Oracle P6 R8.2 Technical Architecture Feb 2012 v3.pptx

Editor's Notes

• #4: So, to wrap-up Oracle’s Applications Strategy… The 3 words we want you to walk out of here remembering are Complete, Open and Integrated. Complete industry solutions and an Open standards based architecture that is Integrated for value and efficiency. Complete, open and integrated.
• #29: Language Support Brazilian Portuguese English French German Italian Japanese Russian Spanish Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese
• #33: Typically, traditional applications or toolkit approaches: Are difficult to develop and can be unsupportable over time Are complex and time consuming to customize or integrate Require duplication of effort for enterprise deployments Have higher project risks with greater chance of failure Often fail to deliver on user expectations
• #35: Composer – tool to bridge gap between business needs and what developers create...
• #39: Restricted User license of UCM included, but not automatically installed.
• #47: The external client programs use P6 Web Services by creating a request and sending it to the application server using the SOAP protocol which is essentially XML over HTTP. Having received the request, Primavera’s Project Management software invokes whatever business logic is required to service the request. The client application need not understand the semantics of this processing. Responses or requests from Primavera’s Project Management software simply follow the same path in reverse. At Oracle, SOA is a key strategy for enabling enterprise integration. The Primavera EPPM applications such as P6, make use of Web services and an event-driven architecture (ERA) to allow integration to ERP systems, desktop tools, portals, etc.
• #50: Import/Export –our batch capability – first, the Excel import/export capability which supports activities and resources, second the project level approaches which include manually with XML format for a single project or XER a proprietary format which supports scheduling via Job Services and multiple projects in a single file.
• #52: Key Points: The AIA solution is comprised of 3 product categories: Process Integration Pack: (pre-built integrations) for customers that want to implement end-to-end processes, PIPs are prebuilt composite business processes that allow companies to get up and running with core processes without having to build the entire integration from scratch. Direct Integration: not all integrations need to be process integrations. Sometimes customers just need a nightly batch upload or pure data synchronization between systems. Direct Integrations are designed to support this type of integration requirement. Foundation Pack: this is the foundational framework that our process integration packs are built on. Using Foundation Pack, customers can build their own custom integrations with our “do it yourself” solution, bypassing much of the upfront work associated with complex integration projects, like defining a common object model, architecture framework, creating a service library, etc.
• #58: What are the security requirements of your business Primary Message: In the past, technology was not available to provide open authentication structures and data encryption, so application vendors had to provide their own solutions. However today, many industry leading solutions exist to solve the various challenges of security and Oracle has implemented an open layered approach, enabling it to incorporate may of the best of breed, industry leading security solutions into its architecture… RSA SHA-1 Password Hashing Documented upgrade path to migrate existing passwords Includes support for Mobile Client passwords AES Data Encryption Provided as a Business Service (similar to existing RC2 Encryption Service) Upgrade utilities provided to migrate existing data Support for multiple key lengths – 128, 196 and 256
• #60: Industry standards-based secure communication, password security and user authentication SSL secured communications Between clients, middleware server components, database servers, and external servers Tie in to LDAP and Active Directory
• #68: Browser cache, high performance rendering engine Very light load on Web Servers Acts solely as HTTP transmission layer No page assembly Near linear scalability
• #77: SaaS offering currently through Critigen (Oracle Cloud may offer down the road)
• #82: Oracle Primavera P6 Analytics is a complete, packaged project portfolio analysis and business performance management solution that enables your business to bring disparate project information together, providing a single source of truth that is authentic & relevant to enable you to make better business decisions. By incorporating industry and business intelligence (BI) best practices, P6 Analytics delivers deep insights into existing projects, programs and portfolios as well as complete history and trends which you can use to identify potential problems in your projects and course-correct early in the lifecycle. Everything you need to get up and running on day 1 with improved decision-making is available with interactive drill-down dashboards. Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right time. BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports reporting, analysis and decision making. BI leads to: fact-based decision making “single version of the truth” BI includes reporting and analytics.
• #88: Suggested business flow is to create all projects to be evaluated in Primavera Portfolio Management (Prosight), synch projects to Primavera P6, and finally synch to PeopleSoft to create projects in Project Costing and Program Management for those that are going to actually get executed. - PeopleSoft Resource Management: For global IT organizations that need sophisticated cross-organization, competency-based resource searching and analysis, PeopleSoft Resource Management can be used to identify and assign the best resources. PeopleSoft Services Procurment: To source external resources when qualified internal resources or known contractor resources cannot be identified, source them via Services Procurement. PeopleSoft Supplier Contract Management/Strategic Sourcing: If support for RFP creation, evaluation, and contract award are required for IT contract work and service agreements, Strategic Sourcing can be utilized. For authoring IT contracts, Supplier Contract Management can be used. - Projects created in Microsoft Project and other tools: MS Project files can be loaded into Primavera P6 or PeopleSoft, if desired.