Before understanding Primavera Cloud’s structure, we should know what is meaning and necessity of a comprehensive solution for project management?

Project management is a wide range of utilizing knowledge and tools to boost the chance of successful project implementation, reach project objective and fulfill customer or user’s requirement. In action, this big cake includes lots of slides as managing time and cost, proper communication, transacting data to all stakeholders, Manage Risks, clarify requirements in best fit with customer’s expectation, deals with changes and so on. As you saw, issues that should manage throughout project life cycle are varied subject by subject, complicated and comes from different origin.

As far as utilizing software solutions to push projects ahead, traditional software such as Primavera P6 or MS project only focused on project time management -with few options to handle cost management – and cannot cover topics such as Document control, Risk Management, communication management and changes handling properly.

Using different platforms to handle all aspects of projects, not results to integrated management.  Lastly, data booming in mega projects and reporting priorities makes the case more complicated. Without using business intelligence (BI) systems, generally project team are not able to response on-time reporting requirements of all stakeholders.

Then Oracle provides a comprehensive solution and tried to have an umbrella over all subjects and cover all management requirement as much as possible. Oracle’s solution for Project management includes for sub-system. Those systems are available to install and configure on Company’s premise (Internal Network) or Cloud. This package known as “Engineering and construction” or “primavera Cloud “and includes below four platforms:

1-      Primavera Unifier

2-      Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM)

3-      Primavera Gateway

4-      Oracle BI

Oracle’s Primavera Unifier provides a best-in-class cloud-based solution for managing projects and facilities of any size in every vertical market. It combines rich cost management and control, document management, schedule and resource management, fund management and more with robust market-leading business process automation capabilities tailored specifically for enterprise-grade control of capital programs.

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (Primavera P6 EPPM) is an integrated project portfolio management (PPM) application that includes role-based functionality to match each team member’s needs and responsibilities. It provides executives customizable dashboards in portfolio or projects level to analyze live project data. Users can initiate to define projects from scratch by defining WBS nodes, define and assign activities, set relationship among activities and etc. Primavera P6 EPPM can easily scale from a single user on a small project to tens of thousands of users engaged in millions of activities across hundreds of projects both on premise and in the cloud.

Oracle Primavera Gateway allows data to be moved between two applications (at least one of them is a Primavera application) on schedule or on demand. It is a single integration hub where all the data integration happens with Primavera applications

Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) is a portfolio of technology and applications that provides the industry’s first integrated, end-to-end Enterprise Performance Management System, including BI foundation and tools – integrated array of query, reporting, analysis, alerting, mobile analytics, data integration and management, and desktop integration – as well as category-leading financial performance management applications, operational BI applications, and data warehousin