Welcome to Release 12.2 of the Oracle Projects Fundamentals.
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The principles and customary practices of your business area.
Oracle Projects
If you have never used Oracle Projects, we suggest you attend one or more of the Oracle Projects training classes available through Oracle University
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This chapter provides a brief overview of the Oracle Projects group of applications, including Oracle Project Costing, Oracle Project Billing, Oracle Project Resource Management, Oracle Project Planning and Control, Oracle Project Collaboration, and Oracle Project Portfolio Analysis.
This chapter describes Project Procurement Command Center and discusses how project managers can use the command center.
This chapter discusses three integral aspects of the Oracle Projects application suite: organizations, jobs, and resources.
Oracle Projects shares organization, job, and employee information with Oracle Human Resources. If your business does not currently use Oracle Human Resources, you define this data using the Oracle Human Resources windows provided with Oracle Projects.
Your implementation of Oracle Human Resources to work with Oracle Projects involves the definition of:
Organizations and organization hierarchies
Jobs
Resource information
The structure of your enterprise determines how you define your organizations, business groups, hierarchies, jobs, and job groups.
Resources are the labor, services, materials, equipment, and other items needed to plan, track, complete, and account for project work. In Oracle Projects, you can define and utilize resources to:
Plan work
Staff projects
Estimate budgets and forecasts
Assign tasks, issues, and change requests
Track and report project costs and categorize revenue
Schedule assignments and monitor the project progress
Charge labor and expenses to a project containing employees and contingent workers
This chapter discusses the functionality behind project team definition, including the definition of scheduled and nonscheduled team members and the definition of organization roles, and the definition and management of scheduled team roles.
This chapter describes how Oracle Projects determines rates. You can use rates to calculate amounts for costing, billing, and workplan and financial planning.
This chapter describes how to define projects, project structures, project lifecycles, project attributes, project team and organization roles, and tasks.
This chapter discusses the organization forecasting functionality in Oracle Projects. Organization forecasting is a powerful management planning and reporting tool.
This chapter describes procedures and activities you need to know about to administer data and settings in Oracle Projects.
This chapter describes all of the processes you can submit in Oracle Projects.
This chapter describes each standard report and listing in Oracle Projects.
This chapter describes how to integrate Oracle Projects with other Oracle Applications.
This chapter discusses the various security structures used by Oracle Projects: project security, responsibility–based security, and organizational security.
This chapter discusses functionality within Oracle Projects supporting operation of global enterprise, including support for multiple organizations, multiple currencies, and multiple languages.
This chapter describes how accounting dates and accounting periods are considered when transactions are processed in Oracle Projects. It also describes the reporting and accounting dates associated with each type of transaction, and how those dates are derived.
This appendix documents the predefined setup that Oracle Projects provides for Oracle Subledger Accounting
This appendix describes the default navigation paths for each window on the Oracle Projects menu.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.