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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

Return on Investment (ROI)


ROI involves looking at a project and determining whether it will be profitable or not. The information in these screens comes from WBS and project-level information. In the planning stage this calculation can be straightforward. However, once a project is in progress, it is even more crucial to track if the project is trending toward profit or loss.

To see what information goes into the calculations, click on the project's title.

You can edit this information by clicking on Edit Spending and Benefit Plans. This will also allow you to edit the Annual Discount Rate and Discount Application Period.

ROI calculations are valuable when you are planning future work. You can estimate a spending plan to pay for the capital investment, along with a discount rate for that money borrowed to make that investment. You can also create a benefit plan to see how long it will take to make a return on that investment.