
• Cost Accounts
• “Prime” Provider
• Instantis Provider
Additional Data
• Fixed WBS level synchronization
• Flexible synchronization based on User ‘tagging” WBS node in p6 for synchronization
• Activities and assignment spread over time – calendar (week, month) or financial periods. Expose
additional Spread Data objects: Expense Costs, Role
Project Summary
• Filtering capabilities for synchronization and monitoring page
• E-mail notifications
• Enhanced installation
• New UI consistent with Oracle Primavera Prime
Usability Enhancements
• Ability to designate field map as “create only” or “update only” or both
• Export Global Data from P6
• Cloud Ready: Groovy scriptable customization, UI for data maps configuration
• Support to register multiple providers.
Advanced Features

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SAP Provider for PG v1.1: What is new
Target: FY 2014
•Additional selection criteria as ‘Cost Center’ for Employee Resource Master
•Transferring Workcenter Resource CalendarGlobal Data
•Milestone Synchronization
•Synchronization of SAP ‘System Status’ and ‘User Status’ at Project and WBS level
•Option for the user to create activities with different SAP Control Key from P6 to SAP
using P6 Activity Code Assignment
•Option of defining range of SAP Project ID’s in the selection criteria for Project
Synchronization
•Synchronizing specific WBS hierarchy from SAP to P6
Project Structures
•Additional PM Order Selection Options, like Functional Location, Company Code,
Business Area, Asset, Basic and Actual Dates, etc.Plant Maintenance
•Support for the latest SAP ECC Ehp 7SAP Platform

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Data Dictionary

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Data Mapping

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Data Flows

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Synchronization Definitions

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Automatic Synchronization Scheduling

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Import Calendar

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WBS Filtering

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Export Spread Data Flow

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E-mail Notification

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Filtering on Synchronizations Page

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Filtering on Monitoring Page

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Asset Management
SAP Oracle Primavera

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Project Management
SAP Oracle Primavera

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Materials Management Integration – In-Stock Materials

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Materials Management Integration – Non-Stock Materials

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Supported Versions and Platform
Primavera Gateway 1.1
OS Software Comments
Database MS Win 2k8 R2 SP1 x64
Ora11g R2 v3 and v4
Oracle 12c
MS Win 2k8 SP2 x32 ,x64
MS Win 2012 x64
OEL 5.9 and 6.3 x32,x64
Application MS Win 2k8 R2 SP1x64
Oracle Weblogic 11g (10.3.6)
Oracle Weblogic 12c (12.1.2)
Sun JDK 1.7.0.51MS Win 2k8 SP2 x32 ,x64
MS Win 2012 R2 x64
OEL 6.3 x32,x64
Client MS Win 7 SP1 x32,x64,
MS Win 8 x32, x64
Any platform running supported
browser
IE9, IE10, IE11 Supported Languages:
English, German, French, Simpl.
Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish,
Trad. Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese,
Italian, Korean
Firefox 24.2+
Chrome 32 +
Authentication LDAP, OID 11g, AD 2k8, AD 2012
Providers
Primavera P6 EPPM v 8.2, EPPM v 8.3 Requires adapter for Web Services
SAP ECC 6.0 All Enhancement Packs up to version 7
Oracle Primavera Prime V 14.1
EnterpriseTrack V 8.7

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Roadmap

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Primavera Gateway Backlog
 Planned releases
– Primavera Gateway v1.1 – FY 2014 – Enhance integration capability for P6
– Primavera Gateway v2.0 – FY 2015 – Support additional Primavera Products(Unifier 10, Instantis 8.8)
– Primavera Gateway v2.x – FY 2015 – Advanced OOTB capabilities for Project Driven Supply Chain
 Primavera Framework Enhancements
– Cloud Support– Oracle continues push towards cloud enable offerings, integration has to support this model as well
– Providers– the library of pre-built integration has to continue to grow
– API – need to allow connecting Primavera Gateway using application native UI or other integration platforms
– Usability Improvement – make Primavera Gateway easier to use, more robust, and competitive
 On-going development of Providers for External Applications
– EBS – adapter for Project Costing / Project Management (work started for 2.0 release)
– PDSC – adapter for VCP (work started for 2.0 release)
– JDE – adapter for Enterprise One
• Partner Involvement
– Work with partners to develop providers for specific ERPs and Use Case – IFS, PSFT, WAM, EAM, etc
– Existing integrations : EBS PA by Project Partners; JDE E1 by Morpheus; SAP/Maximo/Ventyx by Pipeline
– Certify partner’s providers through OVI

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Primavera Gateway v2.0: Complex Integration Scenarios
Target: FY 2015
• Fully Scriptable updates
• UI for user provisioning
• Cloud-enabled external providers
Cloud Support
• Unifier provider. Continue to enhance P6 , Instantis , and “Prime” providers
• EBS Projects provider; VCP / ASCP provider
• Ability to “chain” multiple jobs together
Additional Providers Support
• Exposing job status and job execution progress via WS
• Ability to set synchronization job in native UI (PM staring synch in P6)API
• Near Real Time” synchronizations – ability to trigger synchronization job based on application events and triggers
• Data Level Security – allow to differentiate flows and synchronization definitions by User
• Enhanced filtering capabilities – allow to synchronize part of the project (for example, only activities with specific activity code)
• UI for “metadata” manipulation (configuring maps)
• Dynamic lookups for synchronization parameters
Usability Enhancements

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Q / A

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