Infosys-Oracle Blog : Fusion Projects Portfolio Management (PPM) - Charting a new course for Project Managers

The Project Manager, like a captain on a ship, is ultimately responsible for the success of a project. In a project centric environment, there have been challenges faced to achieve the quality, on-time completion and cost effective project delivery. These challenges turn out to be massive when one project manager is responsible for managing multiple projects running at the same time. The technology solutions developed to deliver the project, ultimately aims to achieve a Return on Investments (ROI) and at the same time providing the excellence in Project Management practices.

Oracle has been constantly endeavoring to provide the best of project management solutions to deal with these emerging challenges. The most recent endeavor on this front is introduction of Fusion Projects Portfolio Management, equipped with the best of features embraced from the acquired product/solution in recent past.

Fusion PPM has been designed, keeping in mind the needs of a project intensive organization. The framework of the Fusion PPM model encompasses the core project functionalities needed for effective project management & execution. Project managers are seen to be the biggest beneficiaries with Fusion PPM implemented in an organization it will simplify the process of project management. With Fusion PPM, Project managers & their teams will be able to execute their projects with significant advantages such as greater visibility, increased coordination and organized execution of project tasks

With the introduction of fusion model, a fully loaded Dashboard has been provided to the Project Manager as a one-stop shop for tracking, managing and billing projects.

The key features embedded as part of Project Manager's dashboard in Fusion:

The dashboard is like a "project scorecard" where the project manager can review/track the overall health of the project
Capability to view performance at project, task, resource level and by time phases
Easy access to information, no more navigation across modules and spreadsheets to get the data
Exception based management, pushing of error/exception to Project Manager for corrective action
Performance Measures to enable viewing the data according to the context
Cross-project comparison for various performance measures
Availability of real time project financial data
A graphical and tabular overview of performance
Simpler user interfaces with global search and drill down capability

Overall, Fusion PPM with its simple and intuitive navigation, straight-forward and easily executable business process flows and seamless integration between the various functions in Fusion Application, makes it a handy tool for project managers.

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- Mukesh Soni and Rekha Jose

Mukesh Soni is a Senior Associate Consultant in Enterprise Solutions at Infosys. He has consulting experience in Oracle Projects Applications with domain expertise primarily in the Finance & Accounts.

Rekha Jose is a Senior Associate Consultant in Enterprise Solutions at Infosys. She has consulting experience in Oracle Projects Applications with expertise in EPC & Manufacturing sectors.

Disclaimer: Authors have presented their views based on the working experience on Oracle Fusion Applications Beta.