Primavera Analytics What’s New in Release 15.2

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Primavera Analytics What’s New in Release 15.2

Doug Larkin Primavera Product Strategy


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Agenda

1. Overview

2. New Features

3. Tested Configuration Updates

4. Wrap-up and Q&A


15.2 The Newest Release of Oracle’s Primavera Analytics


Gain Deeper Understanding of Project Costs and Schedules

• Deeper Primavera P6 schedule insight with support for notebook topics and UDF trending history.

• Expanded Primavera Unifier cost and business process insight including: – workflow efficiency and assignee performance

– P6 Summary Sheet cost and performance data

– Deeper project and business process understanding

• Combined Primavera P6 and Primavera Unifier insight leveraging conformed (shared) dimensions. Cost and Schedule data together!

Key Benefits with Oracle’s Primavera Analytics 15.2


Pre-Built Analytic Data Warehouse 1. • Business Analytics Data Warehouse • Over 20 star schemas • Optimized for analysis and reporting

2.

Sample Dashboards Best Practice Metrics 3. 4. • Hundreds of metrics • Additional pre-defined calculations • Based on best practices

• Pre-mapped integration from Primavera P6 and Unifier

• Role-based Security

• 30+ Dashboards and Pages • Over 350 Analyses • Additional Asset-Intensive Use Cases

Certified Application Integration

Primavera Analytics: End-to-End Business Intelligence Solution for EPPM


New Features


Greater schedule visibility into your Primavera P6 data

• View notebook topics directly in Primavera Analytics to quickly understand additional key information related to dashboards and analyses

• Analyze historical changes to user-defined fields to look for key trends in your projects, activities, and resources

Key Benefits with 15.2


Notebook Topics

• View Notebook Topic details directly in Primavera Analytics

• Support for Project, EPS, WBS and Activity Notebook Topics

• The following fields are now available: – Notebook Topic Name

– Notebook Text

– Update User

– Update Date

– Create User

– Create Date

Deeper insight into Primavera P6


Activity-Level Notebook Topic Name and Notebook Text

Notebook Topics


Perform Historical Trend Analysis on UDFs

• Gain valuable insight into history and trends based on your business information captured in user-defined fields

• New historical subject areas supporting the following cost, integer, and number UDFs: – Activity

– Project

– Resource

– Resource Assignment

– WBS

• For Project, WBS, Activity and Resource Assignment, UDF History is based on P6 History Interval setting (e.g., monthly, weekly, daily)

• For Resource UDF, history is always captured weekly (if project history enabled in P6)

Deeper insight into Primavera P6


Analyze UDF changes over time to understand project, activity, resource and WBS trends

Historical Trends on User-Defined Metrics


Broader cost and BP visibility into Primavera Unifier

• Look at Business Process workflows to and gain insight into duration analysis, assignee activity and participation, and on-time/late metrics

• Extend the power of Unifier’s P6 Summary Sheets by using Primavera Analytics to aggregate across projects and portfolios, by Cost Breakdown Structure, or to compare current schedules with baseline data

• Gain deeper understanding of your Projects and Business Processes with the support for 150 custom fields (Unifier data elements)

• Automatic association of change order to vendor

Key Benefits with Primavera Analytics 15.2


Business Process Workflow Analytics

• Gain insight into workflow productivity to find issues or bottlenecks

• Compare planned and actual durations to determine how well business processes are planned and executed

• Quickly see which workflows are late and the details behind them

• Understand who’s participating in workflows and who’s not

Broader visibility into Primavera Unifier


Click on the record number or title to jump to details. Late Workflows


Completed Workflows by Project by Month


Task Assignee Response Rates

• Who’s participating in workflows?

• Who’s always late in responding?


New BP Workflow Samples

• Past Due Workflows

• Completed Workflows by Month

• Steps Past Due by Project

• Planned vs. Actual Workflow Duration

• Revisited Workflow Steps

• Top 10 Open Workflows by Duration

• Completed Tasks by Month

• Task Assignee Details

New Business Process Dashboard “Workflow” Page


P6 Summary Sheet Analytics

• Analyze P6 Summary Sheet data for greater understanding of cost performance by project hierarchy and cost breakdown structure

• Support for same duration, cost, and resource-based schedules as in Unifier. Resource-based schedules include costs calculated in Unifier based on resource rates.

• Drill down to daily metrics by resource (same as Unifier role), summarized by CBS

• Compare the current project summary sheet to any baseline to measure deltas and understand changes

• To see out-of-the-box samples, go to the Resource Analysis dashboard > Cost Summary tab



Cost Summary by CBS Filter by Resource (identical to Unifier Role)


Current vs. Baseline Comparisons


Expanded Insight for Project Shells and Business Processes

• Support for 150 data elements on project shells and business processes to provider broader understanding and deeper analysis capabilities

• Customers choose which data elements to map into Primavera Analytics

• New Fields:


Text Dimensions

Date Dimensions

Numeric Facts

Totals

BP Records 30 20 20 70

BP Line Items 20 10 10 40

Project Shells 20 10 10 40

Totals 70 40 40 150


Customer-Configured BP Data Elements


Vendor and BP Records

• With 15.2, change orders and other vendor-associated BPs are automatically associated to the related vendor ID.

• Analyze vendor data and trends across any relevant business processes



Supporting Conformed Dimensions with P6 and Unifier

• Compare schedule data from P6 and cost data from Unifier in the same analysis or dashboard by leveraging conformed dimensions

• Support for conformed dimensions including Project ID, Project Name, Portfolio, and more

• New ‘About: Primavera Analytics’ Sample Dashboard with links to Conformed Examples

Cost and Schedule Business Intelligence


Create Single Analyses with Primavera P6 and Unifier Data


About: Primavera Analytics Dashboard

Understand, configure, and navigate the sample Oracle Primavera Analytics sample catalog and sample data warehouse database.

The dashboard contains the following pages:

– Subject Areas: view all Subject Areas available with Primavera Analytics

– Dashboards: view how analyses are stored in the Primavera Analytics sample catalog

– Codes: understand how Project, Activity, and Resource Codes are configured in the sample catalog and sample data warehouse

– UDFs: see how UDFs are configured in the sample catalog and sample data warehouse

– Combining Subject Areas: understand how to create analyses using multiple Subject Areas and conforming dimensions

Provides Overview of Sample Catalog as well as Combining Subject Areas


Newest Unifier Set-Up Options


Unifier Setup

• Company Admin > Analytics

• New set-up screens for BP and Project Shell data elements

• Select P6 Summary Sheet data sources


Tested Configuration and Release Updates


Certification Changes from 15.2

• Supported Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Versions – 11.1.1.7.140527+

– 11.1.1.9

• Oracle’s Primavera Data Warehouse 15.2 released in parallel: – Includes ETL process and star schemas to populate data from P6 and Unifier

– Provides the required star schema for Primavera Analytics (and is included with Primavera Analytics through a restricted use license)

– Also available as a stand-alone product for support with 3rd-party BI tools (available on-premise only)


Primavera Data Warehouse 15.2

Primavera Analytics 15.2

P6 EPPM 15.2

Primavera Analytics & Data Warehouse Data Flow

OBIEE+

Oracle BI Answers

P6 and Unifier Metadata

Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards

Primavera Analytics Catalog

ETL

Periodic Extract, Transform & Load Process

P6 PMDB Extension Tables and Views

Stars populated from Unifier DB

Stars populated from P6 PMDB

Unifier 15.2

Unifier DB Staging Tables for Analytics


Primavera Analytics Information

Primavera Analytics overview: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/primavera/p6-

analytics/overview/index.html

Additional resources: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/primavera/p6-

analytics/resources/index.html

Product documentation: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/default-1555811.html

Primavera Analytics blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/P6Analytics/

Useful links on the web……

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/primavera/p6-analytics/overview/index.html



http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/primavera/p6-analytics/resources/index.html



http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/default-1555811.html



https://blogs.oracle.com/P6Analytics/

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