Oracle Project Portfolio Management Cloud

Release 12

New Feature Summary

December 2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS
REVISION HISTORY .................................................................................................................................................3

COMMON TECHNOLOGIES .....................................................................................................................................4

APPLICATIONS SECURITY ..............................................................................................................................................4

User Account Management ............................................................................................................................................... 5
Administrator Password Management .............................................................................................................................. 5
User Password Management (Self-Service) ....................................................................................................................... 5
User Account Locking ......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Enhanced Role Visualization .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Tabular Role Hierarchy View .............................................................................................................................................. 6
Search in Role Hierarchy Visualization ............................................................................................................................... 6
User Name Generation Rules ............................................................................................................................................. 6
Password Policies ............................................................................................................................................................... 6
Notification Templates....................................................................................................................................................... 6
Upgrade-Safe Management of Factory Shipped Roles ...................................................................................................... 7
Bridge for Microsoft Active Directory ................................................................................................................................ 7
User Password Changes Audit Report................................................................................................................................ 7
Integrate Custom Identity Management Solution ............................................................................................................. 7
Password Reset .................................................................................................................................................................. 7
Security Console ................................................................................................................................................................ 7

PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT .....................................................................................................................8

PROJECT FOUNDATION ................................................................................................................................................8

Improved Data Security ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
Enhanced User Interface for Project Portfolio Management ............................................................................................ 8
Extend Project and Task Definition Using Additional Descriptive Flexfields ...................................................................... 8
Assign and Edit Project Classifications Using a Web Service .............................................................................................. 8
PROJECT BILLING ........................................................................................................................................................9
Enable Contract-Specific Currency Conversion Rate Overrides ......................................................................................... 9
Analyze Project Billing Events ............................................................................................................................................ 9
Analyze Invoices Exported to an External Receivables Application ................................................................................... 9
Create Billing Rate Overrides with Web Services ............................................................................................................... 9
Confirm Invoice Acceptance or Rejection by an External Receivables Application............................................................ 9
PROJECT CONTROL .................................................................................................................................................... 10
Enhanced Spread Curve Distribution in Project Plan ....................................................................................................... 10
Analyse Project Progress .................................................................................................................................................. 10
Analyze Budget and Actual Data By Planning Resource................................................................................................... 10
Capture Physical Percent Complete and Progress Dates Using a Web Service ................................................................ 10
PROJECT COSTING..................................................................................................................................................... 11
Revalidate Project Costs from Expenses During Import................................................................................................... 11
Create Expenditure Items and Commitment Transactions Using Web Services .............................................................. 11
PROJECT MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................ 12
Analyze Project Issues Using Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence ........................................................................ 12
PROJECT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT .............................................................................................................................. 13
Employ Workflow for Assignment Adjustment Approvals and Notifications .................................................................. 13
Rapidly Implement Resource Pools and Organize Your Resources .................................................................................. 13
View Complete Resource Details and Quickly Assign Resources ..................................................................................... 13

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REVISION HISTORY

This document will continue to evolve as existing sections change and new information is added. All
updates are logged below, with the most recent updates at the top.

Date What's Changed Notes

05 DEC 2016 Initial Document Creation

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COMMON TECHNOLOGIES

APPLICATIONS SECURITY

Oracle Fusion Applications Security provides a single console where IT Security Managers and
Administrators can perform various functions including user lifecycle management, role definition,
security policy management (both functional and data), role hierarchy maintenance, username and
password policy administration, and certificate management. The console also enables users to simulate
the effect of security changes, to run security reports, and download a connector for integration with
Microsoft Active Directory.

In Release 12, Oracle Fusion Applications Security offers several new capabilities that offer customers
the following benefits:

A Simplified User Experience for the IT Security Manager - Prior to Release 12, security
administration functions were distributed across Oracle Identity Management (OIM) and
Authorization Policy Manager (APM). In Release 12, these functions are delivered through a
single interface the Security Console. OIM and APM are no longer available in R12.

Easy Integration with Identity and Access Management (IDM/IAM) Systems - New
capabilities to synchronize user account information with Identity and Access Management
(IDM/IAM) systems. This synchronization enables the delivery of a Single Sign-On
experience through these systems.

For Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Oracle Identity Management (OIM), customers can
download and install connectors that will automatically synchronize user account
information between Oracle Fusion Applications and these IDM systems. As in Release 11,
customers must continue to log a Service Request (SR) to set up federated Single Sign-On

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 (SSO) between these systems. Once federation is enabled, the connectors will synchronize
the information.

Release 12 also delivers a REST API based on the SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity
Management) standard. Customers can use this API to create user accounts, modify user
attributes (e.g. email), enable/disable users, and fetch user account and role information.

An Upgrade-Safe Reference Role Model - Starting in Release 12, pre-defined roles that are
shipped with Oracle Applications Security will be locked down. Customers will not be able to
modify the functional and data security policies that are associated with these roles. They
can, however, add new data security policies to these pre-defined roles. In addition,
privileges and resources are protected. Users cannot create or modify these artifacts

Locking down these security artifacts enables safe upgrades to pre-defined roles, since the
possibility of conflict with customer introduced changes to these roles is now eliminated.
This, in turn enables customers to safely adopt new enhancements that may be delivered
with pre-defined roles in future releases. As in Release 11, customers can make copies of
pre-defined roles and freely customize these copies.

Enhanced Set of Self-Service Capabilities - Administrators are able to manage the entire
user lifecycle. They can customize how notifications are generated and sent for various user
lifecycle events including user account creation, and password management.

Administrators can also tailor username and password generation by choosing from a list of
shipped policies.

USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Create, manage, and assign user accounts using the Security Console. You can also search, retrieve, and
manage user accounts automatically created for employees, contingent workers, supplier contacts, or
partner contacts.

ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD MANAGEMENT

Manage passwords of other user accounts as an administrator. You can auto-generate or manually
enter a password for a user account. You can also define password lifecycle and complexity policies.
Passwords will be automatically validated against these policies.

USER PASSWORD MANAGEMENT (SELF-SERVICE)

Manage your own user account password. Your password will be automatically validated against the
defined password lifecycle and complexity policies.

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USER ACCOUNT LOCKING

Lock user accounts as an administrator. If you lock a user account, you will be temporarily preventing
the user from logging in with that user account. You can also unlock a locked user account.

ENHANCED ROLE VISUALIZATION

View only certain components of a role in the graphic visualizer. You can view only the privileges,
aggregate privileges or roles assigned to a role. You can also view the graphic visualizer in full screen
mode and pan over a specific region in the graph.

For complex roles, these features enable you to reduce the amount of information visualized and to
focus on the area within the role hierarchy that requires your attention.

TABULAR ROLE HIERARCHY VIEW

View role hierarchies in a tabular view. You can switch between the graphic visualizer view and the
tabular view. You can also export the data you view in the tabular view.

SEARCH IN ROLE HIERARCHY VISUALIZATION

Search and quickly locate security artifacts (nodes) in the role hierarchy visualization. You can search for
privileges, roles or users in the visualization.

USER NAME GENERATION RULES

Define user name generation rules that will be used to auto-generate the user name when a user is
created. You can define user name generation rules to be based on the users first and last names, first
initial plus last name, e-mail or person or party number. You can also choose to use a system generated
user name if the rule fails to generate a user name.

PASSWORD POLICIES

Define policies for password management. These policies can define the duration for various password
lifecycle events like password expiration and password warning generation. You can also set the
complexity of generated passwords by choosing from a pre-defined list of rules.

NOTIFICATION TEMPLATES

Define custom notification templates for your user account life cycle events. You can also use pre-
defined notification templates. These templates will be used to generate notifications for events like
user account created, user password reset and user password expiry warning.

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UPGRADE-SAFE MANAGEMENT OF FACTORY SHIPPED ROLES

Identify a predefined (factory shipped) Oracle role when viewing the role. Predefined Oracle roles are
locked and you cannot customize the Oracle delivered functional and data security policies associated
with these roles. You can, however, add data security policies to these roles.

BRIDGE FOR MICROSOFT ACTIVE DIRECTORY

Simplify Single Sign-On with Microsoft Active Directory by downloading and installing the Active
Directory Bridge from the Security Console. Automatically synchronize user account information
between Oracle Fusion Applications Security and Microsoft Active Directory.

USER PASSWORD CHANGES AUDIT REPORT

Generate a report that lists password changes made by users. The report can be generated for changes
made by specific users or for all changes made during a specific period.

INTEGRATE CUSTOM IDENTITY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Integrate optionally with your Identity Management solution for user and role management using
industry standard System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) REST APIs and ATOM feeds.

PASSWORD RESET

Enhanced password reset flow. Now a notification email will be sent to the user who requests a
password reset. The user will be required to click on this link within a specific period of time to change
the password. This replaces the previous flow where users were required to answer a series of challenge
questions to reset the password.

SECURITY CONSOLE

Streamline use of some of the functionality that you have used in the past with the Security Console.
The Security Console now includes the following functionality:

User Account information such as password, lock and unlock are managed in the security
console.
Roles are now managed directly in the Security Console and are no longer managed within
Oracle Identity Manager or Authorization Policy Manager.
Privileges are predefined by Oracle and are no longer created or managed by the user.
You can now view, create or change roles without first selecting an application.

Resources are now granted through privilege and are no longer granted directly to Roles.

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PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

PROJECT FOUNDATION

Oracle Fusion Project Foundation includes common components that are shared across products within
Oracle Fusion Project Portfolio Management. It includes the basic project plan structure and
components such as resource breakdown structures, rate schedules, pricing, burdening, and cross-
charge processing.

IMPROVED DATA SECURITY

A new data security model was introduced in Release 11 that only applied to new Oracle ERP Cloud
customers. In Release 12 all users will now be assigned to the appropriate data sets using the new
Manage Data Access for Users page, without the need for assigning data roles generated from data role
templates. Since data roles are no longer used, they will no longer be automatically generated upon the
creation of a new data security element, such as a new business unit or a new ledger.

This new feature is available to all products in Oracle ERP Cloud, including Financials, Procurement,
Project Portfolio Management, Supply Chain Management, and Incentive Compensation.

While customers who started using Oracle ERP Cloud in Release 11 have been introduced to this new
model, customers who were using Oracle ERP Cloud prior to Release 11 have continued to use the data
role based data security in Release 11. In Release 12, the usage of generated data roles for data security
will be discontinued and customers who are using the data role based model will be upgraded to use
the new user-role-data assignment model.

ENHANCED USER INTERFACE FOR PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

Leverage the latest user interface design innovation to enhance the overall user experience.

EXTEND PROJECT AND TASK DEFINITION USING ADDITIONAL DESCRIPTIVE FLEXFIELDS

Manage and report on projects more effectively by capturing additional information in project and task
descriptive flexfields. You can add up to 50 character, 15 numeric, and 15 date attributes each on
projects and tasks.

ASSIGN AND EDIT PROJECT CLASSIFICATIONS USING A WEB SERVICE

Utilize a web service to assign and manage project classifications.

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PROJECT BILLING

Oracle Fusion Project Billing accelerates invoice processing while reducing billing errors through a
functionally rich work area offering visibility into formatted invoices with estimated taxes. Embedded
analytics for contract revenue, invoice, profitability and margin give insight into potential contract and
payment problems.

ENABLE CONTRACT-SPECIFIC CURRENCY CONVERSION RATE OVERRIDES

Specify currency conversion rate overrides on a bill plan to convert invoice and revenue amounts in bill
transaction currency to contract or invoice and revenue currency.

ANALYZE PROJECT BILLING EVENTS

Analyze and track billing events using real-time analytics.

ANALYZE INVOICES EXPORTED TO AN EXTERNAL RECEIVABLES APPLICATION

Analyze and track project contract invoices integrated with an external receivables application using
real-time analytics.

CREATE BILLING RATE OVERRIDES WITH WEB SERVICES

Use web services to simplify integration with external applications. Automate the creation of billing rate
overrides on your contract bill plans from your existing applications.

CONFIRM INVOICE ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION BY AN EXTERNAL RECEIVABLES APPLICATION

Improve the integration with external receivables applications, including:

1. Adding descriptive flexfields to the invoice export for import into the external receivables
application.
2. Identifying whether the external receivables application accepted or rejected the invoice.
3. Storing and displaying the external receivables application invoice number.
4. Completing the invoice processing for invoices accepted by the external receivables application,
including: deriving accounting dates and periods, converting amounts into ledger and project
currency, setting invoice distributions to ready for as billed revenue recognition, and calling
contract invoice summarization.

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PROJECT CONTROL

Oracle Fusion Project Control provides full-function project planning, progress management, budgeting
and forecasting, as well as delivered integration to Microsoft Project.

ENHANCED SPREAD CURVE DISTRIBUTION IN PROJECT PLAN

Edit the resource assignment dates in the financial project plan without spreading the periodic amounts
again. The project manager can add periods to a resource assignment and subsequently plan for new
periods. The project manager can also modify a resource assignment to finish early, and select a period
from which to spread the unallocated amounts.

ANALYSE PROJECT PROGRESS

Report on project progress captured in Project Financial Management using real-time analytics. Analyze
project progress and view specific progress details such as actual cost, estimated effort to complete,
cost percent spent, physical percent complete, and estimated cost at completion. Measure project
performance using earned value metrics, including cost variance, cost performance index, and schedule
performance index. Analyze performance trends as progress is captured over time and use that
information to estimate and control project outcomes.

ANALYZE BUDGET AND ACTUAL DATA BY PLANNING RESOURCE

Report on budgets, actual costs, and commitments by various planning resource elements, such as
expenditure category, expenditure type, and person using real-time analytics.

CAPTURE PHYSICAL PERCENT COMPLETE AND PROGRESS DATES USING A WEB SERVICE

Load progress information from external applications using a web service. Update the draft progress
values for the physical percent complete, the estimated start and finish dates, and the actual start and
finish dates.

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PROJECT COSTING

Oracle Fusion Project Costing captures commitments and costs from across the Fusion applications and
supports third-party integrations. The unique cost collection and processing needs of different sources
are streamlined to provide timely insight into validated project costs.

REVALIDATE PROJECT COSTS FROM EXPENSES DURING IMPORT

Ensures that time entries, expense reports, supplier invoices, and receipts from integrating applications
are for valid projects and tasks by revalidating transactions during cost import.

CREATE EXPENDITURE ITEMS AND COMMITMENT TRANSACTIONS USING WEB SERVICES

Use web services to simplify integration with external applications. Automate the creation of asset
usage, burden, time card, expense report, supplier invoice, miscellaneous, work in progress, inventory
and commitment transactions from your existing applications.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Oracle Fusion Project Management extends project planning, management, and scheduling capabilities
to all individuals within the enterprise who are required to manage project-based work. Project
managers can engage with team members to develop tasks, resolve issues, report progress, and
monitor the status of the project to ensure that objectives are realized.

ANALYZE PROJECT ISSUES USING ORACLE TRANSACTIONAL BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Use the Project Management - Project Issues Real Time subject area to analyze and report on issues and
action items. For example, report on outstanding issues by project, or analyze completion times by type
of issue. View real time issue and action item information by dimension such as issue type, issue status,
project, issue owner, and dates.

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PROJECT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

With Oracle Fusion Project Resource Management organizations can optimize the allocation and
utilization of their most precious resource: their people. Innovative and intuitive tools let resource
managers and project managers ensure that the best-fit resource is identified and placed on each and
every project assignment, to the benefit of the organization, the project resource, and the end
customer, whether it be for internal or external billable projects.

EMPLOY WORKFLOW FOR ASSIGNMENT ADJUSTMENT APPROVALS AND NOTIFICATIONS

Notify approvers about assignment adjustments to improve communication between project managers
and staffing owners and ensure that assignments are updated with the most accurate schedules. Specify
the workflow notification recipients when a resource assignment schedule changes or an assignment is
canceled. Project application administrators configure the workflow by specifying which roles receive a
notification to approve a resource assignment adjustment and which roles receive an information-only
notification about the adjustment. For example, if a resource manager adjusts an assignment, the
affected project manager receives a notification to approve the adjustment. If a project manager adjusts
an assignment, the affected staffing owner receives a notification to approve the adjustment. You can
add workflow participants to approve the adjustment, such as the resource's line manager, or to receive
information-only notifications about the adjustment, such as the resource pool owner.

RAPIDLY IMPLEMENT RESOURCE POOLS AND ORGANIZE YOUR RESOURCES

Efficiently establish your resource pool hierarchy and create pool memberships during implementation
with the ability to import pools and memberships. After import, you can view and maintain resource
pools and memberships on the Manage Resource Pools page.

VIEW COMPLETE RESOURCE DETAILS AND QUICKLY ASSIGN RESOURCES

View detailed resource information outside the context of a project resource request. Search for
resources by resource pool, organization, job title, and other resource attributes. View resource details
such as rates, e-mail, and manager, and assignment details such as project experience and schedule for
the next quarter. View all resource qualifications related to competencies, languages, memberships,
degrees, honors and awards, and licenses and certifications. Access detailed resource reporting
including resource capacity planning. After viewing detailed resource information, create a resource
assignment without the need for a project resource request. Resource managers gain insight into
resource available capacity to make more informed staffing decisions.

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