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Prepared by:

Verghese Kochummen

Principal Solutions Architect

Insynchro USA

Challenges, Benefits and Lessons Learned of Deploying an Integrated Primavera Solution

Session ID#: 15447

Product & Service Profile

■ NAME: Insynchro USA

■ CORE: Project Management

Products and Services

■ Primavera Service Portfolio

▪ Consulting, Functional &

Technical Support

▪ Remote Installation

▪ Development of Project

Workflows (BPM)

▪ Configure Project Libraries

(UCM)

▪ Development of Project

Reporting (BI Publisher)

■ inSynchro Integration Manager

▪ ERP Systems: Primavera P6

and CM to ERP [SAP, E-

Business Suite, PeopleSoft,

Ellipse, Computron, …etc]

▪ Asset Management System:

Primavera P6 to Maximo

■ Partial List of Clients

▪ Australia: Yarra Valley Water,

Talisman, RailCorp, Blue Scope

Steel,

▪ Malaysia: Shell, Petronas,

Talisman, Telekom Malaysia

Client Profile: Yarra Valley Water, Melbourne, Australia

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Profile: Yarra Valley Water

■ Water Utility Company

■ Operating in Melbourne, Australia

■ Major award winners for Operational Efficiencies and Customer Support Services

■ Known for IT Investments that increase productivity and efficiencies

■ Primavera @ YVW

▪ User of Primavera P6 and CM since 2008

▪ Integrated P6, CM with their ERP Application (Computron)

▪ Integration facilitated by Insynchro Integration Manager

middleware

▪ Facilitated heavy corporate governance requirements

Profile: Yarra Valley Water (Cont’d)

■ Applications Procured

▪ Primavera P6.0

▪ Primavera Contract Manager

11

▪ Insynchro Integration

Manager

▪ Primavera Timesheets

▪ iManage project workflows

(bundled with P6.0)

▪ Sybase Infomaker (bundled

with Contract Manager 11)

■ Upgrade Resistance Factors

▪ iManage upgrade not

available

▪ Infomaker application is

phased out by Oracle (post-

acquisition)

▪ Cessation of support for P6.0

▪ Cost of Process and Report

Redevelopment

■ Risk of Not Upgrading

▪ Costly Support

▪ High Risk of Low SLA

▪ Threatens Quality of Service

Alignment with IT Policies & Strategies

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Alignment with IT Architecture & Strategy

■ Unified Technology Platform

■ Single Enabling Technology per Functional Area

■ “In-Sourced” Skills for each Enabling Technology

■ Push Legacy or Application not in-line with IT Strategy to End-Of-Life

■ Mandate to Procurement

▪ New Applications “pressured” to use Enabling Technologies

▪ New Applications must not use in-built functional enabling

technologies

Unified Technology Platform

■ Strategic Investment on Oracle Technologies

▪ Server Hardware: Exalogic / Exadata

▪ Security: Oracle Identity Management / Oracle Access

Manager

▪ Database: Oracle DB

▪ Application Server: Oracle Weblogic Server

▪ Middleware: Oracle Fusion Middleware

— Service Oriented Architecture

— Business Process Management

— Webcenter Content

— Webcenter Portal

▪ Business Intelligence: Oracle Business Intelligence

Enterprise Edition

Single Enabling Technology Per Functional Area

■ Servers

▪ Oracle Exadata / Exalogic

■ Security

▪ Oracle Identity Management /

Oracle Access Manager

■ Database

▪ Oracle DB

■ Application Server

▪ Oracle Weblogic Server

■ Document Management

▪ Oracle Webcenter Content

■ Service Oriented Architecture

▪ Oracle SOA

■ Business Process

Management

▪ Oracle Business Process

Management

■ Business Intelligence &

Reporting

▪ Oracle Business Intelligence

Ent. Ed.

■ Learning Management

System

▪ Oracle User Productivity Kit

IT Strategies: Applications

■ Prioritize native coupling to

enabling technologies

▪ IT participation in

Procurement activities

▪ Gain More Value from Unified

Technology Investment

▪ Minimize Room for

Introduction of New

Technologies

■ Deploy or Upgrade to latest

application version

▪ Maximize support lifespan

▪ Access to the latest and

greatest application features

■ Applications Procured:

▪ Oracle Customer Care

and Billing (CC&B)

▪ Oracle Primavera

— Project Manager P6 R8.3

— Contract Manager CM14

— Progress Reporter

— P6 Analytics

Architecture Review Board

■ Subjected to any new

Applications procured

■ Verify new application do not

use in-built features that

overlap Unified Technology

Enablers

■ Explore Unified Technology

Enablers within context of

new Application usage

■ Define Integration Scope /

Data Ownership

■ Pre-requisite approval before

proceeding with regular

project work

■ Impact Consideration

— Make in-built overlapping

features non-functional /

redundant

— Cost to develop integration

of new Application to

Unified Technology

Enablers stack

The Contract

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Contract Work Packages

■ Shift from Wintel to EXA servers

■ Upgrade Oracle DB version from

9i to 11g

■ Standardize on Oracle Weblogic

Server

■ Applications deployed as

Managed Servers

■ LDAP Oracle Identity

Management

■ Four Environments

(Development, Test, Pre-

Production, Production)

■ Exhaustive Data Migration

Validation and Verification

▪ Database Migration

▪ Project File

▪ iManage Workflow Attachments

■ iManage Processes Oracle

BPM Processes

■ Infomaker Reports Oracle BI

Publisher Reports

■ DB Configured as RAC

Contract Work Packages

■ P6.0 Upgrade to P6 R8.2

▪ DB Upgrade from Oracle 9i to

11g

▪ DB Migration from P6.0 to P6

R8.2

▪ Deployment of P6 Application

Server as Managed Servers

■ CM13 Upgrade to CM 14

▪ DB Upgrade from Oracle 9i to

11g

▪ DB Migration from CM 13 to CM

14

▪ Deployment as Managed Server

■ P6 Analytics

▪ Creation of DB for P6 Analytics

▪ Deployment to OBIEE

▪ ETL from PMDB to P6 Analytics

DB

▪ Scheduling of ETL Services

■ BI Publisher

▪ Contract Management Reports

■ UPK

▪ Business Reporting Monthly

▪ Procurement Lifecycle

Risk List

■ Zero Reference Sites on EXA

■ RAC DB Configuration

■ Mandatory Webcenter Content metadata

■ Shared Infrastructure

■ Multi-disciplinary Skill Sets

■ Primavera - Fully Integrated

■ Exploit All Integration Avenues

Previous Configuration

Configuration Today

The Challenges

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Challenges

■ Shared Environment

▪ Frequent & Un-informed

Reboots

▪ Conflicting Configurations

■ Non-Compliant Metadata

Requirements

▪ Native P6 Integration to UCM

does not allow users to

specify metadata

▪ Develop new process to

ingest documents into UCM

but is tagged to project in P6

■ Conflict: OFM / P6 Versions

▪ Unable to integrate BPM

directly into P6 due to

different version of P6

■ CM Conflict Points

• RAC and Domain

The Benefits

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Benefits

■ Asset Creation Division

▪ Access to richer and up-to-

date functionalities

▪ Robust BPM-based

workflows

▪ Sophisticate Analysis via BI-

Publisher and P6 Analytics

■ IT Division

▪ Maintain Unified Technology

Platform

▪ Single Support and

Development Team

■ Increase Project Controls for

better cost, schedule and

labor usage outcome

■ Increase usage of BPM layer

for non-Project user

participation

■ Increase Analytics for

Forecasting and What-If

Analysis

■ Better estimation for planning

next iteration of projects

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