• Back-in your hours using top-down planning to meet a total monetary amount
• Move projects easily along a timeline when priorities change or projects slip
• Reprice values quickly using new rates or rate escalation
• Define your own calculations to model your company’s burden buildup
• Define rules using apportionment and add new resources based on need

Apportionment

Rates

Slip

Top Down Planning

• Organize data using control accounts and work packages
• Improve your compliance with the EIA standard for EVMS with flexible formatting of the project hierarchy
• Summarize data for reporting purposes
• Use time-phased budgets and rate escalation to estimate future cost increases
• Use multiple foreign currencies
• Load your budget and forecast quickly from integrated products
• Maintain unlimited, time-phased forecasts
• Use forecasts to run “what-if” rate and resource scenarios

Time-phase Detail Pane of the Project View

Budget Planning

Forecasts

ANSI Standard for Earned Value Management Systems

• Automatically load actual cost data from accounting systems
• Integrate charge numbers from your accounting system for cost variance analysis
• Track approved actuals and accruals

Thresholds Tab of the Resource View

• Document explanation of variances, impacts, and corrective actions
• Update status automatically from a schedule
• Use earned value techniques for accurate earned value calculations
• Set thresholds to monitor work that is not progressing as planned

Variance Thresholds

Earned Value Management

• Integrate directly with Deltek PM Compass, Open Plan, wInsight Analytics, Acumen, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Excel, and Primavera
• Integrate with Deltek Costpoint and other accounting systems
• View Cobra data from within the Deltek Open Plan scheduling tool
• Import resource, rate, code, and calendar data from Excel or CSV files

Integration Wizard

Data Import Using Files

CSV Import Files

• Integrate directly with Deltek PM Compass, Open Plan, wInsight Analytics, Acumen, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft Excel, and Primavera
• Integrate with Deltek Costpoint and other accounting systems
• View Cobra data from within the Deltek Open Plan scheduling tool
• Import resource, rate, code, and calendar data from Excel or CSV files
• Simplify change request approvals with reports that show proposed and approved changes
• Use a different set of rates for each change in scope
• Track changes automatically with an integrated audit function that creates an audit trail

Audit Logging

Reports

Freeze Forecast

• Work with a master project and any number of subprojects as though they were a single entity

Multiproject Operations (Master and Subprojects)

• Create and edit reports using the Report wizard with output directly into Microsoft Excel
• Create detailed time-phased reports or high-level multi-project reports
• Submit standard monthly reports in different formats and customize reports

Customization of Reports

Report Wizard