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The genesis of Oracle ’ s expansion into the construction industry started ten years ago and ramped significantly when Mike Sicilia , Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Oracle Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit , joined Oracle as part of the acquisition of Primavera in 2011 . “ Over the past decade we ’ ve grown the business organically ,” explains Sicilia . “ And through further acquisitions ( including Aconex and Textura ) continued to expand the footprint of our construction solutions from project scheduling to payment , document management , collaboration tools and general business process automation as part of a global business unit for construction and engineering .” The Global Business Unit focuses on enterprise project portfolio management solutions for project-intensive industries utilising Primavera ’ s cloud-based SaaS solution P6EPPM – touted as the world ’ s most powerful , flexible and easy to use solution for prioritising , managing and executing projects , programs and portfolios and used in $ 250bn of projects annually .
The acquisition of Aconex has further beefed up Oracle ’ s Construction offering . “ As part of a common set of solutions on a shared platform , Aconex brings the ability to have a wide set of tools to manage your project or asset all the way through its different phases ,” affirms Leigh Jasper , co-founder of Aconex , and its Vice President of Strategy and Operations at Oracle . “ These complementary solutions lead the market in terms of what they ’ re able to deliver as
NOVEMBER 2018