Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud What's New in Release 8 26 March 2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................................................3 RELEASE FEATURE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................4 ORACLE PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT CLOUD............................................................................................5 ORACLE FUSION PROJECT COSTING ..................................................................................................................... 18 ORACLE FUSION PROJECT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT .......................................................................................... 23 ORACLE FUSION PROJECT MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................... 27 POST-UPGRADE CONSIDERATION ........................................................................................................................ 32 REVISION HISTORY ............................................................................................................................................... 35

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OVERVIEW This guide outlines the information you need to know about new or improved functionality in Oracle Project Portfolio Management Release 8. Each section includes a brief description of the feature, the steps you need to take to enable or begin using the feature, any tips or considerations that you should keep in mind, and the resources available to help you. Give Us Feedback We welcome your comments and suggestions to improve the content. Please send us your feedback to: [email protected].

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RELEASE SUMMARY Some of the new Release 8 features are automatically visible to users after the upgrade and some require action from the user, the company administrator, or Oracle. The table below offers a quick view of the actions required to enable each of the Release 8 features. Action Required to Enable Feature

Feature

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End User Action Required

Administrator Action Required

Oracle Service Request Required

Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud Enhanced Cloud: File-Based Data Loaders

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Real-Time Insight: Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence Enhancements

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Oracle Fusion Project Costing Integration with Oracle Fusion Time and Labor

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Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Analyze Actual Utilization

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Simplified Assignment Maintenance

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Oracle Fusion Project Management Enhanced Project Planning

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Review Resource Allocation to Projects

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Upgrade Consideration Post-upgrade Consideration

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ORACLE PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT CLOUD Release 8 contains the following key changes and updates: 

Enhanced Cloud: File-Based Data Loaders

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Real-Time Insight: Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence Enhancements

ENHANCED CLOUD: FILE-BASED DATA LOADERS The new file-based data loaders enable you to import key project data into Oracle Project Portfolio Management. This interface is designed to enable you to create an upload file based on a Microsoft Excel template. You then use this template to create a CSV file. To process the file you upload it to the cloud server, run a process to load the data for import, and finally import the data. The application produces an output report with information about successes and failures. The following table provides information about each new file-based data loader. Object Projects Project Budgets Project and Task Transaction Controls Resource Actual Hours Resource Requests Tasks Work Plans

Product Oracle Fusion Project Foundation Oracle Fusion Project Control Oracle Fusion Project Foundation Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Oracle Fusion Project Foundation Oracle Fusion Project Management

EXAMPLE: IMPORTING ACTUAL RESOURCE HOURS To import actual resource hours: 1. Download the template from Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER). a. Log into OER. b. Search for the type File Based Data Import and product family Projects. c. Select Resource Actual Hours Import. d. From the Details tab, download the .xlsm file. 2. Enter the data in the template. a. Open the .xlsm file and review the instructions on the Instructions and CSV Generation tab. b. Enter resource actual hours information on the PJR_ACTUAL_HOURS_INTERFACE tab.

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The following figure illustrates an example of resource actual hours. Columns have additional information such as a description, data type, and character limits that you can access as embedded notes in each column header.

3. Generate Comma Separated Values (CSV) files. a. Click the Generate CSV File button on the Instructions and CSV Generation tab. IMPORTANT: If the Generate CSV File button does not work and you get a security warning, then you need to enable macros in Microsoft Excel from the warning. b. Save the PjrActualHoursInterface CSV file and zip file. 4. Upload the CSV file to Universal Content Management (UCM). a. Click the Navigator icon in the application and then select File Import and Export from the Tools menu. The following figure illustrates the selection.

b. Click the Create icon to upload a new file. c. Click the Browse button and then select the zip file that you saved. d. Select the pjr/projectResourceManagement/import account. e. Wait for the file to upload. 5. Load the files into the open interface tables. a. Click the Navigator icon in the application and then select Scheduled Processes from the Tools menu. 6

The following figure illustrates the selection.

b. Click the Schedule New Process button. c. Select the Load Interface File for Import process. The following figure illustrates the process selection.

d. Click the OK button. e. Select Import Resource Actual Hours as the import process and then select the data file that you uploaded to Universal Content Management. f.

Click the Submit button.

g. Click the OK button for the confirmation message. h. Click the Close button. i.

Click the Refresh icon and monitor the process until it is complete.

6. Import the data. a. Click the Schedule New Process button. b. Select the Import Resource Actual Hours process. The following figure illustrates the process selection.

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c. Click the OK button. d. Click the Submit button. e. Click the OK button for the confirmation message. f.

Click the Close button.

g. Click the Refresh icon and monitor the Import Resource Actual Hours and the Import Resource Actual Hours Execution Report processes until they are complete.

7. Review the output report and verify the data. a. Select the Import Resource Actual Hours Execution Report process. b. In the Output section, click the Default Document link. c. Review the output report. IMPORTANT: In this example, you must also submit the Update Resource Utilization Data process from the Scheduled Processes page to update the utilization data on the Resource Manager Dashboard.

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STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS 

To correct errors, review the error message details in the output text report and correct the data in the CSV file. Load the data again and submit the import process. Include only the records that can’t be processed and delete the remaining records which were successfully processed in the CSV file. Refer to the sections Loading the Data and Importing the Loaded Data for the steps to be following to load the data and import the loaded data into the application tables.

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You can only import new objects. You can’t update existing objects.

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You can’t reorder or remove columns in the spreadsheet, but you can hide columns that are not needed.

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Task Import:

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The sequencing of tasks in the spreadsheet determines the task outline. The task sequence must reflect the task structure.

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You can add the subtask to a new task or to a task that already exists in Oracle Fusion Project Foundation.

Work Plan Import: Before you import work plans, you must ensure that all resources already exist as project enterprise resources.

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For information on importing actual resource hours, see the Oracle Enterprise Repository.

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Release Training for Oracle Fusion Applications Release 8 o

Fusion Project Management Enhancements: Effectively Integrate Your Projects with Enterprise Applications and Provision Project Users

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Fusion Project Portfolio Enhancements: Importing Data Using Open Interfaces

REAL-TIME INSIGHT: ORACLE FUSION TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ENHANCEMENTS

Report on project information using Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence. You can leverage a set of new subject areas in Release 8. Subject Area

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Subject Area Project Resource Supply Project Planning Project Resource Request Project Resource Assignment Expenditure Item Performance

Product Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Oracle Fusion Project Management Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Oracle Fusion Project Costing

PROJECT RESOURCE SUPPLY Report on resource supply as a fact using the Resource Supply subject area in Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence. The fact contains information such as the cost rate, bill rate, resource calendar, and whether resource availability and staffing is managed by resource managers. Report on the fact using dimensions such as the resource pool, primary project role, and resource qualifications and proficiencies. The Resource Supply subject area in Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence enables resource managers and project managers to create reports to track resource supply. For example, the reports can answer business questions about the competencies and proficiencies for all resources in a resource pool, the number of resources that are highly skilled in a particular competency, and which resources are currently unassigned. Note: Capacity time represents the total usable time based on each resource's calendar. The following metrics are available in the Project Resource Supply fact: 

Count of Qualifications

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Count of Resources

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Capacity Time

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Capacity Time Excluding Assignments

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Capacity Time Excluding Assignments and Nonproject Events

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Nonproject Event Time

The following dimensions are available: 

Project Assignment Dates Dimension

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Project Request Dates Dimension

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Project Dimension

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Project Role Dimension

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Qualification Dimension 10

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Assignment Dimension

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Request Dimension

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Resource Dimension

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Supply Dimension

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Time Dimension

PROJECT PLANNING The Project Planning subject area enables users to effectively report on metrics related to the project plan, including cost, schedule, effort, and bill metrics at the project and task assignment levels. Variance analysis can be performed using many of the key metrics. Project managers can easily create custom reports with real-time project plan data. The following metrics are available in the Project Planning fact: 

Actual Expense Amount

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Actual Hours

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Actual Labor Bill Amount

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Actual Labor Cost

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Effort in Days

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Effort in Hours

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Expense Amount

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Labor Bill Amount

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Labor Cost

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Remaining Expense Amount

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Remaining Hours

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Remaining Labor Bill Amount

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Remaining Labor Cost

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Task Percent Complete

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Total Actual Cost 11

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Total Cost

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Total Remaining Cost

The following dimensions are available: 

Employee

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Primary Task Assignment Resource

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Project

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Project Plan Dates

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Project Plan Details

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Project Planning Measures

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Project Progress Status

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Resource

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Resource Class

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Sprint

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Task

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Task Hierarchy

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Time

IMPORTANT: Project Planning subject area for real-time reporting does not include: 

Project and task codes

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Project resource allocation information

PROJECT RESOURCE REQUEST Report on project resource requests as a Project Resource Request fact using the Project Resource Management - Resource Management Real Time subject area in Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence. The fact contains information such as the total number of requested hours, target cost rate, and target bill rate. Report on the fact using dimensions such as resource, project, time, request status, request type, project role, qualifications, and proficiencies. You can create reports to track resource demand. For example, the reports can answer business questions about requests that are open and awaiting fulfillment, the most commonly requested qualifications, and the potential revenue and margin for open project resource requests. 12

The following metrics are available in the Project Resource Request fact: 

Count of Requests

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Count of Requests More Than One Week From The Requested Start Date

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Count of Requests Past Requested Start Date

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Count of Requests Within One Week Of The Requested Start Date

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Days to Requested Finish Date

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Days to Requested Start Date

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Hours on Open Resource Requests

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Project Resource Request Total Requested Hours

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Target Bill Rate

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Target Cost

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Target Cost Rate

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Target Margin

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Target Margin Rate

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Target Profit

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Target Revenue

The following dimensions are available: 

Project Assignment Dates Dimension

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Project Request Dates Dimension

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Project Dimension

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Project Role Dimension

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Qualification Dimension

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Assignment Dimension

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Request Dimension

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Resource Dimension 13

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Supply Dimension

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Time Dimension

PROJECT RESOURCE ASSIGNMENT Report on resource assignments as a fact using the Project Resource Assignment subject area in Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence. The fact contains information such as the total number of assigned hours, cost rate, and bill rate. In addition, report on the fact using dimensions such as resource, project, time, assignment status, request type, and project role. You can create reports to track resource assignments. For example, the reports can answer business questions about resource assignments for a resource pool that are ending soon and active resource assignments for the quarter or other time period. The following metrics are available in the Project Resource Assignment fact: 

Count of Assignments

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Assignment Time

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Days To Assignment Finish Date

The following dimensions are available: 

Project Assignment Dates Dimension

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Project Request Dates Dimension

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Project Dimension

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Project Role Dimension

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Qualification Dimension

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Assignment Dimension

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Request Dimension

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Resource Dimension

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Supply Dimension

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Time Dimension

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EXPENDITURE ITEM PERFORMANCE Use the Expenditure Item Performance subject area to understand performance of the expenditure item with respect to the cost distribution at the granular level. Review inception-to-date cost for core dimensions such as project, task, and expenditure type. Display revenue and invoice amounts associated with each expenditure item. Create WIP reports to display activity on the recent transactions for a project that includes the cost, revenue, and invoice amounts. The Expenditure Item Performance subject area allows listing of transactions that are awaiting revenue, billing, or both. The following metrics are available in the Expenditure Item Performance fact: 

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Capitalization Measures o

Capitalizable Cost

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Capitalizable Cost in Transaction Currency

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Capitalizable Raw Cost

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Capitalizable Raw Cost in Transaction Currency

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Noncapitalizable Cost

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Noncapitalizable Cost in Transaction Currency

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Noncapitalizable Raw Cost

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Noncapitalizable Raw Cost in Transaction Currency

Expenditure Item Measures o

Burden Cost

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Burden Cost in Transaction Currency

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Cost

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Cost in Transaction Currency

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Quantity

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Raw Cost

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Raw Cost in Transaction Currency

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Invoice Amount

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Revenue Amount 15

The following dimensions are available: 

Capitalization Details

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Currency Exchange Details

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Effort Details

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Employee

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Expenditure Class

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Expenditure Item Billing Details

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Expenditure Item Details

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Expenditure Item Revenue Details

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Expenditure Type

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Item

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Job

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Legal Entity

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Nonlabor Resource

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Organizations

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Original Source References

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Processing Details

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Project

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Receiver Ledger Currency Exchange Details

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Supplier

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Task

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Task Hierarchy

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Work Type

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STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS If you use the Task Hierarchy dimension for reporting, then you must submit the Denormalize Task Structure Hierarchies for Business Intelligence process to include the latest project data in Oracle Fusion Transactional Business Intelligence (OTBI) reports. When you manage projects in Oracle Fusion Project Foundation, the task structure is denormalized when you first save the project plan. Subsequently, when you add, delete, move, or change the indentation of tasks, you can synchronize project updates from the project plan. If you manage projects using Oracle Fusion Project Management, you can run the denormalization process only from the Scheduled Processes page. KEY RESOURCES 

Release Training for Oracle Fusion Applications Release 8 o

Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Enhancements: Effectively Manage Your Resource Assignments and Utilization

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Fusion Project Management Enhancements: Improved Usability and Reporting for Managing Projects

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Fusion Project Costing Cloud Service: Miscellaneous Enhancements

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ORACLE FUSION PROJECT COSTING Release 8 contains the following key changes and updates: 

Integration with Oracle Fusion Time and Labor

INTEGRATION WITH ORACLE FUSION TIME AND LABOR Oracle Fusion Time and Labor automates the entire time and attendance record-keeping process and includes integration with Oracle Fusion Project Costing, Oracle Fusion Absence Management, and Oracle Fusion Global Payroll. You can define values in any of these applications and make them available to specific groups of people to use for time entry. For example, you can use projects, tasks, and expenditure types in project-related time cards. Oracle Fusion Time and Labor provides an intuitive interface for time entry and approval, using either calendar entry or the traditional time card. You can configure entry or calculation rule templates to create rules that meet your business requirements. The application validates time entries at the point of submission and initiates approvals based on approval rules. After a time entry is approved, you can initiate a transfer process to transfer the time entry to the application that requires the information, including Oracle Fusion Project Costing. CALENDAR-BASED TIME ENTRY A worker can quickly report time from a calendar for either a single day or a range of days. You can configure the display of fields and designate which time entry values workers must enter. CONFIGURABLE TIME CARD APPROVAL RULES Workers and administrators can enter time in either weekly or biweekly time cards. You can use layout sets to configure the display and usage of all time entry fields for a time card. An administrator can create, modify, or view time cards to make adjustments or to assist workers who have questions.

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The following figure illustrates configuration of a simplified calendar entry layout with project-related fields.

DELIVERED VALIDATIONS Consuming applications that use time entries, such as Oracle Fusion Project Costing, provide validations to ensure all time entries can be accepted without errors. REAL-TIME CONFIGURABLE RULES You can use rule templates to configure time rules for different populations of workers. For example, you can: 

Configure time entry rules to trigger error or warning messages if the conditions are not met when reporting time.

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Create time calculation rules to make calculations based on reported time entries and generate updates from the calculated time.

The application applies the time entry and time calculation rules to the time card immediately in order to enable the worker to correct any invalid entries before submitting the time card for approval.

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CONFIGURABLE TIME CARD APPROVAL RULES You can configure approval tasks with various conditions and multiple routing options. For example, you can configure time cards for automatic approval, line manager approval, or project manager approval. You can update these approval rules within the Payroll and Project Time Card Approval tasks. TIME TRANSFER Consuming applications control the transfer of time. For example, Oracle Fusion Project Costing is a consuming application that uses time entries to track project costs. Oracle Fusion Project Costing can retrieve time using a set of existing retrieval filters. An administrator can use a troubleshooting page to correct time cards that did not successfully transfer to Oracle Fusion Project Costing. LIFECYCLE OF TIME CARDS: ORACLE FUSION TIME AND LABOR AND ORACLE FUSION PROJECT COSTING 1. Enter time for projects and tasks. Team members record time spent on projects and tasks using the configurable time card layout. The following figure illustrates simplified project time card entry from a calendar.

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The following figure illustrates detailed project-related time card entry.

2. Validate time entries using project transaction controls. Oracle Fusion Time and Labor uses transaction controls defined in Oracle Fusion Project Costing to validate project-related time entries against projects, tasks, and expenditure types. 3. Approve project time entries. Project managers can review and approve time entries for their project before you import the time cards into Oracle Fusion Project Costing. If a single time card has time entries for multiple projects, then each project manager receives time entries for their respective projects for review and approval. 4. Import time cards from Oracle Fusion Workforce Management. You import approved time cards from Oracle Fusion Workforce Management into Oracle Fusion Project Costing to track labor costs, billing, capitalization, and reporting. 5. Report time card status to Oracle Fusion Workforce Management. After you import time cards, the application communicates the status back to Oracle Fusion Workforce Management. 21

6. Adjust previously approved time entries. Project accountants can adjust time entries in Oracle Fusion Project Costing based on your business processes and requirements. For example, you can choose to reclassify a time entry from billable to nonbillable either in Oracle Fusion Project Costing or in Oracle Fusion Workforce Management. STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. KEY RESOURCES 

Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Release 8: What’s New Document

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Oracle Human Capital Management Cloud Release 8: Release Content Document

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ORACLE FUSION PROJECT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Release 8 contains the following key changes and updates: 

Analyze Actual Utilization

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Simplified Assignment Maintenance

ANALYZE ACTUAL UTILIZATION Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management tracks resource actual utilization for the current quarter and previous four quarters. Actual utilization for the current quarter includes both actual hours that are recorded to-date and project assignment hours from the current date to the end of the quarter. Rolledup actual utilization is available for the resource pools. The actual utilization is compared to the target utilization for the selected date range. As a resource manager, you can review actual utilization for a resource pool and for each resource who is a member of a pool. You can compare the actual utilization against the target utilization to determine which resource pools and resources are below the target utilization percentage. Actual utilization for the current quarter is the percentage of actual hours worked at the beginning of the quarter, plus projected project assignment hours from the date the process ran through the end of the current quarter, compared to the available hours. For the current quarter, the process uses actual hours worked through the day before the Utilization Data Updated date shown on the Resource Manager Dashboard. For the remainder of the quarter the process uses the hours that resources are projected to work on project assignments through the end of the current quarter. For previous quarters, resource actual utilization is the percentage of actual hours worked compared to the available hours. The following figure illustrates the Actual Utilization analytic on the Resource Manager Dashboard.

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To analyze actual utilization: 1. Navigate to the Resource Manager Dashboard. 2. Select the Resource Manager Dashboard tab. 3. Select the resource pool from the Resource Pool drop-down list. 4. Change the Display Range for the Actual Utilization analytic as needed. IMPORTANT: You can see when the utilization data was last updated next to the Resource Pool dropdown list. Submit the Update Resource Utilization Data process from the Scheduled Processes page to update the data. The following figure illustrates where you can find information on when the resource utilization data was last updated.

STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS 

You must first import actual resource hours using the file-based data loader. See the Enhanced Cloud: File-Based Data Loaders section of this guide for more details. After you import the actual resource hours you must then submit the Update Resource Utilization Data process from the Scheduled Processes page to update the data.

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The application determines the current quarter by the Utilization Data Updated date shown on the Resource Manager Dashboard, which is the last date that the Update Resource Utilization Data process ran.

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Only actual resource hours marked as utilizable contribute to actual resource utilization.

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A resource's available hours are based on the resource calendar. An example of a resource calendar is Monday through Friday, 8 hours a day. The application does not consider company holidays when determining a resource's available hours.

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The number of hours that a resource is assigned to work on project assignments includes assignments that are in a status of Assigned or Pending Adjustment.

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KEY RESOURCES 

For information on analyzing resource utilization, see Oracle Fusion Applications help topics.

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Release Training for Oracle Fusion Applications Release 8: Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Enhancements: Effectively Manage Your Resource Assignments and Utilization

SIMPLIFIED ASSIGNMENT MAINTENANCE Resource managers can actively keep track of resource assignments that are ending soon and act on them when necessary, such as by extending assignment dates. Having easy access to resource assignments that are ending soon allows resource managers to actively find new assignments for a resource or proactively collaborate with the project manager to determine if the resource will finish work on the project as of the assignment finish date. Resource managers have a single location to manage dates for assignments ending in the near future. Resource managers and project managers can adjust assignment start and finish dates for a resource assigned to a project. As a result of the adjustment, the application generates a request for adjustment approval. Upon approval, the assignment reflects the adjusted dates. Project resource assignments often require changes over the course of the assignment date range due to changes in scope and other circumstances. The ability to change the assignment dates allows project managers and resource managers to manage the assignments in real-world situations. To monitor assignments ending soon and adjust an assignment date as a resource manager: 1. Navigate to the Project Resources work area. 2. Review the information in the Project Resource Assignments Ending Soon section. The following figure illustrates a set of assignments ending soon.

3. Select an assignment to change the assignment finish date. 4. Select the Change Assignment Date action. 5. Enter the new finish date and an adjustment reason. 6. Select the Submit and Approve action to complete the adjustment.

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The following figure illustrates an example of an adjustment for the resource Anthony Coniglio.

STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS 

When a resource manager creates an adjustment to the end date from the Assignments Ending Soon section on the Overview tab, it is immediately approved.

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When a resource manager creates an adjustment to the assignment dates from the Manage Resource Assignments page, the resource manager has the option of seeking project manager approval or having the adjustment immediately approved.

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When the project manager submits a date adjustment, then the resource manager must approve the adjustment.

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When you initiate an assignment adjustment, the application creates a project resource request to communicate and track the adjustment approval. The assignment is updated when the request is approved. For example, when a request to adjust an assignment start date is approved, the new start date appears on the assignment.

KEY RESOURCES 

For information on simplified assignment maintenance, see Oracle Fusion Applications help topics.

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Release Training for Oracle Fusion Applications Release 8: Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management Enhancements: Effectively Manage Your Resource Assignments and Utilization

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ORACLE FUSION PROJECT MANAGEMENT Release 8 contains the following key changes and updates: 

Enhanced Project Planning

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Review Resource Allocation to Projects

ENHANCED PROJECT PLANNING As a project manager, you can select a set of labor resources to work on a project. Each resource has a default cost and bill rate from the resource’s project enterprise resource definition and project managers can update these default rates on the project. As part of project planning, you can assign labor resources to lowest-level tasks to track the planned, remaining, and actual amounts for each labor resource. The application calculates the cost and bill amounts for each task based on the planned hours and selected resource. You can view the labor cost and bill amounts in detail for each lowest-level, rolled up the task hierarchy, and in summary on the Project Manager Dashboard. In addition to planning amounts for labor resources, you can select a set of expense resources such as hotel, airfare, and office supplies to plan for the overall expense amounts on a project. As part of project planning, you can assign expense resources to lowest-level tasks to track the planned, remaining, and actual amounts for each type of expense. You can view the expense cost and bill amounts in detail for each lowest-level tasks, for summary tasks at each level of the hierarchy, and for projects on the Project Manager Dashboard. To plan for cost and bill amounts on a project: 1. Navigate to the Project Management work area. 2. Click the gear icon and then select the Open Project action. 3. Select your project and then click the OK button. 4. Click the gear icon and then select the Manage Project Resources action. 5. From the View menu, select the Columns drop-down list and then select Manage Columns. 6. Select the columns that you want to see, including the Cost Rate, Bill Rate, and Expense Amount columns, and click OK. 7. To enter or update the cost and bill rates for a labor resource, select the resource and then enter the amounts.

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The following figure illustrates specifying cost and bill rates for labor resources. In this example, the application automatically calculated cost and bill amounts based on the effort in hours for each resource.

8. Click the Add Row icon to add an expense resource. 9. Enter an Expense Amount for the expense resource. The following figure illustrates an expense resource with an expense amount.

10. Click the Save and Close button to return to the project plan. 11. To view cost and bill amounts on the project plan, from the View menu, select the Columns drop-down list and then select Manage Columns. 12. Select the columns that you want to see and click OK. The following figure illustrates cost amounts for resources based on the planned effort and the cost rate specified for the resource on the Manage Project Resources page.

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14. Expand the Task Details section below the main project plan table. 15. Select the Expenses tab. 16. Click the Add Row icon. 17. Select an expense resource and enter a planned amount. The following figure illustrates adding a Meals expense resource to the task.

18. Click the Save button. The following figure illustrates the total cost for labor and expense planning for a task.

STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS Update cost and bill rates for labor resources in the project enterprise resource definition to provide default rates when you allocate a resource to a project. KEY RESOURCES 

For information on enhanced project planning, see Oracle Fusion Applications help topics.

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Release Training for Oracle Fusion Applications Release 8: Fusion Project Portfolio Management Enhancements: Collaborate on Projects and Tasks

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REVIEW RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO PROJECTS Review the allocation of resources on your projects including those managed by other project managers. As a project manager, you can view the weekly resource capacity, project allocation, and allocation percentage. Colors assigned indicate which resources are overallocated or underallocated work on projects. You can change the default colors as needed. Assess how to optimally distribute work among team members by analyzing the weekly allocation of resources on your projects and on other projects. For each team member, you can: 

View allocation to your projects.

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View hours allocated on other projects.

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View total allocation across all projects.

To review resource allocations to projects: 1. Navigate to the Project Manager Dashboard. 2. Review the information in the Project Resources analytic. The following figure illustrates an example of reviewing resource allocation to projects. All resources allocated to projects for which you are the project manager appear in the table. You can expand each resource row to view the project detail. In addition, if you are project manager for the project, then you can drill down to manage the project plan.

3. Optionally, change the Date Range to view a broader or narrower time span.

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STEPS TO ENABLE This feature is enabled automatically. TIPS AND CONSIDERATIONS 

Optionally, you can export the data to Microsoft Excel.

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Click the Detach icon in the table toolbar to view a greater number of resources and dates at the same time.

KEY RESOURCES 

For information on reviewing resource allocation to projects, see Oracle Fusion Applications help topics.

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Release Training for Oracle Fusion Applications Release 8: Fusion Project Management Enhancements: Improved Usability and Reporting for Managing Projects

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POST-UPGRADE CONSIDERATIONS UNABLE TO ACCESS ORACLE FUSION TAP FOR PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT CLOUD AFTER UPGRADING

Perform these steps to configure Oracle Access Manager to manually correct the Oracle Fusion Tap for Project Portfolio Management Cloud URL policy under the Projects domain. 1.

In the Policy Configuration tab, expand the prj application domain.

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Expand Authentication Policies.

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Open the authentication policy for Policy for native Apps OraDefaultBasicAuthNScheme. The following figure illustrates opening the authentication policy.

a. Delete the existing resources. b. Enter the following values for the authentication policy and authentication scheme and click Apply.  Authentication Policy: Policy for native Apps  Authentication Scheme: BasicSessionlessScheme

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The following figure illustrates entering values for the authentication policy and authentication scheme.

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Open the resources for the prj application domain.

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The following figure illustrates opening the resources.

a. Click Search. b.

In the search results, enter the following values for each resource, and click Apply.  Protection Level: Protected  Authentication Policy: Policy for native Apps

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