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ORACLES PRIMAVERA SMART CITY

PROJECTS SOLUTION
OVERVIEW

Understand infrastructure demand

and maintenance backlog

Execute project delivery contracts

and associated changes

Analyse and prioritise projects

Optimise the citys resources

Identify and mitigate risk

across the project portfolio

Generate reports based

on up-to-date metrics

Plan, co-ordinate and execute

infrastructure delivery

Transition assets through to

operations and maintenance phase

Integrate with city ERP solution

Manage preventive and corrective

maintenance programmes

Deliver transparent governance

to investors

IN DETAIL

A RAPIDLY EVOLVING URBAN ENVIRONMENT

We live in an increasingly urban world. According
to the UN, more than 51% of the worlds population
currently reside in urban environments. And this
growth is expected to accelerate over the coming
years by 2050, more than two-thirds of the
worlds population will be urban dwellers*.
There is an urgent need to ensure authorities have
the infrastructure in place to deal with the inevitable
demographic challenges this will bring. However,
changing political circumstances combined with
economic pressures have created severe budget
constraints on decision-makers.

Oracles Primavera Smart City Projects Solution

provides a unified view of all city-wide project and
maintenance-based operations, bringing together
data from multiple sources including your citys
ERP solution, allowing you to transform the way in
which your city delivers services. With the solution
in place, you can choose which investments to
make, prioritise their delivery against competing
projects, and work within the constraints of existing
budgets and legacy assets.
*oracle.com/us/industries/public-sector/solutions-smart-cities-br-1574173.pdf

PLANNING THE SMART CITY

OVERVIEW
Capture and analyse big project data
Identify gaps in the infrastructure
development plans and prioritise projects
Gain insight into project performance
and maintenance trends
Identify the risks of delaying projects
Build delivery schedules

IN DETAIL
The worlds cities are going through a period of
phenomenal change. Every day, urban areas grow
by more than 150,000 people either due to migration
or births. It is predicted that between now and
2050, the worlds urban population will rise by 72%
from 3.6 billion to 6.3 billion*.
Over the next few decades, cities will also need
to become smarter to deal with the challenges
of climate and environmental change. In addition,
they will have to compete to attract the most
skilled residents, companies and organisations.
To do this, they will have to improve their efficiency
and ensure that their infrastructure and services
are fully integrated.

The Primavera Smart City Projects Solution leverages

the big project data your city produces. It will help
identify gaps in your citys ecosystem, prioritise the
projects that will bridge them, and highlight which
of your existing assets require upgrading.
This can help shape your overall portfolio plan,
identifying how delays to one project could impact
other elements of your portfolio, and helping you
build your delivery schedules.
*iec.ch/whitepaper/pdf/iecWP-smartcities-LR-en.pdf

EFFECTIVE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

OVERVIEW
Draw up project portfolio cashflow projections

IN DETAIL

Provide a clear audit trail to investors

Smart city initiatives span decades, transcending

multiple election cycles for officials. In this new
environment, government and private investors
are extremely careful about where they place
and focus their funding.

Real-time functionality identifies

potential overruns early

You will have to prove you have the right controls

in place to manage funds and provide a transparent
audit trail. Real-time visibility will be key.

What-if modelling of business case

Web-based dashboards provide instantaneous

project performance information
Manage preventive and corrective
maintenance programmes

The Primavera Smart City Projects Solution provides

what-if analysis, helping you model the business
case based on your investment parameters, and
giving investors the confidence that there is a clear
audit trail in place.

Because its not a traditional spreadsheet-based

system but one built around a web-based solution
and dashboards, you know what is happening
with each project instantaneously, and not whats
occurred in the past. Spreadsheets can show when
an overrun occurred, but unlike real-time metrics,
they do not give you the opportunity to potentially
avoid it.
Thanks to its real-time functionality, the solution
can identify trends and potential overruns early,
allowing you to react to the financial risks before
they materialise.

BUILD A BETTER FUTURE

OVERVIEW
Deliver geographically-spread project
portfolios on time and to budget
Track schedules and budgets
in near real time
Ensure resources and materials
are aligned to plan
Allow delivery teams to feed in data
using mobile apps and devices
Manage internal and external resources

IN DETAIL

Transforming an urban area into a smart city is

no mean feat. Multiply the myriad projects that
can make up a citys portfolio with the tens of
thousands of resources needed to build them, and
the sheer complexity of the undertaking becomes
clear. City transformation projects can cover
everything from energy and telecommunications
networks through to transport, water, health and
public safety.
With its heritage of working with asset-intensive
industries to deliver geographically-spread project
portfolios on time and to budget, the Primavera
Smart City Projects Solution is more than capable
of dealing with this level of complexity.

Youll be able to track schedules and budgets,

ensuring that resources and materials are aligned
to plan. The solution is also built around mobility,
allowing delivery teams to feed data into your
overall plan from individual sites. This real-time
ability gives you a single version of the truth,
allowing you to manage internal and external
resources, identify potential risks and mitigate
against them.

MAINTAIN YOUR ENVIRONMENT

OVERVIEW
Ongoing visibility post-build
Full infrastructure management
across the entire lifecycle
Integrate with smart meters
to trigger maintenance events
Prioritise downtime and ensure
works are delivered to plan
Deliver budgetary proofpoints
and ROI targets to investors

IN DETAIL

Sustainability is a key element of the smart city.

Not just in an environmental sense, but also in
terms of longevity. The smart city is a network
of elements, ranging from an airport through to
a smart meter that governs water supply.
All of these assets need to be maintained and
managed on a regular and rolling basis. They also
have to be replaced if they fail unexpectedly.

The Primavera Smart City Projects Solution

continues to deliver visibility post-build, providing
full infrastructure management across the entire
lifecycle. Information from smart meters can be
directly integrated into the solution to provide
failure alerts, and allow you to prioritise downtime
and ensure that works are delivered to plan.
This ability to manage maintenance schedules
also has a positive knock-on effect on your funding
commitments, giving you the proofpoints across
your budgets and providing concrete ROI targets
to investors.

ABOUT ORACLE PRIMAVERA

Oracle is the leading worldwide provider
of project portfolio management
solutions for project-intensive industries.
Oracles Primavera Enterprise Project
Portfolio Management applications help
public sector organisations propose,
prioritise and select project investments
and plan, manage and control the most
complex projects and project portfolios.

Oracles solutions are in use globally by

governments and public sector agencies,
bringing about faster transformation
through better project management
performance and control.

DISCOVER MORE

To find out more about how we can help you plan, build and maintain your
project portfolio across its entire lifecycle, wed love to hear from you.
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