Deltek
Acumen · Cobra · Open Plan
Deltek’s project portfolio covers the analytical end of project controls: schedule quality diagnostics, quantitative risk analysis, submission assurance, cost and earned value management, and the reporting that has to stand up to an audit. Browse the range from the list on the left.
Acumen Fuse
Schedule diagnostics. Fuse scores a programme against a library of schedule-quality metrics and industry benchmarks, then says what to fix — logic errors, missing predecessors, constrained dates, negative float, unrealistic durations. Reporting is hierarchical: drill down by WBS or any code field to find where the problem sits, or summarize to one slide for the executive briefing.
- Thousands of activities analyzed across projects and platforms
- Schedule cleanser removes redundant logic
- Benchmarking against industry and agency standards
- Imports from P6, Microsoft Project, Open Plan and more
- Reports built for planner, scheduler and executive alike
- To-do list of improvements, not just a score
This is the tool behind schedule assurance work — see Planning, Scheduling & Project Controls.
Acumen Risk
Quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis run against the native project plan — no export, no rebuild. Scope uncertainty, work complexity, discrete risk events, weather and opportunities are all modeled; thousands of activities resolve in seconds.
- Cost and schedule risk on the native plan
- Combined risk analysis and register
- Schedule risk linked to cost risk for true impact
- Risk exposure, drivers, sensitivity and comparison reports
- Risk events mapped to the activities they hit
- Mitigation plans evaluated including their own overhead
The output feeds contingency and completion-date arguments — see Project Risk Management & Analysis.
Acumen Touchstone
The schedule submission problem, automated. Subcontractors and project teams submit through a portal; every submittal is scored against your own quality standards using Fuse metrics, and the submitter gets the feedback before your team spends a minute on review. Rejected submittals can be corrected and resubmitted until they pass.
- Collection, scoring and storage of submissions automated
- 100% of submittals scored, consistently and objectively
- Over 100 metrics, defined by your standards
- Custom Fuse metrics carried straight into Touchstone
- Benchmark comparison across submissions over time
- Version control — the latest submission is always findable
For a PMO managing dozens of subcontractor programmes, this is what makes a schedule quality standard enforceable rather than aspirational.
Deltek Open Plan
Enterprise planning and scheduling with multi-project support, resource management, built-in risk analysis and flexible reporting. Open Plan is the scheduling engine on the Deltek side of the fence, and it exchanges data with Cobra for the cost and earned value half.
Deltek Cobra
Cost and earned value management. Cobra integrates cost with schedule, establishes the control account structure, measures performance and forecasts outcomes — with EVM reporting compliant enough for deliveries to DOD, DOE, DOT and NASA.
- Cost and schedule integrated on one baseline
- Unlimited rate scenarios and top-down planning
- What-if analysis, including the effect of rate changes
- Predictive forecasting from historical cost and schedule variance
- Detailed and summary reporting that survives an audit
- Planning, execution, forecasting, change control, reporting
Schedule data comes in from Open Plan, Primavera P6, Microsoft Project or Excel; cost data from the ERP, including direct integration with Deltek Costpoint. See Project Cost Management, Controls & Forecasting.
PM Compass
The layer that turns the tools into a process. PM Compass drives project management through workflows — scheduling, cost management, change control, reporting and analysis handled as defined steps with owners and status, rather than as a set of files that someone remembers to update.
wInsight Analytics
Earned value analytics: trends visualized, project performance evaluated against the baseline, and compliance reporting produced in the formats the customer expects. Where Cobra calculates, wInsight explains — which variance matters, since when, and where it is heading.
Deltek Project Information Management
Emails, documents and drawings in one place instead of five. PIM captures project correspondence as it happens and files it against the project, so the record exists without anyone maintaining it by hand — which is what reduces corporate risk when a claim arrives two years later.
Related service: Project Document Management, Control & CDE.
Deltek Vantagepoint
Built for professional services firms rather than for a construction site: the project-based ERP side of Deltek — opportunities, resources, time and expense, billing and profitability in one system. Relevant to an engineering or consultancy practice managing its own book of projects.
How APP works with Deltek
The Acumen family is where APP does most of its Deltek work: schedule quality assurance, forensic and risk analysis, and the submission standards a PMO needs to hold a supply chain to. Implementation is delivered as a service — metric libraries defined to the client’s own standards, thresholds agreed, and the analysts trained to read the output rather than only run it.