Project Analytics Quick Start

Introduction

Oracle Project Analytics is an end-to-end analytics solution that provides users with in-depth Business Intelligence relating to their Oracle Projects implementation. To help organisations take full advantage of this robust analytics architecture, Projected Consulting and Peak Indicators offer a comprehensive service to help you efficiently and successfully complete a rapid Phase I implementation of Project Analytics.

Our Project Analytics Quick-Start is a fixed price, rapid time-to-market service solution package that leverages best practices derived from our combined knowledge of both Oracle Projects and the Oracle BI Applications.

Business Benefits

In just five weeks, members of your Project Management community will have access to personalised, easy-to-use, best practice metrics tailored to their respective roles. These metrics will provide timely, relevant and actionable insights derived from information within your Oracle Projects deployment.

Completing this first phase of the Project Analytics deployment will establish a best practice foundation for continued analytics application development across your enterprise. The service solution provides:

• Rapid deployment of Key Business metrics and dashboards
• Fixed price implementation cost and time frame to help you plan andstay on budget
• Faster ROI through on-time project assurance, reduced total cost of ownership and minimised risk
• Reduced implementation complexity through the leveraging of best of breed, out-of-the-box functionality using a proven methodology and Oracle product expertise.

Implementation Approach

Experienced consultants from Projected Consulting and Peak Indicators will work with your business and key resources to:

• Document your initial requirements
• Install the application and configure it for a single language (English)
• Deliver the out of the box Dashboards for analysis of:
  • Project Billing
  • Project Funding
  • Project Budgets
  • Project Profitability
  • Project Costs
  • Project Revenue
  • Project Forecasts
• Extend the analytics repository (and ETL) for up to 30 simple field extensions from the Oracle E-Business Suite OLTP for two dimension tables
• Extend the analytics repository (and ETL) for one new fact or dimension table
• Develop an additional two Intelligence Dashboards to reflect customer-specific look and feel, with up to 16 new requests/reports
• Implement authentication using out-of-the-box Analytics security.

The implementation team will also provide:

• Knowledge transfer workshops covering topics such as implementation best practices and performance tuning
• Facilitate Phase II planning and discovery workshops for future development.

Working Together

Before we start the project we will give you a scoping document setting out the tasks and pre-requisites that have to be jointly covered for a successful implementation.

The areas covered include:

• Defining and agreeing the Project Analytics Solution
• Providing dedicated suitably qualified and experienced resources for the duration of the project
• Executive sponsorship and support for the Project
• Keeping within the agreed timescale
• Pre-requisite training prior to project involvement
• Project Management processes and checkpoints
• Pre-requisite Oracle Projects Patch Set M implemented
• Ensuring the correct level of Oracle Licenses are in place.

Costs and Implementation Timescales