This document lists Primavera-related events at the upcoming COLLABORATE conference, including keynotes on the Primavera investment and roadmap, breakout sessions on Primavera Contract Management and Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, a Q&A session, and opportunities to get involved with the Oracle Primavera Special Interest Group including a booth and support clinic. All conference content will be available on the PrimaveraSIG website beginning May 1st.
1. Primavera Highlights During COLLABORATE
Primavera Key Note: Making the Most of Your Oracle Primavera Investment
Dick Faris, Primavera Co-Founder & Oracle Senior Vice President Tues 9:15 am Room 102B
Overview and Roadmap of Primavera Contract Management Mon 2:30pm Room 101B
Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Roadmap Tues 10:30am Room 102B
Oracle Primavera Executive Q&A Session Weds 4:00pm Room 102B
OPSIG Welcome and Membership Meeting Weds 5:00pm Room 102B
OPSIG Kiosk Booth #230 –meet the OPSIG Board and join. Membership is FREE!
Oracle Primavera One-On-One Support Clinic. Sign up at the Primavera Pavilion to schedule your session.
More Primavera Education, Collaboration, and Participation at www.PrimaveraSIG.com!
All COLLABORATE content will be available at www.primaveraSIG.com beginning May 1st
.
www.PrimaveraSIG.com
Oracle Primavera Special Interest Group
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PPM Business Process Automation
Notification and exception handling
• If a new activity has been added
• If project status changes
• If project code value changes
• If certain metric’s value changes by more than x%
• If project baseline has been changed
• If a resource on resource team XYZ should become over
allocated
• If activity feedback is added
• If a key milestone’s target date is within X weeks
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PPM Business Process Automation
Streamlining and extending P6-specific processes
• Request and grant P6 user access
• Staff resources for project assignments
• Perform tollgate milestone review
• Escalate issue to management
• Release risk contingency
• Accept scope change for schedule re-baseline
• Collect tentative progress updates from field
• Closeout and archive completed project
• Initiate new project proposal
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PPM Business Process Automation
Real-world processes span applications
End-to-end Business Process
Enterprise Infrastructure
Customer
Relationship
Management
Sales and
Marketing
Project
Planning Manufacturing
Inventory &
Logistics Finance & HR
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BPM models, simulates, executes, manages, monitors, &
optimizes those Business Processes.
54. • Built on combination of P6
Reporting Database & Oracle
Business Intelligence (BI) Suite
• Provides out of the box
interactive dashboards
• Delivers a rich metadata layer
for ad-hoc report/dashboard
creation by business users
What is P6 Analytics?
Project, Activity, and
Resource Stars
Operational Data Store
(ODS)
Primavera P6 Reporting Database
ETL Process
Primavera P6 Analytics
• Integrated Security
• Multidimensional Calculation and
Integration Engine
• Intelligent Request Generation &
Optimized Data Access Services
Oracle BI Server
• 80+ prebuilt, interactive
dashboard
• Project information model
(metadata) for Ad hoc analysis
• Custom configured dimensions
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Proactive
Detection
and Alerts
Disconnected
Analytics
Ad-hoc
Analysis
MS Office
Plug-in
Reporting &
Publishing
Interactive
Dashboards
59. Primavera Highlights During COLLABORATE
Primavera Key Note: Making the Most of Your Oracle Primavera Investment
Dick Faris, Primavera Co-Founder & Oracle Senior Vice President Tues 9:15 am Room 102B
Overview and Roadmap of Primavera Contract Management Mon 2:30pm Room 101B
Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Roadmap Tues 10:30am Room 102B
Oracle Primavera Executive Q&A Session Weds 4:00pm Room 102B
OPSIG Welcome and Membership Meeting Weds 5:00pm Room 102B
OPSIG Kiosk Booth #230 –meet the OPSIG Board and join. Membership is FREE!
Oracle Primavera One-On-One Support Clinic. Sign up at the Primavera Pavilion to schedule your session.
More Primavera Education, Collaboration, and Participation at www.PrimaveraSIG.com!
All COLLABORATE content will be available at www.primaveraSIG.com beginning May 1st
.
www.PrimaveraSIG.com
Oracle Primavera Special Interest Group
Editor's Notes
Session ID: 84930
Product Lines: Primavera
Date: Monday, April 11
Time: 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Room: 102A
Speakers: Brian Saldutti, Yasser Mahmud
Track: Enterprise PPM & Professional Project
Description: Oracle's Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solutions help organizations respond quickly to changing market conditions, ensure the highest quality work without rework or waste and standardize on best practices for repeatable project delivery success. In this session, you will learn how the newest release of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management can help you assemble a resource-optimized and risk-adjusted portfolio to maximize returns, automate business processes, model scenarios to find better, faster, cheaper ways to deliver projects and programs, and understand the real status of projects and programs through key performance indicators (KPIs) and forecasts.Objective 1: Introduce attendees to the latest version of P6Objective 2: Highlight product capabilities that will improve project portfolio management
Forms built using ADF, which supports iPhone
Pixel perfect form design
Scale from simple forms to highly complex processesDelegationAt workflow run-time, process participants are able to choose another user(s) who should be involved in a workflow.Deadlines / AgingProcess designers can impose timing restrictions. If a workflow is stuck at a certain point for a defined duration, rules can determine what should happen or who should be notified to take action.Role-based swim lanes mapped to P6 UsersPre-populate default data field values throughout process stages.
Templates reside in EPS as do projects
Single point of administration for both templates and projects
Analyze schedule logic for Templates
View Gantt timeline for Templates
Insert a portion (WBS) of a template into a project
P6 R8 delivers Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher, an enterprise reporting solution for authoring, managing, and delivering all your PPM reports. BI Publisher is integrated with P6, allowing organizations to leverage best of breed reporting to distribute and communicate project portfolio management information throughout the enterprise.
Also provided with P6 R8 is the Operational Data Store (ODS) and associated Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process. The ODS is part of the P6 Reporting Database and provides secure access to the P6 information in an easy to use data schema. P6 R8 provides more than 30 new, out of the box reports built using BI Publisher accessing P6 data in the ODS.
The combination of BI Publisher and ODS delivers several benefits to an organization.
Eliminate costly point solutions and simplify your reporting architecture with a single reporting environment.
P6 Reports can be designed using familiar desktop products and viewed online or scheduled for delivery to a wide range of destinations.
Oracle BI Publisher can generate reports with minimal to no impact to the P6 transactional system.
End users can easily design report layouts using familiar desktop tools, dramatically reducing the time and cost to develop and maintain reports
interface ensuring “no person or project is left behind”
Fragmented project participation results in reduced velocity, efficiency, visibility, and ultimately success
Difficult to collate, collect, corral, & act on the right information
Incomplete visibility & higher overhead by maintaining multiple project management systems
Both the hard and the soft costs associated with disparate project managment systems is staggering. Companies are using multiple PM systems, from MSP to excel to pen and paper. The result is lack of visibility, disconnected information, and the immense amount of effort that is required on part of someone to gather the rigth information at the right time to make the right decision.
Now if u step back…there are some valid and some invalid excuses for this in the organzation. There really isnt one solution out there that really scales the maturity level….my planners schedulers needs MS Project, but the team lead is just fine with excel.
With R8…we can remove that excuse. managing multiple project management systems. Lack of Standardization – disparate PM sytems from MSP to Excel to pen and paper. Even those that have a web ppm solution, the Web PM component is not robust enough to meet the needs of the org.
No single source of truth – disparate systems result in disconnected information…different version of information.
With R8…we are in the “rid the world of excuses” business. Ensure that we focus on work mgmt.
Elevator Pitch: Stakeholders benefit from a single version of the truth where all project-related mission-critical information is contained within a single integrated solution.
Business Value: Extend enterprise PPM to all business processes, enterprise systems, project participants, and portfolio stakeholders.
Improve decisions and accountability through enterprise-wide visibility, workflows and collaboration.
Ensure “no person or project is left behind”.
Achieve competitive differentiation through enterprise-wide PPM excellence.
Operational Value: Unite project teams and stakeholders through collaboration and strong feedback methods.
Meet the EPPM information, workflow and collaboration needs of various roles, functions, and skill levels of management, customers, project teams, and partners.
Enable fluid, end-to-end communication for individual insight, team productivity, and project success.
Adapt to various levels of complexities of projects.
Streamline processes; improve efficiencies, increase team productivity, and speed project delivery, with higher quality and at a lower cost.
Enable end-to-end enterprise portfolio management by combining project execution with ERP, SCM, HCM and CRM.
Aberdeen report: On E&C Brian to send. Top challenges
Many organizations do not adopt enough of their project participants in the solution, therefore not enough information is available to make informed decisions. In addition, organizations spend too much cost and effort, manually getting project updates from the field, weather it be sub-contractors, field crew leaders, or individual participants.
P6 R8 enables true collaborative project planning and updating and provides increased control so the PMO and master schedulers can feel comfortable to loosen the reigns and let others provide updates to the project plan and status their work. R8 also provides new capabilities for the field to communicate with the back office folks. Lastly, there are new views to extend the relevance and usefulness of P6 and allow the tool and users to grow together.
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A new web-based EPS view provides a bird’s eye perspective of all projects, organized and categorized to support your organization’s PPM initiaties. This view is useful for organizing projects within a program, using a multi-level structure or hierarchy. Administrators and PMOs can use this view to govern how projects are setup, and administer or report on multiple projects without opening all those projects. This view will be familiar to P6 Windows client users who have used the Projects view.
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The activity view tabs have been redesigned to automatically display the details, and individuals can remove tabs for items that are not relevant to them. There are new detail tabs, enabling a single screen for accessing all activity related information. There are new detail tabs for:
Issues – Issues can be created and viewed
Risks – Assign an existing risk, add a new risk and view risk information
General – This existing tab now includes information needed to status activities, such as durations, units, costs and dates.
End with Application Wide Enhancements – ‘No User Left Behind’
Each user’s role, responsibilities, and project management skill levels matched with appropriate software capabilities
Widespread user adoption and easy administration
Increased team productivity and speed of project delivery
Improved coordination by collaborating across the enterprise and beyond
Many organizations do not adopt enough of their project participants in the solution, therefore not enough information is available to make informed decisions. In addition, organizations spend too much cost and effort, manually getting project updates from the field, weather it be sub-contractors, field crew leaders, or individual participants.
P6 R8 enables true collaborative project planning and updating and provides increased control so the PMO and master schedulers can feel comfortable to loosen the reigns and let others provide updates to the project plan and status their work. R8 also provides new capabilities for the field to communicate with the back office folks. Lastly, there are new views to extend the relevance and usefulness of P6 and allow the tool and users to grow together.
It provides a central location for indentifying, assessing, and managing risks (threats and opportunities) for a single project, multiple projects or a portfolio
All qualitative risk management in P6 imported into PRA for quantitative assessment.
Risk Register
Linked activities
Active response plans
Risk scoring matrix
No need to maintain separate risk registers.
Custom risk categories
Copy and paste risks
Export to Excel
It provides a central location for indentifying, assessing, and managing risks (threats and opportunities) for a single project, multiple projects or a portfolio
RESULTS:
Reduced project and financial risk
Proactive response to risks with appropriate contingency plans
The new schedule checker is a tool that assists planners, project managers and the PMO to ensure project plans are built within the guidelines of industry and organizational best practices. The schedule checker performs a 14-point analysis to ensure that activities and dependencies of the project schedule are following desired standards. The schedule checker adheres to the DCMA 14-point assessment check and produces a report that list all opportunities for corrective action or improvement when aspects of the project schedule fall outside the quality guidelines. The report includes a summary and detailed sections displaying activities falling outside your configured thresholds.
Unsure sufficient capacity, utilization, and availability of people, skills and other resources to meet current work & take on more work
Optimum management of all resources (human capital, budgets, facilities, current asset investment)
Elevator Pitch: Ensure your highest performing resources are working on your most important projects to maximize ROI and increase your bottom line profitability
Business Value: Optimize management of all resources (human capital, budgets, facilities, talent) for maximum ROI
Consider all resources and constraints when making portfolio investment decisions
Quickly respond to changes in strategy, customer expectations, competitive threats, and overall business uncertainty
Evaluate resources to ensure the required skills to complete existing and proposed projects
Operational Value: Ensure sufficient capacity, utilization, and availability of people, skills and other resources to meet current commitments and take on more work as needed
Quickly identify and deploy the most qualified and available people to project work
Quickly adjust portfolios and project plans when things change and immediately assess the resource impact
Deliver quality projects and programs with fewer resources
P6 R8 enables true collaborative project planning and updating and provides increased control so the PMO and master schedulers can feel comfortable to loosen the reigns and let others provide updates to the project plan and status their work. R8 also provides new capabilities for the field to communicate with the back office folks. Lastly, there are new views to extend the relevance and usefulness of P6 and allow the tool and users to grow together.
Scheduling 2000 activities in v7 client scheduler was approx 8 secondsScheduling same 2000 activities in v8 web scheduler is now sub 2 seconds Scheduling 5000 activities in v7 client scheduler was approx 11.5 secondsScheduling same 5000 activities in v8 web scheduler is now approx 6 seconds It’s looking like we’re seeing a minimum of 100% improvement in scheduling times over v7
Many improvement initiatives and feature enhancements have been planned for P6 Web v8. Performance improvements have been made to the load times of the Activity Gantt, Portfolios, Baseline, Copy project and other areas (a full list of completed tasks are located at the end of this document.)
Performance testing has been executed to measure both backend performance amongst the supported databases and application servers. Single user testing under load has been executed to better understand the end user experience. Most importantly we have successfully smoked tested the Activity Gantt to 150 users.
This release the Job Service has been re-architected using Java instead of Delphi. Testing was executed to understand the scalability of the P6 v8 Job Service and how it would compare to P6 v7 version.
End user testing has been executed for applicable new feature areas. Testing in the following areas have been executed: Apply Actuals, Automatic Portfolios, Copy Project, Push Down Fields, and Add WBS Templates.
Scheduling of all jobs
Faster Scheduler
Leveling
Apply Actuals
Summarize
Recalculate Assignment Costs
Store Period Performance
BI Challenges Hindering Management Excellence
Fragmented Information
Inconsistent Needs
Report-centric
Restricted
Non-Intuitive
Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics is a complete, packaged project portfolio analysis and business performance management solution that enables your business to bring disparate project information together, providing a single source of truth that is authentic & relevant to enable you to make better business decisions. By incorporating industry and business intelligence (BI) best practices, P6 Analytics delivers deep insights into existing projects, programs and portfolios as well as complete history and trends which you can use to identify potential problems in your projects and course-correct early in the lifecycle. Everything you need to get up and running on day 1 with improved decision-making is available with interactive drill-down dashboards.
Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right time.
BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports reporting, analysis and decision making.
BI leads to:
fact-based decision making
“single version of the truth”
BI includes reporting and analytics.
Show main dashboard and scroll down to show resource centric information on dashboards
Wrap up with Governance, Inclusivity, Predictability, Optimization.