By Tamim Kulaly, PMP
Oracle’s Primavera Portfolio Management (formerly Prosight) is a leading Project Portfolio Management application that is very intuitive and utilizes a 100% web interface. Using Portfolio Management’s top-down approach, clients are able to manage their business objectives and rank their investments prior to selecting them. In terms of processes defined in PMBOK, the main focus of the tool is to provide users better control in the two major aspects of a project life cycle: the Planning phase (propose initiatives, clarify objectives, and prioritize/select investments) and the Controlling phase (track performance, review portfolio and adjust course). Read the rest of this entry »
Project Partners LLC invites you to the
Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Virtual Summit
January 20, 2010
10 a.m. – 4 p.m. ET / 7 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT Read the rest of this entry »
Contingent Worker Functionality and Setup Steps For Release 12 (and 11.5.10 Family Pack M)
By Robert D. Anderson, CPA and Frank Roberts, PMP
Oracle introduced the concept of Contingent Worker to the Oracle Project Suite with the release of Family Pack M in May 2005. Contingent Labor is defined by Oracle as:
“…an on-demand workforce, including contract workers, agency staffing, independent contractors and people who work directly for an enterprise on an on-call basis.”
This new functionality accessed features that had been incorporated into 11.5.10 for Purchasing and Human Resources, allowing the following actions to take place in the Oracle Applications: Read the rest of this entry »