The aspens have turned gold, and the bright crisp days of autumn are upon us here in the Colorado Rockies. This means it's time to head to San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld!
This year we are excited to learn more about the Primavera Gateway integration product and the plans Oracle has for its development in 2016. We have dived deep into Gateway in the 3rd quarter of 2015, and have created our own Calance PeopleSoft Provider. We are now actively using it to integrate data between PeopleSoft and a set of custom business processes in Unifier. In this work we have learned much about Gateway, and we have feedback to share with the Oracle team on what we perceive to be its strengths, as well as its shortcomings, with the aim of helping this product improve and deliver better and better solutions for Primavera users.
We are also curious to learn about plans for Unifier, particularly its mobile options. These days clients (and you, and me, and everyone we know) prefer to do many tasks on mobile devices such as phones and tablets. If an application cannot work on one of these devices, that is a major disadvantage. Unifier is fortunately not hindered by Java applets like Primavera P6. So in theory, a re-skinning with responsive design could get Unifier working natively on mobile. But it may be that Oracle Primavera would instead create a true mobile app, much like the P6 Mobile app for iOS and Android (sorry Widows phones!). Or the lightweight Team Member HTML5 app which works great on an iPad. Neither of these P6 solutions have the power of the desktop web, which is itself much less powerful than the P6 Professional desktop client. But they are good moves in the struggle to liberate P6 from the PC. Anyway, we are much looking forward to learn what mobile options Oracle is planning for Unifier.
Although it is hard to miss a week of this lovely weather, with the leaves falling and the chance of first snow, San Francisco is a great place as well. AirBnB and Uber make is easy, cheap, and fun to stay and get around the city, and the entertainment this year is Beck and Elton John - how could you go wrong with that?
Boulder, CO
Oct 2015
PS: Our new website is now live - check it out here:
http://www.calanceus.com/development/oracle-integration/
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