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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 1

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INSTANTIS EnterpriseTrack What’s New in Instantis 8.5, 8.6, and 8.7

March 2014

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Resource Management

Resource calendars

Activity labor cost capitalization

Variable resource rates

Reporting

Improved listing pages

Program filters

MS Excel 2010 and PowerPoint

2010 support

User Experience

Usability improvements for

managing issues, risks, scope

change requests, defects,

product backlog

Improved UI for project team

creation

Listing pages saved searches

UPK ready Customer Enhancements &

Supportability

Easy to maintain help for

evaluation score and custom

fields

Idea portal landing page and

access

Many customer requested

enhancement requests

Performance

Fine-tuned listing pages

More compact heatmaps

Resource planning page

Resource and finance reports

Improved application cache

Instantis 8.5 Release Content Summary

Simplified staffing plan (IPT)

Initial finance estimates

Resource allocations with effort

in bulk hours

Timesheets with ETC

Field change auditing

Finance lock

MS Project 2010

Demand Mgmt & Execution

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4

Internationalization/Localization

Instantis now available in 11 languages

− English

− French

− German

− Russian

− Spanish

− Italian

− Portuguese (Brazilian)

− Japanese

− Korean

− Chinese (Simplified)

− Chinese (Traditional)

UI improvements

Time management enhancements

Oracle Cloud for Industry readiness

Enhancements

Instantis 8.6 Release Content Summary

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Time Management

Timesheet period close (freeze)

Timesheet correction capture

Reports/data extract improvements for ERP

integration (with wrapper API for integration)

Reporting

PowerPoint story board reports with custom

templates

Improved finance reports

Pluggable custom reports

API for project (header) create, read, update,

delete and search

Integration API

Security, Admin & Configuration

Fast track templates for IT PPM

Login access restriction with IP address

SSO improvements

Common standard upgrade

Configuration workbench more partner ready

Configuration export/import and more

Instantis 8.7 Release Content Summary

Core Product Enhancements

Context-sensitive custom fields

Layout for custom fields

New notes custom field type

Idea custom fields carry over to project request

Defining predecessors in activity templates

Project request improvements

Timesheet UI makeover with BlueSky style

Many new product enhancements (requested

by customers)

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Benefits – Resource Management More precise capacity visibility for resource planning and project

execution with resource calendars that capture vacation, LOA and part-

time resource availability

Ensure compliance and governance processes with activity labor

cost capitalization

Better project labor cost estimation, tracking and administration

with variable resource rates

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Benefits – Demand Management & Execution More flexible time management deployments options for enterprise

customers with project level timesheet approval, and estimated time to

complete (ETC) in timesheets and projects

Better governance with timesheet period closing and preventing

modifications to timesheets in closed periods

More ready for one-way Instantis to ERP timesheet labor effort/cost

integration with timesheet period closing, timesheet correction support,

and improved reports for data extraction with wrapper API

Enforce proper financial accounting processes with the new strict

finance lock/close period option

Improved productivity and analysis with project request flexible

staffing plan and simplified finance estimation

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8

Benefits – Reporting, UX And Performance Better user productivity and analysis with improved listing pages, and

customizable PowerPoint storyboard reports

Improved program reporting with new program filters in listing pages

and reports

Run large data volume user defined Excel reports with MS Excel

2010 support

Better user productivity and satisfaction with improved user interface

for timesheets, project issues, risks, and scope changes

Gain faster system response and improved user experience with

optimized listing pages, resource planning, and application cache

Ready for user self-service training with UPK support

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9

Benefits and Value – Internationalization More successful international deployments (in non-English

speaking regions) and global multi-language deployments with out-

of-the-box standard product translations available in German, French,

Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese, Korean,

Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional)

Better local and legal regulations conformance with out-of-the-box

standard product translations (for example, legal regulations in provinces

in Canada requires all software to available in French language)

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10

Benefits and Value – Administration Get jump start on Instantis with Fast Track templates

Improved application security with support for SSO, self-service

password reset, and limiting access with IP address filters

Easy upgrade with common standard upgrade

More partner ready with improved configuration workbench

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Benefits and Value – OCI Readiness Better performance, security and reliability by hosting on software

and hardware optimized Oracle Cloud technology

Interoperability assurance with other products available on Oracle

Cloud

High availability and better service assurance with world class Oracle

hosting operations

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12

Resource Management

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Resource Calendars

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Resource Calendars Individual calendar for each resource to

specify: − personal vacations

− Long leave of absence

− Seasonal working hours variation (For

example, John may work 45 hrs per week

in fall, winter and spring, but only 30 hrs

per week in summer months)

− Holiday to workday override

Part time workers support. For example,

resource may work − M-W 8 hrs per day

− M-F 6 hrs per day

− M-F 7.5 hrs per day

Resource time off reflected in resource

capacity, heatmaps and reporting

Project scheduling based resource

calendar

Resource calendar inherited from a

“Reference Calendar”

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Resource Calendar

Visibility into availability during resource

requisition and commitment.

MS Project integration (Enterprise track

will be the source of truth).

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Activity Labor Cost Capitalization

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Activity Labor Cost Capitalization

New Labor Expense Type (LET)

attribute added to the activities.

LET can be:

− Capital Expense (CapEx)

− Operational Expense (OpEx)

− (Not specified)

LET determines to which finance

category (CapEx or OpEx) will the

activity labor cost roll up.

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Variable Resource Rates

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Resource Rate

Rate table for each resource

Alternate option to use role

rate

Specify currency in resource

locale

View history of rate change

Change resource rate for all

projects in one place

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Role Rate

Rate table for each role

Alternate for resource rate

View history of rate

change

Change role rate for all

resources (indirectly for

projects) in one place

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Project Team Member – Rate Override

Override labor rates anytime

Override for specific

intervals

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Global Rate Changes And Finance Locks Global resource and role rate changes across all projects

Finance lock/close period protection with a new strict mode

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Project Demand And Execution

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Project Request Improvements

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Project Request Initial Project Team (IPT) Improvements

IPT structure is more flexible (and

not fixed as it was in older versions)

Add new roles with Add Role

button

Add the same role multiple times

Remove non-mandatory roles

Easy check for resource availability

User Experience − New and improved UI

− Roles that require approval are

grouped together

− Inline editing for approval

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Project Request Initial Finance Plan

Project initial finance fields will

reflect first level finance categories

Applicable to all product areas − Project request

− Projects

− What-if

− Status reports

− Power point reports

− Reports

− And more…

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Resource Allocation With Bulk Hours In project requests and projects

enter resource allocation hours in

one bulk for specific duration or

whole project (previously only %

Utilization and weekly break down

was supported)

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Timesheets

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Timesheets ETC

Support for ETC (Estimated Time to Complete) and ERE (Expected Remaining

Time) in timesheets

ETC = Prediction manually entered by user as of a specific date in timesheets

ERE = Plan Effort – Actual Effort

Variance = ERE – ETC

ETC rollups to activities upon timesheet approval

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ETC In Projects

Warning indicator when ETC is not same as ERE

Ability for project managers to reconcile the ETC and ERE differences

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Timesheets Approval By Project Managers Approve or reject timesheet line items for each

project

Project managers can approve or reject

timesheet line only for their projects

Resource managers approve or reject paid time

off, vacations and other general admin

overheads

Automatic email notifications on timesheets

status updates for project managers

Minor UI improvements

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Timesheet Period Closing Close timesheet periods and freeze

timesheet modifications

Verify current timesheet submission and

approval status

Reopen closed timesheet periods for

corrections

Capture and extract correction data

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Field Change Auditing

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Field Change Auditing

Field change auditing supported

for: − Limited project request fields

− Limited project fields

View, filter, group by, print and

export to Excel

Details include: − What, who, and when

− Old and new value

− Comments (only for approvals)

− Context (Description)

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Custom Fields

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Context-sensitive Custom Fields Visibility of custom fields can be controlled by

values selected in another custom field

Supported for: – Project custom fields

– Ideas custom fields

Notes: – Supported driving fields include organization

hierarchy, classification, pre-defined custom fields

– Driving fields should be of type list

– Context sensitivity is only for one level

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Custom Fields Layout Most of the pre-defined and user-defined

custom fields can be placed in different UI

sections by the administrators

Supported for: – Ideas

– Project requests

– Projects

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Notes Custom Field Type New custom field of type Notes for

entering multi-line free form text

Custom fields of type notes are

displayed as text area in UI

Max size up to 4K for English

characters

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User Experience

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Productivity and User Experience

Access project issues, risks,

defects, backlogs and scope

change requests with ease

View and edit in a simple spread

like UI

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User Interface (update in 8.6) New UI with fresh colors more conforming to

Oracle UI standards

New graphic UI library with consistent icons

across the product

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Timesheets User Interface (updated in 8.7)

New BlueSky theme

Keyboard short cuts for easy navigation

Non-working days in resource calendar are highlighted

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Defining Dependencies in Activity Templates Define dependencies between

activities in activity templates

Dependencies copied into project

WBS when new activity templates

are inserted

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Reporting

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Listing Pages UX and Performance Column selection and arrangement

are saved with the search

(including Group By and Pivot)

Warning message when the search

results exceed cache limit

Saved Searches for Ideas

Optimized for quick initial load

Columns that could degrade

performance are indicated with icon

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Program Filters

• Filter by one or more programs and program

manager

• Program Filters now added to:

– Project Listing Page

– Project Bubble chart (filter plus a dimension

in X or Y axis)

– All Heatmap reports

– Activity Detail Report (Excel)

– Timesheet Detail Report (Excel)

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PowerPoint Storyboard Reports Nice new modern Blue Sky style

Custom PowerPoint templates for

custom themes, styles, and logos in

PowerPoint story board reports

Support for multiple templates

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Performance Optimizations

All Listing Pages had a major rework and fine tuned for better

performance

Resource Planning Page

– New monthly mode

– Computations are made in server for better performance

Heatmap reports more compact and non-interactive plain-text CSV

format output

User defined reports with Excel 2010 (supports large data volume and

better compression of file size)

Application cache architecture improved for better performance

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Customer Enhancements and Supportability

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List of Enhancements Quick Project Create with project custom fields

Custom fields carry over from ideas to project requests to projects

Filter for programs in more places

Simple Enhancements – Rename roadmaps (simple enhancements)

– Fixed minor quirks with timesheet search

– “Activity” literal in streams are context sensitive – no hard coding

Ability for configuring help for evaluation scores and custom fields

Idea portal rework (simplified landing page and access restricted to ideas)

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Internationalization

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Internationalization Instantis 8.6 now available in following eleven

languages − English

− French

− German

− Russian

− Spanish

− Italian

− Portuguese (Brazilian)

− Japanese

− Korean

− Chinese (Simplified)

− Chinese (Traditional)

Certified Validated Translations

Supported on client operating systems and

browsers that are normally supported in English

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Security, Admin & Configuration

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Security, Admin & Configuration

Fast Track best practices for IT PPM with

two prebuilt configuration templates: – Basic template

– Advanced template

Improved admin user interface with support

for post-deployment reconfigurations

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Support, De-support and Deprecations

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Client Certifications Highlights (as of 8.7) New Support

– Internet Explorer 10 and 11

– Firefox 19

– MS Project 2010, MS Excel 2010,

and MS PowerPoint 2010

– Windows 8 and 8.1

– Mac OS 10.6.8

Deprecation

– MS SQL Server database

(applicable only for on-premise

customers)

De-support

– IE 6, IE7

– Windows XP

– MS Office 2003

– MS SQL Server database

(applicable for on-premise

customers)

– Older versions of Firefox

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Summary

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Resource Management

Resource calendars

Activity labor cost capitalization

Variable resource rates

Reporting

Improved listing pages

Program filters

MS Excel 2010 and PowerPoint

2010 support

User Experience

Usability improvements for

managing issues, risks, scope

change requests, defects,

product backlog

Improved UI for project team

creation

Listing pages saved searches

UPK ready Customer Enhancements &

Supportability

Easy to maintain help for

evaluation score and custom

fields

Idea portal landing page and

access

Many customer requested

enhancement requests

Performance

Fine-tuned listing pages

More compact heatmaps

Resource planning page

Resource and finance reports

Improved application cache

Instantis 8.5 Release Content Summary

Simplified staffing plan (IPT)

Initial finance estimates

Resource allocations with effort

in bulk hours

Timesheets with ETC

Field change auditing

Finance lock

MS Project 2010

Demand Mgmt & Execution

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 59

Internationalization/Localization

Instantis now available in 11 languages

− English

− French

− German

− Russian

− Spanish

− Italian

− Portuguese (Brazilian)

− Japanese

− Korean

− Chinese (Simplified)

− Chinese (Traditional)

UI improvements

Time management enhancements

Oracle Cloud for Industry readiness

Enhancements

Instantis 8.6 Release Content Summary

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Time Management

Timesheet period close (freeze)

Timesheet correction capture

Reports/data extract improvements for ERP

integration (with wrapper API for integration)

Reporting

PowerPoint story board reports with custom

templates

Improved finance reports

Pluggable custom reports

API for project (header) create, read, update,

delete and search

Integration API

Security, Admin & Configuration

Fast track templates for IT PPM

Login access restriction with IP address

SSO improvements

Common standard upgrade

Configuration workbench more partner ready

Configuration export/import and more

Instantis 8.7 Release Content Summary

Core Product Enhancements

Context-sensitive custom fields

Layout for custom fields

New notes custom field type

Idea custom fields carry over to project request

Defining predecessors in activity templates

Project request improvements

Timesheet UI makeover with BlueSky style

Many new product enhancements (requested

by customers)

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Benefits – Resource Management More precise capacity visibility for resource planning and project

execution with resource calendars that capture vacation, LOA and part-

time resource availability

Ensure compliance and governance processes with activity labor

cost capitalization

Better project labor cost estimation, tracking and administration

with variable resource rates

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 62

Benefits – Demand Management & Execution Improved productivity and analysis with project request flexible

staffing plan and simplified finance estimation

More flexible time management deployments options for enterprise

customers with project level timesheet approval, and estimated time to

complete (ETC) in timesheets and projects

Better governance with timesheet period closing and preventing

modifications to timesheets in closed periods

Enforce proper financial accounting processes with the new strict

finance lock/close period option

More ready for one-way Instantis to ERP timesheet labor effort/cost

integration with timesheet period closing, timesheet correction support,

and improved reports for data extraction with wrapper API

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 63

Benefits – Reporting, UX And Performance Better user productivity and analysis with improved listing pages, and

customizable PowerPoint storyboard reports

Improved program reporting with new program filters in listing pages

and reports

Run large data volume user defined Excel reports with MS Excel

2010 support

Better user productivity and satisfaction with improved user interface

for timesheets, project issues, risks, and scope changes

Gain faster system response and improved user experience with

optimized listing pages, resource planning, and application cache

Ready for user self-service training with UPK support

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Benefits and Value – Internationalization More successful international deployments (in non-English

speaking regions) and global multi-language deployments with out-

of-the-box standard product translations available in German, French,

Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Japanese, Korean,

Chinese (Simplified), and Chinese (Traditional)

Better local and legal regulations conformance with out-of-the-box

standard product translations (for example, legal regulations in provinces

in Canada requires all software to available in French language)

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Benefits and Value – Administration Get jump start on Instantis with Fast Track templates

Improved application security with support for SSO, self-service

password reset, and limiting access with IP address filters

Easy upgrade with common standard upgrade

More partner ready with improved configuration workbench

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Copyright © 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 66

Benefits and Value – OCI Readiness Better performance, security and reliability by hosting on software

and hardware optimized Oracle Cloud technology

Interoperability assurance with other products available on Oracle

Cloud

High availability and better service assurance with world class Oracle

hosting operations

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Instantis 8.6 Resources On OTN What’s New PDF Document:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E48392_01/English/User_Guides/EnterpriseTrack_Whats_New.pdf

What’s New UPK: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E48392_01/English/User_Guides/PlayerPackage/index.html

Latest Product Documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E48392_01/index.htm

Datasheets: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/primavera/instantis-enterprisetrack/resources/index.html

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