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Oracle Primavera Reporting & Analytics for an international

Project Engineering & Manufacturing Company

Juergen Stobinski – Primavera Pre-Sales

Stefan Sack – Primavera Sales

Customer Status reg. P6

• 10,000 Employees, German, but international acting Industrial

Manufacturing Company, Project Engineering Focus

• Customer uses Web-Version of P6 v7 on Microsoft SQL Server

Database

– ~ 2000 Users in various departments (Engineering, Sales and Marketing,

Manufacturing, ...)

• ~ 20 Users of P6 Client

• ~ 2000 Users in P6 Web-User Interface

• Upgrade to 8.1 planned, main reason is to get better Resource

Management Functionality

Customer Status reg. Reporting

• Client Report Editor used in P6 v7

– Limited functionality on Tables, Graphs, ...

– Template Creator complicated and time-consuming to use

– Reports created come up in different Format in Word, Excel, etc.

• PMO project reporting is too manual, with too long lead time– Managers are trained to look into P6 Web User-Interface to inform

themselves, but don’t really do it - PMO still needs to create Reports for

Management

– PMO gets lots of Questions around provided Reports and needs to create

additional ones

– High time spent by each PM on administrative responsibilities

• Need ways to improve the project reporting function across the

business

Agenda

• Primavera Reporting Overview

• High Level Solution Overview of BI Publisher

• High Level Solution Overview of P6 Analytics

• Questions & Answers

P6 AnalyticsInformation Discovery

P6 EPPM BI PublisherInformation Sharing

Primavera Reporting OverviewKey Functional Differences

1. Highly formatted, pixel perfect reports and forms

(launched from P6 EPPM Web-Version)

2. Static content with optional run time parameters

3. Near real-time data reporting

4. Publish reports in a variety of formats, distribute via

email and on a scheduled basis

5. Off-line report authoring using MS Word, Adobe or

web-based BIP layout editor

1. Customizable dashboards that can pull from multiple

data sources (centralized platform)

2. Dynamic filtering, drilldown and pivoting of data (with

drilldown into P6 EPPM Web-Version)

3. Data (P6 Reporting DB) refreshed periodically

4. Analyze project trends over time, root cause analysis,

alerts and manage by exception

5. Create new “reports” on the fly using BI Answers

High Level Solution Overview of BI PublisherWhat is BI Publisher?

A professional application for creating, customizing, formatting and distributing reports of project data to help enterprises make better business decisions

P6 on Oracle

DB

P6 on MS

SQL DB

DEMO

of

BI Publisher with P6

High Level Solution Overview of BI PublisherDemo parts of BI Publisher

Part I: End-User View of Project Status Reports

Part II: Format Change towards Customer

Logo and more Data in Report

P6

Primavera P6 Reporting Database is the basis for Primavera P6 Analytics, turning mass amounts of data into insights.

Link back to Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management from the Oracle BI EE Plus Reporting Portal to view and update projects and portfolios.

High Level Solution Overview of P6 AnalyticsTurn Insight & Foresight into Action

AnalyzingDrill down, exception reports, root-

cause analysis, multidimensional

analysis

ReportingDetailed operational data

Sharing standardized reports

MonitoringDashboards, scorecards and alerts

Ad-hoc Analysis

Ad-hoc Analysis with P6 AnalyticsEasy Creation of new Reports

DEMO

of

P6 Analytics

High Level Solution Overview of P6 AnalyticsDemo parts of P6 Analytics

Part I: End-User View of P6 Analytics with Drill-

Down

Part II: Ad-Hoc Analysis

Part III: Reports for Resource Mgmt., also

in .PPT Format for Management

Customer’s Feedback

• BI Publisher

– Tables, Graphs, advanced formatting

– Template Creation very easy in Microsoft Word with plug-in

– Easy Access of P6 Data

– Reports easily available for anyone in P6 Web User Interface

• P6 Analytics– Managers do look at P6 Analytics, because it is self-explaining and made

for that

– Management can get questions answered themselves (drill-down, but with

User Security of P6)

– PMO can create ad-hoc reports and provide it

– PMO can setup effective .PPT distribution process

– Less time spent by each PM on administrative responsibilities

• Technically, how do I get the data out of the P6

Database?

• What do I need to install now?

– how does that technically fit together?

– different Deployment Options?

P6 R8.1 Reporting and BI ArchitectureDiscussion

P6 Reporting Database

P6 Data Warehouse

P6 AnalyticsP6 EPPM 8.1

P6 PMDB

Resource Utilization Star

Resource Assignment Star

Project History Star

Project Activity Star

OBI

Oracle BI Answers

P6 Metadata

Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards

P6 CatalogOracle BI Publisher

Near Real-Time Operational Reporting

Transactional Reporting

Analytical Reporting

ODSETL

Periodic Extract, Transform & Load Process

Extension Tables and Views

Easier Option