Oracle Primavera Gateway

The Oracle corporation provided in the spring of 2013 the product Oracle Primavera Gateway designed to simplify corporate integration of the solutions Oracle Primavera.

Oracle Primavera Gateway will allow heads of the enterprises, managers and project participants to optimize planning and accomplishment of large capital projects and also to rationalize maintenance transactions, having simplified an information access about materials, resources, diagrams and finance.

"Collecting and consolidating the major design data, including about dresses on execution of works, financial plans, resource requirements and materials, Oracle Primavera Gateway provides the integrated plans of projects. Such plans will allow to gain a uniform impression about all works from a set of the different systems — told in Oracle. — The complete view of project information improves understanding of requirements and material management and labor resources. Such approach will help the enterprises to rationalize the activity, to reduce risks of errors and to eliminate need for manual entry and duplication of data".

Supporting uniform approach to planning and resource optimization irrespective of data source, Oracle Primavera Gateway offers the opened, expanded architecture for integration between the solution Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) and applications of other suppliers connected with project management including ERP systems (resource management of the enterprise) and EAM (management of capital assets).

This solution provides to clients and partners an opportunity to combine information on management of finance and assets with project management, portfolios and resources and also planning tools of works in the solution Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM. Thus, Oracle Primavera Gateway will provide standardization of business processes for a set of divisions of the enterprise, noted in the company.

Oracle Primavera Gateway is a part of family of the advanced EPPM solutions Oracle Primavera intended for the industries in which a large number of projects is executed. This integration application is followed by the round-the-clock technical support in more than 27 languages.

"The complete information about materials, resources, diagrams and finance is necessary for successful management of big capital projects and transactions of maintenance. The release of Oracle Primavera Gateway will provide to partners and clients integrated solution which will help not only to reduce risks, but also to execute projects according to terms and budgets — Yasser Mahmud, the vice president of global division of Oracle Primavera Global Business Unit for product strategy and industrial marketing emphasized. — The combination of such advantages gives the chance to cut down total expenses for integration of corporate solutions and to increase investment soundness of clients in ERP systems".

According to developers, the solution Oracle Primavera Gateway with ample opportunities of configuring will allow the organizations to lower project risks and to rationalize business processes thanks to a broad spectrum of means of double-sided integration.

So, using new opportunities of Oracle Primavera Gateway, the organizations will be able: simplify implementation and configuring of integration processes thanks to ready integration tools with SAP Plant Maintenance and/or the modules SAP Project System; it is effective to use examples of integration and detailed documentation for fast connection with applications of other suppliers; gain a complete impression about the major design data on the basis of interactions with ERP systems and also import and export of data from Oracle Primavera EPPM; exclude clock errors of data, defining what of systems is used as "primary source" for each specific data stream; perform exchange only of the changed data that reduces the volume of the transmitted data and provides a possibility of synchronization even for very large projects; increase the level of automation of integration processes, using the built-in task scheduler (the scheduler allows to execute synchronization of design data through the predeterminated intervals); provide access isolation to key functional areas of integration, such as synchronization, management of templates and administration, via the user web interface; protect investments thanks to upgradeability of Oracle Primavera EPPM to new versions without entering of significant changes into the used integration tools.