Primavera P6 Overview.

Primavera offers best-in-class solutions focused on the mission critical PPM requirements of key
vertical industries including engineering and construction, public sector, aerospace and defense,
utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing and high tech, and IT and services.

Primavera's PPM products, together with Oracle's project financials, human resources, supply
chain management, product lifecycle management, business intelligence, and infrastructure
software are expected to provide the first, comprehensive Enterprise Project Portfolio
Management solution. This solution is expected to help companies optimize resources and the
supply chain, reduce costs, manage changes, meet delivery dates, and ultimately make better
decisions, all by using real-time data.

When considering the use of a primavera project planner, you must be fully aware of why it
was first created. This was considered to be high end project management software that would
only be used on large scale projects. This was first considered to be project portfolio
management solutions for the areas of industry that are intensively focus on projects as a source
of creating revenue streams.

Oracle's Primavera P6 Professional Project Management gives today's project managers and
schedulers the one thing they value most: control. Primavera P6 Professional Project
Management, the recognized standard for high-performance project management software, is
designed to handle large-scale, highly sophisticated and multifaceted projects. It can be used to
organize projects up to 100,000 activities, and it provides unlimited resources and an unlimited
number of target plans. Massive data requires sophisticated, yet highly flexible organization tools
to provide you a multitude of ways to organize, filter and sort activities, projects, and resources.

The primavera project planner brought together for the first time a program that would handle
human resources, manufacturing, the supply lines, financials, business intelligence, production
and infrastructure together. The aim was to have this type of programming available for the large
industries that had expanded beyond normal controls where simple solutions could no longer be
found.

The thought behind the creation of the all inclusive primavera project planner was to reduce
costs, streamline management changes, to help meet delivery dates, and to overall optimize the
supply chain so a business would run efficiently no matter how large it had become.

The secret behind the introduction of the primavera project planner was to use real time data in
all the decision making process. This would maximize each and every process so total control
over the daily business operations would be established.

The target market of the primavera project planner program is the vertical industries. This
included most business that dealt with governmental contracts, engineering and construction
companies and also the aerospace, oil, gas high tech, IT and manufacturing businesses.

Today the primavera project planner is used by those large industries, but not exclusively. Many
smaller size businesses have found it to be beneficial to have a centrally controlling system that
can help streamline costs and make them more competitive on the global market place.

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Following are some of the features that Primavera best offers for any project planning and
Scheduling:

Part 1: Overview and Configuration

Provides an overview of project portfolio management (PPM), simple steps for getting started
quickly, and information about the standard layouts you can use to view PM data. This part also
provides a quick tour, including instructions for configuring user preferences.

Part 2: Structuring Projects

Includes the basics about the enterprise project structure (EPS) and describes how to set up this
structure, add new projects to build the hierarchy, use and navigate the EPS, open existing
projects, and define project properties. In addition, Part 2 describes how to:
■Use an organizational breakdown structure (OBS) in conjunction with the EPS to ensure
that each project is effectively managed and that corresponding security measures are in
place.
■Establish the personnel and equipment required to perform the work, define unlimited
hierarchical resource codes for grouping and rollups, and create a standard set of roles based
on skill requirements that you can assign to resources in all projects.
■Establish and use a work breakdown structure (WBS) as the basis for the budget and
spending information, specifications, and milestones within the EPS.
■Establish project budgets and the funding sources behind them, monthly spending plans that
show how budgets are distributed throughout project life cycles, and layouts that track and
analyze variance as projects progress.
■Set up project codes to categorize projects for organizing, grouping, selecting, and
summarizing.
■Define custom fields that enable you to track and report project data in fields customized
for your business needs.
■Create calendars that define national and organizational holidays, project-specific
work/nonworkdays, and resource vacation days.16 Preface Oracle Primavera P6 - Project
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Part 3: Implementing the Schedule

Describes how to define a set of codes you can use to categorize project activities for organizing,
grouping, selecting, and summarizing. Part 3 also explains how to:
■Establish the activities that compose projects and apply durations, dates, resource
information, activity types, activity relationships, and other activity details.
■Set up the expenses, or nonresource costs, associated with a project, and create global cost
accounts to track activity costs and earned value according to your organization’s specific
cost account codes.
■Assign estimation weights to WBS elements and activities to perform top-down estimation.

Part 4: Managing the Schedule

Describes how to establish baseline plans against which you can track project cost, schedule, and
performance data. Part 4 also explains how to:
■Create baselines to use for comparison, summarization, and earned value reporting.
■Update projects by applying actual dates directly to activities or by using timesheet data
from the Progress Reporter module, and how to schedule and level projects.
■Summarize and save project data “on-the-fly” or at a regularly scheduled interval you
specify.
■Establish issues, or known problems within a project plan, either manually or by defining
project thresholds, which monitor project data according to measures you specify.
■Calculate the effect that a project risk—a concern or uncertainty about a project or one of
its components—will have on a project’s schedule, costs, and durations.
■Catalog and track all project-related documents and deliverables, and track the schedule by
setting up additional layouts to monitor project status.
■Compare projects and baselines to determine the project data that has been updated.
■Check projects in and out of the module to maintain the most up-to-date project data
possible throughout the organization.Preface 17 Oracle Primavera P6 - Project Management .

Part 5: Customizing Projects

Describes how to:

■customize layouts for analysis and easier data entry.

■display specific information about project.
■produce reports that detail or summarize project information and answer key questions that
arise as the project progresses.
■publish a project on the World Wide Web.

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