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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

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Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management

Overview of this book

In 2008 Oracle acquired Primavera Software, Inc., a leading provider of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solutions for project-intensive industries.Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) solution comprising role-specific functionality to satisfy each team member's needs, responsibilities, and skills. It provides a single solution for managing projects of any size, adapts to various levels of complexities within a project, and intelligently scales to meet the needs of various roles, functions, or skill levels in your organization and on your project team.Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management aims to show you all the features and functionality of the software thoroughly and clearly.With Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management, readers will master the core concepts of Primavera P6 and the new features associated with version 8.This book is divided into two sections, in the first section we learn the fundamental concepts behind managing projects which include organizing projects, adding activities and relationships, assigning roles and resources, scheduling a project, and much more. In the second section we cover portfolio management and how to make the best use of the web client that includes working with portfolios, portfolio analysis, portfolio capacity planning, ROI, tracking performance, and lots more.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


You have now seen the myriad ways in which you can get reports in both P6 Professional and in the Web Client. In P6 Professional the options include screen printing and using the built-in report tools. In the web client, the main reporting tool is BI Publisher. Both systems come with a number of reports that should serve many of your common needs. You can use the reports to share information with your team as you successfully plan and execute your projects.

While BI Publisher is a powerful tool, its just the tip of the iceberg, one part of a larger application called Oracle Business Intelligence, Enterprise Edition, or OBIEE. This large application is a framework of tools and technologies for creating data warehouses, transforming and storing data, and generating a wide variety of reports for a range of devices, including mobile. There is a specific implementation of OBIEE dedicated to reporting on P6, which is called P6 Analytics. This is sold separately from P6, and serves to grant far greater reporting capability than is found in P6 itself (which is saying quite alot!). Using P6 Analytics, users can drill down into the data and create sophisticated ad-hoc reports. A full discussion of P6 Analytics is beyond the scope of this book, but we invite interested readers to learn more online.