We as Ingeniva are always looking for solutions in the market that provide real added value on projects. As an oracle partner, we are always up to date with the latest developments in the market. For example, ACONEX was recently acquired by Oracle and we are convinced of the great added value that this solution can bring.

Oracle Aconex Project Controls Cloud Service is a flexible and highly customizable cost management solution. It combines cost, schedule, commitments, and other vital data to bring greater accuracy and clarity to the progress and performance of your projects. The product helps you manage costs, compile and create reports, gain insight into activity streams, and administer the project and permissions.

Proven Project Delivery and Controls

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Oracle Aconex Project Controls Cloud Service delivers the following functionality: 

  • Budgeting and forecasting. Gain visibility into the final outcome and take corrective action before problems occur. 
    • Cost worksheet. Track and report on project details with unlimited work breakdown structure elements, control accounts, and work packages. 
    • Direct actuals. Manage direct actuals—such as payroll and other spending—across cost, hours, and quantities against the budget. 
    • Schedule integration. Keep budgets and schedule in sync using one-click integration with Oracle Primavera P6. 
    • Earned value management. Use earned value methods to forecast your costs—such as cost performance index (CPI), schedule performance index (SPI), and other tools. 
    • Contract administration. Manage contracts and changes with ease. Free up busy construction professionals to spend less time extracting cost inputs from correspondence and more time on high value work. 
    • Changes. Process requests, reviews, and approvals for contract changes. 
    • Progress payment applications: Standardize the payment process for your staff and downstream contractors. 
  • Reporting. Track portfolio and project performance with real-time cost tracking and variance analysis, including progress across hours worked and quantities installed. Quickly and easily build and customize contract reports via a point-and-click report builder. 
  • Integrations. Integrate contracts and payment apps into your corporate finance system.
  • Predictive insight. Extract learnings from past projects so that you can deliver more efficiently and effectively on your next project. 

BENEFIT FROM THE ORACLE ACONEX PLATFORM 

Fast to Deploy, Easy to Adapt 

With no hardware or servers to maintain, you can deploy Oracle Aconex Project Controls Cloud Service in days or weeks to any project type. It supports every project role, contract type, complexity level, and delivery method. Configuration without code means that you can easily adapt the system based on the needs of your next project, while IT can spend more time innovating. 

Evolves with Your Business 

With frequent product updates, Oracle Aconex Project Controls Cloud Service equips your organization with latest cost and contract management capabilities. Oracle provides 24/7 service, support for the entire project team, and process mapping as part of implementation to ensure you are set-up for success. 

Trusted Collaboration 

The unique security model behind the Oracle Aconex platform ensures adoption, accurate insights, and fewer resources spent on litigation. There is no super user—meaning you own your own data. Information is private until shared, and the platform provides an unalterable audit trail. 

INGENIVa has the experience to implement the solution via certified consultants

Secure Document Management

  • Save up to 50 percent on document processing times
  • Easily manage millions of documents and models without limits on data or participants, including any size, type, or number of files
  • Strict version control avoids errors by ensuring everyone is working off the latest documents and drawings
  • Custom workflows automate review and approval cycles, reducing complexity, improving data capture, and increasing control
  • Workflow tracking and reporting provides real-time analysis to identify bottlenecks and take action before they cause delays
  • Work packaging makes it easier to track and control processes, from design and construction to signoff and completion
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Advanced Communications and Forms

  • Avoid the limitations of manual correspondence with a standardized digital process that provides project-wide access and visibility
  • From designing forms to creating fields, configure Aconex to your processes and capture the right data in the right format
  • Mail routing automates and standardizes business processes, ensuring best practice and minimizing the chance of human error
  • Easily track process communications, keep up to date on progress, avoid bottlenecks, and reduce RFI turnaround times by 50 percent
  • All correspondence is automatically logged and cannot be deleted, providing a complete project record and unalterable audit trail

 

 

Model Coordination in a Common Data Environment

  • Simplify BIM model coordination, connecting teams, models, and project data in a neutral and secure collaborative environment
  • Seamlessly share, review, and contribute to models without specialized software
  • Utilize a single platform to raise, communicate, and manage the coordination process with a dashboard to control and monitor progress
  • A complete set of linked handover information and full audit trail of all decisions at project completion
  • Building information modeling (BIM) mobile app provides access to models and data onsite to improve communication and reduce the risk of errors and rework
  • Built on open BIM standards for data interoperability through Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and Building Collaboration Format (BCF)
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Integrated Cost Management

  • Gain visibility into budgets, forecasts, and projective outcomes to enable early corrective action
  • Track and report on any project level with unlimited work breakdown structure elements, control accounts, and work packages
  • Use earned-value methods such as cost-performance-index (CPI) and schedule-performance-index (SPI) to forecast your costs
  • Keep budgets and schedule in sync using one-click integration with Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
  • Track portfolio and project performance with real-time cost tracking and variance analysis
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Quality and Safety Processes

  • Automate and standardize any inspection process with Aconex Field—one mobile app for safety walks, quality checks, defecting, and more
  • Tailor issue capture to your needs and capture the data that’s most important to you, including defects, snags, and punch lists
  • Keep using your existing forms exactly as they are and complete them in Aconex Field, eliminating paper inefficiencies
  • Leverage real-time health and safety data to keep teams 100 percent accountable and demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Minimize delays and risks by recognizing red flags early with in-depth visual dashboards that provide insights at the portfolio, project, or organizational level
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Reporting your way

  • Improve visibility and tracking of performance through rapidly deployable out-of-the-box reports and dashboards
  • Increase organisation wide visibility of performance by creating and sharing organization specific KPIs to drive decision making
  • Refine reports with the information you need and configure reports and dashboards to suit specific organizational needs
  • Easily map dashboards to your business, to better track, control, and optimize critical processes
  • Improve data accuracy with project wide access ensuring one source of reporting truth
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