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What's New in Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management

Yasser Mahmud - Director Product Strategy
Karl Prutzer - Senior Product Manager
How P6 v7 will help your organization

1. Modern open enterprise architecture

2. Best in class, web project management

3. Roll out to an expanded audience

4. Lower cost of ownership

1. Modern, Open enterprise architecture

Business Challenges
• High cost of integrating disparate systems
• Pressure to ensure governance & situational awareness
at the organizational level
• Difficulty in accessing & acting on information in a timely
manner

How will P6 v7 help?

• Open services oriented architecture (SOA)
• Machine & Human Workflow support
• Easily integrate and automate processes
• Enterprise class technology & platform support
1. Modern, Open enterprise architecture

New Capabilities in V7

• Event-driven architecture – enables both Human &

Automated workflow

• Oracle Unified Content Management (UCM) integration

reduces out the box cost

• MS SharePoint integration enables plug’n’play

interoperability

• Java-based Progress Reporter reduces deployment

costs

• Oracle enterprise technology support

 Event Capabilities in V7
P6 project manager PMO dashboards immediately
creates new activity updated with new project &
activities data
P6 server fires new event

Event triggers custom built

Web service

Assigned resource receives Facilities manager receives project

notification of activity updates via Google Map component
update in inbox and mobile updated with project location
Examples of enabling technologies capabilities

• Emergency work order re-prioritizes planned work

Workflow • Event triggers notifications based on condition
• Workflow defined in Oracle Business Process Manager (BPEL)

• Key milestone is completed

Mobile • Executive stakeholder receives instant notification via Blackberry

• Activities pushed to Outlook Task pane

Outlook • User updates status (% complete) from within Outlook

• External weather event impacts project schedule

Web Services • Suspend / Resume or Calendar update
• National Weather Services SOAP Server

• Help desk incidents appear as Activities in Timesheets

ITSM • Effort exceeding predefined threshold (e.g. > 20 hours)
• Remedy / Oracle Enterprise Manager
Workflow Process possible in V7

• Internal workflows examples:

– Project initiation
– Process approvals
– Stage-gating
– Escalations
– Notifications

• External workflows examples:

– Custom workflow to Contract Management
– Material resources linked to supply chain
– Schedule/cost impact workflow for design changes
P6 Workflow Example: Schedule Governance

1. Project Manager
• Changes project finish date in P6
• Provides justification in P6
2. Automatically triggers approval workflow
3. Approver
• Receives approval form
• Reviews included information
• Approves or rejects change
• Provides reasoning
4. Status in P6 is automatically updated
 Graphical Workflow Builder
Project Manager
changes finish date

Conditional
branching Automatically triggers
approval workflow

Approver receives,
reviews and approves
through workflow form
Looping

Status in P6 is
automatically updated
Approval Workflow Form
2. Best-in-class web project management

Business Challenges
• High costs to collate, collect, corral, and act on the
right information
• Overhead to maintain multiple ad-hoc project
management systems

How will P6 v7 help?

• Scales: Manage large & small, complex & simple,
experienced & novice in one package
• Web based solution for all roles* (except Administrators)
• Deploy to roles previously using the thick client
2. Best in class web project management

New Capabilities in V7
• Manage the entire project lifecycle – Create, Select, Plan,
Manage - all on the web.

• Advanced, Interactive graphics – Appeal to PMO’s ,

Planners / Schedulers. Reduces the overall cost of
deployment, implementation, & training.

• Web import/export to MS Project & Excel – Improves

velocity with which updates are available & increases
visibility

• Enhanced Dashboard based Project & Program Gantt

portlet
Intuitive Outlook calendar type view for team
members
 Simple view for the Excel-loving team leads

Oracle confidential internal only

 Easy Gantt views for the novice project manager

Oracle confidential internal only

Powerful analysis for Planner/Scheduler, PMO’s
3. Roll out to an expanded audience

Business Challenges

• Fragmented project participation results in reduced velocity,

efficiency, visibility, and ultimately success

How will P6 v7 help?

• Reduce Execution Risks: Advanced Control/security provides

organizations with the confidence to open up access to 3rd
parties - resulting in a broader extended PPM participation.

• Improved collaboration for project team enables faster access to

critical & relevant information.

• Interface that can grow with individuals & the organization

Customer Story: A Utility Company

• Customer: Electrical Utility - deploying P6 to over 3500 users for

generation projects

• Business Problem: Better visibility into project performance &

lower risk in project execution through better contractor control

• PPM Solution Needs:

1. Needed granular security to control sub-contractor access to
project schedules.

2. Capture all activity feedback & communication with 3rd parties in

P6 to act an audit trail / proof of record
3. Roll out to an expanded audience

New Capabilities in V7

• Activity level, field security provide peace of mind in opening

up the application to 3rd parties.

• Improved effectiveness: Feedback/discussions for activities

enables all relevant information to be captured in P6

• New Calendar view provides an intuitive view of project

related information.

• Improved web-based Gantt view provides a distinctive

competitive differentiator.
Secure Updates enable rollout to larger audience

Control which fields are

viewable / editabe
4. Lower cost of ownership

Business Challenges

• Continuous pressure to reduce cost of purchasing,

implementing, training

How will P6 v7 help?

• Complimentary Oracle technology at zero cost

• Web deployment model for all but the administrators

reduces cost footprint across the board
4. Lower cost of ownership

New Capabilities in V7

• Restricted use licenses for:

• WebLogic Server

• Oracle UCM (Stellant)

• WebCenter (WebLogic portal technology)