Oracle Primavera is the leading Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) solution for project-intensive industries. It offers best-in-class capabilities focused on mission critical PPM requirements of industries like engineering & construction, discrete and process manufacturing, public administration, financial services and others. Oracle Primavera enables enterprise agility, team productivity, portfolio predictability and overall project management efficiency. The result is the ability to drive down costs, minimize risk and deliver results to key stakeholders.
Primavera software was established in 1983 by Joel Koppleman and Dick Faris in Philedalphia, USA. Primavera have been the defacto project management software used by over 75,000 companies worldwide to successfully manage project, programmes and portfolios. To help expand its product capabilities, Primavera acquired Eagle Ray Software Systems in 1999, Evolve Technologies (a professional services automation vendor) in 2003, ProSight (an IT portfolio management software vendor) in 2006, and in the same year, Pertmaster (a project risk management software vendor).
Primavera core strength has been always project scheduling but with the evolution in project management practice over the years, Primavera have successfully transformed its core functionality from scheduling tool used by planners to full a blown project portfolio management solution used by the entire project team and executives.
In 2008, Oracle announced it was acquiring Primavera, turning it into the Primavera Global Business Unit (PGBU). With the acquisition by Oracle Primavera software have gone through in many enhancements and currently Oracle Primavera is the leader in Project Portfolio Management market segment.
In Malaysia major iconic projects like KLCC, KLIA, Putrajaya, Cyberjaya, LRT was successfully delivered using Primavera solution. Apart from construction industry, Primavera have been deployed in oil & gas industry in Malaysia by Petronas as preferred solution to manage capital projects and maintenance/shutdown projects.
In a recent survey and analysis conducted by Economist Intelligence Unit sponsored by Oracle on 213 senior executives and project managers worldwide and in-depth interviews with nine executives and project management experts in various industry vertical the following is the outcome of the survey.
| Critical factors to be considered before implementing Oracle Primavera solution. Oracle Primavera offers unmatched flexibility and power to successfully help organizations to deliver projects on time and budget thus saving companies cost, increase productivity and deliver quality projects. Read more… |
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Oracle Primavera Unifier Project Controls is a highly flexible, configurable and adaptable platform that enables organizations to drive out inefficiencies and unnecessary cost of Projects, Programs and Portfolios throughout the Project life cycle. Oracle’s Primavera Unifier Project Controls is a powerful, easy to use solution for managing project portfolios, controlling costs and managing collaboration and communications across projects. The portfolio management provides planners and project execution personnel a common platform for the collaborative management of project portfolios to ensure the most efficient use of capital funds. Cost management provides automation, flexibility, and the power to handle the most complex cost control, cash flow, and fund analyses. Project collaboration provides configurable business workflow to capture and record all aspects of documentation required during project execution. Unifier is entirely web-based and user-friendly. The application integrates critical business processes, information and documents and has a configurable user interface. The use of templates with Unifier provide you an optimal user experience with which returns can be realized on both the short and the long term. Primavera Unifier Project Controls can be easily integrated with Primavera P6, Oracle EBS, SAP and other applications.Primavera Unifier Project Controls have the following functionality but clients can build custom business process based on individual requirements.
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- Evaluate and select optimal project schedule scenarios, including performing “what-if” analysis.
- Create role-based capacity plans based on project resource demands
- Optimize roles and resources to maximize ROI.
- Easily communicate project plan changes.
- Robust tools make it easy to plan and manage multiple projects at the same time—and ensure optimal use of resources.
- Evaluate and select optimal project schedule scenarios, including performing “what-if” analysis.
- Create role-based capacity plans based on project resource demands.
- Optimize roles and resources to maximize ROI.
- Easily communicate project plan changes.
Oracle Primavera Lean Boost efficiency, visibility, and control in Lean construction processes. Define, coordinate, and manage tasks with digital planning boards. Monitor performance and integrate with the CPM master schedule. 
Streamline Lean construction task management and improve project team coordination and delivery.- Collaboratively define tasks, determine due dates and commit to completion plans
- Easily visualize and revise plans using a color-coded digital planning board
- Coordinate Lean tasks using mobile devices, web interface, and collaborative meetings
- Automatically generate and capture key performance metrics, including planned percent complete (PPC)
- Identify trends that limit team productivity
- Integrate with the master schedule to improve visibility for all stakeholders, enhance project data management, and make better decisions.
- Analyse project portfolio activity, status, and success metrics
- Easily compare key project information and KPIs with robust dashboards
- Share performance improvement results with across stakeholders
- Gain faster agreement on project budgets with real-time collaboration
- Gain full visibility to evaluate portfolio health and performance throughout the project lifecycle.
- Analyse project portfolio activity, status, and success metrics
- Easily compare key project information and KPIs with robust dashboards
- Share performance improvement results with across stakeholders
- Gain faster agreement on project budgets with real-time collaboration
The Oracle Primavera Cloud risk register provides a central location for identification, assessment, categorization, and monitoring of all project risk and opportunities.- Track potential risks and opportunities at both project and activity levels
- Manage response plans to determine the best courses of action
- View and analyse risk scores, probabilities, and thresholds for each individual risk or response item
- Incorporate schedule and risk data to produce histogram curves showing expected time and cost outcomes, and the probability of achieving each one
- Include schedule uncertainty to provide greater visibility into potential outcomes
- Analyse mean impact diagrams to determine risks and activities that have the greatest impact on a project’s schedule
Keep construction projects on schedule and on budget.Keep construction projects on schedule and on budget.
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Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics is a packaged business intelligence solution that provides valuable insights into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management project portfolio performance so you can uncover trends discover root cause of issues and forecast costs, helping you to drive efficiencies in your project processes by making better decisions about your projects. Built on top of the Oracle Business Intelligence platform (Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus), Primavera P6 Analytics comes packaged with a new updated version of the Primavera P6 Reporting Database. All of the data loading, data mapping, data models and dashboard reports you will need to start gaining unprecedented visibility into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management projects and portfolios are included. Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics enables you to:Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics is a packaged business intelligence solution that provides valuable insights into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management project portfolio performance so you can uncover trends discover root cause of issues and forecast costs, helping you to drive efficiencies in your project processes by making better decisions about your projects. Built on top of the Oracle Business Intelligence platform (Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus), Primavera P6 Analytics comes packaged with a new updated version of the Primavera P6 Reporting Database. All of the data loading, data mapping, data models and dashboard reports you will need to start gaining unprecedented visibility into your Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management projects and portfolios are included. Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics enables you to:
P6 Analytics Benefits
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Full lifecycle risk analytics solutionFull lifecycle risk analytics solution
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Oracle’s AutoVue solutions are designed to meet all of an organization’s document visualization requirements. They can serve as the window for visualization across all enterprise applications and can even meet the basic viewing needs of individual desktops. By enabling users to view, print, and collaborate on any digital information asset from any system, organizations can achieve true enterprise visualization and ensure the success of their projects.Oracle’s AutoVue solutions are designed to meet all of an organization’s document visualization requirements. They can serve as the window for visualization across all enterprise applications and can even meet the basic viewing needs of individual desktops. By enabling users to view, print, and collaborate on any digital information asset from any system, organizations can achieve true enterprise visualization and ensure the success of their projects. Whether it’s a simple PDF file or a complex CAD drawing, the need to share information is crucial to all industries, particularly product and asset-intensive industries. Enterprise engineering and asset information is typically only accessible by core engineering groups. However, it is required by the rest of an organization to effectively and securely perform operations, such as maintenance and repairs, project planning and execution, and change management. By delivering a framework that enables asset and product information to flow freely throughout the enterprise, AutoVue allows users to capitalize on existing information assets contained within all enterprise systems, vastly improving business processes and workforce productivity. Project-intensive businesses in a variety of industries require solutions, such as Oracle’s Primavera, to effectively plan, manage, and control complex projects and project portfolios. Oracle’s AutoVue enhances Primavera solutions with visualization of engineering, asset, building and contract documents, enabling all stakeholders to view and digitally collaborate on project documents in the appropriate business context, for improved collaboration, decision making, and project execution. |  |
Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk. With Crystal Ball, you can make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most uncertain market conditions.Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk. With Crystal Ball, you can make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most uncertain market conditions. Oracle Crystal Ball solutions begin with Oracle Crystal Ball, the base package for predictive modeling, Monte Carlo simulation and forecasting. Oracle Crystal Ball Enterprise Performance Management builds on that set of tools by adding the power of Oracle Crystal Ball to your Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) applications. Both editions can be enhanced with Oracle Crystal Ball Decision Optimizer, an option for Oracle Crystal Ball that adds the advanced capabilities of optimization and calculation speed to Oracle Crystal Ball’s powerful simulation and forecasting toolset. Finally, for the academic community, Oracle offers the Oracle Crystal Ball Classroom Edition, an affordably priced, fully-functioning version of Oracle Crystal Ball and the Oracle Crystal Ball Decision Optimizer.
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