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PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery
With the ability to relate unstructured data stored in text fields and files to structured project financial and resource data stored in relational database tables, PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery provides project executives, project managers, and project financial analysts with next-generation information discovery and analytical capabilities. Project-driven organizations can analyze projects and resources in unprecedented ways by filtering volumes of transaction data based on a combination of pre-defined, structured reporting dimensions and user-defined keyword refinements. KEY FEATURES
Unlock the Value Trapped in Unstructured Project and Resource Data
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Dynamic, user-definable dimensions for unprecedented flexibility in filtering project and resource transaction data
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Analysis of project and resource information based on data stored in documents and other unstructured formats
what can be extracted and queried from predefined fields in a database. PeopleSoft In-
Depiction of resource supply and demand and projects on maps for visual analysis
and PeopleSoft Program Management with the unstructured data, primarily free-form
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Interactive analysis against massive volumes of project financial data
Costing, resource qualification and assignment data from PeopleSoft Resource
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Sophisticated resource supply and demand matching based on both structured and unstructured data
those sets of data with various sources of text in the applications, such as resume file
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Rapid drilldown to project and resource data behind the analytics
Traditionally, organizations have been confined to analysis of their projects based on Memory Project Discovery changes that paradigm by linking structured project financial and operational data in PeopleSoft Project Costing, PeopleSoft Resource Management, text, captured in file attachments and text fields. For example, PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery takes actual cost and budget transactions from PeopleSoft Project Management, and project risks from PeopleSoft Program Management and associates attachments. Through this association, PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery users can type keywords, such as “perform feasibility study”, and have the software present dashboards containing budget, actual cost, and revenue figures for all the projects that contain the keywords.
KEY BENEFITS
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Interrogate project information and answer complex questions in ways and at speeds not previously feasible
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Discover relationships and trends between project execution and project financial performance
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Raise resource utilization and improve competitiveness through early identification of resource supply and demand disparities
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Improve project financial and operational performance through better quality and faster staffing of resources
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•controls by Tighten project and resource detecting patterns of behavior visible through traditional structurednot analytics
Figure 1. PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery Project & Resource Mapping Tool
Visualize Project and Resource Data Visualization is a powerful tool for improving the quality and speed of decision making. RELAT ED PRODUCTS
With PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery, resource managers can display on maps
The information analysis provided by PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery is richer and more expansive when an organization uses other PeopleSoft applications in addition to the prerequisite PeopleSoft Project Costing application. To take full advantage of the potential offered by PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery, use of the following applications is recommended:
both the supply and demand for skills in order to accelerate the process of assigning the
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PeopleSoft Resource Management
facilitate analysis by a variety of groupings and subtotals. For instance, pie charts can
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PeopleSoft Program Management
display projects based on the number and level of risks identified for each project and
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PeopleSoft Asset Management
the amount of cost incurred in a given category.
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most qualified resources. Additionally, with its dynamic metric bar, PeopleSoft InMemory Project Discovery updates project and resource metrics as they change in response to the structured and unstructured data filters that users apply. PeopleSoft InMemory Project Discovery presents project counts, revenue and cost budgets, revenue and cost actuals, planned costs, budget variances, resource request counts, average bill and cost rates, margin, utilization, and more. PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery can chart project financial and resource information, and it rapidly renders and re-renders the data in multi-dimensional grids to
Tighten Project Financial Controls Controls that warn when projects are at risk of diverging from schedule or exceeding budget are essential to enabling an organization to achieve world-class project management results. With PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery, project managers and staff can receive alerts for key exceptions, such as budget overages, to draw their attention to important issues before they become problems. Furthermore, PeopleSoft InMemory Project Discovery depicts key variances down to the PeopleSoft Project Costing ChartField level of detail and offers the ability to drill further to research the source of variances. The ability to select and compare projects and activities side-byside gives even more financial control to project and program managers. With PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery’s multiple approaches to supporting proactive project monitoring, project managers and staff can drive better project results with little to no additional data gathering and manipulation effort.
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Figure 1. PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery Projects Dashboard
Leverage the Power of Oracle Engineered Systems PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery is an Oracle Engineered System that represents the next-generation of business applications and demonstrates the power of Oracle’s “Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together” strategy. By leveraging the processing power of Oracle Exalytics Hardware and the capacity of Oracle Endeca Information Discovery to relate unstructured and structured data, PeopleSoft In-Memory Project Discovery can provide analysis at unprecedented speeds that practically eliminate the labor costs and time that would otherwise be associated with manually sorting, calculating metrics, and searching documents for project data. Project-oriented executives and managers can benefit from the speed at which complex project analytics can be derived and the ability to more efficiently manage projects and staff resources, while IT organizations can gain operational efficiencies from a simplified, tightly integrated architecture.
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