About Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (P6 EPPM) is a
robust and easy-to-use integrated solution for globally prioritizing, planning,
managing, and executing projects, programs, and portfolios. It optimizes
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 complexity 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.
Thousands of companies rely on P6 EPPM to:
- Plan, schedule, and manage the right strategic mix of
projects - Make informed project, cost, and resource management
decisions - Enhance team collaboration and workflow productivity
- Maximize each project contributor‘s skills and
responsibilities - Track progress and optimize capacity for maximum
profitability - Deliver programs and projects on time and within budget
- Share data with human capital, financial management, and
enterprise resource planning systems
Actual deployments require a variety of databases, servers, applications,
and supporting technologies. P6 EPPM also integrates with many other optional
solutions such as Primavera Contract Management, Oracle Primavera Prime,
Primavera Unifier, Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis, Oracle PPM, and Primavera
Earned Value Management.
Working with the Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM
Suite
Depending on your organization‘s
specific deployment, P6 EPPM generally consists of the applications, functions,
and databases depicted below.
Applications:
P6: Most users will rely almost
exclusively on the P6 web application running in a standard web browser. Simply
termed P6, it is the primary interface for administering and managing projects.
P6 mobile: Allows team members to
provide status on their tasks and to enter timesheets while working "on
the go".
P6 Team Member Web: This web
interface allows team members to provide status on their tasks and record time
in timesheets using a web browser.
P6 Team Member E-mail Statusing
Service: This method allows team members to provide status on their tasks using
any HTML or plain text e-mail application.
P6 Professional for EPPM: The P6
web application is the main interface for all project management functionality.
You can also use the P6 Professional software to take advantage of its core
project planning and scheduling functionality. The P6 Professional application
and its features, including P6 Visualizer, run on Microsoft Windows. P6
Professional is also available for users who need to work on their projects in
an offline mode.
P6 Professional Cloud Connect:
Connects P6 Professional to an EPPM Oracle database on the cloud. P6
Integration API (in remote mode) is installed by default. Using this, P6 EPPM
users working on a WAN environment can achieve performance levels comparable to
compression server installation. This is optional for on premises users.
P6 Integration API: A Java-based
application programming interface (API) enabling your P6 EPPM deployment to
interface with other components and systems.
P6 EPPM Web Services : P6 EPPM Web Services is an integration
technology that extends P6 business objects and functionality. Based on open
standards including SOAP, XML and WSDL, P6 EPPM Web Services enables developers
to leverage standard interfaces to create integrated software solutions that
interoperate with a wide variety of enterprise software applications running on
a diversity of hardware and operating system platforms.
Primavera Gateway: Primavera
Gateway is a highly configurable application that integrates P6 EPPM with other
products for increased risk and scope management.
Functionality (included with P6 EPPM):
Core Enterprise Functionality:
Use P6 for all of the following core enterprise functionality:
- Administration
and Enterprise Data: Administer user accounts, preferences, views, application
settings, and enterprise data. - Project,
Portfolio, and Resource Management: P6 provides an extensive array of features
designed to optimize all phases of Project Management, Resource Management, and
Portfolio Management. It includes full support for activities, work breakdown
structures, planning and scheduling, costs, resource administration and
assignment, roles, teams, portfolio analysis, capacity planning, Return on
Investment (ROI), and convenient dashboards for measuring performance at every
level at any moment. - Documents:
P6 includes document management support with or without the optional document
repository option. Use the optional document collaboration features to conduct
document reviews with key stakeholders to keep projects moving or meet
regulatory compliance. - Workflows:
The workflow engine bundled with P6 EPPM provides Business Process Modeling
Notation (BPMN) compliant graphical notation that depicts the steps in your
project initiation workflows. Use the integrated Workflows portlet to
coordinate the sequence of tasks that flow between different process
participants in a series of stages. - Reports:
Generate and view reports using your standard web browser running P6. Reports
can be generated and routed via e-mail, saved to a shared or local file, or
printed to a traditional printer.
Planning and Scheduling: The P6
Professional component of the suite can be used standalone or connected to an
EPPM database. It provides a robust set of features primarily for planners and
schedulers, including Reflection Projects and a report designer. Use the P6
Visualizer feature to create and customize visual depictions of complex project
schedule information, including Gantt charts with Grid data, Timescaled Logic
Diagrams, and Schedule Comparison. Some functionality of P6 Professional is
available only when connected to an EPPM database.
Time Reporting: P6 EPPM includes
timesheet entry in P6 Team Member Web, P6 for Android, and P6 for iOS with
review and approval support in P6.
Integrated Solutions:
Build or deploy other systems and use the P6 Integration API, P6 EPPM Web
Services, or Primavera Gateway to integrate them with P6 EPPM. Integrate Risk
and Scope functionality from Oracle Primavera Prime with P6 EPPM via Primavera
Gateway. Leverage P6 EPPM‘s project planning and scheduling system against Primavera
Unifier‘s cost control system via integration with Primavera Gateway.
Technology:
The P6 EPPM Database: The main
database for all your P6 EPPM data. The EPPM database includes the P6 Extended
Schema optimized for reporting.
BPM Workflow: The separate
workflow engine bundled with P6 EPPM.
Oracle BI Publisher: The
reporting tool that reports on the data that is exposed in the database
reporting views.
The Content Repository: Use an
Oracle content repository or any CMIS-compliant repository to host documents in
a shared repository enabling collaborative functionality such as document
check-in/check-out and versioning.
Related Topics
About Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise
Project Portfolio Management
For More Information
Where to Get Documentation
Complete documentation libraries
for P6 EPPM releases are available on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/primavera-093289.html
From this location you can either
view libraries online or download them to have local copies. We recommend
viewing them from OTN to ensure you always access the latest versions, including
critical corrections and enhancements.
The documentation assumes a
standard setup of the product, with full access rights to all features and
functions.
Help System Access
P6 EPPM is configured to access
its help systems on OTN. However, downloadable versions of the help systems are
also available on OTN if you need to download, deploy, and access a local copy.
Documentation Accessibility
For information about Oracle‘s
commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.
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Where to Get Training
To access comprehensive training
for all Primavera products, go to:
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provides online learning content covering Primavera products. Content includes
whitepapers, videos, tutorials, articles, demos, step-by-step instructions to
accomplish specific tasks, and self-paced interactive learning modules.
To access the learning library’s
Primavera content, go to:
http://www.oracle.com/oll/primavera
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If you have a question about
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with information in the documentation or help, clickhttp://support.oracle.com.
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Using Primavera‘s Support Resource Centers
Primavera’s Support Resource
Center provides links to important support and product
information. Primavera‘s Product Information Centers (PICs) organize
documents found on My Oracle Support (MOS), providing quick access to product
and version specific information such as important knowledge documents, Release
Value Propositions, and Oracle University training. PICs also offer
documentation on Lifetime Management, from planning to installs, upgrades, and
maintenance.
Visit https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1486951.1 to access links to all of the current
PICs.
PICs also provide access to:
- § § Education via
a list of available Primavera product trainings through Oracle University. The
Oracle Advisor Webcast program brings interactive expertise straight to the
desktop using Oracle Web Conferencing technology. This capability brings you
and Oracle experts together to access information about support services,
products, technologies, best practices, and more.
Creating a Service Request
P6 EPPM integrates with different
Oracle applications; when you create a Service Request, be sure to open the
request with the proper Support team. To ensure you reach the proper Support
team, enter the correct product information when you create the Service
Request. Each product has its own support line.
- Use
the § Use
one of the following support lines when you are having installation or
configuration issues that do not relate to P6 EPPM. - Oracle WebLogic Server
- Oracle Database Server
- BI Publisher
- BPM
- Oracle WebCenter Content Core
Capabilities (formerly Universal Content Management) - Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Oracle Access Manager
- Oracle AutoVue
Keeping Your Software Up to Date
To ensure you have the latest
versions of your products, be sure to download and install all available patch
sets from http://support.oracle.com.
Finding Security-related Patches
To get the latest information
about Critical Patch Updates, visit http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alerts-086861.html.