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The following presentation is from the Oracle Webcast “What’s New in P6 EPPM Release 8.1.”

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What’s New in Primavera P6 EPPM Release 8.1 May 19, 2011

Brian Saldutti Oracle Primavera Product Strategy

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Agenda

• 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

Icons replaced with text for easier readability

Main navigation moved to tabs to easily

identify where you are

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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

• x

Organize categories in a hierarchy for risk

breakdown structure

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Risk Management

• x

Copy and paste risks within a single

project or across multiple projects

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Risk Management

• x

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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New platforms• 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

Technologies

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P6 Professional

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P6 Professional –

Supports: stand alone and work groupsP6 EPPM –

Includes: P6 Web and Optional Client

P6 PMDB

End Users using P6 Optional Client

End Users using P6 Web client

P6 PMDB

End Users using P6 Professional

End Users using P6 Professional

End Users using P6 Professional

Import/Export

Stand alone or Offline mode for P6 EPPM

End Users using P6

Professional with local database

Local P6 PMDB

P6 EPPM Optional Client & P6 Professional 8.1

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Mobile

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Mobile – iPhone App

Email comments and photos related to a task

View assigned tasks by project

Update time spent , time left & dates

Graphical indicator of health/status

Star favorite tasks

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Mobile – Email Updates

Filter list of tasks

Send email to request tasks

View assigned tasks by project

Update time spent , time left & dates

Easily mark a task complete

Email changes to update P6 project

Receive confirmation message for updates

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Reporting

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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

Benefits• Improved performance• Near real-time reporting• ODS an optional component for BI Reporting• SQL Server support

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Reporting

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P6 Reporting Database 2.xP6 Data Warehouse

P6 Analytics 1.xP6 EPPM 8.1

P6 PMDB

Resource Utilization Star

Resource Assignment Star

Project History Star

Project Activity Star

OBIEE+/SE-1

Oracle BI Answers

P6 Metadata

Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards

P6 CatalogOracle BI Publisher

Near Real-Time Operational Reporting

Transactional Reporting

StaticOperational Reporting

Analytical Reporting

ODSETLPeriodic Extract,

Transform & Load Process

Extension Tables and Views

Reporting

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Reporting

Project options to enable publication

and set priority

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