Description

Primavera P6 Analytics
Gain Greater Insights into Your Portfolio Performance, Project History and Trends.
Oracle’s Primavera P6 Analytics is a packaged business intelligence solution that provides valuable insights into your projects and portfolios in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management so you can uncover trends and identify issues before they escalate, helping you to make better, informed decisions.

Features:
Access pre-built analytics and dashboards based on Oracle Primavera’s PPM best practices
Gain insights into your projects and portfolios with pre-built dashboards
Customize reports and portals to meet your individual business needs
Includes Oracle’s Primavera P6 Reporting Database for Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, providing all your data warehouse needs
Leverage the power of the proven Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) platform including mobile support and geospatial visualization

Benefits:
Industry Best-Practice Analytics
Primavera P6 Analytics is an enterprise-wide business intelligence portal that benefits everyone in your organization by providing transparency into project portfolio performance and a single-source of the truth.

Oracle has collected years of best-practice metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), reports and scorecards from project, program and portfolio managers to create Primavera P6 Analytics. By implementing Primavera P6 Analytics, you will immediately reap the benefits of proven methods of enhanced resource analysis, variance analysis, earned value management, and cost and schedule performance.

With Primavera P6 Analytics, you can leverage the power and flexibility of the Oracle Business Intelligence platform to add your own reports, scorecards and KPIs to the solution beyond the pre-configured set of dashboards you receive. You have full control to modify the default dashboards and can build your own reports.

Root-Cause Analysis
Primavera P6 Analytics provides powerful drill-down capabilities. You can move from a high-level portfolio view to specific projects to uncover the causes of negative project performance. Once you have found the problem, you can drill directly into Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management from the Primavera P6 Analytics dashboard to take corrective action.

Manage By Exception
You will quickly identify which projects are performing well and exceeding expectations, as well as those negatively affecting your portfolios, your budgets, and staffing issues. By focusing on the problem areas, you can direct proper management attention to projects which do not align to strategic objectives, are over-budget or under-performing.

Solution Benefits
Transparency – Primavera P6 Analytics will give your entire organization a single BI solution where published project performance indicators, trends, statistics, graphs, and geospatial maps are available through a self-service portal. With the flexibility of the Oracle BI engine, you can combine your project data from one or more instances of P6 with information from your ERP systems, financial data, or customer data to create a single view of the truth across the enterprise. This provides an increased level of transparency and visibility into your business processes and project performance required to maximize efficiencies and return on investment.

Security and Performance – Primavera P6 Analytics provides business intelligence built on top of the Primavera P6 Reporting Database so that you can easily report from dashboards and run ad-hoc queries, without sacrificing security and performance:

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management detailed project portfolio security is utilized throughout the solution so that non-privileged users do not have visibility into sensitive or confidential information.
Dashboard reports and ad-hoc queries can run against active projects as well as your entire enterprise history of projects without negatively affecting performance on your live systems. The Oracle BI engine performs offline aggregations and summaries of large complex data sets for fast query responses.
Productivity – By using a familiar web-based portal, Primavera P6 Analytics is quick to learn, easy to access and navigate, and requires very little training. Each dashboard report may be printed or saved directly to a number of popular formats including PDF, Microsoft Word®, Microsoft Excel®, Microsoft PowerPoint®, HTML and others.

Actionable BI – You can focus on and directly improve your project performance with early-warning indicators, trending, and forecasting. Primavera P6 Analytics alerts you about problem areas in your projects and allows you to take corrective action to keep your projects on track.

Benefits:

Publish project, portfolio and program performance on your enterprise portal
Provide a single source of truth for project earned value
Personalize your dashboards for all organizational roles from team members to project managers to executives
Analyze early-warning indicators for project and portfolio problem areas
Manage resource efficiencies across your entire enterprise
Easily download any report to any format to use in your project status or portfolio review meetings
Analyze project performance trends over time and utilize to predict future results
Gain insight to project and resource performance on the go with full iPhone and iPad support