Octave Sequence Enterprise

By audience

Project Manager

• Runs cost/schedule integration: P6 or MS Project progress lands next to committed and actual cost so EVM metrics (CPI/SPI) update without spreadsheet reconciliation.
• Owns the monthly forecast — trends estimate-at-completion from earned value and remaining commitments rather than a hand-built Excel model.
• Logs change orders, trends and risks against the project budget and sees the funding impact before they are approved.
• Reports project status from one system that finance, scheduling and field data all feed, instead of three conflicting sources.

Executive Leadership

• Sees a live portfolio dashboard of spend, forecast and performance across hundreds of capital projects and business units.
• Runs what-if scenarios — deferring or resequencing projects — to test the portfolio impact before committing capital.
• Compares project performance across divisions because Sequence forces common WBS, cost-code and change definitions.
• Gets early warning on projects trending to overrun months ahead, rather than discovering it at invoice time.

Accounting & Finance

• Pulls actuals, commitments, timesheets and invoices from SAP, Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards or Viewpoint into the project cost model.
• Manages capital budgeting and funding approvals — authorised vs. committed vs. spent — against the project portfolio.
• Reconciles project-controls cost against the general ledger from a single set of cost codes rather than a period-end mapping exercise.
• Supports audit and compliance with a change-controlled history of budget, forecast and change-order approvals.

Owner/Developer

• Governs a multi-year capital programme: project selection, funding allocation and stage-gate approvals in one register.
• Holds EPC contractors to a common reporting standard by consuming their cost and progress data into the owner's cost model.
• Tracks contingency drawdown and change exposure across the programme, not just per project.
• Measures delivered vs. sanctioned cost at closeout to feed benchmarks for the next programme.

By phase

Concept & Planning

• Builds the capital plan — candidate projects scored, funded and sequenced against the available budget envelope.
• Holds top-down/parametric cost estimates for projects that have no detailed scope yet.
• Models funding scenarios and portfolio balance before any project is sanctioned.

Pre-Construction

• Converts the sanctioned estimate into the control budget and WBS/cost-code structure the project will be measured against.
• Loads the baseline schedule from Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project and time-phases the budget against it.
• Sets up contingency, escalation and cash-flow curves ahead of award.

Construction

• Tracks committed, incurred and actual cost against budget as invoices and timesheets flow in from ERP.
• Calculates earned value from schedule progress and reports CPI/SPI and estimate-at-completion each period.
• Manages change orders, trends and claims through approval, updating budget and forecast on the way.
• Feeds period cost and performance reporting to the owner and to executives from live data.