By Jason Ames
Primavera’s Project Portfolio Management suite is known for its ability to help you manage your projects and reduce the risk of project failure. But did you know that with Primavera P6 v7 Web Client you can use predefined workflow templates to request new projects? The project request process is extremely important because each new project not only represents an opportunity to help a company grow, every new project has an impact on every other project occurring in the organization. Each new project utilizes a company’s time, money and resources and should contribute to the company’s strategic goals and ultimately to the company’s bottom line.
Utilizing the Primavera project initiation work flow in P6 v7 web access, you can greatly improve your project selection process via the steps below. Read the rest of this entry »
Join Project Partners and Oracle Corporation on Wednesday, February 24 for a free, live webinar to learn about Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture (AIA) solution for integrating Oracle Primavera and Oracle E-Business Suite applications. You’ll gain valuable information about how this solution will help their organization bring E-Business Suite and Primavera silos together. Read the rest of this entry »
Project Partners has been delivering integration between Primavera and Oracle E-Business Suite Projects applications since 1998. We’re excited that Oracle has released its own integration between these project management applications, and pleased to provide a high level, introductory overview in this article. You will find more detail in future blogs on this topic. Read the rest of this entry »
Oracle Primavera P6 v7 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management – New Release
Oracle released a new version of the existing popular product P6 EPPM. Surprisingly, this new release is still called P6 but it has a revised release number v7. The new product is called “Oracle Primavera P6 v7 EPPM”. Many organizations would like to know what new features are added and bug fixes incorporated. I will try to discuss a few main enhancements and your IT/PMO teams can review and determine if your organization is ready upgrade to this release.
Improvements:
- Open Enterprise Architecture
- Event-Driven Architecture: Developers can now utilize this new feature to write “event-driven” triggers and build integration to any product. Project Managers can get notification on their PDA, iPhones or Outlook; external workflow can be initiated or dashboards can be updated based on any event.
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – In the past, clients either used Primavera SDK or APIs to build integration to other ERP or legacy systems. With the new improved SOA model and Primavera Web Services there are additional options because of the open architecture for building integration between P6 v7 and other products.
- Sharepoint Integration: MS SharePoint integration enables plug’n’play interoperability.
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You are implementing Primavera P6 and have determined that the delivered reporting tools are not up to snuff. Before you go out and buy a new report writing tool, take a step back and look in your enterprise toolbox. You might find you already have a tool that fits the bill.
At Iberdrola Renewables, we have a large contingent of data consumers who need read-only access to project information stored in Primavera. P6 has proved to be a great and flexible tool for managing vast amounts of project metadata. Through the configuration of Project Codes, Project UDFs, and Project Layouts in P6 we have streamlined the process of managing project pipeline data and have greatly enhanced data quality. However, the licensing cost and training effort to get dozens of read-only users access to that information in P6 was disconcerting. What was needed was a simple to use tool to provide a read-only view of the pipeline data to the casual user.
To a reporting tool, data is data. Org Publisher (from Aquire) is a tool designed and marketed to chart and display employee and human resource records via an intuitive browser interface. At its core, the tool is architected to display hierarchically structured data brought in from any ODBC data source. As the Project Pipeline data stored in Primavera P6 is also structured hierarchically, via the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), this was a natural fit.
After creating a custom view that managed the necessary joins to pull a few dozen fields from a half a dozen tables into a single row per project, the Primavera data was ready to be pulled into Org Publisher. The Org Publisher tool provides multiple views of the data including a graphical Chart View (displaying relationships between records), a Summary View (for Counts and Totaling), a Profile View (to view all data associated to a single record) and a List View (to view all data in spreadsheet layout including download to Excel capability). Once created, the chart and views were scheduled to refresh nightly and were made available through a web browser on the Intranet. Below is a sample:
Besides the obvious licensing cost savings associated with not purchasing another tool, there are other advantages to adapting and re-using existing technology. End users will be thrilled not to be forced to have to learn yet another new tool, easing adoption. Additionally, the technical resources responsible for supporting the tool will be ready to go even before day one.
