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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

Spreadsheet = silo


Spreadsheets are very much a tool used in a siloed approach to management. Each spreadsheet user is his own silo and the spreadsheet is just another tool witin that silo. The only way to get information from one silo to the next is for the requestor to ask for the information and the spreadsheet creator to take a snapshot of the spreadsheet (typically PDF), and give it to him. This information is good for a very short time frame if he gets it in a timely matter. As soon as the creator creates that PDF or snapshot of the spreadsheet, there are two documents with the same information. As soon as the creator continues to manipulate the information on the spreadsheet, the PDF is outdated and potentially quite wrong; two copies of the truth, which really is not the truth.

Another scenario is when the creator decides to e-mail his creation to multiple parties for review. The filename might look like the following:

my_perfect_creation_for_review.xxx

He sends it to five people...