Primavera P6 Release 8.0
Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Release 8.0 provides:
- Enhanced customizable workflow
- New project templates
- 100% web based project portfolio management solution for all stakeholders
- Modern open enterprise architecture
- Integrates with Oracle ERP, BPM, BI Publisher, P6 Analytics, UCM, UPK and others
- Improved web-based reporting capabilities
- Risk management within P6
- Mobile support and more!
HOW CAN ORACLE'S PRIMAVERA P6 ENTERPRISE PPM RELEASE 8 HELP YOU?
Ensure alignment of strategy, execution, and results
- Eliminate unnecessary approval/decision delays
- Easily provide realistic status and value reporting to stakeholders and regulatory bodies
- Remove obstacles to efficient decision making and business performance
Easily extend project and portfolio management enterprise-wide
- Ensure availability of people, skills and resources to take on more work
- Customize and scale the applications to meet the needs of the various roles, functions and skill levels involved with the project
- Enable fluid, end-to-end communication for individual insight, team productivity, and project success
Achieve repeatable program and project success
- Reduce the risk of cost and schedule overruns
- Identify major risk factors and the effect of contingencies on costs and timelines
- Easily adjust portfolios and project plans when things change and immediately assess the resource impact
- Optimize management of all resources for maximum ROI
- Quickly identify and deploy the most qualified and available people to project work
- Delivery quality projects and programs with fewer resources
- Create achievable and actionable risk-adjusted, resource optimized plans
NEWS FACTS
- Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8 supports business intelligence and business process management to help assemble portfolios that are aligned with corporate objectives.
- To help organizations improve governance and deliver on their project portfolio investments, Oracle announced Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8 on September 21, 2010 at OpenWorld.
- By providing the extended enterprise with a governance platform that supports strategic portfolio decision-making, Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (PPM) 8 helps companies and organizations align their resources consistently with their priorities.
- Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8 integrates with Oracle|Primavera's P6 Analytics, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE), and Oracle's Unified BPM Suite for automation of business processes for enterprise governance. The new release also integrates with the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.
- Now, as a 100% Web-based PPM solution, Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8 enables faster adoption, global participation and provides a single version of the truth to support decision making. This enables the enterprise to have a comprehensive view of projects of all sizes and complexities to be managed within a single PPM solution.
ENTERPRISE-WIDE PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
- Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8 is a robust, powerful and easy-to-use solution for globally planning, prioritizing, managing and executing projects, portfolios and programs.
- New capabilities within Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8 enable organizations to:
- Leverage application-wide user experience enhancements to increase adoption and deliver complete visibility into projects;
- Align PPM processes with organizational goals and strategies through business process automation, project templates, flexible consumption of PPM data and the consistent application of PPM best practices;
- Provide standardized templates and reporting to ensure consistent performance and forecasting metrics; and
- Reduce risk and increase client and customer satisfaction by consistently achieving project commitments; and
- Optimize resource management through performance and scalability enhancements, expanded event capabilities, and a streamlined architecture that is easier to implement.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
- “To optimize the performance of projects, programs and portfolios, organizations need to ensure that users are able to easily and effectively collaborate and communicate within a single project portfolio management solution,” said Joel Koppelman, senior vice president and general manager of Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit. “With the release of Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management 8, Oracle is helping remove obstacles from effective project and program decision-making and providing the reports and dashboards needed to elevate key metrics to stakeholders. The solution enables companies and organizations to align their strategy with execution and results, improving both governance and business performance.”
- “I am very impressed by Oracle’s Primavera P6 Project Portfolio Management 8. The renewed focus on business process and governance will help organizations streamline processes and end-to-end communication, to better meet their customer commitments,” said Stan Sturges, vice president, Collaboration Solutions, Critigen.
For more information on P6v8 or to speak with a senior account representative, please contact Global PM at 985.781.9190 or email us at primavera@gblpm.com.


