FOR ANNOUNCEMENT | IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Project Partners is pleased to announce that they have been selected by The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as the Delivery Partner for its Project Controls and Reporting Systems (PCRS) project.
Half moon Bay, CA–June, 2018 – Project Partners, the world’s foremost Experts in Enterprise Project Portfolio Management™ for project-centric organizations, has been awarded the Project Controls and Reporting Systems (PCRS) RFP by its client, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD), founded in 1928 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, is a regional wholesaler that delivers water to 26- member public agencies – 14 cities, 11 municipal water districts, and one county water authority – which in turn provides water to 19 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties.
MWD is an existing customer of Project Partners, and together the two firms have established a strong working relationship with key stakeholders and internal project management teams. Project Partner’s initial engagement was a successful upgrade of MWD’s Primavera P6 to version 8.1 and installing an OP3 integration solution. Since then, Project Partners has continued to engage MWD as a partner resource, providing strategic consulting assistance for their project-related business needs.
On MAY 4, 2017, MWD issued a public RFP for Project Controls and Reporting Systems (PCRS), and Project Partners submitted it with a winning response. “We credit our solid project success with MWD, customer success references, and the ability to leverage our strategic partnership with Senturus, a leader in Cognos reporting, including a successful completion of a complex Cognos solution roll-out, ” says Tamim Kulaly, Project Partners VP of Primavera Solutions. “Our entire team is thrilled to continue the work with MWD and look forward to providing a successful implementation and upgrade to reduce their time and costs, improve project controls and reporting, and ultimately enable them to better anticipate and meet future business demands.”
The winning scope of engagement includes an upgrade and configuration of the Oracle Primavera P6 application (P6) from Release 6.2.1 to P6 EPPM, the latest release. The conversion and/or creation of approximately 300 in-progress and future project schedules using Metropolitan’s defined templates; the building of a Cognos BI reporting system consisting of a user interface, dashboards, reports, emailed reports, data warehouse, and custom Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) code; installation and configuration of an integration tool to integrate Oracle E-Business Suite’s Project Accounting and Grants Management (PAGM) application with Oracle Primavera P6 (hereinafter the PAGM-P6 integration application); and, other ancillary work as required.
The Project Partners team that worked on the RFP and with MWD management throughout the process to deal close comprised Randy Egger, President/CEO, Tamim Kulaly, VP of Primavera Solutions, and Terri Maginnis, Primavera Practice Director.
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About Project Partners
Project Partners, LLC is a privately held firm headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California, offering consulting services and enterprise software products to project-driven firms. Founded in 1997 by Randy Egger, the former chief architect of Oracle’s Projects Applications, Project Partners has grown to include many talented people, including some of the original Oracle Projects® developers, support specialists, and implementation consultants. Over 400 firms worldwide have selected Project Partners for expert services and products that deliver an enterprise project management solution, increasing productivity and reducing operating costs. We are proud to be an Oracle Certified Partner specializing in Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Primavera applications, an Oracle Certified Education provider, and an Oracle Primavera Authorized Reseller, including Oracle Cloud Financials and Oracle Cloud PPM.
Project Partners has executed global implementations for clients who manage tens of thousands of projects, thousands of users, multiple languages, and currencies. At Project Partners, we are not satisfied until our customers are delighted, and this dedication to joint success has garnered us the highest praise from our clients. We are proud to be widely recognized as The Experts in Enterprise Project Portfolio Management™.
About The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD)
Founded in 1928 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, it is a regional wholesaler that delivers water to 26- member public agencies – 14 cities, 11 municipal water districts, and one county water authority – which in turn provides water to 19 million people in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura counties. Metropolitan is governed by a 38-member board of directors who represent their respective member agencies, ensuring each member agency is part of the governance of Metropolitan.
Contact Information
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Rebecca Portela
Vice President Marketing | Business Development
rportela@projectp.com
