Project Partners Blog Author:
Sachin Gupta | Oracle Primavera Solution Architect – Application Integration Specialist

In the previous article we touched upon utilizing AWS serverless architecture with Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM cloud. You can reference the article here.

In this article we will see how to utilize AWS serverless architecture to cut down on processing time for large volume of transactions, when importing them to Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM cloud using P6 web services.

One of the customers had the requirement of importing, roughly 50,000 financial transactions from their ERP application to Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM cloud on a weekly basis. Additionally, they wanted to perform validation based on pre-defined set of rules, for each transaction, during import and capture the information in UDF fields. This resulted in importing transaction individually instead of in a batch of 1000, as allowed by P6 web services.

This had significant impact on overall time required to process 50,000 transactions. With average of 1 second per transaction, it required around 14 hours to import 50,000 transactions in Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM cloud.

At 1 second per transaction –
50,000 transaction = 50,000 seconds or
(50,000/60) = 833.33 minutes or
(50,000/60/60) = 13.89 hours

This was a huge problem.

With the use of AWS serverless architecture model and carefully choosing services to fit the requirement, the processing time was reduced considerably. All of this, without worrying about additional cost of infrastructure or fluctuation in volume of transaction in future.

The transactions from ERP application were uploaded to Amazon DynamoDB.

AWS Lambda was configured to trigger when new data was inserted in DynamoDB. It was configured to trigger up to 10 Lambda function concurrently.  With 10 instances of lambda function processing the transactions concurrently at any given time, the overall time came down drastically from 14 hours to under 2 hours.

Previously, (50,000/60/60) = 13.89 hours
Now, (50,000/60/60/10) = 1.39 hours

Note: The distribution of data among instance of Lambda function is not same so the time will almost always be little higher than the above (theoretical) calculation.

The above approach is just one way to reduce overall processing time. A carefully designed solution with serverless approach can go a long way. Customers with on-premises integration solutions, who are constrained due to existing hardware configuration or otherwise, can also benefit by moving to serverless architecture.

If you have a similar requirement and want to discuss how serverless architecture can be utilized effectively, then leave a message or drop an email directly to sgupta@projectp.com.

Project Partners, a long-standing Oracle Partner, and global leader in optimizing business processes and IT investments within project-driven organizations.

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Project Partners Blog Author:
Sachin Gupta | Oracle Primavera Solution Architect – Application Integration Specialist

In recent years, many customers have preferred Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM applications on the cloud. It saves them from typical deployment and system administration tasks of creating databases, hosting servers, configuring supporting technologies, and integrating supported applications.

One of the most pertaining questions asked by new and existing customers alike is – how easy it is to integrate Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM applications on the cloud with other application?

Let us look at this in more detail.

Most of the time cloud customers do not have in-house IT staff to maintain infrastructure or a team of programmers. Their requirements are often small and specific like:

• automating calculation or rolling up some UDF data
• performing certain task conditionally
• perform certain task periodically for which there is no schedule/background job available
• other custom functionality more specific to their organization
• exchanging data with other application

Being a cloud customer, they often think that it is not possible to have a solution around it without spending a significant amount of money on servers and license cost of related software. They are also concerned with ongoing cost of maintaining and monitoring the infrastructure. So, they end up using excel or similar tool and maintain data manually. This comes with its own set of issues like human error, redundant data, etc.

Well, there is a relatively simple solution to all this and much more – Serverless Architecture.

Use AWS Lambda to run integration code with zero administration. AWS Lambda is a serverless compute service that allows to run code without provisioning or managing servers, creating workload-aware cluster scaling logic, maintaining event integrations, or managing run-times. AWS Lambda in conjunction with other services like Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon API Gateway, can be used to run specific integration code.

Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM provides web services. These web services can be consumed in the integration solution to meet business requirement. The integration solution can be hosted on AWS Lambda to perform the desired operation at specific time and frequency.

If you have a similar requirement and want to discuss how serverless architecture can be utilized effectively, then drop an email to Sachin directly at sgupta@projectp.com.

Project Partners, a long-standing Oracle Partner, and global leader in optimizing business processes and IT investments within project-driven organizations.

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FOR ANNOUNCEMENT | IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Project Partners, LLC. receives MBE certification from WRMSDC

A privately held minority consulting services and software solutions firm achieves National
Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) certification

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Half moon Bay, CA–July, 2020 – Project Partners, the world’s foremost Experts in Enterprise Project Portfolio Management™ for project-centric organizations is proud to announce that is has received the Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) of the Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council (WRMSDC) National certification. After completing the extensive application, meeting, and passing the review and rigorous requirements of the MBE certification process, this certification award proves that Project Partners, LLC meets the requirements to do business with large corporations, local, state, and federal government departments as a minority business entity. This milestone is an exciting opportunity for Project Partners with its mission to expand and continue to deliver a consistent level of high-quality services that positively impact the organizations it serves.

“Receiving this coveted certification is definitely an honor.  I know that the WRMSDC fully supports the growth and welfare of minority communities by championing the use of minority-owned businesses, therefore has a stringent national certification process.  We are proud to have successfully gone through the process and been awarded our MBE certification,” says Randy Egger, CEO and President of Project Partners.  “We also look forward to participating and leveraging WRMSDC’s community of MBE’s and tools that will provide us access to new prospects in our pursuit for growth and development of our products and services exclusively to project-centric organizations leveraging Oracle Technology. It’s a tremendous opportunity.”

To learn more about Project Partners, LLC, including its new status, visit www.projectp.com

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About Project Partners, LLC:  Project Partners, LLC is a privately held firm headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California, offering consulting services and software solutions.  Project Partners is a long-standing Oracle partner and a single point solution provider for all requirements across Oracle ERP | PPM Cloud, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Primavera applications for project-driven organizations. As a 100% minority-owned business with MRMSDC certification as an MBE, Project Partners is committed to stellar service and developing innovative and sustainable solutions for their clients.

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Project Partners Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM

Implementation Services

Making Your Cloud Vision a Reality.

Through implementation, customization, and integration Project Partners’ Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM experts provide clients with a comprehensive, real-time view of their portfolio, enabling a deep understanding of all projects within an organization anywhere in the world.

Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) is the most powerful, robust, and easy-to-use solution for globally prioritizing, planning, managing, and executing projects, programs, and portfolios in asset-intensive industries. P6 EPPM solution enables project driven organizations to intelligently manage their programs and projects—from small and simple to large and complex.

Are You Using The Latest And Greatest P6 EPPM Versions?

P6 EPPM cloud version  provides easy access to enhanced features that make it an excellent tool for project centric organizations to meet complex Project Portfolio Management requirements. In addition, it provides comprehensive business and industry solutions based on leading practices enabling  increased productivity, accelerating business performance and providing a lower cost of ownership across the organization.

Ready to Move to the Cloud?

Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM is Ready for You.

We provide expert cloud migration services to integrate P6 EPPM with your finance and asset management systems, providing a consolidated view of the  enterprise project portfolio for an accurate, up-to-date view of projects, people and financial performance.

With Project Partners comprehensive approach to implementation, we can quickly and easily – WITHIN 4-6 WEEKS – provide a full assessment, and develop your migration path to make your Cloud Vision a Reality.

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Providing Our Customers With Better Project Delivery Through Full-Service…

PROJECT APPLICATION | PROCESS ASSESSMENTS

Whether helping you uncover hidden project challenges stemming from your current functional and operational applications/processes to understanding the why and how to migrate to the cloud, our PROJECT APPLICATION/PROCESS ASSESSMENT services give you the rigorous framework you need to achieve success quickly.

We Will Partner With You to Assess Your Project Applications and Background Processes Inside and Out. 

– SPECIAL ASSESSMENT OFFER –

With Your SIMPLE next steps to obtain Project Partners holistic approach to a full assessment and associated discount offer.

ORACLE INSTANTIS ENTERPRISETRACK IS THE SOLUTION

Project Partners is considered the Global Experts in Oracle Instantis EnterpriseTrack — Providing Your Organization full and continuous support from our specialized Instantis practice.

Instantis can improve financial performance and drive operational excellence with a top-down approach to managing, tracking, and reporting on enterprise strategies, projects, portfolios, processes, resources, and results.

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MULTIPLE, LARGE, & COMPLEX PROJECTS CAN LEAD TO MANY CHALLENGES FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION, HINDERING ITS GROWTH.

Growing rapidly and searching to improve operational efficiencies that will allow you to take on more business?

PROJECT PARTNERS ORACLE PRIMAVERA UNIFIER CONSULTING SERVICES…

 We have helped many of our customers by providing their organizations a best-in-class cloud-based solution that enables governance across all project phases, from planning and building to operations and maintenance, and seamlessly manages capital projects and facilities of any size, in every vertical market across the globe.

OUR PROVEN STRENGTH.

We are a Primavera Authorized Reseller and are considered by our customers as one of the best in “Unifying“, integrating and tying your data together, even if your organization is running outside of the Oracle footprint.

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Project Partners solution experts will help your team assess, innovate, transform, and lead your business with our Primavera Unifier Services.

Experience a whole New Level of Visibility into Progress & Performance of Projects.

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PROJECT PARTNERS PROUDLY ACHIEVES PLATINUM PARTNER STATUS IN
ORACLE PARTNERNETWORK (OPN)

HALF MOON BAY, Calif., January 16, 2019 – Project Partners, a global leader in optimizing business processes and IT investments within project-driven organizations, today announced that it has achieved Platinum partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN).  By attaining Platinum level membership, Oracle has recognized Project Partners for its in-depth expertise and continued excellence in providing services for Oracle applications and technology.

“We are honored to be in the highest level of the OPN Program. With our new designation as a Platinum Partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Project Partners will continue to strengthen and build upon its 20+ year relationship with Oracle,” said Randy Egger, President/CEO, Project Partners.  Our global team has continually demonstrated deep application expertise and are working to obtain additional certified specializations across Oracle application solutions areas to better serve our project-centric customers.”

The company offers deep industry expertise across key Oracle applications and technologies including the Oracle ERP Cloud, Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Primavera applications.  In addition, we have developed products and solutions to support and augment our customers’ off-the-shelf products.  We are proud to be widely recognized as The Experts in Solutions for Project-Driven Organizations™ and look forward to continuing collaboration, sharing industry experiences and leveraging our Platinum Partner status to enable organizations, partners and Oracle.

With its Platinum status, Project Partners will benefit with the high level of engagement, commitment and resources available to OPN partners.  Platinum members receive dedicated virtual account management support to build joint development plans and help broaden specialization areas and revenue opportunities. Additional benefits include priority placement in the OPN Solutions Catalog, one free application integration validated by Oracle, joint marketing and sales opportunities, discounted training and more. For more information about the benefits of becoming an OPN Platinum level partner, please visit: http://www.oracle.com/us/partnerships/index.htm

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About Project Partners, LLC.

Headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California | Project Partners is the global leader in optimizing business processes and IT investments within project-driven organizations. We are dedicated to helping businesses achieve their goals with smart, effective and scalable Oracle Application solutions that improve processes and deploy technology to maximize project life cycle ROI. Our business process experts understand and support customers with their evolving business models and help them drive productivity to meet the demands of the market and their organization.

Project Partners has a diverse team who is expert in leveraging Oracle’s ERP Cloud, E-Business Suite and Primavera solutions. We have global locations worldwide to support multi-geographical operations and have executed implementations for hundreds of clients who manage tens of thousands of projects, thousands of users, multiple languages and currencies. In addition, we have developed products and solutions to support and augment our customers’ off-the-shelf products.  Project Partners is proud to be widely recognized as The Experts in Solutions for Project-Driven Organizations™.

Project Partners is a proud Oracle Platinum Partner, Oracle Certified Education provider and authorized Reseller of Primavera and Oracle Cloud PPM, and Cloud Financials.  We hold an Oracle Cloud Standard certification, with specializations in Oracle® E-Business Suite™ with Projects, Primavera and Oracle Validated Integration’s in EBS.

For more information, visit: http://www.projectp.com/

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About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle’s partner program that provides partners with a differentiated advantage to develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle’s products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to be recognized and rewarded for their investment in Oracle Cloud. Partners engaging with Oracle will be able to differentiate their Oracle Cloud expertise and success with customers through the OPN Cloud program – an innovative program that complements existing OPN program levels with tiers of recognition and progressive benefits for partners working with Oracle Cloud.

To find out more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners

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Through this three (3) part educational web-series, Project Partners will arm you with critical steps and insight into a Project Financials cost-effective solution. This unique solution offering will assist administratively burdened organizations like yours to effectively manage Project Financials around Capital spend through all phases of the Capital Lifecycle (Concept Definition, Funding Approvals, Execution, Reporting, and Managing Project Costs).

WHY CAPITAL PROJECTS? – WEBINAR REGISTRATION

CLICK TO REGISTER HERE for PART 2 of the three (3) part series as we explore the WHY and HOW to leverage EBS Project Financials for Capital Projects. We’ll walk you through the solution focused around project costing to your specific business requirements, robust functionality, and use of authorizations for expenditures to further efficiency gains and extensive return on investments.

MISSED PART 1?  Don’t Worry…CLICK HERE to get a downloadable recording so you will be up-to-speed!   

Have Questions?
Simply reach out to us and our experts will immediately assist, provide additional information, and ensure you have associated playbacks. We look forward to your attendance, and will set up a call to fully understand your needs, and offer next steps around a Project Financials cost-effective solution that best fits your organization.

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