Primavera 8

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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio ManagementWhat‟s New in Release 8March 2010

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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• “In this world, nothing is certain but death and

taxes and change” – Benjamin Franklin

Our Changing World

Every Exit

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Enterprise Portfolio GPS

Portfolio Benefits Portfolio Selection

Portfolio Assessment

• Efficiently and

effectively arrive

at your strategic

destination

• Deliver on your

goals

• Identify your

strategic destination

and map to it with

the right

investments

• Continuously evaluate your progress to

your destination

• Make appropriate course corrections

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Enterprise GPS Powered By:

• Easy access to historical data and creating versions

• Faster portfolio analysis with greater visual aids

• Greater enterprise investment portfolio support

• Enhanced data management with dynamic lists

• Expanded data exchange options using the

Primavera Portfolio Management Bridge to P6

• Improved administration saves time and minimizes

end user training reducing the total cost ownership

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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One Click Access to Selecting a Specific Date

New “Data as of”

drop-down

Specific Date

Selected

Shading indicates

past/future data

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One Click Access to Selecting a Specific Version

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Creating Versions

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Smart Trending Analysis

• Graphs enable

comprehensive

analysis by

being:

• Anchored to

a specific

date or

version

• Changed on

the fly by

using dates

or versions

• Viewed by

specific

intervals of

time

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Simplifies managing different types of investments to

deliver global enterprise value

• Specific investment types intelligently paired with the

corresponding portfolio evaluation views

• Optimizes speed and performance as use expands

• Greater analytic support through multiple back-end servers to

distribute the calculation load

• Ties enterprise portfolio analysis together across the

globe

• More Locale settings (date, time and currency) support

• German speaking regions of Switzerland

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Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

Enterprise

Architects

Application

Managers

IT Staff

Sales &Marketing

Managers

Plant

Managers

Product

Managers

Asset

Managers

Reliability

Staff

Developers

CXOs, Strategic Planners,

Governance Staff,

LOB Management

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Selecting Evaluation Views

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Only forms

belonging to

current item‟s

domain (or marked

as „All‟) are listed.

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Selecting Investments

If user select Item

from a different

Domain….

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Intelligently Reconciling Pairings

… form will be

blank. And then

the user may select

from the Form list

based on this

Item‟s domain.

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Defining Evaluation Views by Type of Investment

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Domain for

Forms/Dashboards

defined. “All” is

the default.

Domain for

Items/Portfolios.

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• Scale out using multiple Analytic (Back-End) Servers

Improve Performance of Analytic Calculations

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Additional Locale Setting Support

• Locale and settings may be set for:

• German speaking regions of Switzerland

• German (for Germany)

• French (for Canada and France)

• English (for UK and USA)

• Spanish (for Spain)

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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Speeding Decision Analysis and

Enhancing Collaboration

- Enhanced

visualization

- Improved

collaboration

Smoothes out the

hills and valleys

of progress

delivering faster

and greater

enterprise value

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Enhanced Visual Aids Improves Portfolio

Analysis

• Additional indicator colors

and shapes

• Shortens the time between

analysis and securing

approval

• Tightens indicator thresholds

(up to 7) enabling earlier

signals of issues allowing for

more time to correct

• Offers flexibility through

changing indicator names for

greater organizational context

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Enhanced Visual Aids Improves Portfolio

Analysis

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New indicators are

shown throughout

the product

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Speed Portfolio Analysis by Optimizing the

Display of Analytics in Scorecards

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Specifying Category Values and/or

Indicators to Display in Scorecards

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Unlock Investor Map Power through

Streamlined Access to Analysis Capabilities

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Copy / Paste Data Between Dynamic Lists

and Microsoft Excel

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Trigger Alerts Using Dynamic List Category

Values

• Earlier notification of risks minimizes obstacles to delivering value

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Offers additional options to share relevant data for

better portfolio analysis

• New alternative for managing summarized resource information

at the project level

• Data over time support for cost summarizations at WBS Level 2

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Project - Resource Data Management Options- Example

Resource – Current Option

• Summarized hours based on

Primary Role• OPPM Summarized Planned DBA

hours - 70

• Impacts role availability based on

primary role

Role – New Option• Summarized hours based on

Role• OPPM Summarized Planned

DBA hours – 50

• OPPM Summarized Planned QA

hours – 20

• Impacts role availability based on

specific roles

• Data in P6• Primary Role – DBA

• Planned DBA hours – 50

• Planned QA hours – 20

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Data Over Time Support for Summarizations

at WBS Level 2

P6 – Schedule spans

multiple years

OPPM 8 – Shows

costs by Phase (WBS)

and year

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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Primavera Portfolio Management 8 - Additional Enhancements

• Increased flexibility in product access and management for users and administrators• Inclusion of Type User to create advanced functions

• Secured access to dynamic list “Add, Remove or Edit” buttons to prevent accidental changes

• Easier display of disabled value list values and ability to re-enable them

• Enhancements to Database Clean-up Utility

• Lower cost of ownership• Elimination of Java for Investor Map functionality

• Greater 64-bit support

• Simultaneous install of the core and add-on modules

• New Oracle Primavera Portfolio Management product branding

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Primavera Portfolio Management 8 - High Level Technical Requirements

• Support for five operating system platforms

• Windows Server 2003 32-bit

• Windows Server 2003 64-bit

• Windows Server 2008 32-bit

• Windows Server 2008 64-bit

• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit

• Support for Internet Explorer (IE) 8 and (IE) 7

• Support for Oracle 10.2.0.4

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008

• Support no longer offered for Microsoft SQL Server 2000

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - All for One and One for All

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management 8The Enterprise GPS

• Gives organizations foresight to steer clear of “dips” in the road…

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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management 8The Enterprise GPS

… and drive towards high value portfolio opportunities

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Agenda

• A Better Way to Manage Change

• Charting a Progressive Course to Portfolio Value

• Greater Enterprise Support - One for All and All for One

• Speeding Decision Analysis and Enhancing Collaboration

• Strengthening P6 Integration Connections

• Additional Enhancements and Technical Requirements

• Delivering the Goods

• Questions?

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Oracle‟s Primavera Portfolio Management

What‟s New in Release 8