This software works best in conjunction with a scheduling software such as Oracle Primavera. It allows us to measure based on industry best practices the quality of schedules.

Some of the stats given out of the box does not give a good indication of schedule quality. Will need to tweak to fit your organizational needs. May be cumbersome and can take some time to set up correctly.

It is great to handle our scheduling needs.

The flexibility, customization, and function of the software is top notch. It serves al of our purposes and is so much better than Oracle's versions of the software.

None. I have no complaints at all. Keep being awesome.

PM Compass is unreliable and time consuming. Very poor product. Please improve.

My division uses Cobra, PM Compass, and wInsight. I like that these software tools provide the required earned value and cost data and reports necessary for the business.

PM Compass is unreliable, un-user friendly, hard to navigate, poor graphic user interface, and poor reporting tool. It makes providing reliable and accurate data to our organization very difficult. I have been asked by other companies if I would recommend this product to them and I emphatically tell them to look elsewhere. Please improve PM Compass. Thank you

As a GovCon system's consultant, I've used/fixed/implemented/transitioned from this system numerous times. It was the accounting solution I recommended to all of my clients looking to be DCAA Compliant. I am sad it's no longer being sold/offered from Deltek.

I loved most things about this system. It was incredibly simple to implement. The interface was simplified so it became very easy to train new users. Projects and the JSR reports delivered enough information to manage programs/contracts. If setup correctly, it was the ultimate in getting your GovCon accounting system approved by the DCAA.

Unfortunately, the support for this product is supposedly going away. They're moving everyone to a lite/compartmentalized à la carte version of Costpoint now. This system was expensive but affordable in the sense that your average clerk/bookkeeper could be taught how to use it. Costpoint isn't for the faint at heart! :)

I love this platform for projects that require intense tracking of deliverables and project accounting. Project Libra also has a paid cloud version. I would highly recommend this to new firms that are between 1-20 people managing projects.

Let me start by saying this is clearly the most robust project management platform on the market that falls under open source code. This platform allows you to do project accounting, deliverable tracking, change management tracking, team allocations, time accounting, and crm functions. Being a professional project manager I love the robustness of this platform. All labels are customizable (be careful not to re label something unintentionally). Project Libra does offer paid setup Updates seem to be often even as open source

The paid setup is incredibly expensive The user interface feels "clunky" and "old" the icons and labels feel like they are straight out of windows 3.1 Open source license prevents companies from charging to sell this software however a means to monetize could be in hosting or supporting on prem deployments (license loophole) Security becomes an issue for the deployment team to handle

Cobra is going to be used with PM Compass as part of our plan for teams to enter ETC data that is going to be used in Contract Reviews.

Been using Cobra with OPP for 20 years. We currently use OPP 3.4 and Cobra 5.1 but are due to upgrade to latest versions any time now. Cobra is an extremely powerful tool that contains all the data that you need in PM. The trick is getting management buy in of what it’s telling them.

Restoring backups takes ages. The tool could do with a refresh with the architecture.

Our organization purchased Open Plan and COBRA over 8 years ago. However, we didn't really know much about either application before doing so. The Deltek consultants were very helpful in helping us get each one set up and ready for use. The problem was we didn't start using them on a regular basis or commit resources to them full time, so our knowledge base and expertise didn't evolve. Open Plan proved to be more robust than we needed at the time and we stopped using it. COBRA is used for only specific projects, mainly EVM related, and has provided us some nice benefits. But we still don't have a good handle on all of the functionality, which is holding us back a little. My suggestion is to invest time and resources to these products to get a better ROI.

Cobra reports are created as Excel files. Easy budget re-calculation, budget import.

The integration wizard is a little quirky.

Haven’t used other software to really compare besides MPM.

Helps get EV effort done and Cobra has a good user interface.

PM Compass user interface is not very good and clunky to navigate. Have issues getting WADs to work in PM compass when using Microsoft project.

This software is truly an asset to any company who is willing to put the time, money and resources (human) behind utilizing it to its fullest potential. If you are not ready to completely switch over to this program (leave all other software behind), then do not make the jump!

If everyone is one board to learn this program, you are in for a real treat.

Very hard to become proficient at unless you read all online, free resources, and then pay a lot of money to learn the next layer of information at workshops, followed by paying more money for the private consultation to answer follow-up, in-depth questions pertaining to your firms' standard practice.

We use both Cobra and Winsight for Budget and EV. We like the functionality of the products to support project execution.

Cobra is used for budget and scheduling

Ease of use for users!

Pricing, reporting for research/ space flight instrumentation

Really great at EVM metrics and pricing baseline/ forecast at WP

Client server—should web app by now. Process log should be more intelligent and include more specifics

The latest version of Cobra has many new features that we have been waiting for, we look forward to the future version releases to see what else is in store.

The information available for managing projects is great. There are a lot of new features coming on board that will make this much more user-friendly.

Easy to use, accepted software, training

not much, it works great. Thank you for asking.

The updates get implemented automatically without the need to upgrade on-site servers, and the customer service is always very prompt.

Most times you have to start with the lowest level of help desk before getting bumped up to someone that actually knows what they are doing. It would be nice to have 1 or even a few experts that were assigned to you so you could build a relationship and skip on some of the frustration of having a novice send you something they copied and pasted out of a manual.

It can be used to track the project, Easy to handle, different projects can be managed at portfolio level.

Since we find few difficulties in updating each and everything and on pulling out a report for analysis purpose.

Basically users in the organisation are not as well-versed in PM terminology and for that reason, they tend to fall back on using other software.

Its an extremely instinctive tool to use and aligned very close to project management terminology.

Cant see any cons - as I feel the cost is reasonable

Visually appealing and easy to use. Software out of the box is always a plus.

Nothing specific I like least about the product or vendor.

Cobra is a good earned value system. Great for meeting the government reporting requirements and for managing cost/schedule on projects.

Easy to use, V8 looks like MS products latest versions, multiple ways a user can get to what they need. Excellent tool for earned value management.

Not a lot, upgrades sometimes create new issues and have to wait for a patch/fix to come out.

I have been using open plan for about four years and PMC and Acumen more recently. I like how all of these tools (including Cobra) work with each and have found them to be user friendly.

Accuracy and integration with Cobra to calculate EV.

Unforgiving at times - greater use of undo function would be nice.

managing an overwhelming amount of project e-mails and documents on our server

It is great for project management. Makes archiving of project e-mails a breeze

It is not very user friendly. Also we are one of the first SAAS users and the interface between PIM and Vision is not good

Deltek First is a great idea and platform whose time has come.

Reduced IT overhead cost and up to date patches.

You have no direct access to the raw data so interfaces for third party feeds are nixed.

I like that updates are automatically applied and scheduled during non-business hours after our db is backed up and I don't need to ever lift a finger

There isn't anything I don't like at this point. Works well.

This software (Acumen Fuse) allows users to employ industry best practices when developing schedules. Seemless integration with other industry scheduling software to provide users with results targeting quality of schedules.

The scoring system within the software can be customized but it is not intuitive. Setting up the software to fit your purpose is a one time challenge, but once set up, it is a very powerful software.

Dan Zosh is always available to answer questions and provides expert advise! Have used wInsight for many years and Dan is always there to help me when we have any issues. Currently we are working towards a enterprise wInsight database. There are many new structures and unique programs that must have special considerations.