In the past, running Oracle E-Business Suite on premises was the only choice for Oracle E-Business Suite customers. Oracle has since expanded the deployment model to include running Oracle E-Business Suite on the same Oracle technology stack, but in Oracle Cloud. The cloud is a central focus for Oracle, which already offers a comprehensive
In recent years, business forecasts have had to become faster and more flexible—ready to be adjusted at a moment’s notice. As earnings and product cycles accelerate, it has become clear that the business world is decisively moving towards treating rolling forecasts as standard. A slow process of budgeting and forecasting is no longer enough.
In this edition of PrescienceAdvantage® Tips and Tricks, we’ve invited our friends from BASIS Planning to share with you their new knowledge-driven planning tool, BASIS, designed to help build more accurate plans, faster. This topic will be a two part series introducing this revolutionary software to our readers and the benefits of using it
Wondering how to use Primavera P6 more efficiently? We've compiled some of our favourite time-saving tips that web believe will benefit all our support clients and P6 schedulers by improving their productivity and saving time. Note: These tips are relevant for Primavera P6 R8.x onwards. Fill Down A great P6 time-saving function is the
Oracle announced last week that Prescience Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd, the younger sibling to long established Brisbane based Prescience Technology Pty Limited, has been granted Primavera Specialization status, along with four important industry Specializations. A long-established Platinum member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Group CEO Loretta Bayliss explained how the Specializations augment the existing
Daniel Nimmo, Senior VP International It is with great pleasure that I announce the appointment of Daniel Nimmo to the role of Senior Vice-President International, based in Singapore, and welcome him to the Prescience Technology team. Daniel will spearhead Prescience Technology’s international expansion into Singapore as well as Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand.
Why do projects fail? Projects, whether they are system, transformation or operationally focused, are too often judged to be “failures”, while the question of why they fail seems akin to asking “What is the meaning of life?” Every program and Project Manager has their view of why projects fail. The way a Project Manager answers
Understanding how calendars are defined in Oracle Primavera P6 is an important factor in maintaining the duration and date integrity of projects. Problems with project activity dates and durations can occur when a different calendar is assigned to an existing activity. An example of this could be changing from an 8-hour day to a
Why is it important to build the right plan, the first time? These days traditional CPM tools are good for tracking project execution, but they don’t effectively support the upfront planning process or the ongoing quality schedule checking that is required to produce a schedule you are confident in throughout the project lifecycle.
A sound schedule is the key to a successful project. Many of our clients use Deltek Acumen to quickly diagnose and resolve project schedule shortcomings, reduce risk exposure, accelerate and align schedules with project goals and benchmark quality and performance. If you’ve recently upgraded to the latest version of Deltek Acumen, you will have noticed the
