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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management

What‟s New in Release 8
March 2010
Agenda
• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value
• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One
• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration
• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections
• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements
• Delivering the Goods
• Questions?
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Our Changing World
• “In this world, nothing is certain but death and

taxes and change” – Benjamin Franklin
Every Exit
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Enterprise Portfolio GPS
Portfolio Benefits Portfolio Selection

• Efficiently and • Identify your
effectively arrive strategic destination
at your strategic and map to it with
destination the right
• Deliver on your investments
goals
Portfolio Assessment
• Continuously evaluate your progress to
your destination
• Make appropriate course corrections
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Enterprise GPS Powered By:
• Easy access to historical data and creating versions

• Faster portfolio analysis with greater visual aids
• Greater enterprise investment portfolio support
• Enhanced data management with dynamic lists
• Expanded data exchange options using the
Primavera Portfolio Management Bridge to P6
• Improved administration saves time and minimizes
end user training reducing the total cost ownership
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Agenda

• Questions?
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One Click Access to Selecting a Specific Date
New “Data as of”
drop-down
Specific Date
Selected
Shading indicates
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past/future data
One Click Access to Selecting a Specific Version
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Creating Versions
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Smart Trending Analysis
• Graphs enable
comprehensive
analysis by
being:
• Anchored to
a specific
date or
version
• Changed on
the fly by
using dates
or versions
• Viewed by
specific
intervals of
time
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Agenda

• Questions?
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Greater Enterprise Support
- One for All and All for One
• Simplifies managing different types of investments to

deliver global enterprise value
• Specific investment types intelligently paired with the
corresponding portfolio evaluation views
• Optimizes speed and performance as use expands

• Greater analytic support through multiple back-end servers to
distribute the calculation load
• Ties enterprise portfolio analysis together across the

globe
• More Locale settings (date, time and currency) support
• German speaking regions of Switzerland
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Greater Enterprise Support
- One for All and All for One
Asset
CXOs, Strategic Planners,
Managers
Governance Staff,
LOB Management
IT Staff
Application
Managers
Plant
Managers
Reliability
Enterprise Staff
Architects
Product
Managers
Sales &Marketing
Developers Managers
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Selecting Evaluation Views
Only forms
belonging to
current item‟s
domain (or marked
as „All‟) are listed.
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Selecting Investments
If user select Item

from a different
Domain….
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Intelligently Reconciling Pairings
… form will be
blank. And then
the user may select
from the Form list
based on this
Item‟s domain.
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Defining Evaluation Views by Type of Investment
Domain for
Forms/Dashboards
defined. “All” is
the default.
Domain for
Items/Portfolios.
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Improve Performance of Analytic Calculations
• Scale out using multiple Analytic (Back-End) Servers
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Additional Locale Setting Support
• Locale and settings may be set for:

• German speaking regions of Switzerland
• German (for Germany)
• French (for Canada and France)
• English (for UK and USA)
• Spanish (for Spain)
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Agenda

• Questions?
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Speeding Decision Analysis and
Enhancing Collaboration
- Enhanced
visualization
- Improved
collaboration
Smoothes out the

hills and valleys
of progress
delivering faster
and greater
enterprise value
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Enhanced Visual Aids Improves Portfolio
Analysis
• Additional indicator colors
and shapes
• Shortens the time between
analysis and securing
approval
• Tightens indicator thresholds
(up to 7) enabling earlier
signals of issues allowing for
more time to correct
• Offers flexibility through
changing indicator names for
greater organizational context
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Enhanced Visual Aids Improves Portfolio
Analysis
New indicators are

shown throughout
the product
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Speed Portfolio Analysis by Optimizing the
Display of Analytics in Scorecards
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Specifying Category Values and/or
Indicators to Display in Scorecards
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Unlock Investor Map Power through
Streamlined Access to Analysis Capabilities
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Copy / Paste Data Between Dynamic Lists
and Microsoft Excel
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Trigger Alerts Using Dynamic List Category
Values
• Earlier notification of risks minimizes obstacles to delivering value
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Agenda

• Questions?
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Strengthening P6 Integration Connections
• Offers additional options to share relevant data for

better portfolio analysis
• New alternative for managing summarized resource information
at the project level
• Data over time support for cost summarizations at WBS Level 2
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Project - Resource Data Management Options
- Example
• Data in P6
• Primary Role – DBA
• Planned DBA hours – 50
• Planned QA hours – 20
Resource – Current Option Role – New Option

• Summarized hours based on • Summarized hours based on
Primary Role Role
• OPPM Summarized Planned DBA • OPPM Summarized Planned
hours - 70 DBA hours – 50
• OPPM Summarized Planned QA
hours – 20
• Impacts role availability based on • Impacts role availability based on
primary role specific roles
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Data Over Time Support for Summarizations
at WBS Level 2
P6 – Schedule spans
multiple years
OPPM 8 – Shows
costs by Phase (WBS)
and year
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Agenda

• Questions?
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Primavera Portfolio Management 8
- Additional Enhancements
• Increased flexibility in product access and management

for users and administrators
• Inclusion of Type User to create advanced functions
• Secured access to dynamic list “Add, Remove or Edit” buttons to
prevent accidental changes
• Easier display of disabled value list values and ability to re-enable them
• Enhancements to Database Clean-up Utility
• Lower cost of ownership

• Elimination of Java for Investor Map functionality
• Greater 64-bit support
• Simultaneous install of the core and add-on modules
• New Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management product

branding
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Primavera Portfolio Management 8
- High Level Technical Requirements
• Support for five operating system platforms
• Windows Server 2003 32-bit
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit
• Support for Internet Explorer (IE) 8 and (IE) 7
• Support for Oracle 10.2.0.4
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008
• Support no longer offered for Microsoft SQL Server 2000
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Agenda

• Greater Enterprise Support - All for One and One for All
• Questions?
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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management 8
The Enterprise GPS
• Gives organizations foresight to steer clear of “dips” in the road…
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The Enterprise GPS
… and drive towards high value portfolio opportunities
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Agenda

• Questions?
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Questions
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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• “In this world, nothing is certain but death and

Portfolio Benefits Portfolio Selection

• Easy access to historical data and creating versions

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Simplifies managing different types of investments to

• Optimizes speed and performance as use expands

• Ties enterprise portfolio analysis together across the

If user select Item

• Locale and settings may be set for:

• A Better Way to Manage Change

Smoothes out the

New indicators are

• Earlier notification of risks minimizes obstacles to delivering value

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Offers additional options to share relevant data for

Resource – Current Option Role – New Option

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Increased flexibility in product access and management

• Lower cost of ownership

• New Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management product

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Gives organizations foresight to steer clear of “dips” in the road…

… and drive towards high value portfolio opportunities

• A Better Way to Manage Change

Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management

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