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Are Committed Services Successfully Delivered Too?

The services thus delivered are beyond expectations, our main aim to deliver success to our clients. 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. PSGINCS 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 maximizes the client’s existing skills and automatically lowers your cost of ownership of Oracle Primavera P6.

Project Outsourcing: Pros and Cons

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 coordination of resources are the entire 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.

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Primavera P6 Training Classes

As mentioned in our previous articles introductory articles to training

Training is a very essential tool in any kind of resourceful work. If you do not train your employs right.

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There are a number of ways the work can go wrong causing downfall to your organization. The presumed goal of training software project managers is to equip them with the knowledge and competencies that will help them to be successful in different domains regarding the domain of Software project management.

Now we focus on different classes provided by ORACLE for the training of their project managers. Which are discussed in detail as follows:

  1. Primavera P6 PPM fundamentals
  2. Primavera P6 PPM advanced
  3. Primavera P6 EPPM fundamentals
  4. Primavera P6 EPPM advanced
  5. Primavera P6 application administration

 

Main topics covered in Primavera P6 PPM fundamental is as follows:

  • Project Management Life Cycle
  • Understanding P6 Data
  • Creating a Project
  • Establishing Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Adding Activities & Using Activity Views
  • Creating Relationships
  • Project scheduling (CPM)
  • Assigning constraints
  • Using reflection projects
  • Resource and roles
  • Baselines
  • Project reporting

TOPICS included in Primavera P6 PPM advanced are:

  • Creating  Resource teams and roles
  • Managing multiple projects
  • Advanced resource planning
  • Managing and allocation of resource requests
  • Advanced scheduling methods
  • Advanced project reporting

Topics covered in Primavera P6 EPPM fundamental is as follows:

  • What You Will Learn: Defining the Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
  • Describing the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS)
  • Creating a Project
  • Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Activities & Views
  • Relationships
  • Scheduling
  • Constraints
  • Project Workspace
  • Roles Resources
  • Baselining
  • Dashboards & Portfolios
  • Managing Issues & Risk

Primavera P6 EPPM advanced covers the following topics:

  • Creating Resource Teams and Roles
  • Analyzing Portfolio Details
  • Viewing Portfolio Performance
  • High-Level Resource Planning
  • Managing Allocations
  • Staffing Resource Requests
  • Resource Leveling
  • Advanced Scheduling Techniques
  • Reports

Primavera P6 Application Administration includes following classes.

  • Working with Data Structures
  • Working with Enterprise Data
  • Managing Users
  • Resource Administration
  • Global Dashboards & Views
  • Portlets
  • Managing Services
  • Portfolios
  • Application Settings
  • Project Portfolios Routine Maintenance

These courses are of different durations and hold different pre requisites as well. A person interested in opting any one of them need to pick exactly what he requires, which can be found in the vast domains of primavera P6 Training classes. The class leads participants through the entire project life cycle, from planning projects through execution of detailed work. Using a proven approach, our Oracle Certified training is centered on transferring the skills and best practices used by our Primavera consultants to solve your real world project challenges.  PSG’s Primavera training workshops can by request, be delivered in 1/2 day sessions for your convenience at an additional fee.

For registering in any of the above mentioned classes , click on the link below:

http://www.psgincs.com/course-detail-page.php?courseId=6

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How Project Management Training is Important?

Training is a very essential tool in any kind of resourceful work. If you do not train your employees in right way; there are more chances of work go wrong and can cause downfall to your organization. The presumed goal of training software project managers is to equip them with the knowledge and competencies that will help them to be successful in different domains regarding the domain of Software project management.

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These will not guarantee success but make success more likely. Over the years, the notion of success has expanded greatly from simply meeting requirements, delivering on time and not exceeding the budget to include a plethora of other success criteria. In fact, what success is; often changes many times during the project. This and many other facets of software project management frustrate and perplex untrained software project managers since most enter into this role untrained.

This article presents what anecdotal and experimental evidence has shown software project managers need to know that can be conveyed via training programs. Today’s software project manager can also benefit from this information to overcome many of the misperceptions about nearly everything regarding software project management.

The need of the hour is managing adequate issues of software engineering projects that cannot be done without the use of software project management. The importance of adequate management is becoming more apparent with each passing day. Usually in organizations the project managers are not trained at all or are poorly trained. This article examines what we now know is needed to successfully manage software engineering projects and how education can help transfer this information.

Software project management represents a paradox within the software engineering community.

It has been described as being more vital to software project success than all other factors combined, yet there are still no conferences or journals devoted to this topic. In fact, international conferences on software engineering rarely list software project management as a topic in the call for papers topic list. Finally, we are slowly realizing what other knowledge work related professions have known for a long time – project managers are not born, they are made – through education. The problem is that there is no general agreement on what knowledge and skills a software project manager needs in order to be successful. In fact, we have yet to agree on just what success in software engineering is. This article examines what software engineering project managers need to know, what skills they must possess and how these may be acquired through education. The resources cited are not restricted to software engineering alone as there is a lack of research in this subject.

Before we move to the training part we need to know what software project managers actually do. The tasks they carry out are.

According to a very successful and renowned CEO Robert Townsend, the most skillful and capable person in a team should be made a manager. Because of his caliber of carrying out the underlying tasks and managing what needs to be done when.

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Use Of Enterprise Track

oracle use INSTANTIS ENTERPRISE TRACK , The first question that arises is why you need to choose INSTANTIS ENTERPROSE TRACK. The use of this enterprise pack comes when you need to optimize project and resource investments. This helps you improve strategy execution and financial performance with more effective work and resource management. this end to end solution provides a top down approach to managing, tracking and reporting on the enterprise strategies, projects, portfolios, processes, resources and results. it uses what-if scenarios to optimize resource deployment. here we present an overview of the instantis enterprise track, so you have a clear view before choosing the best solutions for your resource deployment plus the above mentioned scenarios and solutions. here’s the overview: – plan and execute project portfolios strategies – manage demand and resource utilization strategies across IT and other project portfolio types. – monitor, report and analyze work and project portfolio activity, status and metrics – deploy quickly and easily the features include: strategy and process management: the benefits of this features includes, drive buisness and IT execution strategy from the top down by defining a portfolio of strategic goals and initiatives the second benefit is related to the feature idea management: capture new project ideas and filter requests by levergaging an online portfolio demand management: this feature is highly feasible when it comes to benefits like streamline and standarize intake capture , workflow, prioiritization resource scoping and approval processing for simple and complex project work demand proposal management: ensure alignment with strategic goals by enforcing a standarize workflow for promoting an idea for a proposal and selecting and approving projects. capacity management:  optimize scenarios with resources which include what-if scenario planning to simulate the impact of shifting , excluding or adjust proposed project plans resource management: enhance resource pool visibility and allocation control by balancing inbound work demand with available reource supply which includes time, staff and budget etc. the next feature is the most valuable of all project management: increase project status visibility and guide project team execution success. knowledge management: it is immportant as it improves project success by levergaging a centralised knowledge base of best practices, documents, tools and templates. financial management: this is very crucial for a projects success and minimising risk factors as it tracks planned versus actual costs with top down and bottom up project budgeting as well as capitalization, expense and charge back accounting. metrics management: track and roll up non-financial performance indicators such as defects , service levels, trouble tickets or any other operational metric of choice. survey management: gather feedback on demand from key internal customers and stakeholders with simple online surveys and polls. dashboards and reports: easily and instantly compose and share project and portfolio level projects which includes dashboards and reports at any phase of the project lifecycle , from ideas to metrics and from metrics to results collaboration: the collaboration involves improve productivity and project team which includes stakeholder communication and collaboration with seamless , fully integrated social networking. integration: it involves integrating with desktop applications , project management tools, enterprise applications and IT service management systems. oracle instantis enterprise track is the leading , cloud enterprise project portfolio management software used IT and project management offices to improve strategy execution and financial performance through better work and resource management. It provides an full service suite for managing , tracking and reporting on enterprise strategies , processes, projects , programs , portfolios , products, resources, costs and benefits. instantis enterprise track is easy to deploy quickly easy to use, easy to administer the tools of project and affordable. It empowers IT and PMO leaders

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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

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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.

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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.

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RISK ANALYSIS

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In any organisation or while working for a project a very important thing to be kept in mind is taking care of the factors that might affect the outcomes or results or the gaining of profit as a whole. The factor that is helpful in taking care of the factors is known as risk management or risk analysis. At PSGINCS the thing that is kept in mind is following the rules, regulations and processes of primavera P6.  When we are coming towards primavera the most important thing to be kept in mind is that the structured setup that is used by primavera P6. Primavera risk analysis is a full lifecycle of risk analysis which gives analytics solution about integrating cost and schedule risk management primavera risk analysis provides a very comprehensive and detailed means of determining the confidence levels which are included in determining the success, which also involves quick and easy techniques for determining contingency and provision for the upcoming events. And make sure to make the best and quick risk response plans.

You will be able to get an objective view of required contingency or provision to account for cost and schedule any uncertainty that you might face at any point during the whole process of carrying out the project. It also involves analyzing the cost effectiveness of risk response plans. When these combined gives us the firm basis of “risk adjusted schedule”.  Which is becoming a norm or a very common thing within the planning and scheduling process.

A thing that should be kept in mind is every project contains risks. It’s natural; the organizations that plan for the risks and take into account the provisions succeed the most. Anticipating, mitigating and providing response and contingency plans for negative events that may or may not occur. Oracle’s primavera risk analysis software at hand provides the tools for handling all the risk related stuff. Enabling the organizations and companies to model risks and analyze the cost while scheduling impacts of mitigating them. During that process, taking much of the uncertainty out of project and portfolio management. Primavera risk analysis helps project driven organizations ensure the mission critical projects come in on any time. It also makes sure that it is inside the budget.

The main features are:

  • Track and manage the qualitative as well as quantitative project risks
  • Besides the risks it may also contain the impacts and responses.
  • Project risk register integrated with project schedule, costs and costs effectiveness.
  • Comprehensive risk analysis graphics as well as reports
  • Use of Monte Carlo simulation to produce risks a report on which contains probability and confidence levels.
  • Analyzes Primavera P6, primavera P3 , PRIMAVERA sure track as well as Microsoft project site.

The benefits that are gained from this are listed as:

  1. Identify common scheduling pitfalls that may result in misleading scheduling or risk analysis results and outcomes.
  2. Integrated pre developed risk registers plus defining new risk registers that may prove beneficial.
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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.

 

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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.

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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.

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