Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher Edition

The Oracle corporation announced the new version of business applications of Oracle Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence (BI) of Publisher Edition which is designed to improve control, to increase transparency and to expand interaction on the scale of all project portfolio of the enterprise.

In the whole Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition there is a solution for management of project documents, control of cost value of project works and their accomplishment on places. Helps the organizations to exercise full control over construction projects them according to the set diagram and within the selected budget, says Oracle.

The new version includes the optimized functions of preparation of the reporting from Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher which help to eliminate dependence on Microsoft Word, allowing clients to create document templates via Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher and to edit documents in any text editor. Oracle BI Publisher replaces Sybase InfoMaker as the program report generator for Primavera Contract Management, BI Publisher Edition, proposing the advanced solution on preparation of the reporting compatible to the product Primavera family.

The new version also helps the organizations to increase efficiency of projects, programs and users due to integration into Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK). The Oracle UPK platform offers additional opportunity for providing end users with information on use of processes and applications.

Additional technology expansions, including web services, support integration with other systems. As Primavera Contract Management, BI Publisher Edition is the integrated and scalable solution, it can be combined easily with other Oracle applications, such as Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM), Oracle AutoVue and Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne that allows to provide full control over project implementation, claim in Oracle.

Among other features of the new version there is Primavera Contract Management, BI Publisher Edition can be noted: advanced change management — complete multi-stage change management is the key function allowing the organizations to trace and control changes from data entry before implementation; the optimized abilities to manage payments — help to eliminate excessive delays, allowing clients to trace and automate process of intermediate payment of the executed amount of works; the storage of content — provides to clients the structured and protected information environment for storage of records on projects; the unified management of documents — documents are traced and stored on a centralized basis together with investments that provides complete idea of the project (it allows to guarantee accountability and an opportunity for interaction).

"For accomplishment of construction projects in the planned terms and within the selected budget extremely important that heads of project and construction works always had near at hand tools for control of the project plan and the budget and also means of forecasting of the expected costs and results — Mike Sicilia, the senior vice president and the CEO of the Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management direction emphasized. — With the new version of Primavera Contract Management, Business Intelligence Publisher Edition the Oracle corporation gives the new opportunities allowing the organizations to improve performance of contracts and to increase effective management of construction projects. Increasing control and transparency and expanding interaction on the scale of all project portfolio of the enterprise, the new version will help clients to lower the total project costs".