Overview of Oracle Project Performance Reporting Setup

In the Define Project Performance Reporting Configuration activity, you configure reporting components for monitoring project performance.

The following table lists the setup tasks for Oracle Project Performance Reporting:

Task List or Task Name	Description
Define Project Performance Reporting Configuration	Configure Project Performance Reporting to collect and review project data against defined performance areas.
Manage Project Unit Options: Performance Reporting Options	Specify settings and default values for project performance reporting and analytics within a project unit.
Define Key Performance Indicators	Manage project performance measures, key performance indicators, KPI categories, and status and trend indicators to track and view project performance.
Manage Status Indicators	Create indicators to convey the status and severity of performance for a measure and a performance category.
Manage Trend Indicators	Update the description and sort order of the status trend indicators.
Manage KPI Categories	Create additional categories to group key performance indicators and to track and view the overall performance of a project.
Manage Performance Measures	Enable predefined performance measures for summarization. Create custom measures to evaluate project performance using base measures or retrieve from third-party or legacy sources. Specify the related measures that are displayed with the performance measure in the KPI analysis region.
Manage Key Performance Indicators	Specify thresholds of possible values for a measure and associate them to status indicators.
Define Region Personalization	Configure region layouts and graph types on the project performance reporting dashboard.
Manage Region Layouts	Configure rows and measures within the region layouts.
Manage Cross Project Comparison Graph Types	Create and update graph types to control the display name, sort order, and contents of the cross-project comparison graph region.
Define Summarization Options	Configure options for the summarization process.
Specify Number of Parallel Summarization Extraction Programs	Specify the maximum number of helper programs that can exist at one time. Data summarization programs can launch helper programs to manage the load on system resources.
Specify Global Start Date for Summarization	Specify the date that periodic analysis of summarized data starts. You can't analyze project performance data by period before this date.
Define Project Performance Reporting Configuration	Configure Project Performance Reporting to collect and review project data against defined performance areas.
Manage Project Performance Reporting Messages	Review and manage messages for Project Performance Reporting.

This chapter provides detailed setup steps for the task Manage Key Performance Indicators.