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Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14

By : Stephen Kelly
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Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14

By: Stephen Kelly

Overview of this book

Oracle's Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition is a document management, job cost, and field controls solution that keeps construction projects on schedule and on budget through complete project control. "Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14" explains the concepts behind the core modules and how to use them."Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14" makes this complex application understandable. You will understand the concepts behind the core modules and how to use them. This book starts with some basic introduction to Contract management and then covers the advantages and disadvantages of using a spreadsheet in managing information on a project. The book then covers in detail the concepts involved with how it works from a 30,000 foot view and explains the concept of how Oracle Primavera Contract Management is diametrically opposed to a spreadsheet mentality. The book also covers the aspects of how Oracle Primavera Contract Management manages the money and contractual relationships on a project.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition v14
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
There Is a Better Way
Index

The next step


Time to dive in. Take the information presented here and apply it to your own organization.

As was stated in the beginning, every organization is different and therefore will require some adjustments to the principles presented in these pages. Don't be afraid to play and see how this powerful system can be used to enhance how you perform your business operations. Do not try to eat the whole elephant in one bite. You will need to take a set of a few modules and see how they work for your organization. There are two basic types of modules in PCM, namely the money modules and the document module s. Look to implement one type first and not the whole application at one time; it will most likely fail and you will have unhappy users. That is just too much change in the organization to swallow. Consider implementing one or two modules that are easy to grasp, such as the RFI module. Using this module means you also turn on the Companies module as very little happens in PCM without...