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Primavera Gateway - Out of the Box

What is Primavera Gateway, and what does it deliver?

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Daniel Williams, PhDDirector of IntegrationCalance

@dlwiii

Why Integrate?Example: Purchase Orders entered into Unifier and PeopleSoft manually.

One PO - 6 minutes in Unifier, 6 minutes in PeopleSoft=> not a big deal=> maybe an occasional error12 minutes total time, 6 on dual entry

How about 1,000 POs/month?=> 60 hours/month on dual entry=> errors will happen and will be hard to find!360 hours a year on dual entry

Save time, ensure data quality

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History of Primavera Integrations• Pre-2008 basic tools and one specific integration

– Java API– Web Services API– Inspire for SAP

• Post-2008 advanced tools and multiple options– Fusion Middleware + AIA + PIP for JDE– XML Upload for JDE– PeopleSoft Integration Broker

• 2014+ One tool to rule them all!– Gateway

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Gateway Background• Gateway Goals

– One platform for integration– Tie key products– Out of the box integrations– Configurable to a degree

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Gateway is specifically designed to integrate other systems with P6 EPPM

Providers – Out of the Box

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A Provider is a data adapter which obeys certain protocols and allows communication between Gateway and another system. Oracle has created a number of Providers which come with Gateway.

Primavera:• P6 – The world’s premiere scheduling system ☺• Unifier• Prime • Sample /File• Enterprise TrackExternal:• Value Chain Planning• E-Business Suite (EBS)• SAP

A Deployment is simply a provider which is connected to an actual system. You may have multiple Deployments for the same Provider (e.g. Dev, Test, Prod)

Providers – Out of the Box

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Gateway Logical Architecture

• Components– Providers/Deployments– Data Dictionary– Flow Types– Synchronizations– Monitoring– Configuration

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Data Dictionary

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Defines the Objects available through each Provider

Flows: Flow Steps

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A Flow determines a set of Steps which a Synchronization will execute. It is template, not specific instructions.Flows Steps are pre-defined in Gateway.

Flows: Field Maps

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A Flow has field mappings which can be one-to-one, or utilize simple Groovy scripts

Business Flows

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A Business Flow is what becomes the actual Synchronization. It chooses field maps and governs which direction data can flow.

Business Flows: Master Data

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Global data such as Project Codes and Resources

Business Flows: Project Data

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Project level data such as Activities, Budgets, Dates

Synchronizations

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A Synchronization is a Flow Type which has been tied to a specific Source and Destination. Each Provider pair can participate in Business Flows.

Monitoring

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Monitoring shows which Synchronizations ran, when they ran, and what the result status was.Job Details shows you the steps executed and their results.

Deployment Setup

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Configuration to set up Providers and enter configuration information.

Scheduling

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Synchronizations can be scheduled to run Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.They can also be started by event listeners.

• Scenario 1: Out of the box Providers– Customize in Gateway itself– Can change object and field mapping– Groovy Scripts to concatenate strings

• Scenario 2: custom providers and custom logic– Providers– Flow Types– Business Flows– Add validations– Complex mapping

Gateway Customization

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Simple Customization: Easy

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Choose fields to map

Simple Customization: Easy

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Groovy Mapping

Nonstandard Customization: Hard

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Run Config

Copy XML Files

Copy Jar Files

Write Code

Restart WLS

Edit XML

Copy more Files

Test/Debug/Pray

• Focused on P6 EPPM• Standard flows provided and supported by Oracle

– Expanding to closely tie P6, Unifier and Prime• Can be customized

Gateway’s Future:– Oracle Integration Cloud– Primavera Prime– Oracle Fusion EPPM

Gateway: Summary

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Thank you!

Questions ?Daniel Williamsdwilliams@calance.com