1.
Primavera Integration
Possibilities:
A Technical Overview
Pete Angstadt
Principal Applied Technologist
Primavera Global Business Unit
April 2014

2.
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3.
Oracle Primavera Architecture
100% Web-Based
Scale to any size deployment
Based on open industry standards
Web Server
SQL
DB
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
SSL
SSL
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
Web Browser and
Web Services Clients

4.
Integration

5.
Why Integrate Your Systems?
Problems:
•Silos of information
•Inefficient processes
•Limited collaboration
•Lack of visibility
By integrating you can leverage the strengths of individual applications
Primavera
Other System

6.
Build vs. Buy
Leverage a pre-built Oracle solution
Leverage a partner solution
Extend an existing solution
Build it yourself
Build it with consulting help

7.
Some Pre-Built Integrations Available with Primavera
Oracle EBS
Oracle PeopleSoft
SAP
JD Edwards
Microsoft
Oracle Business Intelligence
Web Center
AutoVue
SSO and LDAP products
And more…

8.
Why Build or Extend Your Solution?
•Maybe the integration doesn’t exist
E.g., integration to a legacy system
•Benefits outweigh the cost
•Required skill sets available

9.
Categories of Integration
Data Integration
Business Process (or, Business Logic) Integration
User Interface Integration
Security Integration

10.
Integration
Architecture

11.
Point-to-Point
Simple
Fast and efficient
Quick to implement
But tightly coupled (Oh, no!)
My App
Other
App

12.
Point-to-Point
•Complexity increases rapidly
with added nodes
n * (n – 1) / 2 connections!
•High maintenance costs
•Lack of flexibility
My App
Other
App
Other
App
Other
App

13.
Integrations Can Be Messy!

14.
Hub and Spoke
•Simpler model for more
connections
•Source and target apps often still
need some knowledge of each
other
•Process hub can get complex
•Generally doesn’t scale well
My App
Other
App
Other
App
Other
App
Process
Hub
Other
App
Other
App

15.
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
•Loosely coupled discrete modules
•Messaging, not procedure calls
•Usually involves an ESB, SCA,
BPMN and/or BPEL
•Applications can be added:
•Near-linear scalability
•Near-linear cost impact
My App
Other
App
Other
App

16.
Primavera and Integration Architecture
Big Idea:
Primavera’s Web Services and APIs are compatible with
any integration architecture.
This includes P6, Unifier, OPPM, Contract Management, etc.

17.
Interfaces
and
Technologies

18.
Three Layers of Integration
Web Server
SQL
DB
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
SSL
SSL
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
Web Browser Clients

19.
Three Layers of Integration
Web Server
SQL
DB
Data
Integration
SQL SQL and ETL
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
SSL
SSL
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
Web Browser Clients

20.
Three Layers of Integration
Web Server
SQL
DB
SOAP / XML
Web Services
XML Events
Java and XML APIs
Data
Integration
Business Process
and Data
Integration
SQL SQL and ETL
3rd Party
Application
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
SSL
SSL
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
Web Browser Clients

21.
Three Layers of Integration
Web Server
SQL
DB
SOAP / XML
Web Services
XML Events
Java and XML APIs
Data
Integration
Business Process
and Data
Integration
UI
Integration
SQL
HTML / XML
SQL and ETL
Custom Portlets
3rd Party
Application
3rd Party
Application
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
SSL
SSL
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
Web Browser Clients

22.
Primavera as Service Provider
Publish Primavera
WSDL
3rd Party Web ApplicationExternal App
Consumes
Web Services
HTTP/SOAP
DB
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
• WSDL describes services
and operations
• Interoperable
• WS-I Basic Profile
compliant
• Can “auto-generate” client
side code

23.
> 100
Services

24.
> 400
Operations

25.
Coarse-Grained
vs.
Fine-Grained

26.
Business Process Services
•Jobs
•Schedule project
•Summarize project
•Level resources
•Apply actuals
•Store period performance
•Spreads
•Import and Export

27.
Entity Services
Each corresponds to a business object type (WBS, Activity, etc.)
Standard operations:
Create
Read
Update
Delete

28.
Entity Services – Standard Operations
Create and Update operations
•Most fields are optional
•Read-only fields are ignored
Read operations
•Specify fields to read
•Filter may be specified
Delete operations
•Specific records

29.
Special Operations
And many more…
•Copy project •Read calculated UDFs
•Convert project to baseline •Restore baseline
•Calculate project score •Update user baselines
•Lock / unlock project •Create project from template
•Publish project •Copy WBS from template

30.
A Consistent Interface
Consistent naming:
•User Interface
•Web Services / API
•Reporting view
Example:
•Activity’s “actual duration” in P6 Web’s user interface
•Activity service’s “ActualDuration” field
•ACTIVITY table’s “ACTUALDURATION” column

31.
More Supported Standards
WS-Security
•UsernameToken Profile
•SAML Token Profile
WS-Addressing
WS-Policy
MTOM

32.
Unifier Web Services
Service endpoint:
https://<host>:<port>/ws/un/services/UnifierWebServices
Common operations for business processes:
Operation Description
createBPRecord Create new BP record
getBPRecord Gets specific BP record
getCompleteBPRecord Gets complete BP record, including attachments
getBPList Gets all BP records. Can filter results if needed
getUDRData Gets XML data from UDR output
updateBPRecord Updates BP record
updateCompleteBPRecord Updates BP record and can add attachments
Note: Deletion of BP records is handled via update

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XML Payload
Payload for business processes is passed within a wrapper:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soapenv:Body>
<ns1:getBPListResponse xmlns:ns1="http://general.service.webservices.skire.com">
<ns1:return ns1:type="com.skire.webservices.util.xml.XMLObject">
<ax21:statusCode xmlns:ax21="http://xml.util.webservices.skire.com/xsd">200</ax21:statusCode>
<ax21:xmlcontents xmlns:ax21="http://xml.util.webservices.skire.com/xsd">
<![CDATA[<List_Wrapper>
<_bp>
<GIS_Link></GIS_Link>
<record_no>LP-0000001</record_no>
<Resp_Mgr>Fred Smith</Resp_Mgr>
</_bp>
<_bp>
<GIS_Link>http://tinyurl.com/bq9vfob Parcel Map</GIS_Link>
<record_no>LP-0000002</record_no>
<Resp_Mgr>Jim Owen</Resp_Mgr>
</_bp>
</List_Wrapper>]]>
</ax21:xmlcontents>
</ns1:return>
</ns1:getBPListResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

34.
Events
and
Notifications

35.
Primavera Eventing Framework
Send XML messages
JMS 1.1 – Compliant
Message Queue
or
Enterprise
Service Bus
DB
EAI
Application Server
UI
Layer
Data Layer
Bus Logic Layer
Web
Services
•Powerful possibilities
•Notifications
•Workflows
•Custom Business Processes
•Actions in system result in XML
messages
•Uses JMS

36.
Event Administration
Administrator controlled
Enable as needed:
•Entity events
•Special operation events

37.
> 100
Events

38.
Direct Database Integration - Caution
Primavera DB Other System
It is recommended to use Primavera Web Services for integration.
However, additional database-level integration is technically possible
when Primavera is deployed on-premise.
Care should be taken to not adversely affect performance,
scalability, or functionality when making any database change.

39.
Database Triggers
Database Triggers are procedures stored in the database that get executed
when a table is modified (insert, update, delete)
Design Best Practices
•The trigger should only do what is likely to succeed
•Communication should be asynchronous
Possible Uses of Triggers
•Copy record or specific changes to another non-production table
•Leverage Oracle Advanced Queuing (AQ)
•Enqueue a message or call stored procedure to do the same
•Payload can be XML, string, record, etc.

40.
Business Process
Management

41.
Oracle Fusion Middleware
• Complete
• Best-in-Class
• Integrated
• Open
Development
Tools
Cloud Application
Foundation
Enterprise
Management
Web Social Mobile
User Engagement
Identity Management & Security
Business Process
Management
Content
Management
Business
Intelligence
Service Integration Data Integration

42.
Business Process Management (BPM)
Leverages Oracle’s BPM Suite
From within Primavera:
•Initiate business processes
•Participate in business processes
•Monitor process status

43.
Complete and Unified