P6 r8

Oracle's Primavera P6 Road Map Yasser Mahmud

Senior Director, Product StrategyOracle Primavera Global Business Unit

August 16, 2010

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Oracle Primavera P6 Transformation

Best in ClassScheduling

Time

*Timeframes are subject to change at any time and not a commitment to deliver.

Best in ClassProject and

Program Management

Expand Best in Class PPM

Solution to Enterprise:

Role based, Web based

Enterprise Governance:

Workflow and ERP

Integrations

P6 as a Platform:Complete EPPM for the Extended

Enterprise

P6 R8

Governance

Governance

• Workflow based governance for project processes

• Project Templates– promotes governance and standardization of best practices

• BI Publisher based reports provide secure and flexible consumption of PPM data, while reducing TCO.

Planned Capabilities in P6 R8

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• Oracle BPM 11g R1• Business Process Management• Released April 2010• Business friendly BPM experience• Unifies latest SOA & process modeling technologies• Rich, visual design environment for forms• Web 2.0 collaborative capabilities for process tasks

• Replaces current workflow engine• Interwoven (6.1) • JBPM (6.2, 70)

The new engine for Primavera P6 Workflow


Business Users can modify workflow

templates

Planned Enhancements: Process Composer

Planned Enhancements: BPM studio

IT users model & execute processes in visual,

integrated development interface


Planned Enhancements: Rich Form Support

Rich form design & formatting


Participants can fully manage their

processes in P6.

Planned Enhancements: BPM Workspaces in P6

• Replaces Methodology Manager• Added Templates to P6 PMDB• Single point of administration within P6

• Security– Users, Profiles, OBS

• Admin Preferences• Admin Categories• User Preferences

• Templates and projects share common dictionaries• Roles• Resources• Resource Codes, Project Codes, Activity Codes• UDFs• Activity Step Templates• Resource Curves• Currencies• Cost Accounts


Planned Enhancements: Project Templates


Templates reside within EPS nodes

Save existing project as template

Planned Enhancements: Creating Templates


Select which data from project to copy to template

Planned Enhancements: Creating Templates


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to template (WBS, activities, steps,

assignments, expenses etc)

Establish savable, sharable Views for templates

Planned Enhancements: Managing Templates

Manage template content in same familiar, interface as

projects


Templates have Project Status of “Template”

Templates won’t appear in project portfolio

views/reportsResource & role usage on templates is hidden from

analysis views(Templates not Summarized)



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All project default & settings can be

pre-defined in templates



Templates streamline scope additions to

in-flight projects

Planned Enhancements: Templates

• Provide Oracle BI Publisher with P6 for web based reporting– Bundled at no extra cost

• Access reports through P6 Web– View list of reports, Run reports on demand

• Report format options– Tabular, Graphical, MS Word, PDF, Excel

• Automated delivery / notification– Pre-defined user access list & controls– Enable users to subscribe to available reports– Email reports, send to printer, save to repository, FAX


Planned Enhancements: Enterprise Reporting

P6 ODS


BI Publisher provides robust reporting architecture


Report section within P6 to view, run and schedule reports

Publish reports in multiple formats

Multiple delivery methods



Report Scheduling

Ability to pass parameters

Secure

Predictability

Predictability

• Web-based Risks module provides industry standard qualitative risk assessment and risk management capabilities.

• Schedule Checker improves the predictability & quality of project schedules

• Schedule Preview enables organizations to instantaneously see the results of changes made to activities and relationships in the project plan



Multiple response plans per risk


Risk register moves risk management out of Excel

and into the system of record

Planned Enhancements: Risk Register


Manage risks across multiple projects

Planned Enhancements: Risks for Multiple projects


Scoring matrix delivers framework for

evaluating overall risk exposure

Planned Enhancements: Risk Scoring Matrix

Planned Enhancements: Activity View Risk Details


Assign, edit or create risks without leaving the

activity view

Planned Enhancements: Integrated Risk Management

• Improved integration with Primavera Risk Analysis – All qualitative risk management in P6 imported into PRA for

quantitative assessment. – No need to maintain separate risk registers. – On import into PRA, the project risk register including the

linked activities, active response plans, and risk scoring matrix will be included.

• Additional capabilities– Custom risk categories– Copy and paste risks– Export to Excel


Planned Enhancements: Schedule Checker


Schedule check’s 14 point assessment with

configurable thresholds

Schedule check report

• Automatic schedule calculations enable you to conduct quick impact analysis


Planned Enhancements: Schedule Preview

Turn on automatic scheduler to do quick,

what-if analysis.

Inclusivity

Inclusivity


• 100% Web solution

• EPS Views

• Web resource assignment views

• Resource calendar functionality

• Status activities in calendar and activity network view

• Time scaled logic diagram

• Application wide Usability & User Experience focus



Strategic view of all projects including a

timeline

Planned Enhancements: EPS View


Group by multiple hierarchical fields

Planned Enhancements: EPS View


Planned Enhancements: Resource Assignment View

Resource managers can personalize view for their team.

Plan & Analyze work by departments, skills and

individual resources

Neck bars based on calendars non-work time

Quickly view calendar used to schedule each assignment



Evaluate resource performance and accurately forecast

resource demand



Define up to 10 levels of filter criteria

Automatic refresh of filtered portfolios

Planned Enhancements: Portfolio Filtering


Unlimited, nested criteria

Apply to preview changes

Shared filters

Planned Enhancements: Robust Activity Filtering


Type ahead search in columns

Configurable toolbars

Planned Enhancements: Improved Usability


Issues added from directly within Activities view

Email Views to other users

Planned Enhancements: Improved Usability

Maintain Personal calendar in P6 Web

Planned Enhancements: Personal Calendars


Planned Enhancements: Services on web

• Scheduling of all jobs

• Faster Scheduler

• Leveling

• Apply Actuals

• Summarize

• Recalculate Assignment Costs

• Store Period Performance


Planned Enhancements: Enterprise Administration

Enterprise data is centrally managed for effective

administration


Copy/paste users

Export to Excel

Planned Enhancements: User Admin & Access


Planned Enhancements: Web Calendars

Easy to use, 100% web administration

• P6 R8 Windows Client Improvements– Time Scaled Logic Diagram– Split screen views– Customizable toolbars– Page breaks on grouping bands– Line numbers on printed layouts and reports– Easier installation• No requirement for administrator privileges• Easy to push installs to large set of desktops


Other Planned Enhancements:

Planned Enhancements: Time Scaled Logic Diagram

TimeScaled Logic Diagrams improve schedule analysis


Planned Enhancements: Split Screens

Single-screen management for planners


Planned Enhancements: Customizable toolbars

Personalization of toolbars increase productivity and

adoption

Value Optimization

Value Optimization


• State of the art architecture (J2EE, Zero-Client)

• Performance & Scalability enhancements – Scheduling, Leveling, Filtering, Intelligent data loading

• Expanded Events – enable both Human & Automated workflow – 70+ new events

• Standardized all services on Java platform


Value Optimization


• Oracle On Demand Hosting (Early 2011)

• Support for Apple browser (Safari)

• Integration with UPK (User Productivity Kit) reduces training costs


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