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Why a World-Class Engineering and Design Firm Uses Oracle E-Business Suite and Project Partners Applications

Randy Martin, CPA, Director Project Management Systems, Atkins North America; and Peter Budelov, Associate Vice President, Project Partners

Atkins is one of the world's leading engineering and design consultancies, employing some 17,420 people across the UK, North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Europe. It has the breadth and depth of expertise to plan, design and enable some of the world's most technically challenging and time critical infrastructure projects. In 2006, Atkins North America migrated to the Oracle E-Business Suite Projects applications because Atkins needed an ERP system that could grow with the company and handle the increasing demands for a robust Project management system. In addition to needing broader and deeper functionality to support growth, usability was a key concern. Project Managers needed simple user interface tools to manage their projects. Atkins selected Project Partners to implement the Oracle Projects suite and now enjoys a comprehensive solution that handles the growth and diversification of its business. To enhance usability, Atkins uses Project Partners User Interface applications to provide a simple user interface layer to enable users to easily maintain tasks, budgets and earned value metrics. Atkins also uses Project Partners’ smartphone timecard application, to speed up time entry. Attend this webinar and learn how Atkin’s use of these applications has provided the infrastructure needed to free up Atkins employees’ time to focus on their customers and grow their business. View the Recording

What Primavera P6 Release 8 Can Do For Your Business

Robert Feldscher and Angela Walia, Solution Specialists

If it's been a while since you looked at what's new in Primavera Project Portfolio Management software, you may not even believe your eyes when we show you what Primavera P6 can do for you. Primavera P6 Release 8.2 has several new features, some of these include:

• User experience and training is enhanced through Oracle’s User Productivity Kit
• New Location Data
• More Mobile Support

View an overview of these plus other features of Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Release 8.2. View the Recording

Integrating Microsoft® SharePoint™ and Oracle® E-Business Suite™ Applications

Peter Budelov, Associate Vice President

Need to store Oracle® E-Business Suite™-related documents in a document management system? Then you should learn about Project Partners’ integration of Microsoft® SharePoint™ and Oracle E-Business Suite. Now, when uploading documents using standard Oracle Attachment capability, they will automatically be moved to SharePoint, into dynamically created folders, and be filed based on pre-determined categories. Additionally, the attachment in Oracle will be replaced with the URL to the document’s new SharePoint location. This is supported for any E-Business Suite application that uses Oracle Attachment capability, e.g., AP, AR, Purchasing, Assets, Projects, and more. Only minimal setup is required, and you’ll be able to do all this seamlessly - and while enforcing native Oracle security. View the Recording

Integrating Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM and Oracle E-Business Suite

Robert Feldscher, Solution Specialist

Oracle® offers the first end-to-end solution for Enterprise Project Portfolio Management: Oracle E-Business Suite Projects Applications excel in project financial management and Oracle Primavera leads in project management, planning & scheduling, and analysis. This webinar will provide an overview of new Primavera 8.2 features, and will include a case study illustrating how firms are using Primavera with Oracle E-Business Suite Projects Applications to support business processes not possible with either system alone. View the Webinar

Collaborate 12 Encore: Got It? Want It? Need It? Challenges? You Bet! - Implementing OTL in a Complex Project Environment

Pat Bowyer, Director, Time Management

Join us for a lively, valuable discussion of some of the most exciting features in R12.1+ Oracle Time & Labor with Oracle E-Business Suite Projects, including the long-awaited Contingent Worker/PO capability, enhanced preference criteria for dynamic templates based on various attributes, powerful Change and Late Audit compliance for DCAA & more. Everyone using timecards with Projects will appreciate the key benefits of combining ease-of-use with fast, accurate labor/cost capture, which can free workers’ time to perform other tasks. View the Webinar

Sponsored by the Oracle Applications User Group: Time Management for Projects

Pat Bowyer, Director, Time Management

In these challenging times, everyone needs a solution for fast, simple, accurate, cost-effective time entry - a key component of your firms' PPM success. The right Time Management solution can be accessed via your smartphone or laptop, whether you’re in airplane mode or in a remote location without cellular reception, as easily as from your office. Making it easy to enter timecards increases timeliness and accuracy, which improves the reliability of your project performance reporting. Whether your organization needs time entry via a smartphone or fast group time entry via a spreadsheet, Project Partners’ easy to use and affordable applications take the burden out of timecard entry. This webinar includes a demonstration of Project Partners' two exciting new products: TimeSpeed and mProjects Time Management, which are fully integrated with Oracle Time and Labor and Oracle Projects. View the Webinar

Integration and Revenue Management With Oracle E-Business Suite Projects, Order Management, and Receivables

Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Senior Practice Director

This webinar features a case study of a firm successfully using Oracle E-Business Suite Projects, Oracle Order Management and Oracle Receivables and shows how they manage their revenue. This firm leverages R12.1.3 revenue management functionality for GAAP revenue recognition and EBS Projects with a different revenue recognition basis. In this webinar we will show you how creative approaches to integrating Orders and Projects are possible with minimal development, that robust solutions support long term business needs while providing flexibility for growth, and that simple approaches lead to the best long term solutions. View the Webinar

Contract Based Project Billing in Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management

Neeraj Garg, Vice President, Product Development

Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management offers Project Contracts features that are part of the Fusion Enterprise Contracts model. Fusion Project Contracts offers sell side contracts functionality that helps to drive revenue and billing independent of project setup and execution. This presentation highlights the core features including a flexible approach to billing by contract lines, contract level summaries, consolidated bill plans, billing controls, improved user interface and improved process efficiencies. View the Webinar

Case Study: Implementing R12 Projects for the Professional Services Division of a Global Enterprise

John May, Principal Consultant

Increasingly, enterprises that aren’t considered project-centric are turning to Oracle E-Business Suite Projects for their growing professional services divisions. This presents unique challenges to the system integrator and the enterprise in adapting Professional Services best practices to their existing infrastructure. This presentation will show how Project Partners helped a world leading firm implement Release 12 Oracle E-Business Suite Applications with 14 Operating Units and five currencies in one project-centric division. View the Webinar

Be a Hero: Maximize the ROI of Oracle EBS Projects and Ensure Rapid Adoption Across Your Enterprise

Peter Budelov, Associate Vice President, Product Management

Your firm knows that using Oracle E-Business Suite Projects will help increase profitability and ensure that project objectives are met. But your project managers and administrators already have day jobs, they don’t have extra time to learn new software or hours every day to use project management programs. How can you help your firm meet its business goals and maximize the return on its investment? You can have your project managers and administrators trained on Oracle EBS Projects in 82% less time and spending 40% less time on a daily basis, using a familiar Microsoft® Excel front-end, ensuring rapid end-user adoption, and putting your company on the fast track to the many benefits provided by Oracle. See how our User Interface Applications free up your firm’s employees to make more strategic contributions and achieve business objectives. View the Webinar

Understanding Earned Value Management in Oracle Applications

Neeraj Garg, Vice President, Product Development

Using earned value analysis enables improved project reporting, proactive and forward-looking project management, and increased predictability of project success. This presentation discusses what earned value management is, why a company should implement it and how to use Oracle E-Business Suite and Primavera applications for earned value analysis. Topics include the evolution of earned value analysis, the advantages of using earned value to measure projects, standard earned value matrices, and how to use Oracle Applications to perform earned value analysis. View the Webinar

What Project Centric Companies Need to Know About Upgrading to Oracle Applications Release 12

Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Senior Practice Director

Many project centric firms are just now preparing to upgrade to Oracle Applications Release 12 and seek the best way to upgrade while controlling the impact to critical financial operations. This webinar consolidates the best information from Oracle and OAUG with Project Partners' own experience in guiding firms through the process. This webinar will point you to the best resources and guidance currently available while making you aware of things to watch out for, and will help you decide what upgrade actions you can take yourself versus where you should prepare to have additional assistance for your team. View the Webinar

Bringing Oracle R12.1.2 Order Management to AR Invoices into E-Business Suite Projects

Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Senior Practice Director

Learn how a rapidly growing company met the challenge of keeping their Oracle E-Business Suite Order Management (OM) to Accounts Receivable (AR) functionality and flow intact, while also bringing all the invoice information into Oracle E-Business Suite Projects and enabling full drill down from Project Management draft invoices back to AR. This firm did not want to lose any desired functionality by flowing invoices through Oracle Projects to AR, enabling a flow from AR to Projects kept all desired functionality in OM, AR and Projects. View the Webinar

Easily Manage Capital Projects Using Oracle EBS Projects and Spreadsheets

Peter Budelov, Associate Vice President, Product Management

Project Administrators can quickly and easily create capital projects, tasks, transaction controls, and intuitively cerate project assets all from spreadsheets. Project Managers can easily enter data and keep a tight rein on task progress and forecasted costs and then see tabular data and charts showing project performance with drilldown to lowest level of detail – all in specialized workbooks. Using Oracle E-Business Suite Project Costing and Project Partners User Interface Applications reduces labor by 40% and frees up users to make more strategic contributions to their organizations. View the Webinar

Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System in Release 12

Ravi Shankar, Vice President, E-Business Suite Projects

Oracle Advanced Global Intercompany System (AGIS) is a powerful application designed to handle the complex Intercompany accounting and processing requirements of global corporations. It has been designed and built using the OA Framework that is easy to use, and yet very sophisticated and rich in feature sets. It leverages the core building blocks of R 12 architecture in the areas of Legal Entity, Trading Community Architecture, Sub Ledger Accounting for Transaction Account Definition, workflow integration for processing and Approvals Management Application for transaction approval. The greatest benefit of the application is its ease of use for multiple companies belonging to different legal entities and Primary Ledger(s) across the globe that shares the same Oracle Application instance. This webinar will discuss the nuances of implementing AGIS in Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Release 12. View the webinar

Fortune 500 Firm Empowers 5000 Project Managers using Oracle E-Business Suite Project Management and Spreadsheets

Neeraj Garg, Vice President, Product Development

A global provider of professional technical and management services is empowering 5,000 Project Managers, administrators, directors and finance personnel. They are able to quickly create and set up projects (clients, agreements/funding, WBS and budgets), manage progress, review schedules, financial and earned value metrics and revise forecasts and status reports using a Microsoft® Excel based user interface to Oracle Project Management. Ten legacy applications were eliminated, allowing everyone to review the same data in a common format they were comfortable with, with only 2 days of training per user. View the webinar

Using Oracle Primavera to Manage IT Portfolios

Tamim Kulaly, PMP, Vice President, Project Portfolio Management

Project and program managers must take a highly strategic approach to selecting, authorizing, and funding projects. You need to choose the best projects and effectively manage them throughout their lifecycles. Yet without the right tools and processes, you'll find it tough to select the right projects and deliver them on time and within budget. For project and program success, you need the capabilities to:

• Prioritize projects based on strategic objectives and your organization's tolerance for risk
• Make the best use of limited resources
• Improve coordination by collaborating across the enterprise and beyond
• Manage large programs with multiple suppliers and subcontractors
• Increase team productivity and the speed of project delivery
• Bring the right products to market within market windows
• Improve governance and accountability, and meet regulatory requirements
• Manage short-duration, high-intensity projects such as shutdowns

View the webinar

Primavera P6 Analytics and Primavera P6 Reporting Database 2.0

Tamim Kulaly, PMP, Vice President, Project Portfolio Management

Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics and Reporting Database is a great option for complex reporting and business intelligence required for executive management and non-project management professionals. It employs a proprietary Extract, Transform, and Load process. Learn how Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics and Reporting Database provides these benefits:

• Manage by exception with project and portfolio performance dashboards
• Uncover root-causes of poorly performing projects, with interactive drill-down
• Take action with BI drill-through directly into Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
• Review resource utilization across all projects
• Perform portfolio analysis based on any custom or prebuilt objectives
• View trends from past project history to uncover best practices for improving current projects
• Reduce compliance costs by providing auditors with snapshots of data at any given time

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Improved Federal Accounting with Oracle Projects Release 12.1.1

Neeraj Garg, Vice President, Product Development

Until release 12.1.1, Oracle Projects has not been a perfect fit for Federal requirements. With 12.1.1, Budgetary accounting entries can be created for all expenditures in Projects, allowing relief of your encumbrance entries. Now, Federal budgetary entries can be made for revenue, which are required for revenue accounting. These entries were designed with FASB compliance in mind. Agreements have also been enhanced to support federal requirements. This presentation discusses these new features in detail. View the webinar

Using Enhanced Subcontractor Dashboard and Controls with Oracle Project Management in R12

Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Senior Practice Director

Expand your ability to track and manage subcontractor compliance through the new Subcontractor Dashboard and Payment Controls capability of Release 12 combined with Oracle Project Management. View and search for subcontractor invoices, place invoices on hold or release previous holds, all within your standard Project Management screens. Track contract compliance items, such as insurance certificates and lien releases, manage payment to automatically happen once you receive payment and more. View the webinar

Using Oracle Project Analytics within Engineering and Construction Firms

Robert D. Anderson, CPA, Senior Practice Director

Extend Oracle Project Analytics using new project data elements, expanded reporting and dashboard capability, with specific focus and examples relating to the Engineering and Construction industry. Use Earned Value and Forecast information to automatically update your project briefing presentations and create standard curve presentations directly from Oracle Project Management to Project Analytics to your Microsoft PowerPoint deck. Drill down into your organization and project data for actionable analytics. View the webinar

Project Partners Construction Contract Billing Makes Compliance Simple and Easy

John May, Principal Consultant

The ease of Excel worksheet data entry combined with the power of Oracle Project Billing provides an integrated and fully compliant solution for the American Institute of Architects® (AIA) contract billing process. See how Project Partners Construction Contract Billing provides project managers with an integrated role-based workbench to execute the entire contract billing process from contract billing/statement of values entry through to the final formatted G702 (Application for Payment) and G703 (Continuation Sheet) invoice delivery. View the Webinar

Upcoming Webinars

Primavera Webinar Series

Project Partners is pleased to announce the introduction of our Oracle Primavera Webinar series. Over the past few years, the Oracle Primavera product line has evolved and expanded tremendously. These webinars are designed to provide both new and existing Primavera users with a better understanding of the business benefits the products provide to project-driven businesses. Achieving these benefits requires a full understanding of an organization’s business as well as how the Primavera products work together to support overall business objectives. Each webinar in the series will focus on one Primavera product to provide an overview of the features and functions as well as the key benefits the product can deliver to your organization.

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management: Plan and Execute the Right Projects Easily and Affordably

Thursday, May 30, 2013, 10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (Primavera P6 EPPM) is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) application that includes role-based functionality to match each team member’s needs and responsibilities. It provides executives with a real-time view of their organization’s project performance, equips project participants with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility to effectively execute projects, and enables workers across all levels of an organization to analyze, record and communicate reliable information and make timely decisions.

Primavera P6 EPPM can easily scale from a single user on a small project to tens of thousands of users engaged in millions of activities across hundreds of projects. This webinar will introduce attendees to EPPM and provide an overview of the key features and functions to help organizations achieve their business objectives. Register here.

Oracle Business Process Management Gives You an Edge Over Your Competitors

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT

Business processes that deliver operational efficiency, business visibility, excellent customer experience, and agility give your enterprise an edge over your competition. Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g enables process management success with a complete solution for all types of processes by providing a unified process foundation. It helps manage the complete process lifecycle starting from modeling and optimization, to automation, execution and monitoring across organizational divisions, and applications.

Learn about how you can leverage Oracle BPM and the Oracle P6 EPPM Web Services to enhance the out-of-the box Primavera product features and functions with customized business process solutions to meet your organization’s business objectives. This webinar will introduce attendees to the Oracle automation offerings, including real-world solutions we have already designed and implemented for our customers. Register here.

Why You Should Upgrade to Primavera P6 8.3

Thursday, June 20, 2013, 10:00 am PDT, 1:00 pm EDT

You already know that Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (Primavera P6 EPPM) is an integrated project portfolio management application that includes role-based functionality to match each team member’s needs and responsibilities. Did you know that it also provides executives with a real-time view of their organization’s project performance, equips project participants with the right blend of usability, power and flexibility to effectively execute projects, and enables workers across all levels of an organization to analyze record and communicate reliable information and make timely decisions?

This webinar will educate existing users of Primavera P6 on the new features of Primavera P6 R8.3 and – more importantly, explain the benefits of upgrading to the latest release. We will also discuss the simplified upgrade methodology that we successfully use with our clients to make upgrades easier.Register here.

Learn About the Primavera P6 Gateway

July 2013

Primavera P6 Gateway was recently introduced which enables client to integrate their P6 Platform to any ERP or legacy application. The use of graphical mapping between P6 and third party products will enable clients to fully integrate their systems and be able to control their Project Financial information and schedule.

Learn How to Customize Primavera UPK for Focused Learning

July 2013

Oracle UPK Professional is an easy-to-use and comprehensive content development, deployment, and maintenance platform for increasing project, program, and user productivity. In this presentation, we will demonstrate how organizations can produce materials for all phases of a Primavera P6 implementation, including process test scripts, job aids, instructor manuals, and training content – both in demo modes, as well as printed output.

This webinar will introduce attendees to the UPK Developer, including basic setup and the process of recording topics. We will also demonstrate how UPK topics can be used in a P6 implementation effort and provide tips for planning a UPK development effort.

The Benefits of Primavera Reporting with P6 Analytics and BI Publisher

August 2013

Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics is a packaged business intelligence solution that provides valuable insights into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management performance so you can uncover trends, discover root cause of issues and forecast costs, helping you to drive efficiencies in your project processes by making better decisions about your projects.

Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics enables you to:

• Uncover deep insights into projects as well as complete history and trends over time
• Quickly identify potential performance issues
• Effectively course-correct problems throughout the project lifecycle
• Ultimately help you make better project portfolio decisions

This session will provide a basic overview of the P6 Analytics ETL process (sending data from P6 to the P6 Analytics data store). We’ll also show how reporting is done in the P6 Analytics user interface, which you can use in your own instance immediately after the webinar.