Acumen Touchstone

Automate the receipt, assessment and storage of project schedule submissions to improve productivity, schedule quality and standardization.

DELTEK ACUMEN TOUCHSTONE

Automate and standardize the schedule submission process for subcontractor management and internal PMO use with Acumen Touchstone. Schedule assessment and feedback are automated so submitters can get results and make corrections to improve schedule quality and meet your requirements. Acumen Touchstone takes the burden of validating every schedule submittal off your shoulders, helping focus efforts on areas that need improvement and deliver successful projects.

BENEFITS

AUTOMATION

Gain unmatched insight into project performance and leverage data to improve customer communication and reporting.

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Tightly control project costs, track changes and measure earned value to improve project success and profitability.

INCREASED TEAM PRODUCTIVITY

Measure and report on earned value across all program phases including project deliveries to DOD, DOE, DOT and NASA.

SCHEDULE SUBMISSION PORTAL SAVES TIME

  • Automate the collection, analysis and storage of schedule submissions, based on your schedule quality standards
  • Automated scoring provides feedback on 100% of submittals allowing your team more time to focus where it matters
  • Supports your efforts to improve subcontractor management and program management office standards

IMPROVE SCHEDULE QUALITY

  • Instant feedback enables the submitter to fix quality issues before your team starts their review
  • Consistent objective scoring drives quality improvements
  • Automated quality assessments help the project team focus on the schedules that need the most help

ENHANCE PROGRAM DELIVERY

  • Advance project maturity by targeting training in areas where submitters have recurring quality problem
  • Compare schedule submissions to benchmarks to gather historic insights and identify anomalies
  • Improve schedule version control and always know where to find the latest schedule or subcontractor submissions

STANDARDIZE SCHEDULE FILE SUBMISSIONS

  • Provides an objective quality assessment and consistent enforcement of evaluation criteria and standards
  • Leverage over 100 metrics to help submissions adhere to your organization’s best practices and standards
  • Rejected submittals can be resubmitted until accepted

Integrations

Import schedule data from Deltek Open Plan, Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Touchstone uses FUSE metrics so you can create your own metrics in Acumen Fuse and leverage them in Acumen Touchstone. Our consultants have extensive experience integrating the most popular industry tools and can help you design a streamlined best practice solution to fulfill your unique needs.