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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

Accountability


The biggest issue with spreadsheets is the lack of accountability. As stated previously, one of the reasons that spreadsheets are so popular is "I can make it look exactly the way I want." As a manager, that phrase would scare the daylights out of me. Managers should not want a report where the creator has manipulated the data to say whatever he wants it to say. The argument is always brought up that you can lock down cells so this won't happen. Well, if you can lock down cells, you can also unlock those cells. You can save it as a new file and then have full access to the file. The controller of the spreadsheet is the king of that spreadsheet and can manipulate anything he wants. Why force the spreadsheet to do things that other tools are much better suited? Think about all the modules in PCM and then create a spreadsheet for each one with all the locks and programming you would need and then try to link all these spreadsheets together; you see the picture. A spreadsheet...