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What’s New in Primavera P6 EPPM Release 8.1
Brian Saldutti
Oracle Primavera Product Strategy
May 19, 2011
Agenda
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Refreshed User Interface
Resource Management
Project Management
Risk Management
Portfolio Management
Administration
Technologies
P6 Professional
Mobile
Reporting
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Refreshed User Interface
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Refreshed User Interface
Main navigation moved
to tabs to easily
identify where you are
Icons replaced with text for
easier readability
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Refreshed User Interface
Detailed pages modernized
and simplified
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Refreshed User Interface
• Control Center Performance
• UI Scalability
Buttons always appear
when page scrolls to
improve usability
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Resource Management
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Resource Management
Dates and duration fields available
for viewing and updating in
Resource Assignments tab
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Resource Management
Filter options available when
assigning resources including
currently opened projects
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Resource Management
Assign resources to multiple
assignments at once and
search for best fit
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Resource Management
Run Check Resource
Overallocation to identify
resource constraints that may
impact the project
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Resource Management
Automatic notification appears
when service is completed
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Resource Management
See resource overallocation in
week increments
Take action to fix the
overallocation
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Project Management
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Project Management
New fields available in
EPS View –
Last Scheduled Date
Last Leveled Date
Last Apply Actuals Date
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Project Management
Define Gantt bars
based on User Defined
Fields (UDFs)
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Project Management
Risk adjusted
schedule views to
reflect Risk Analysis
data
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Risk Management
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Risk Management
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Organize categories in a
hierarchy for risk
breakdown structure
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Risk Management
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Copy and paste risks
within a single
project or across
multiple projects
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Risk Management
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Relative thresholds support for
use across multiple projects
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Risk Management
Additional fields to better
track and analyze risks
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Risk Management
Risk exposure and score
available at the project
level for analysis
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Portfolio Management
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Portfolio Management
• Drill into WBS UDFs
Drill down to view
and edit WBS UDF’s
via the Dashboard
and Portfolios
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Administration
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Project Scheduled Services
Specify a rolling date
when configuring
project services
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Scheduled Services Status
Standardized log files for
all services including
translation support
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User Sessions
Administrators can reset
sessions for users who
have been locked out.
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Technologies
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Technologies
New platforms
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Google Chrome 9 Browser
Server platform – HP-UX Itanium
Administration – Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
JRE 1.6.0_24+
BI Publisher 11g
UCM 11g
Brazilian Portuguese language support
Additional Tools
• Project integrity checker
• Jackrabbit to UCM migration tool
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P6 Professional
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P6 EPPM Optional Client & P6 Professional 8.1
P6 EPPM –
P6 Professional –
Includes: P6 Web and Optional Client
Supports: stand alone and work groups
End Users using
P6 Web client
Stand alone or
Offline mode for P6 EPPM
Local P6
PMDB
End Users
using P6
Professional
with local
database
Import/Export
P6 PMDB
P6 PMDB
End Users using P6
Optional Client
End Users using
P6 Professional
End Users using
P6 Professional
End Users using
P6 Professional
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Mobile
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Mobile – iPhone App
Star favorite tasks
View assigned
tasks by project
Graphical indicator
of health/status
Update time spent ,
time left & dates
Email comments and
photos related to a task
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Mobile – Email Updates
Email changes to
update P6 project
Filter list of tasks
Send email to
request tasks
Easily mark a
task complete
View assigned
tasks by project
Update time spent ,
time left & dates
Receive confirmation
message for updates
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Reporting
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Reporting
Reporting Changes
• P6 Schema increased to store calculated fields
• Incremental update of projects via trickle process
– Project filter, Manual or Automatic publication
• Global Publishing Services
• BI Publisher 11g support
– Web based report layout editor
– Create reports that combine P6 data with other data sources
• P6 Analytics
– Unlimited number of codes supported
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Improved performance
Near real-time reporting
ODS an optional component for BI Reporting
SQL Server support
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Reporting
P6 Analytics 1.x
P6 EPPM 8.1
Oracle BI Publisher
P6 Catalog
Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards
Near Real-Time
Operational
Reporting
Transactional
Reporting
OBIEE+/SE-1
P6 Metadata
Oracle BI Answers
P6 PMDB
Extension Tables and Views
Static
Operational
Reporting
Analytical
Reporting
Project Activity Star
ETL
Periodic Extract,
Transform & Load
Process
ODS
Project History Star
Resource Assignment Star
Resource Utilization Star
P6 Data Warehouse
P6 Reporting Database 2.x
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Reporting
Project options to
enable publication
and set priority
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For more information please visit:
www.oracle.com/primavera