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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

History


Primavera has known for many years that something had to be done with the PCM product. There are so many things that the community wanted it to do, that the list of enhancement requests was quite long. Many of these requests required major changes to the current core product. They knew that someday they would need to rewrite PCM from the ground up. It is this author's understanding (not verified) that this effort had already begun and would take one to two years to complete with a release of Version 1.0. Primavera had a decision to make; they could continue to develop a new product and wait for one to two years for a release with the anticipated response from the PCM community, or they could go and buy the technology and rebrand it as a Primavera product; they chose the latter. With the purchase of Skire, they claim that Unifier will solve over 70 percent of the current enhancement requests.