OBI Apps – Project Analytics
Oracle recently released OBI BI Apps 7.9.6 and the major change is the addition of Project Analytics.
Oracle Project Analytics offers organizations a comprehensive analytics solution that delivers pervasive insight into forecast, budgets, cost, revenue, billing, profitability, and other aspects of project management to help effectively track project life cycle status. It provides consolidated and timely information that is personalized, relevant, and actionable to improve performance and profitability. Oracle Project Analytics is also integrated with other applications in the Oracle BI Applications family to deliver cross functional analysis, such as AR and AP invoice aging analysis and procurement transactions by project.
Oracle Project Analytics provides role-based reporting and analysis for various roles involved in the project life cycle. Typical roles include Project Executive, Project Manager, Project Cost Engineer/Analyst, Billing Specialist, Project Accountant and Contract Administrator.
Executives can closely monitor the organization’s performance and the performance of the projects that the organization is responsible for by looking into a particular program and project and verifying how the period, accumulated, or estimated-at-completion cost is doing compared to budget and forecast. Cost variances and trends can be analyzed so that prompt actions can be taken to get projects on track or make any necessary changes in estimates, minimizing undesired results and reactive measures.
Oracle Project Analytics shows past, present, and future performance, and includes estimated metrics at project completion. Further analysis can be done on each project by drilling down to detailed information including profitability and cost at the task level.
Project managers can view the projects that they are responsible for, compare key metrics between projects, and analyze the details of a particular project such as cost distribution by task, resource, and person. Oracle Project Analytics provides a comprehensive, high-level view of accumulated and trending information for a single project or group of projects, as well as detailed information, such as budget accuracy and details by project and financial resource. Project managers can view cost and revenue by task, expenditure category, or resource type; and by project or resource. The level of analysis can be as granular as cost, revenue, or budget transaction.
Oracle Project Analytics provides out-of-the-box adapters for Oracle EBS 11.5.10 (Family Pack M) and R12, and PeopleSoft 8.9 and 9.0. It also provides universal adapters to extract and load data from legacy sources such as homegrown systems or from sources that have no prepackaged source-specific ETL adapters.
Oracle Project Analytics application comprises the following subject areas:
Funding. A detailed subject area that provides the ability to track Agreement Amount, Funding Amount, Baselined Amount, and all changes in funding throughout the life cycle of the project. In addition, it provides the ability to do comparative analysis of Agreement Amount, Funding Amount, Invoice Amount, and the remaining funding amount across projects, tasks, customers, organizations, and associated hierarchies.
Budgets. A detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on Cost Revenue, Margin for Budgets, and Budget changes including tracking original and current budgets across projects, tasks, organizations, resources, periods and associated hierarchies at budget line level.
Forecast. A detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on Cost, Revenue and Margin for Forecasts, and Forecast changes. Forecast change analysis includes tracking original and current forecasts across projects, tasks, organizations, resources, periods and associated hierarchies. It provides the ability to track the metrics that indicate the past, present and future performance of cost, revenue, and margin.
Cost. A detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on Cost (Burdened Cost), Raw Cost, Burden Cost for the past and current periods including inception-to-date, year-to-date comparisons across projects, tasks, organizations, resources, suppliers, and associated hierarchies. It provides the ability to track the cost at cost distribution level.
Revenue. A detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on Revenue transactions for the past, and current periods including inception-to-date, year-to-date comparisons across projects, tasks, organizations, resources, and associated hierarchies. It provides the ability to track the revenue at Revenue distribution level.
Billing. A detailed subject area that provides the ability to report on Billing Amount, Retention Amount, Unearned Amount, and Unbilled Receivables Amounts across the projects, tasks, organizations, resources, and associated hierarchies. It provides the ability to track the invoice amount at invoice (draft invoice) line level only. Note: Invoice tax amount is not captured in this release.
Performance. A consolidated subject area that includes combined information from Budgets, Forecasts, Cost, Revenue, and provides the ability to do performance by comparing the actual (cost, revenue, margin and margin percentage) with budgets, and forecasts across projects, tasks, organizations, resources, and associated hierarchies.
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