I have been trying to get the P6 to Oracle Projects 11.5 AIA PIP working on Linux and WebLogic recently and had a major problem with the interface trying to authenticate a P6 user. This BPEL process uses the AuthenticationService supplied with the P6 Web Services and this seemed to be failing.
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Primavera Web Services won’t authenticate P6 user
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 by Robin HarrisPrimavera and Oracle Projects Integration
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Darren FarrProjected Consulting are pleased to announce the successful implementation of the integration of Oracle Primavera with Oracle Projects using the recently released Oracle® Application Integration Architecture (AIA) Release 2.5 Cross-Industry PIP.
The Project Management PIP includes:
- Oracle Primavera to Oracle E-Business Suite
- Oracle Primavera to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
providing seamless integration between the two and Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.
This allows users to create projects in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Project Portfolio Management (OP) or P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (P6) and synchronize project structures, activities, resource details and assignments, budgets, actual costs, progress and cost to complete.
Projected Consulting have successfully implemented the integrated Oracle Primavera – Oracle Projects PIP at its world class training centre. We are keen to share this success with customers and potential clients and would like to identify some of the key configuration requirements and benefits available for our customers. Read the rest of this entry »
Oracle Application Integration Architecture 2.5 Installation Summary
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 by Robin HarrisOver the past few weeks, Projected Consulting have been installing and testing Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture and the Project Portfolio Management Integration Pack for Primavera P6 and Oracle E-Business Suite 2.5. This article summarises the technical installation process.
Summary of Tips to avoid issues
Details of the following are contained in this article:-
- If installing on 64-bit OS use a 32-bit shell if the software is 32-bit
- Disable SELinux during OS install
- Be very careful when entering connection details in OSR, AIA and PIP install otherwise install will fail
- Deploy the OSR application manually after installation
- Do not create a database user called AIA before the AIA Foundation Pack install
- Alter timeout values before PIP installation
- AIA Foundation Pack and PIP install guide has sections to record the information that will be required during installation – use it!
- Be careful which java version is in use when installing OSR
Oracle Projects – Primavera/JD Edwards Integration
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 by Projected ConsultingAmongst the flurry of press releases that were issued during Open World 2009, was this one that you would have probably missed if you blinked (or had some rain in your eyes….). The press release was titled Oracle Announces Oracle® Application Integration Architecture Release 2.5 which understandably wouldn’t have caught the eye of many Projects users. However, there was something very important nestling in there.
First though, what is Oracle Application Integration Archiecture? Well, here’s Oracle’s definition:
Oracle Application Integration Architecture is the most complete integration solution for orchestrating agile, user-centric business processes across your enterprise applications. With Oracle Application Integration Architecture, organizations can:
- Gain business and IT efficiencies
- Increase Agililty
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership
With Oracle Application Integration Architecture, organizations can leverage a complete set of tools, templates, and methodologies to do more with their existing IT investments, provide IT with more flexibility and choices, and lower the total cost of ownership.
So, basically it’s a technology for integrating business systems in a standard, well defined manner using Oracle’s extensive investment in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technologies. To help “jump start” your integration project, Oracle provide a number of “Process Integration Packs” which are pre-built, end-to-end business process integrations that connect specific Oracle and non-Oracle applications.
In AIA Release 2.5 Oracle have added a PIP that is of great interest to the Projects community:
Project Management: Oracle Primavera to the Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Primavera to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne – provides seamless integration between the two and Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management. This allows users to create projects in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Project Portfolio Management or P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and synchronize project structures, activities, resource details and assignments, budgets, actual costs, progress and cost to complete.
This seems like a very good starting point, but Barry Crawley (our Solution Design Director and Projects Functional consultant) tells me that to be a complete integration it ought to include:
- Financial Plans (although this may be covered above under “budgets”)
- Key Members (this may be covered by “resource details”)
- Planning Resource Lists
In summary, the Oracle Application Integration Architecture with the various cross-industry and industry-specific Process Integration Packs looks like it will be a good way to integrate an organisation’s disparate business systems, using standards based technologies. Implementing AIA to integrate EBS and Primavera or JDE will be a good way to introduce SOA into an organisation. SOA is now seeing very rapid growth and is the technology that underpins Fusion Applications, so moving to AIA now may give you a head start as you change from using “systems” to integrating and orchestrating “services”.