Improve project and asset management
Project and Asset
Management
Oracle Construction and Engineering has built a new base configuration of Primavera Unifier to be used as a starting point for implementations. Unifier Accelerator provides more than 20 years of process management expertise in the form of over 65 preconfigured business processes and more than 250 reports and dashboards. Primavera Unifier has all the flexibility and robust controls it is known for and can now be implemented significantly faster than average custom enterprise solutions.
Improve forecasting accuracy, contract administration, cash flow control, and cost and funding management by implementing a companywide project- and portfolio-level system built to connect interdependent functions such as funding, budgeting, contracts, procurement, and change management. Maximize your capital budget by optimizing all phases of your project and asset lifecycles.
Primavera Unifier
overview
1. Unifier Accelerator
Oracle Construction and Engineering has built a new base configuration of Primavera Unifier to be used as a starting point for implementations. Unifier Accelerator provides more than 20 years of process management expertise in the form of over 65 preconfigured business processes and more than 350 reports and dashboards. Primavera Unifier has all the flexibility and robust controls it is known for and can now be implemented significantly faster than average custom enterprise solutions.
2. Standardized capital planning
Primavera Unifier supports advanced capital planning and project selection through its out-of-the-box integration with Oracle Primavera Cloud Portfolio. Portfolio managers can evaluate scenarios and arrive at an optimal plan to allocate financial budgets and ensure consistent alignment between capital programs and organizational goals.
3. Complete project controls
Primavera Unifier provides robust cost controls, including forecasting, cash flow and funding management, organizationwide contract and risk management, and schedule milestone tracking based on Primavera scheduling.
4. Facilities and asset management
Primavera Unifier’s facilities management administers tasks, including service requests, preventive and corrective maintenance, inventory, inspections, and facility condition assessments, while supporting audits and automated reporting.
5. Form-based flexible workflows
Primavera Unifier’s form-based workflows enable intelligent approval cycles, including tying multiple workflows to one business process, rerouting workflows for subsequent reviews, and dynamic routing.
6. Portfoliowide insights and reporting
Cross-project reporting and insights provided by Primavera Unifier leverage Oracle Analytics Publisher and deliver accurate, up-to-date cash flow data and status at the project and portfolio levels.
7. Mobile application
Manage and approve business process records from wherever you are, online or offline. Receive notifications, create records, and attach photos from jobsites to keep project progress on track.
8. Primavera Unifier collaborator
Include contractors and other stakeholders in review and approval cycles. Provide access to what you want to share for a streamlined, secure experience.
Primavera integrated cost and
schedule management
1. Cost and schedule management
Primavera integrated cost and schedule management ties cost codes in Primavera Unifier to the cost breakdown structure and work breakdown structures in Primavera scheduling solutions to increase budget and forecast accuracy, improve project progress tracking, show the impacts of changes on costs and schedules, and help verify work completion across your portfolio.
2. Schedule-based cash flow management
The cash flow curve in Primavera Unifier is fed by both the Primavera Unifier cost sheet and the Primavera schedule to provide a full and accurate picture of cash flow over time and against plan for continuous visibility into potential issues.
3. Integrated change management
Gain visibility into the potential impact of proposed changes on costs and/or schedules so you can make the best decisions for your projects. Early insights based on integrated cost and schedule data provide early warnings and help prevent costly changes down the road.
4. Cost and schedule data informed forecasts
Measure the forecast cost against the baseline cost using the time-phased baseline, which is fed by Primavera P6. Use past and current project data to inform and create more-accurate forecasts, increasing confidence and reducing needed contingency.
5. Project progress measurement
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management data feeds the Primavera Unifier activity sheet. Project managers and team members can easily access and keep track of the project schedule and progress without having to access Primavera P6 directly or wait for updates from schedulers.
Quick start: Primavera Unifier
Accelerator
1. Primavera Unifier Accelerator overview
Primavera Unifier Accelerator is a configuration of Primavera Unifier providing a flexible, quick-start capital planning and project management and controls solution based on more than 20 years of industry best practices. The package includes more than 65 preconfigured business processes, over 250 dashboards and reports, and our no-code configuration tool, supporting capital planning, project and portfolio management, and operations and maintenance.
2. Standardized capital planning
The Unifier Accelerator configuration of Primavera Unifier supports consistent, data-driven capital planning and project selection by using relevant current and past project data to inform decisions and ensure consistent alignment between capital programs and organizational goals.
3. Complete project controls
The Unifier Accelerator includes preconfigured, connected business processes to help manage your project and portfolio costs, forecasting, cash flow, funding, contracts, risk, and schedule milestone tracking.
4. Flexible, form-based workflows
The Unifier Accelerator’s form-based workflows enable intelligent and efficient approval cycles, including connecting multiple workflows to one business process, and rerouting workflows for subsequent reviews.
5. Portfoliowide insights and reporting
The Unifier Accelerator provides cross-project reporting and insights, including 16 “pixel-perfect” reports that leverage Oracle Analytics Publisher and provide up-to-date cash flow data and status at the project and portfolio levels.
6. Project closeout
Preconfigured, yet flexible, business processes help you close out projects completely and on time by autocreating punch lists from owner walk-throughs and supporting warranty management for operations and maintenance. The Unifier Accelerator also captures lessons learned across projects, making them available to inform future projects.
Complete cost
and contract management
1. Contract management
Automate management of your organizationwide supply chain to leverage total demand. Cost codes align contracts with the cost sheet for a seamless flow of real-time information. Prevent errors and misalignment.
2. Funding management
Manage multiple funding sources and their terms and allocation. Ensure funding is being allocated appropriately and optimally, and easily make updates and provide required reporting.
3. Forecasting
Use actuals from relevant current and past projects to increase forecast accuracy and decrease costs. Build trust and increase project approval rate.
4. Project- and portfolio-level cash flow
Implement schedule-based cash flow management to see how your projects and portfolio are progressing against forecast and over time. This ongoing visibility into progress helps highlight issues in a timely manner and prevents surprises.
Facilities and asset
management
1. Preventive maintenance
Use alerts and tracking to proactively manage maintenance and repair cycles. Prevent costly emergency repairs, replacements, and interruptions. Eliminate time-consuming and error-prone manual tracking.
2. Warranty management
Make sure all warranty information is collected and made available to operations. By ensuring all eligible repairs are made under warranty, you can realize significant savings.
3. Work order processing
Improve internal customer satisfaction by automating work order tracking, assignments, and sign-offs to consistently complete requested work faster.
4. Inventory management
Manage your material inventory by SKU or list of materials by location. Inventory is dynamically updated when new material is purchased and received or consumed. Automate inventory management to save time and improve accuracy.
Integrations
1. Primavera integrated capital planning and project execution
Primavera Unifier connects with Oracle Primavera Cloud capital portfolio planning to synchronize budgets with cash flow actuals and project forecasts to help planners more accurately budget and allocate funds and help prevent project delays due to budget issues.
2. Integrated ERP and project and portfolio management
Primavera Unifier has more than 150 integrations with major global ERP systems. The preconfigured Primavera Unifier integration with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP provides best practice data flows, speeds implementation, and improves performance.
3. Integration ready
Primavera Unifier has mature REST-based APIs and uses Oracle’s own middleware. Over the past 20 years, more than 150 proven integrations have been built with major ERP and financial systems, including Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and PeopleSoft applications and third-party ERP solutions such as those from SAP and Sage. So you won’t have to build integrations from scratch, and you can have trust in performance.
4. Integrated digital signatures
Primavera Unifier’s integrations with DocuSign and Adobe Acrobat Sign enable users to provide approvals via digital signatures within the Oracle solution.
5. Primavera Unifier’s integration with Bluebeam
Primavera Unifier’s integration with Bluebeam lets users send drawings to Bluebeam for review sessions, then bring the reviewed files, markups, and comments back into Primavera Unifier to take the appropriate actions.
Process configurations
1. Process configurations
By taking advantage of Primavera Unifier’s flexibility and proven integrations, we have built configurations for key industry processes and standards, including advance work packaging, progress measurement, earned value management, and NEC4 contracts.
2. Earned Value Management
Effectively track project health and identify variances based on work performed versus work planned by integrating cost, schedule, and planned work data or work breakdown structure (WBS) data and analyzing the combined impact of these variables.
3. Progress measurement
Consistently and accurately track the progress on your projects using the rules-of-credit methodology. Collaboratively determine the value of work at the task level to ensure timely and accurate payment, reducing the risk of overpayment or double payment in the event of contractor turnover.
4. Advanced Work Packaging
Optimize crew productivity by ensuring all constraints are addressed, managed, and removed. The Oracle solution includes the native integration between Primavera Unifier and Primavera scheduling solutions. End-to-end work package management is aligned with schedule, 3D model, and ERP in one integrated solution to identify, visualize, and manage constraints, expedite review cycles, and ensure that installation work packages (IWPs) are released free of constraints.
5. NEC4 contracting
The Oracle Primavera Unifier NEC4 contract management solution provides effective contractual compliance, instills confidence in management decisions, and improves the productivity of contract management teams. The scalable, secure, cloud-based solution provides native support for the Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC), Engineering and Construction Short Contract (ECSC), Professional Services Contract (PSC), Professional Services Short Contract (PSSC), Term Services Contract (TSC), and Term Services Short Contract (TSSC).
