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EPM
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Czech
Refinery
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Nerefco
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GIS
Aquarion Water
Company
Saudi
Aramco
Upcoming Events
June 2007
ESRI
International User Conference
San Diego, CA
June 18-22
Booth #1315
Join us at the following Impress Sponsored
Events
Panel Discussion: An Integrated SAP-GIS
approach to Enterprise Asset
Management
Monday, June 18th, 6pm - 8pm
Coronado Room and Terrace
South Tower, Level
4
Marriott Hotel and Marina
Cocktails and appetizers will be served.
ESUG Luncheon:
Wednesday, June 20th
Noon - 1:00 pm
San Diego Convention Center
Room 29 D
Save the Date!
What's New: Impress for EPM 3.2
Online Seminar
June 27, 11:00 am
Discover how the new features and functionality of
Impress for EPM 3.2 can improve your effectiveness
during project planning, scheduling and
execution.
Take a Break...
"The first 90% of a project takes 90%
of the time. The
last 10% takes the other 90%."
Quick Links
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Greetings!
This issue of the Impress Update explores why many
of our customers are
moving to the latest release of Impress for EPM. We
recap many of the benefits our customers have
gained by upgrading, and provide you with
some resources to learn even more. In addition, on
June 27, Impress will host
an online presentation to discuss and demonstrate
the new functionality included in our latest release.
These sessions are a great
way to learn about the release from the experts that
helped plan and develop it. Reserve your
spot!
This issue also highlights some
of our new Impress for GIS customers, including
PG&E and Saudi Aramco, two world leaders in the
energy industry. Impress is proud to be working with
these companies to improve asset data accuracy
across SAP and ESRI, and boost the productivity of
their asset management initiatives.
Enjoy!
Impress Software
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Customer Spotlight
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EQUATE Petrochemical Case
Study
A complicated manual process to create
maintenance schedules caused a large work order
backlog and inconsistencies in SAP and Primavera
data. SAP lacked detailed maintenance and
equipment history records for shutdown activities.
Learn how EQUATE Petrochemcial improved
resource and material utilization and overall project
performance for daily maintenance and plant
shutdowns and turnarounds with the use of Impress
for EPM. Read More.
New Customer: Pacific Gas &
Electric
Impress Software recently announced that Pacific
Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has chosen its
Impress for GIS packaged integration application as
part of a strategic Enterprise Asset Management
(EAM) initiative. Learn More.
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Upgrade to Impress for EPM v3
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We introduced Impress for EPM v3 to the market in
January, 2006. Since then a number of significant
enhancements have been added and many of our
Project i.App v2.x (now known as Impress for EPM)
customers have upgraded to Impress for EPM v3.x. In
fact, we currently
have more clients on Impress for EPM v3.1 than any
other release. Now may be the right time to consider
moving to Impress for EPM v3.x.
Here's Why:
Performance
Improvements: - Boost
synchronization performance with improved
load-balancing, parallel processing, and the
new "Delta Synchronization" feature. The latter
performs synchronizations more efficiently by
focusing on only the data that has changed since the
last synchronization.
- Support for SAP's ChangeDoc feature
further reduces the amount of data to process.
System Support:
- Impress
ensures its solutions keep pace with new partner
releases. Impress for EPM 3.0 and 3.1 introduced
support
for:
SAP: MySAP ERP 2005, NetWeaver
Application Server
6.4 and 7.0, and MaxDB 7.5
Microsoft: MS SQL 2005
Primavera: Primavera 5
Productivity Improvements:
- Improve the overall likelihood of a successful
synch by validating as much
data as possible before transferring the data to the
target system.
- Configure Validation rules - both the rule and the
error message - according to your business
requirements.
- Configurable logs
(called Update Event Logs) provide the right data in
the right format in order to provide users with more
actionable information. Refer to the Update Event Log
tip below for more information about this
enhancement.
Capital Project Management
processes
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Tips & Tricks
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Update Event Log - A Feature of Impress for
EPM 3.1
Do you receive confusing error messages? Are your
users unable to respond correctly to error
messages? If so, you may want to take a look at the
Update Event Log feature in Impress for EPM 3.1.
The Update Event
Log
window provides very detailed information on update
run events, such as time stamps for each
operation/I.Map and detailed error messages
originating from the back-end systems.
To generate more meaningful, well
structured
information that can be presented to users to facilitate
troubleshooting, the output of the Update Event Log
can be
configured by the implementer or
Project Workbench user.
Advantages:
- Specify the most meaningful information to
include in the log by adding or removing columns. In
the Update Event Log window this can be done by
right-clicking the table and selecting columns from
the context menu.
- Filter extraneous data to ensure that the Update
Event Log presents only the most relevant information
to end-users. This can be done by right-clicking the
table and selecting filter from the context menu of the
Update Event Log.
- Leverage your favorite tools to further analyze the
information. Save the Update Event Log to a file by
clicking the "Save to File" option. A new comma-
separated text file will be created that can be viewed
with any text editor, or imported into another
application such as Excel.
Calendar Entries - A
Feature in the Impress for EPM 3.x
Series
What are they?
A calendar entry is a descriptive label that can be
created with a recurrence pattern, just like a
scheduled synch job, that will then be displayed in the
calendar view in the admin tool.
Calendar entries
appear in the view as a colored block, again similar to
scheduled job entries, covering the time span for
which they are scheduled but in a different color than
scheduled jobs. And like
scheduled jobs, the mouse over functionality applies
so that the viewer can identify what the entry is. A
typical calendar entry would be used to identify
scheduled
dates and times that any of the backend systems
accessed by Impress will be unavailable - for
maintenance, upgrades, backups, etc. These
entries do not interfere with the job scheduler activity
and they will not prevent jobs from executing during
the periods covered by the entry.
Who Needs them?
Calendar entries are very handy for administrators
whose end users schedule their own jobs. When
accessing the
calendar view in the admin tool the administrator can
easily see if there are any
conflicts between any of the users' scheduled synch
jobs and any system downtimes and then make
adjustments accordingly.
Submit a Tip of your Own
Do you have a tip or a trick that you'd like to share with
your fellow Impress users? If so, submit
it If the tip
that
you submitted is published in a future issue of the
Impress Update, you'll be awarded a gift!
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Did You Know?
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From the World of Petroleum Refining...
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