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What’s New in Primavera P6 EPPM Release 8.1 May 19, 2011
Brian Saldutti
Oracle Primavera Product Strategy

2. Agenda
• Refreshed User Interface
• Resource Management
• Project Management
• Risk Management
• Portfolio Management
• Administration
• Technologies
• P6 Professional
• Mobile
• Reporting
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3. Refreshed User Interface
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4. 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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5. Refreshed User Interface
Detailed pages modernized
and simplified
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6. Refreshed User Interface
• Control Center Performance
• UI Scalability
Buttons always appear
when page scrolls to
improve usability
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7. Resource Management
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8. Resource Management
Dates and duration fields available
for viewing and updating in
Resource Assignments tab
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9. Resource Management
Filter options available when
assigning resources including
currently opened projects
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10. Resource Management
Assign resources to multiple
assignments at once and
search for best fit
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11. Resource Management
Run Check Resource
Overallocation to identify
resource constraints that may
impact the project
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12. Resource Management
Automatic notification appears
when service is completed
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13. Resource Management
See resource overallocation in
week increments
Take action to fix the
overallocation
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14. Project Management
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15. Project Management
New fields available in
EPS View –
Last Scheduled Date
Last Leveled Date
Last Apply Actuals Date
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16. Project Management
Define Gantt bars
based on User Defined
Fields (UDFs)
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17. Project Management
Risk adjusted
schedule views to
reflect Risk Analysis
data
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18. Risk Management
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19. Risk Management
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Organize categories in a
hierarchy for risk
breakdown structure
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20. Risk Management
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Copy and paste risks
within a single
project or across
multiple projects
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21. Risk Management
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Relative thresholds support for
use across multiple projects
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22. Risk Management
Additional fields to better
track and analyze risks
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23. Risk Management
Risk exposure and score
available at the project
level for analysis
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24. Portfolio Management
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25. Portfolio Management
• Drill into WBS UDFs
Drill down to view
and edit WBS UDF’s
via the Dashboard
and Portfolios
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26. Administration
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27. Project Scheduled Services
Specify a rolling date
when configuring
project services
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28. Scheduled Services Status
Standardized log files for
all services including
translation support
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29. User Sessions
Administrators can reset
sessions for users who
have been locked out.
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30. Technologies
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31. Technologies
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
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32. P6 Professional
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33. P6 EPPM Optional Client & P6 Professional 8.1
P6 EPPM – P6 Professional –
Includes: P6 Web and Optional Client Supports: stand alone and work groups
Stand alone or
Offline mode for P6 EPPM
End Users using
P6 Web client
End Users
using P6
Professional
with local End Users using
database P6 Professional
Local P6
PMDB
Import/Export
P6 PMDB P6 PMDB
End Users using
End Users using P6 End Users using
P6 Professional
Optional Client P6 Professional
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34. Mobile
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35. Mobile – iPhone App
Update time spent ,
Star favorite tasks
time left & dates
View assigned
tasks by project
Graphical indicator
of health/status
Email comments and
photos related to a task
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36. Mobile – Email Updates
Email changes to
update P6 project
Filter list of tasks
Send email to View assigned
request tasks tasks by project
Easily mark a Update time spent ,
task complete time left & dates
Receive confirmation
message for updates
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37. Reporting
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38. 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
Benefits
• Improved performance
• Near real-time reporting
• ODS an optional component for BI Reporting
• SQL Server support
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39. Reporting
P6 EPPM 8.1 P6 Analytics 1.x
OBIEE+/SE-1
Oracle BI Publisher
P6 Catalog
Near Real-Time Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards
Transactional Operational
Reporting Reporting
P6 Metadata
P6 PMDB Oracle BI Answers
Static
Extension Tables and Views Operational
Reporting
Analytical
Reporting
Project Activity Star
Project History Star
ODS
ETL Resource Assignment Star
Periodic Extract,
Resource Utilization Star
Transform & Load
Process
P6 Data Warehouse
P6 Reporting Database 2.x
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40. Reporting
Project options to
enable publication
and set priority
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41. For more information please visit:
www.oracle.com/primavera