E-Business Suite

The E-Business Suite (EBS) integration with P6 is similar to the one for JDE. It too uses the Application Integration Architecture, Fusion Middleware, and a process Integration Pack. The integrations require Oracle Project Foundation 11.5.10.2 or later.

One difference is that EBS has built-in project functionality quite similar to P6. This is implemented in its Project Costing and Project Management modules. But the ideas are similar: resource definitions and financial costs are owned by EBS, and resource assignment and scheduling are owned by Primavera.

As in the JDE integration, resources and roles are defined in EBS and then sent into P6.

The integration at the project level does differ, however. Shown in the following screenshot are some of the project-level integration settings in EBS.

Projects can be integrated in two fundamentally different manners, by workplan or by financial structure. In EBS, the concept of a workplan is analogous to a WBS element. You can choose to integrate at the workplan level, which means that activities are exchanged between EBS and P6, and actual costs are sent from EBS to P6 at the resource level.

If you choose to integrate by financial plan, then data is synchronized at a higher level. For example, actual costs are placed into a user-defined field at the WBS level. The level of WBS mapping can be set to only map data at a number of levels. So you may just map at the top-level WBS, or at all levels, depending on your needs.

In both situations, the project header is synchronized, and the project header integration will allow you to create and close projects. Budgets are handled similarly in both situations as well.