Smart Construction Platform

Project- and portfolio-level management

To maximize capital budgets, owners need to optimise their overall portfolio and every project within that portfolio by effectively managing project prioritization and budgeting—throughout operations and maintenance all the way to project execution.

Oracle Smart Construction Platform can help synchronise project and portfolio activities, resources, data, and teams throughout the project and asset lifecycle.

Project prioritization and selection

In the planning phase, you can align projects to organizational goals and leverage relevant past and current project data to select projects and develop their budgets.

Implementing processes and systems across the organization helps ensure consistency across the entire capital portfolio.

Get your project up and running

Companywide standards and flexible system templates get your project and team up and running quickly.

Owners benefit from having contractors across their projects using a consistent system that supports project-to-project learning and allows team member movement from project to project.

Cross-organization collaboration

Most project teams consist of many different organizations. Efficient communication and collaboration across organizations are critical to project success.

Oracle Aconex provides secure access to each party, driving trust and adoption and supporting the development of a complete project record.

Cross-organization workflows can be easily customised to meet all review cycle needs, reducing approval delays and helping to keep projects on track.

Vast amount of project data

Projects generate a huge amount of data, which if managed effectively, can be the project's and owner's greatest asset.

Oracle Aconex metadata-based data management and search functionality lets you tag files to multiple categories, helping you find what you need quickly and easily. The data ownership model gives each organization ownership of their own data and helps protect the owner from data loss.

Model management

Project data includes the rich details from the building information models. With Oracle Aconex model management, all parties can access and interact with the model without the need for authoring software.

You don’t have to be on the design team to access the model. Other team members, including the owner organization, can view and manipulate the model, reducing owner-initiated changes and helping inform decisions throughout the life of the asset.

Visibility into project and portfolio health

Visibility into project- and portfolio-level status helps you make timely, informed decisions and actions that can prevent expensive course corrections and rework.

Although they are related, portfolio and project-level management have different needs, and owners need processes and tools to support each.

Enterprisewide cost and contract management

At the portfolio level, owners need to have consistent visibility across all projects to track planned budgets against actuals and feed that information back into the planning process, adjust forecasts, release contingency, and leverage companywide contracting.

At the portfolio level, owners need to have consistent visibility across all projects to track planned budgets against actuals and feed that information back into the planning process, adjust forecasts, release contingency, and leverage companywide contracting.

Holistic view of risk

Primavera Unifier provides cross-project risk management. Broad access to the risk register enables more risks to be captured, quantified, and learned from to help your future projects.

This automated tracking allows contingency to be released and reallocated in a timely manner once a risk window has closed.

Project- and portfolio-level management

Project- and portfolio-level management require different, yet complementary capabilities. With Oracle Smart Construction Platform, owners are able to gain the functionality needed for themselves and their project teams to maximize capital budgets across their portfolios.

Oracle Smart Construction Platform for renewable energy projects

Renewable energy makes the best use of the resources we have, such as the sun and wind. We can apply that same principle to how we build renewables projects and operate them throughout their lives.

We want to make the best use of our resources, including funding, labor, materials, and equipment. Just like it takes know-how and technology to harness energy from the sun and wind, we need proven technology to optimize resources on the projects themselves.

Cross-organization team collaboration

Renewables projects are complex, involve specialized expertise, and require multiple organizations to collaborate. Having all parties in lockstep across project phases and disciplines while managing thousands of pieces of information reduces miscommunication, rework, and delays, enabling project success.

Cross-entity permitting process

Permits are often needed across federal and local jurisdictions, multiple municipalities, and even into international waters. By using the Packages capabilities in Oracle Aconex, the permit process can be broken down into manageable chunks.

Interoperable schedules and work packages

The integration between Oracle Aconex and Oracle Primavera Cloud Schedule ties the permitting deliverables to your schedule. Track date changes and see if there’s a variance between plan and actual throughout the permitting process.

Use the schedule integrated risk functionality to assign and quantify risk related to various permitting steps, enabling more visibility into the likelihood of planned approvals and the ability to release assigned contingencies as risk windows pass.

Workflow tracking

In one consolidated view, you can keep track of all your workflows, including durations, due dates, what’s been approved, what’s due soon, what’s overdue, and whose court it’s in.

Bid management

Because of the specialized nature of renewables projects, the number of bids and complexity of the bid documents are significant. Easily prepare complete packages, set up bidders, answer requests for information from bidders, and distribute and amend bid requests, ensuring consistency and fairness throughout the process.

Project information management

Managing the volume of documentation and review and approval flows across all parties through a renewables project isn’t easy. Having all parties work in a central project system, in which each organization has secure access to their own individual workspaces, improves information management and collaboration and supports the creation of a full project record.

One connected data repository

Because organizations own and control their own data and have their own secure space, they don’t have to maintain both their own system and a project system. The single projectwide system increases accuracy and decreases cost. Ease of sharing within the system improves information flow, which decreases requests for information, miscommunication, errors, and rework and supports a full project record, crucial to the many years of operating the renewables asset.

Integrated CPM and task schedule management

Build and manage schedules for projects of any size using the critical path method (CPM), and unite your planning and field teams to ensure work is done according to the latest schedule, crews aren’t waiting idly for updates, and crucial renewables projects are delivered to plan and on schedule.

Integrated risk and schedule management

The integrated risk management capability ties quantified risks to potential schedule impacts. All relevant team members can identify and capture risks, letting more risks be addressed. Cross-project learning is supported, and timely release and automatic schedule adjustment happens as risk windows pass.

Integrated project and schedule management

As part of Oracle Smart Construction Platform for renewable energy projects, integrated schedule and project management lets you break down project work into trackable packages with specific deliverables and timelines.

With the integration between Aconex Packages and Oracle Primavera Cloud Schedule, you can see your list of packages and drill down to see package detail and associated documents.

Primavera schedule data visible in Oracle Aconex

You can also see the associated schedule activity information, such as planned start and finish dates.

Visibility into schedule date changes helps avoid surprises so you can take timely action.

Smart Construction Platform application switcher

Easily move between applications on your project.

Oracle Primavera Cloud Schedule

See the full schedule detail tied to your Oracle Aconex package.

Diversity and inclusion tracking

A diverse workforce with a variety of experience creates a stronger team that can outperform the competition. Organizations set ambitious targets to be inclusive, but tracking attainment can be a challenge. Oracle Textura Payment Management’s business classification and supplier diversity tracking make it easy for stakeholders to track attainment of contract value and what was actually spent.

Payment management

Save time, increase assurance, and decrease risk. Automate lien and payment management to ensure timely and accurate payments and lien waiver compliance. Streamline and automate your payment and compliance processes to improve efficiency, visibility, and control. Automatically store completed payment applications in your project record.

Compliance management

See what’s happening downstream to spot issues that could delay payments.

Use Oracle Textura Payment Management to get early visibility into potential issues from missing compliance documents or other crucial ones for such matters as insurance, safety, or disadvantaged business enterprise status.

Automate communications so everyone can make prompt corrections.

Oracle Smart Construction Platform for renewables