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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

Overview of this book

In 2008 Oracle acquired Primavera Software, Inc., a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries.Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member's needs, responsibilities, and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization and on your project team.Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management aims to show you all the features and functionality of the software thoroughly and clearly.With Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management, readers will master the core concepts of Primavera P6 and the new features associated with version 8.This book is divided into two sections, in the first section we learn the fundamental concepts behind managing projects which include organizing projects, adding activities and relationships, assigning roles and resources, scheduling a project, and much more. In the second section we cover portfolio management and how to make the best use of the web client that includes working with portfolios, portfolio analysis, portfolio capacity planning, ROI, tracking performance, and lots more.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enterprise versus project data


If you come from a background where you work with projects individually, the concept "enterprise" may seem foreign. Simply put, "enterprise" means information that is shared across all projects. For example, people are resources in P6 and resources are defined at the enterprise level. While an individual may work on only one project, they may be assigned to other projects as well. So having them at the enterprise level allows you to allocate people across projects.

Another quite different example of enterprise data is screen layouts. These are customizations of the various screens in P6, such as the view of activities in a Gantt chart. Layouts can be stored and shared globally, so are enterprise data.

Project data, in contrast, is limited to a single project. An activity, for example, belongs to one and only one project. Likewise, project work and reference documents are specific to projects.

However, some data can be stored either at the enterprise level, or...