Primavera Unifier for Document Management & Collaboration

Having the most current documents readily available to all project participants is critical to driving efficiency and reducing errors and omissions on projects. A robust audit trail of document changes reduces tension across project participants, decreases the risk of change orders and claims, and helps drive on-schedule and on-budget performance.

The Document Manager is part of Unifier’s secure, web-based architecture, allowing superior local or worldwide collaboration between project team members or across the organization. The system ensures that all members of your team are always working on the most current versions, and dramatically increases efficiencies by providing ready access to all documents from anywhere at any time.

Contract Management

Unifier’s Contract Management solution addresses the unique challenges of capital construction. Purpose-built for the industry, it eliminates manual processes and has been proven to significantly streamline contract and change management procedures. Unifier helps you manage all of your contracts regardless of type, from simple material procurement to complex con- struction contracts. It captures all relevant contract details and supports subsequent processes for change management to put you in control. Invoicing can range anywhere from simplified line item billing to complex payment applications that track percent completion, retainage, stored materials and more. And with Unifier’s Custom Print capabilities, you can even design and generate contract documents or invoices in which you can easily merge transaction details with organizational branding, terms and conditions or any other boiler plate information. With full vendor management capabilities, and unique functionality such as easy access and visibility of all related business process records, Unifier is a robust, intuitive and complete contract management solution.

The system uses a flexible folder structure to support the requirements of any type of project, and is governed by a detailed set of permissions that can be applied to entire folders or individual documents. Its embedded file viewer supports hundreds of file types, allowing viewing, edit- ing, storage, commenting, as well as powerful redline and markup capabilities, of virtually any type of document or drawing. In addition to basic features that you would expect from an enterprise document manager — check-in/check-out, lock/unlock, revision control, detailed audit logs, shortcuts to commonly used files and folders, robust reporting capabilities — Unifier’s Document Manager also includes many advanced features, including tight integration with Unifier’s market-leading business process and workflow engine, automatic storage of business process attachments into specific folders, email alerts, control of file access by project phase, drawing reference file management, and more.

Primavera Unifier for Cash Flow Management

Cash flow management is important for maintaining the financial integrity of a project. Project managers and executives rely on accurate, comprehensive reporting and analysis of transactions and the ability to reliably forecast trends and risks. Spreadsheets are often the tool of choice for cash flow management, but are fraught with errors and data integrity issues, as well as many other limitations.

Unifier’s advanced Cash Flow engine allows you to baseline budgets, track actual costs, and calculate reliable forecasts. Cash flow data is displayed both graphically as cash flow curves and in worksheet form for complete analysis.

Prerequisites

This document explains how to configure your computer for use with Primavera Unifier and Designer. You may need to have Administrator privileges on the local machine before you can install certain plug-ins. Always review this information with your IT department.

About Configuring Your System for Primavera Unifier

Primavera Unifier runs in an Internet Explorer browser window. This document outlines the settings within Internet Explorer that need to be configured in order for Primavera Unifier to run successfully. This setup must be performed for each computer on which you will be running Primavera Unifier. In addition, this document helps you to log on and get started using Primavera Unifier for the first time.

For the full list of system requirements and versions, see the Configuration Information document under “Installation and Configuration Documentation” in the Primavera Unifier 9.12 Online Documentation Library.

Contacting Customer Support

If you have a question about using Oracle products that you or your network administrator cannot resolve with information in the documentation or help, go to:

http://support.oracle.com

This page provides the latest information on contacting Oracle Global Customer Support, knowledge articles, and the support renewals process.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/support/contact-068555.html or visit http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/accessibility/support/index.html if you are hearing impaired.

Configuring the IE Browser

This section discusses how to setup Internet Explorer on your computer for use with Unifier. These settings are required in order for Unifier to run properly.

When you have finished configuring the computer, log out of Unifier and close the browser completely in order for the new settings to take effect.

Verify Internet Explorer Version

Unifier supports Internet Explorer version 7, 8 and 9.

To verify your Internet Explorer version

Open Internet Explorer.

From the browser menu bar, click Help and choose About Internet Explorer.

Verify your browser version.

If you do not have a supported version of Internet Explorer installed, contact your company administrator.

Note: If the menu bar is not displayed, right-click in an empty portion of the toolbar and select Menu Bar.

Internet Explorer Settings

Internet Explorer setup is performed in the Internet Options window. The following procedures describe the settings for the Internet Options window.

To access the Internet Explorer Internet Options window

Open the Internet Explorer browser window.

Click the Tools menu and select Internet Options. The Internet Options window opens.

Configure General Internet Options

This section discusses the settings in the General tab of the Internet Options window.

Temporary Internet File Settings

When you open a web page, a copy of it is stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder on your hard drive. This increases the speed at which previously viewed pages are displayed.

In the procedures below, the first setting enables Internet Explorer to always check a website for the latest version of previously visited pages that may still remain in the Temporary Files folder. This ensures that the latest content is viewed if a previously stored page has been updated.

Primavera Real Estate Management World-Class Real Estate Management

Primavera Real Estate Management provides comprehensive tools for planning, tracking, and managing your real estate portfolio. Make strategic decisions effectively and accurately for leased and owned properties. Rules and compliance requirements are kept up to date for easy lease management. Primavera Real Estate Management is part of the integrated Primavera Unifier offering.

Overview of primavera real estate management-a world class approach:

  • Comprehensive management and tracking of leased and owned properties across an entire real estate portfolio
  • Support for landlord and tenant lease types to allow tracking of expenses and income separately
  • Automated tracking of costs and expenses by department, space, or payees
  • Create and track lease payments automatically and roll up information to each facility’s cost worksheet or across your real estate portfolio
  • Manage critical dates and allow Unifier to notify you of upcoming lease dates that require your attention
  • Utilize flexible workflows to route, review, and approve common real estate transactions such as site selection and acquisition, dispositions, new lease initiation, subleasing, lease termination, and more

Features and benefits include:

  • Lease management
    • Flexible, configurable lease management capabilities to support tenant and landlord lease types
    • Automate payment requests and tracking of costs and expenses, associate lease payments with designated cost codes, and roll up to the facility’s cost worksheet
    • Track lease payment terms, contacts, key dates, clauses, tenant improvement allowances, security deposits, and more
    • Straight line rent calculation
    • Automate notifications and alerts for critical dates
    • Ability to support rent roll reports for a single property or across the portfolio

·         Document management

    • Leverage a robust audit trail of document changes to reduce tension across team members
    • The system ensures that all members of your team are always working on the most current document versions

·         Portfolio management

    • Set up and manage portfolio by region, property, site, or any other structure that suites your business organizational hierarchy
    • Full visibility into all real estate information across the entire portfolio with drill-down capabilities
    • Real-time portfolio data through visual dashboards help track performance against business objectives
    • Single, integrated, real estate and facility lifecycle management solution lets you view, compare, and report information for a single property or across your entire real estate portfolio—all in real time

·         Transaction management

    • Initiate and track strategic transactions, such as site/property acquisitions, dispositions, lease initiations and renewals, subleasing, terminations, and more
    • Automate management of scope, tasks, and deadlines through Primavera Unifier’s business process workflows
    • Complex transactions can be configured to handle scope, schedules, costs, documents, and related due diligence processes
    • Ability to configure the solution for tracking other real estate transactions, such as commission tracking processes and reporting

Conclusive discussion:

Use portfolio property KPI’S and dash boards for quality management

Set up and manage complex lease agreements for both tenant and land lord

Track property taxes and other fixed costs

Consolidate all costs and payments for lease and property

View portfolio profile and metrics by portfolio heirarchy

Oracle’s Primavera Facility Management

World-Class Facility Management

Primavera Facility Management provides a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use solution to plan, manage, and maintain smooth operation of your facilities. From defining and tracking building spaces to performing facility inspections, the flexible toolset adapts easily to customer-specific needs.

  • Create service requests using an easy-to-use web portal interface and route requests directly to the appropriate personnel
  • Generate work orders to inspect, maintain, and correct issues for smooth operation of your facilities
  • Schedule automatic preventive maintenance work orders through timed- or metered-based scheduling
  • Roll up maintenance work related costs to a central cost sheet, and view detailed costs per transaction across a facility or portfolio of facilities
  • Visualize occupancy and room availability of a facility or building by floor or level
  • Inspect and assess your facility and gain visibility on the conditions of your building systems to compute the FCI index

Features and benefits:

   Document management

Leverage a robust audit trail of document changes to ensure team members have the most current set of facility documents, floor plans, and as-built drawings

Take advantage of Primavera Unifier’s Document Manager tight integration with market-leading business process and workflow engine to streamline changes

Use automatic storage of business-process attachments into specific folders and email alerts, and control file access by project phase, auto reference file management, and more

·         Facility condition assessment

    • Support for routine inspection and assessment of the condition of each building system. Collect, analyze, and report on the condition of the entire facility
    • Assess deferred maintenance work and estimated deficiencies, current replacement value, and capital renewal costs
    • Support for Uniformity II cost modeling using Primavera Unifier’s configurable FCA Manager sheet
    • Provide total estimated deficiencies and deferred maintenance work to support decision makers in annual budgeting and maintenance project planning

Space management:

  • Flexible and configurable solution to create, classify, and organize building floors and spaces by types, including usable spaces, common spaces, vertical penetrations, gross exterior measured areas, or any other customer-specific space classification
  • Leverage the configurable space definition capabilities to extend space attributes beyond the basic ones, including space name, size/area, location, types, vacancy status, usage, etc
  • Track space standard compliances, room availability, and occupancy rates in a single building, property, region, or across the entire portfolio
  • Provide a visual representation of an entire facility or building, broken down by floor or level, and show how space is being used and assigned
  • Simplify employee or asset moves by leveraging flexible workflow with task assignments, due dates, and space/room selection. Generate move tickets for detailed move tasks, labor, and material needed to manage the process

Maintenance management

    • Support for corrective, predictive, and preventive maintenance
    • Support for an easy-to-use service request submission via a portal interface
    • Configurable automated processes to generate preventive maintenance work orders at the appropriate time, based on a schedule or meter readings
    • Support for PM books, job plans, meter readings, job sequencing, invoices, and payments
    • Basic material and parts inventory, material orders and receipts, material moves, material adjustments, and more

SAAS And Hosting

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This blog covers the essentials of SAAS and it’s need for hosting. Software as a service covers a vast span of software management. SAAS gives you a platform that turns great concepts into software as a service. SAAS hosting delivers the infrastructure and piece of mind that your applications and customers deserve. When it comes to software as a service websites and applications the main keys are the hosting architecture and the support behind it. They play an important role in how your applications perform online. Performance alone can differentiate your app from the existing apps , because your customer online experience determine greatly your product’s success. Whether you are a seasoned SAAS provider or an independent software vendor (ISV) making an important move towards the internet distribution model, down time, latency and non responsive technical support are non- negotiable. They are SAAS killers.

Because some of our largest customers started as small SAAS ventures, we have focused on understanding the architecture and support needs of the industry we work for. Focusing on finding smarter, more reliable and faster method for delivering apps.

But when talking about SAAS hosting by PSGINC, we provide, supply and setup the hardware. You load and configure your speciality, your application. A typical hosted SAAS solution consists of dedicated or virtual servers running your custom application which users access via the web.

Some SAAS solutions are websites and some of them are desktop applications. 240

The features and benefits include:

Our fast fibre network: our fully owned 6 data centres, which are fully equipped and 19 points of presence are connected by our 10 gbps network which is monitored relentlessly by experts in out network operations centre. It’s not only smart but it’s fast as well. The most important thing it do is proactively re routing traffic to avoid the latencies, slow loading of pages required and most importantly down time that will eventually plague your competitors application.

Smooth performance scaling: the most important factors are the ability to scale a SAAS environment, which is a key requirement for any SAAS provider. And therefore affecting it’s hosting partner. Our hosting offers a full suite of performance services to make scaling easy and as painless plus unobtrusive as possible form any CAST DNS to global load balancing.

Flexible storage options: with the success of SAAS comes growth, which calls for more complex storage strategies and solutions. We offer various on site, off site and even mixed options. So that you just have to determine your recovery point, recovery time and criticality of your existing data storage and strategy solutions.

Data centre SAAS hosting benefits:

The benefits of hosting SAAS at your data centres has been discussed in this blog, now we will gave a quick review on them.

1. Low start-up costs since we provide the hardware

2. 100 % uptime for Internet connectivity via multiple blended Internet providers

3. Expandable bandwidth, which can be increased as needed.

4. Backup UPS clusters with backup generators for 100 % power guarantee

5. Root access via RDP for windows along with KVM over IP for dedicated environments.

6. On site staff which is available 24-7 , unlike most offices . Someone is always available to touch the server.

What We Provide

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PSGINCS provides certified project management consulting, training and scheduling jobs for better output in delivering and optimising tasks. It also plays an important role in implementation while delivering the best implementation services. As our tagline tells what we intend to deliver “accelerating time to value”, the words explains it all. We provide consulting and customer engagement services, because the fact that the involvement of the customer results in more accurate and precise performance delivery is a thing that should always be believed and valued. As an Oracle specialised primavera partner, maximising  our delivery to performance is our first priority. As an oracle specialised Primavera P6 partner, PSGINC supports the entire primavera oracle application suite of product ,in addition to providing professional services. We have a team of industry veterans which comprises of consultants, implementation specialists ,solution architects project managers and schedulers which are thought to be recognised leaders in portfolio and project management industry.

Here the question arises, why PSGINC? The answer to this is adding value to your project and how this can be made possible. PSGINC chooses the best  practices whether they  project fits in any of the domains,  ranging from IT to construction, the PSGINC make sure to use the best practices at hand.

The services thus delivered are beyond expectations, our main aim to deliver  success to our clients. PSGINC  understands the importance of selecting the compatible partner for the success of your project. the success depends highly on the frequency on which your partner thinks as well  as the benefits he need to gain from the project, need to be same as yours. PSGINC supports the entire business and technology life cycle. From strategic planning to PMO development, quality assurance , implementation and post production support. when it comes to commitment to success, our commitment to success maximises the client’s existing skills and automatically lowers your cost of ownership of Oracle’s primavera P6.

The modern enterprises face tough competitions as well as complex enterprise and management systems thus requiring the efficient delivery and maintenance of resources.

Therefore on one hand they must  obtain real time data about project operation, and on the other gain insight into their own competitive advantages.

Know with confidence that you are making informed business decisions that will be a positive blow to your business strategic and productive development. Response time and efficient services are critical to every situation , and they all should go hand in hand for best performance deliveries. Providing timely and effective delivery of PMO. Planning and co ordination of resources are all the basis on which the success of a project stands.

Alignment between company strategy, execution and results is highly essential to maintain the work flow of project. By serving all vertical markets we tend to  assure the best delivery of services and deployment of tools at their best.

Our success is predicated to the integrity of solutions  we deliver. We first assess the current situation of your organisation and what you desire to make it in future.

 

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

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When we think about the term process improvement, the first thing that comes to our mind is improve the overall organizational use. The use of what, yes, precisely, the software the success of your project needs the primavera software. When we talk about the improvement in process, we are talking about the organizational use, its benefits and the rate of the success of primavera software. The abundance in functionality in primavera oracle software unlocking and correctly using these capabilities is the key feature in maintaining the successful implementation. When it comes to consultancy, our consultants have a vast experience in all functional aspects in the oracle primavera oracle suite. The expertise of our consultants is all you need to make your project a success and a big hit in your domain. Our consultants can work through the system of your business process to ensure that the functional capabilities that we provide are leveraged in a cost effective manner and to provide benefit to the user specific to accuracy, time saving, reporting and ease of use.

The expertise covers areas such as:

Demonstration:

The oracle primavera manuals are good but sometimes there is no substitute for seeing the tool in action. Our consultants have demonstrated virtually every component of oracle primavera to audiences. The audience may range from senior managers to technical team members.

Process design:

To achieve an automated workflow that guides users through standard business procedures and processes. Oracle primavera provides the mechanism to send actions to individuals in order to complete the steps, which have been identified previously. Escalation and reminder conditions can also be placed into the process in order to prevent bottlenecks. When data changes process can react to the data change allowing steps to be executed in an automated way. This fashion is opted to notify and ultimately rectify. PSGINC have designed process to aid in the compliance of many requirements (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley) to automate time approvals to facilitate conditional time approvals in order to facilitate conditional time approvals, define risk management processes, and outline project and program creation.

Financial structure maintenance:

When we talk about financial capabilities, they might appear to be complex when it comes to oracle primavera software. The complexity can be in term of settings that need to be made, the classifications that need to define, matrices, bill cycles , charge backs etc. PSGINC consultants can work with your finance department to identify and install the financial attributes required to achieve a streamlined project and the accounting process of that project. The most important point is that our experienced staff can maintain or build a link between your finance system and oracle primavera to provide transparency into all your portfolio investments.

Security structure:

The security functionality within primavera allow for multiple levels of granularity.

It is further classified into more parts:

Instance based: it defines the part where the user has a specific right to an instance of an object e.g. an individual project.

OBS based: allowing on the organizational structure.

NEW FEATURES IN PRIMAVERA P6 PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT VERSION 15.1

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Primavera p6 has always promised its customers to deliver the best. Solutions that is tangible to the problem as well delivering the value to your business. Primavera P6 has introduced latest features for its customers. The version is 15.1. This version enhances the skills to bring out the best from your project.

The important features in the content are:

  1. Usability
  2. Import and export  baselines of projects  in XML format
  3. Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database
  4. Separate module excess for P6 professional and visualizer
  5. UN/ CEFACT improvements
  6. Unifier integration
  7. Visualizer
  8. Import and export visualizer layouts

New usability feature include:

1.              Import and export baselines of projects in XML format

2.              Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database

3.              Separate module excess for P6 professional and visualizer

Import and export baseline of project in XML format:

The ability to include baselines when importing or exporting a project in primavera XML format has been added to the new version 1.1. Previously you needed to restore a baseline to a project in order to import or export it. In P6 professional 15.1 baseline information is included in the XML file.

A new field, exists, is included in the baselines to import dialogue box. The purpose is to notify you if an imported baseline already exists in the project being updated.

To access this feature:

On the file menu, click import or export.

Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database:

Several features have been re enabled in P6 professional version 15.1 when connected to an EPPM database. In previous versions, these features were disabled with the expectation that they would be administered in the p6 application.

The following features have been re enabled in P6 professional when connected to an EPPM database

  • EPS
  • OBS
  • PROJECT CODES
  • ACTIVITY STEP TEMPLATES
  • COST ACCOUNTS
  • FUNDING RESOURCES

These features continue to be available for P6 professional instances that are connected to professional databases or installed in standalone mode.

Separate module access for P6 professional and visualizer:

A new module, visualizer, has been added to the module access section of the user access page in this new version 15.1. The difference is that in previous versions, access to visualizer was included with the P6 professional module access. This new features enables project managers to allow separate access to both the applications. This is useful if for example , a user tasked with creating Gantt chart or time scaled logic diagram reports in visualizer might not require        access to P6 professional. Conversely some users may be given p6 professional access but not the privilege to work in visualizer.

To access this feature:

Open p6 professional or visualizer. Access will vary depending upon the module privileges granted in p6 web.

UN/CEFACT IMPROVEMENTS:

This new version of p6 provides additional support for UN/CEFACT XML format 6, which defines and contains integrated master schedule (IMS) data. The existing UN/CEFACT XML support has been enhanced to support all the fields in the D09b version of the XML schema.

MOBILE APPLICATIONS BY PSGINC

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Organizations worldwide always want to reach their customers and employs on time. It is the need of the hour that the stakeholders and the people working on the project should be in contact if they want to get the best of the results. Smart phones help organizations help interact with the customers instantly. which not only help build an friendly environment  but give the ease of interaction between the two parties . Custom mobile applications boost the functions and performances of the smart phones. In today’s era of rapidly changing technological needs one must opt the technology best for its business success. Prescient solutions group inc provide customer centric mobile applications that are developed under the expertise of the employees at PSGCINC.

The mobile applications are for all or various platforms. our applications are widely used in GPS , social networking , group sites , aggregator , mapping , gaming applications , payment gateway and project collaboration, etc.

PSGINC team has sound experience and expertise in developing highly interactive mobile applications. These interactive applications are developed by skilled developers using the latest operation systems which are highly user friendly.

The other important factor of these operating systems is that they are functional. that means their functionality allow the developer to build the best application required . We create value added mobile applications as per the need of the time and the customer .

Providing mobile application softwares for the following platforms :

  1. iphone/ipad
  2. android
  3. windows
  4. blackberry
  5. cross platforms.

We also give services for developing applications like business applications for asset tracking, air ticket booking , GPRS road map, vendor applications, 3D game applications , social applications etc. our experienced and dedicated team will surely meet your needs with fast turn around time in a cost effective manner. psginc mobile application developers are well versed in all kinds of technologies , latest and ever changing, they know how to deal with the constantly changing needs of the technology market.

By making your web applications accessible on different leading platforms, you can attract and retain more customers thus increasing and maximizing your profit. we are field expert in developing the cross platform mobile applications that will suit to different platforms . usage of cross platforms reduces the technical barriers with less time to develop the application.

We provide application development across all the industry verticals . we take extreme care to design the applications with best user interface that allows the user to access the content intuitively . you will find our application development highly inventive and creative with best logics and design.

Our games can make you addictive whether they are 3D or not. You would love it whether you are a game freak or not. and people would surely title you with ” nigga be a game freak”. Our mobile application development will be worth while for your investment providing the maximum ROI. Maximum profit can be gained.

There is no limit in the range or variety of applications that we can provide. Our developers will employee unique features and capabilities . You will find prescient solutions group experienced team employs organized processes as well as proven methodologies .

Manufacturing

Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM for new product development:

Menufacturing

In this era, the understood fact is that the key to gain profit and increase profitability is innovation. to bring about revolution in everything you do. to introduce the latest in your industry and be the leading innovators in what you manufacture. those companies which are considered to be successful and are believed to be the innovators gain 43 % of the profit from the products launched from the past five years. an amazing ratio of 65 % of these products meet sales objective and over 67 % meet their profit objective. but the most important fact is that top innovators see their new products sell at 2.5 % times more and they achieve new and greater product investments on their products.

We believe that don’t waste valuable resources on things that don’t matter.

Drive down the operations costs : save time, standardize  and focus on resources. According to the sector’s necessities , we promote a manufacturing solution that was produced in light of it’s numerous particularities and which permits the viable planning and control of the whole protection and production cycle , integrating production , organization and logistics. fields and advertising the flow of data between the distinctive parts of the organization. get the best benefit from the prescient solutions group’s experience and relentless attention to delivering solution that meet the demands facing your organization’s needs. don’t struggle with slow decision making due to lack of information . let PSGinc let you serve as your go to technology partner , constantly anticipating and researching the trends to ensure your business and technology needs would be met.

PSGinc would work their best to eliminate the challenges and risks your business face and helps your receive the tangible return on what and how you invest.

The manufacturing sector is a constantly changing sector that needs a full support of a strong administration system which not only make it conceivable to optimize quality standards and costs thus fulfilling business responsibilities but also the one which will support in characterizing the industrial strategy plus management control.

Here the important factors which should be kept in mind while focusing on what separates  high  performance innovators from the rest ?

1. A strong commitment to delivering innovation and clear alignment of business plus innovation strategy.

2. A customer focused idea to launch process with rigorous go/kill decision gates.

3. Systematic portfolio management , with portfolios that contain high value believing projects.

4. Excellent project execution and highly efficient allocation of resources across all stages of the product from ideas to launch.

Our manufacturing solutions permits the organizations to manage the different phases of production process ( from the factory floor until the client takes delivery ) and likewise assist the whole  management process by making accessible fundamental input to the decision making methods.

The solution offer various useful  functions that structure the exact core of the production process , for example , the technical details about each item , traceability of articles , factory routines , daily work log , calculation requirements and the management of tools and molds around others.

Partner

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