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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

Typical silo approach


The concept of a silo is a walled container where all the information for that particular process is nicely stored together, which is great if you are working in the silo, but making access to that information for other departments difficult. Each process or department has its own container or silo. If one silo needs information from another silo, someone must go to that silo and see if the owner of the information is available or if he is willing to give that information. The siloed approach has been around for a long time with the manager of the silo keeping their fiefdoms, or should we say "silo-doms", to themselves and only releasing information to others if they see fit or when they are ready.

What's wrong with this approach

Prior to the advent of the personal computer, there were mainframe computers that stored important company information. These mainframe computers used terminals to access them. There was no storage on the terminals, just an access point to the...