Oracle Aconex Cloud Adapter Use Cases

The Oracle Aconex Cloud Adapter streamlines integration between Oracle Aconex and other applications. It provides comprehensive capabilities across various API modules and ensures efficient and accurate synchronization of critical project data.

The Oracle Aconex Cloud Adapter can be used in the following scenarios:

Cost Management

The adapter can be used to integrate various cost management functionalities, enabling comprehensive project financial oversight. This includes budget and contract management, tracking changes, and cost reporting, fully integrated within the Oracle Aconex environment.

Document Management

The adapter facilitates the integration flows for uploading documents to Oracle Aconex. It automates the upload process to ensure all necessary documents, including metadata and required fields are available in Oracle Aconex. It also supports keeping the documents current by using the adapter suppression and update operations. Additionally, the adapter provides the ability to interrogate the information of a document, which is critical for reporting.

Field Management

The adapter can integrate field operations with site inspections and punch lists, ensuring that site management is fully aligned with the broader project goals. This module supports comprehensive site inspection and reporting functionality.

Field Essentials Use Cases:

  • Add Issues and Inspections
  • View and Update Issues
  • Setup Areas and Users
  • Punch lists and Daily Reports

Field Administration Use Cases:

  • Manage Users and Permissions
  • Configure Issues and Inspections

Mail Management

The adapter automates mail operations, such as creating, replying, and viewing of mail content and metadata based on actions in your source application. This automation streamlines communication and ensures that the important project information is appropriately addressed. Additionally, the adapter can integrate mail attachment downloads into the target application workflow, ensuring all relevant attachments are saved and accessible. This enhances information availability and improves project documentation. The adapter also facilitates the viewing and management of mail metadata and schemas, keeping mail-related information organized and easily accessible.

Models Management

The adapter facilitates seamless integration with the Models module using the BCF API v3.0, streamlining the management of BIM issues for Oracle Aconex design. It can automate the creation, updating, and querying of BIM-related issues, ensuring that project, topic, file, comment, and viewpoint services are easily accessible through a simple interface. By leveraging the adapter's operations, users can quickly integrate BIM data into their workflows, reducing manual overhead and enhancing data consistency across systems.

Packages Management

The adapter can facilitate the creation and management of packages within Oracle Aconex, ensuring that all related documents, mail, and attachments are organized and easily accessible.

Package Essentials Use Cases:

  • Create, Edit, Move, and Delete Packages
  • Find, View, and Export Packages
  • Send Packages and Manage Administrators and Editors
  • Documents, Mail, and Attachments
  • Package Reviews

Project Fields Management

The adapter automates creation, editing, enabling, and disabling of project fields in Oracle Aconex. This ensures that all necessary project fields are accurately maintained and updated in line with the source application project requirements.

Project Management

The adapter automates the process of inviting users to projects in Oracle Aconex, based on changes in the source application, ensuring efficient and accurate user management across your project teams.

Related Items Management

The adapter enhances integration with the Related Items module, providing comprehensive access to both new and historical relationship data within Oracle Aconex. It simplifies the process of querying transaction and event data and enables users to easily add or remove relationships between items. By utilizing the adapter, users can enhance data management by ensuring related items in Oracle Aconex are consistently updated and properly linked, improving traceability and information accuracy.

Task Management

The adapter integrates tasks from Oracle Aconex into the primary project management tool, keeping all task-related information synchronized.

User Role Management

The adapter can be used for updating user roles across systems by synchronizing role assignments. This helps maintain correct user permissions and access levels across various project management tools. Additionally, it can automate the process of managing user roles within Oracle Aconex based on changes in the source application, ensuring efficient and accurate user management across the project teams.

Workflow Integration

The adapter can create integration flows that track workflow status changes in Oracle Aconex, keeping the target project management tool updated with the latest status and ensuring better tracking and management of project workflows.