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292 INTEGRATING PM AND ERP

Oracle has developed partnership agreements with several PM vendors,
including Artemis, Primavera, Welcom, and Mantix, and is adding new part-
ners every year. The role of the partners is to develop, market, and support an
interface product, which will facilitate two-way transfer of data between the
project management program and the Oracle Projects Activity Management
Gateway module.

For instance, Primavera has developed a set of Application Programming In-
terfaces (APIs) which enable rapid data access between applications. In addition
to linking Primavera Project Planner (P3) to Oracle Projects, an interface can
provide access to Project System, from SAP. This facilitates integration with the
SAP R/3 system. Primavera also has interfaces to PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards.
All of these interfaces will work with the full range of Primavera’s project tools:
SureTrak, P3, P3e, Team Play, and Expedition.

Welcom has developed links between Open Plan and Cobra (their PM and
Earned Value products) and two ERP products: SAP/R3 and Baan (IV & 5).

Artemis has developed their ArtemisViews/Oracle Projects interface to
link ProjectView, TrackView, and CostView with Oracle Projects, as shown in
Figure 10.2b. The ProjectView/Oracle Projects interface facilitates the transfer
of system-level data, such as organizational structure, calendars, and resource
data from Oracle Projects to ProjectView. Project templates stored in Oracle
Projects can also be used to open a standardized project in ProjectView. Once
the project is established, via either transfer or development in ProjectView,
the project data can be sent to Oracle Projects. This might include work
breakdown structures, activities, resource requirements and budgets, perfor-
mance, and earned value data. During project implementation, accounting
data, such as charged hours and invoiced costs, can be entered directly
into Oracle, and passed down to the scheduling system, as well as on to Oracle
Financials.

Artemis’ CostView software manages the extensive cost data usually associated
with government projects (C/SCSC). With the CostView/Oracle Projects inter-
face, these cost data can be transferred between both products. The interface
provides three window tabs, for Actuals, Budgets, and Earned Value.

Artemis has also joined SAP’s Complementary Solution Program, for integra-
tion with SAP R/3.

In addition to the three partnership agreements between Oracle and Artemis/
Primavera/Mantix, Oracle has determined that an interface is needed to integrate
with Microsoft Projects. In this case, rather than development and sales of the in-
terface tool by the project management software vendor (Microsoft), the tool
(Project Connect) is provided by Oracle.