SOFTWARE

BENEFITS

• Provide visibility into contractor performance
• Enable timely payment for completed work to avoid claims
• Facilitate project team collaboration so there are no surprises
• Streamline field communications and document administration

NOTE: Names of previous versions of Contract Management include: Contract Manager and Expedition.

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Oracle's Primavera Risk Analysis

Oracle's Primavera Risk Analysis is a full lifecycle risk analytics solution integrating cost and schedule risk management. Oracle's Primavera Risk Analysis provides a comprehensive means of determining confidence levels for project success together with quick and easy techniques for determining contingency and risk response plans. You'll have an objective view of required contingency to account for cost and schedule uncertainty as well as analyzing the cost effectiveness of risk response plans. These combined form the basis of a "risk adjusted schedule" which today is becoming the norm within the planning and scheduling process.

BENEFITS

• Identify common scheduling pitfalls that may result in misleading schedule or risk analysis results
• Integrate pre-developed risk registers as well as define new risk registers
• Address full lifecycle risk management through advanced Monte Carlo based cost and schedule analytics
• Report confidence levels with regards to finish dates, costs, float, Internal Rate of Return and Net Present Value

NOTE: Names of previous versions of Risk Analysis include Pertmaster, Risk Manager and Risk Management.

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HMS Time Control

TimeControl is a timesheet software system designed to fulfil many requirements at once. It can, for example, serve both Project Management and Finance simultaneously. The TimeControl timesheet software system includes links to popular project management tools like Microsoft Project, Oracle's Primavera and Deltek and can link to virtually any Finance, HR, or Payroll system. TimeControl links to all versions of Primavera from P3 to P6 Version 7.

For only pence per day, the TimeControl timesheet software system can help organisations be more efficient, increase productivity, bring projects in on time and on budget and get the best return on investment.

BENEFITS

• 2-way link with P6 downloads resource assignments to the timesheet and uploads actual hours, resource and activity ETC back to P6 after approvals
• Allows both project and non-project staff to enter timesheet data
• Facilitates project team collaboration so there are no surprises
• Industrial version for companies where some or most staff do not have computer access
• Can be deployed in days - little or no user training required
• Automated, e-mail reminders for missing timesheets
• User-definable validation rules enable common errors to be trapped at source

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Oracle's Primavera Contractor

Oracle's Primavera Contractor is an affordable solution specifically built for Contractors that makes scheduling, reporting, and progress planning simple. As a Contractor, the ability to build an effective schedule that everyone on your project can understand and use is crucial. Oracle's Primavera Contractor allows you to continually communicate and provide accurate and up-to-date reports to the project manager as necessary throughout the project to ensure you get paid on time.

BENEFITS

• Plan and schedule projects quickly and easily
• Identify driving relationships using Activity Network diagrams with Trace Logic
• Easily create attractive and fully customizable graphics including Gantt charts, Activity Network Diagrams, Time Scale Logic Diagrams and Histograms
• Control budgets, changes and estimates at completion to ensure a successful project delivery

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Oracle's Primavera P6 Reporting Database

Oracle's Primavera P6 Reporting Database is a robust and powerful reporting and business intelligence database. Optimized for enterprise deployments of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution, the Primavera P6 Reporting Database provides a central repository for all portfolio and project data. Its open architecture allows users to create operational reports and business intelligence analysis using any third-party reporting tools.

While native analytical tools are provided in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera P6 Professional Project Management, this reporting database option allows you more flexibility in creating custom reports and business intelligence required for executive management and non-project management professionals.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE

• Operational data store
• Project star schema
• Prebuilt ETL process to persist virtual data
• Operational views
• Business intelligence trending views
• Third-party reporting and business intelligence tools
• Scheduled data refresh
• Role-based security
• Project archive

View Data Sheet: Primavera P6 Reporting Database data-sheet

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Oracle's Primavera Earned Value Management

It can be nearly impossible to build annual budgets that consider forecasted project and program work plans along with detailed cost data. Even more challenging is attempting to reconcile actual program costs with actual schedule performance. Oracle's Primavera Earned Value Management is a comprehensive solution that integrates detailed cost information with the program schedule by aligning and combining project performance data from cost systems, adding complex burdening rates, and tracking committed costs.

BENEFITS

• Calculates project costs using the direct and indirect costs per resource
• Determines if a project is ahead of schedule, behind schedule, over budget or under budget by analyzing the earned value KPIs
• Track the variances between what was budgeted and how the project is being executed

NOTE: Names of previous versions of Earned Value Management include Cost Manager.

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Oracle's Primavera Inspire for SAP

Oracle's Primavera Inspire for SAP simplifies enterprise project, portfolio and resource management through it's flexible integration of Primavera P6 and SAP ERP. Primavera Inspire for SAP now enables organizations running SAP to more intuitively track and manage their projects, portfolios and resources within Primavera P6. Primavera's scalability provides asset-intensive organizations with the power to manage projects of any size with varying levels of urgency. By aligning project cost, schedule, and resource requirements within Primavera's user-friendly applications with SAP's project systems and plant maintenance information, Primavera Inspire for SAP helps organizations deliver projects on-time and within budget while maximizing their resource utilization by effectively forecasting costs, schedules and resources requirements across an organizations portfolio of projects.

BENEFITS

• Accurate forecasting of project costs, schedules and resources
• On-time, within budget project delivery
• Data synchronizations that are easy to use and customizable for your business
• Enterprise-wide project, portfolio and resource management transparency
• Standard implementation can be completed in a couple hours
• Technical support in 27 different languages
• Reduced total cost of ownership
• Consistency in data between application
• Improved project and portfolio collaboration

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Oracle's Primavera Integration Solutions

Pre-Built Integration for Project Portfolio Management

Oracle offers several integration options to ensure Oracle's Primavera Project Portfolio Management solutions work with other applications in the enterprise, including Oracle's E-business Suite, Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle's AutoVue and SAP.

The first two of the above integrations are provided under Oracle Applications Integration Architecture, which offers prebuilt solutions at the data, process, and user interface level, delivering a more complete process solution to business end users. All Oracle Application Integration Architecture components are designed to work together in a mix-and-match fashion and are built for configurability, ultimately lowering the cost and IT burden of building, extending, and maintaining integrations. Oracle Application Integration Architecture includes two Process Integration Packs (pre-built composite business processes across enterprise applications that allow companies to get up and running with core processes quickly) for Project Portfolio Management, shown below.

These integration solutions help organizations overcome fragmented processes that lead to lack of business alignment, low predictability in project execution and performance, and inconsistency in business decision-making.

BENEFITS

• Absolute alignment between organizational strategy, project execution, and results
• Clear oversight of project costs and financial management
• Governance over project-related decisions
• A single version of truth about the organization's projects, programs, and portfolios

ORACLE PPM INTEGRATION PACK FOR PRIMAVERA P6 AND E-BUSINESS SUITE

The Oracle Project Portfolio Management Integration Pack for Primavera P6 and E-Business Suite is pre-built integration to provide an end-to-end Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution. This enables Primavera customers to combine the project, portfolio and resource management and scheduling power of Primavera P6 with the power of E-Business Suite financial management.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE

• Customize how information is shared between E-Business Suite and Primavera P6
• Synchronize Projects, Structures, Budgets and Actuals
• Synchronize detailed project work plans, resource assignments, and progress

View Data Sheet: Oracle PPM Integration Pack for Primavera P6 and E-Business Suite

ORACLE PPM INTEGRATION PACK FOR PRIMAVERA P6 AND JD EDWARDS ENTERPRISEONE

The Oracle Project Portfolio Management Integration Pack for Primavera P6 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is pre-built integration to provide an end-to-end Enterprise Project Portfolio Management solution. This enables Primavera customers to combine the project, portfolio and resource management and scheduling power of Primavera P6 with the power of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne financial management.

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE

• Customize how information is shared between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Primavera P6
• Synchronize Projects, Structures, Budgets and Actuals
• Synchronize detailed project work plans, resource assignments, and progress
• Synchronize Primavera P6 timesheet information to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

View Data Sheet: Oracle PPM Integration Pack for Primavera P6 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

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Oracle's Primavera P3 Project Planner

Oracle's Primavera P3 Project Planner is designed for planners and schedulers and a recognized standard for CPM scheduling and resource planning. Professional schedulers can create project plans, schedule resources with advanced levelling options and interact with project data through PERT charts, bar charts and time-scaled logic diagrams.

BENEFITS

• Plan and schedule projects and resources
• Organize project dates for quick status reports
• Compare actual performance to original plans

NOTE: Names of previous versions of Primavera P3 Project Planner include P3, P3 for Windows and Primavera Project Planner.

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Oracle's Primavera SureTrak

Oracle's Primavera SureTrak is the perfect combination of ease-of-use, power and affordability and is ideal for resource planning and control on small- to medium-sized projects. Anyone can learn how to use Oracle's Primavera SureTrak. It is especially beneficial for those who only have a few hours each week to update and manage their projects.

BENEFITS

• Plan and schedule small projects
• Offer intuitive indent/outdent capabilities for easier project outlining
• Provide fast access to interactive filters for on-the-fly reporting and CPM analysis
• Create customized resource layouts for more effective and efficient reports

NOTE: Names of previous versions of Primavera SureTrak include STW, SureTrak for Windows & SureTrak Project Manager.

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