Project Information Center (PIC)^TM Reporting

Flexible Reporting Across Projects, Organizations and Systems

Project Information Center Reporting (PIC Reporting) is an easy-to-use, tailorable reporting and information delivery solution for project-centric businesses. PIC Reporting provides complex reporting that spans multiple projects and operating units and detailed project and task reporting. More significantly, PIC's Financial Statement Generator easily creates complex financial reports, like Profit and Loss Statements, at various levels of flexible hierarchies. PIC seamlessly integrates with Oracle Applications and this high-performance web-based solution is very intuitive to use. With minimal training, users can access all the information necessary to support their business role, including financial, project status, aging, bookings and backlog. These high-resolution reports can be saved in whole or in part, and are presented in XML, PDF, text or Excel format.

A single PIC report can integrate and present information from multiple sources, including packaged applications like Oracle, legacy apps, data warehouses, XML and ODBC data sources, desktop applications and flat files. PIC provides native connectivity to popular databases like Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and Progress, in addition to ODBC/JDBC connectivity. The PIC server also supports access to Enterprise Java Bean, CORBA, COM or C++ objects. PIC has a generic reporting infrastructure based on pl/sql procedures, views, and the PIC metadata model. PIC's middleware insulates end user reports from underlying data model changes in the Oracle Applications.

PIC Reporting in Action at Abt Associates

PIC Reporting provides Abt Associates with 90,000 pages of reports, each with six or seven hotlinks with drilldown data, every week.

“Our managers are able to use this actionable information within eight hours of weekly closing. Because we now have answers to previously unanswered questions, better management is possible. Visibility of information is highlighting opportunities for process renovations. We’ve recently identified and righted several issues which prior to PIC roll-out would not have been caught for months.”

M. J. Jensen

Director of Executive and Area Systems

Abt Associates

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