New Discussion Paper from Oracle: Delivering Success in Public Infrastructure Projects – And Saving $260 Million, Too.

A new paper from Oracle provides a compelling portrait of the quantifiable benefits delivered by Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, especially for public infrastructure or civil engineering projects.

“Research from the Project Management Institute (PMI) suggests that performance in meeting project goals, timelines, and budgets creates a financial impact of staggering proportions. Organizations with high performance in these three measures risk only US$20 million per US$1 billion spent, while their less successful peers jeopardize US$280 million for the same US$1 billion spent.”

New Report from Oracle: Connecting the Dots – Extracting Value From Your Portfolio Data

Mike Sicilia, SVP and GM of the Oracle Primavera Global Business Unit, and the rest of the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Board met to discuss and assess the quality of project portfolio performance information available to executives.

“Quality is, of course, the key value in this pursuit because no organization suffers for a lack of information quantity,” Mr Sicilia said. “Rather, the emphasis is on providing focus and aligning the insights generated with the values and measures most directly connected to the decision-making process.”

This publication distills the findings of the EPPM Board on the following topics.

• Identifying and removing obstacles to the flow of information
• Prioritizing the right data – gaining valuable insights from the vast pool of information now available
• The move from project management to project leadership
• Creating a culture of openness that allows a single version of the truth to be visible to all

What’s New in Primavera Unifier 10.1

The latest release of Unifier contains several significant new features that can benefit your organization. Out-of-the-box integration between Primavera P6 and Unifier via the Primavera Gateway is now available. This means you can now have one integrated solution that marries P6’s unsurpassed top-down planning and scheduling with Unifier’s bottom-up cost management for a complete picture of your project operations. International capabilities have also been added to empower firms that prefer to use software in a language other than English. 

Learn About The Newest Primavera Products – Free of Charge

The Oracle Primavera team has expanded its product offerings substantially, and, as usual, Project Partners is one of the first firms to obtain hands-on experience with the new applications. We share our expertise via several new On-Demand webinars to view at your convenience.

The Benefits of Oracle Instantis For E-Business Suite Projects Users

You use E-Business Suite Projects to manage the financial performance of your projects. Now it’s time to learn how to benefit from Oracle Instantis Enterprise Track in the cloud or on-premises. Whether you are managing IT, new product development, or process improvement projects, Instantis can manage the whole project lifecycle across your entire organization. Even better, Project Partners delivers integration between Oracle Instantis and Oracle E-Business Suite to quickly have you live with an enterprise project management solution that manages your projects’ finances, planning, and delivery – from Idea to Closeout. Attend this webinar to learn more about Instantis and see how to start quickly and easily with this new integrated solution.

Uncover Valuable Insights and Quickly Take Action With Primavera P6 Analytics and BI Publisher

Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics is a packaged business intelligence solution that provides valuable insights into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management performance so you can uncover trends, discover the root cause of issues, and forecast costs, helping you to drive efficiencies and make better decisions about your projects.

Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics enables you to:

• Uncover deep insights into projects as well as complete history and trends over time
• Quickly identify potential performance issues
• Take effective action to correct problems throughout the project lifecycle
• Ultimately, make better project portfolio decisions

This webinar shows how reporting is done in the P6 Analytics user interface, which you can use in your instance immediately.

Primavera Unifier for Capital Projects Management

Primavera Unifier provides solutions for capital project and portfolio management, facilities management, and real estate portfolio management. Learn about its intuitive user interface with a powerful yet easy-to-use Workflow Engine, which can be tailored to your business to increase adoption, minimize training, and deliver rapid time to value. Whether employing prebuilt templates out of the box or building new configurations from scratch, Primavera Unifier delivers the best combination of ease of use and flexibility— no matter how large or small your deployment.

Learn About the New Primavera Gateway

Oracle recently introduced the Primavera Gateway, enabling clients to integrate their P6 Platform into any ERP or legacy application. Primavera Gateway is JAVA-based and application-agnostic. Its use of graphical mapping between P6 and third-party products enables clients to fully integrate their systems and be able to control their Project Financial information and schedules in an integrated manner rather than in silos. 

Want to Integrate Primavera With Your Other Applications? We’ve Got You Covered

Project Partners offers Oracle-validated integration for Primavera applications. Whether you want integration with Oracle E-Business Suite, Instantis EnterpriseTrack, or Primavera Unifier, we offer that – out of the box – via our OP3 products.

New Infographic: Six Critical Success Factors for Business-Driven PMO Success

This infographic summarizes the six critical success factors for PMO success. When you’ve got these right, you’ll sleep well at night. View the infographic.