What's New in Primavera 15.2 Webcast

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Discover the Latest Release of Primavera P6 EPPM

Karen Pilla Director, Product Strategy Oracle’s Primavera Product Strategy September 2015


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The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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Program Agenda

Usability and Adoption

Team Member

P6 Professional

Industry Highlights

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Usability & Adoption


Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use

•Global Search and Replace

•Basic HTML5 Activity View

• Import/Export as Scheduled Service

•Filter Improvements

•Display resource usage when assigning resources to tasks

•Usability improvements


• Bulk updates available in P6 Web!

• Search and replace data at the Project, WBS, and Activity level

• Make changes across all projects or a subset of projects

• Search for up to 5 fields

• Replace up to 5 fields in one template

• Review proposed changes and also modify changes before saving

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Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use – Global Search and Replace


• Create templates for re-use

• Modify existing templates

• Copy templates

• Delete templates that are no longer needed

Note: Templates are user specific in version 15 Release 2

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• Select projects to update

• To execute the changes against all projects, use the double arrow to select all

• Only projects that you have security to edit will be displayed

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Select Project, WBS

or Activity

Match Any or All filter criteria

Filter or change up to

5 fields



Choose to include the

update per row

Indication if the project is locked and cannot be

changed

Update the New Value

per row


• Creating an applet free Activity view is a top priority for P6

• Version 15 Release 2 introduces the start of a new Activity View

• “Basic View” is perfect for users who need to add, edit, delete standard activity information

• Existing applet version of Activity View still exists as the “Classic View”

• Access to the Basic and Classic views can be controlled by Administrators and User Preferences

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Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use – Basic HTML5 Activity View




What can you do with the new view? – Add, edit, delete activities

– Update General, Status, Assignment, Predecessor, Successor fields • In Columns and Detail tabs

– Group by WBS

– Customize the columns and bars

How do you gain access to the new view? – Administrators can choose Classic or Basic view (and

default view) in User Interface Views

– Users can modify their own settings in My Preferences

– Basic View is turned off by default

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Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use – Import/Export as Schedule Service

• Import and Export of projects can now be set to run a set intervals

• Specify the location of the file and set import/export options – Import baselines

– Choose projects to export

– Create New/Update existing projects on import

– Select existing Import template


• Filtering now includes the ability to filter using relative or rolling dates – Ex: Early Start within range of Data Date to Data Date + 2 weeks

– Can filter using Project Start, Project Finish, Data Date, Current Date, Current Week, Current Month, Custom Date

• Codes can now be filtered using Contains and Does not contain as criteria – Available in P6 Web and P6 Client

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Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use – Filter Improvements


Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use – Display resource usage when assigning resources to tasks

Select “View Usage” to analyze availability before

assigning resources


• Enhanced Auditing reports via BI Publisher

• Improved Detail Tabs in Activity and EPS View – Save column changes

– Remember expand/collapse state

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Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Ease of Use – Usability Improvements


Oracle’s Primavera Team Member


Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2

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Feature

TM Web iOS Android

Assign yourself to a task P P P

Filter by WBS P P P

Filter by Location P P

Usability and Timesheet Improvements P P

Configure reminders for time entry or activity updates P P

Photo Markup P

Today Widget (all tasks that are due today) P

Directions to Task Location P

Demo Data Mode P


• Allows end user to assign themselves to existing tasks without project manager interaction

• P6 Project Preference controls ability to assign tasks

• User is assigned as a resource

• Newly assigned tasks will appear in Status Update reviews

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Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Assign yourself to a task


• Allows users more flexibility and control over the number of tasks that appear in their My Task view

• From My Tasks view, select a combination of projects, locations, wbs and status to narrow down the tasks

• While onsite, team members can filter their activities based on the task or project location

• Improves efficiency and allows team members to focus on the current tasks

Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Advanced Filters on Tasks – Location, Project, WBS, Status


Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Directions to Task Location

• View list of all the tasks on the map view

• On each task, tap on the distance to get the directions

• Notes: – Tasks must have a

location assigned

– Direction will leverage the Apple Maps


Color code current and overdue timesheets

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Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Timesheets – Color code and Timestamp

Indicate when timesheet was submitted


• Set a reminder to complete your timesheet

• One reminder can be set for:

– 1, 2, or 3 days before timesheet is due

– Day timesheet is due

– 1,2,3 or 3 days after the timesheet is due

• Set specific time for reminder

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Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Configure Timesheet and Task Reminders

Timesheet Reminders

Task Reminders


Display Project ID along with Project Name

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Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Show Project ID


• Crop images to include only relevant information

• Perform markups to highlight details with notes and/or drawing on the images before attaching to a task

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Crop Draw

Annotate the original

image

Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Task Attachments – Photo Markups


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Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Today Widget

Shows all the tasks that are either due or starting today.


• View and experiment with Team Member functionality without connecting to P6

• Application will function as if connected to P6

– Any changes made are not saved or stored

• To access the demo data, select “Proceed to Demo” on the Login page

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Oracle’s Primavera Team Member 15 Release 2 Demo Data Mode


Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional


Oracle’s Primavera P6 EPPM 15 Release 2 Primavera P6 Professional

• 64 bit P6 Professional Application – Can now handle additional Windows System memory

– Improved performance

– Allows for increased scalability when adding memory to the client PC

• Save Spreadsheet/Histogram selections with layout

• Multiple language support

– Moved from ANSI character set to Unicode

– Enables users to work with multiple languages at the same time


Industry Highlights


Highlights for Construction Most impactful new features in P6 15 Release 2 Release

• “Global Change on the web”

Global Search and Replace

• By Location – Mobile users can easily find their tasks based on proximity on job site.

• Photo Markup Team Member

• 64 bit P6 Professional Application Performance

• Import/Export as Schedule Service Import/Export

• Filtering now includes the ability to filter using relative or rolling dates Filtering


Highlights for Maintenance and Turnaround Most impactful new features in P6 15 Release 2 Release

• “Global Change on web”


• Display resource usage when assigning resources to tasks

• Save Spreadsheet/Histogram selections with layout Resources

• Assign yourself to a task

• Photo Markup Team Member

• Filtering now includes the ability to filter using relative or rolling dates Filtering

• 64 bit P6 Professional Application Performance


Highlights for Manufacturing Most impactful new features in P6 15 Release 2 Release

• “Global Change on web”


• Display resource usage when assigning resources to tasks Resources

• Filter by WBS – Ability to manage Work Packages that are modeled into WBS Team Member

• Basic HTML5 Activity View Gantt Chart


Highlights for New Product Development Most impactful new features in P6 15 Release 2 Release

• Usability and Timesheet Enhancements

• Configure Timesheet Reminders Timesheets

• Display resource usage when assigning resources to tasks Resources

• Basic HTML5 Activity View Gantt Chart



Safe Harbor Statement

The preceding is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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