All Deltek PPM Reviews
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Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2018
Increases Quality of Schedules
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.
CONSSome 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.
Joseph
Utilities, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2019
Acumen Fuse Is Awesome
It is great to handle our scheduling needs.
PROSThe 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.
CONSNone. I have no complaints at all. Keep being awesome.
Reason for choosing Deltek PPM
My management did a trial and I loved it and pushed for it and it is slowly being adopted across the corporation.
Reasons for switching to Deltek PPM
Primavera didn't do schedule health up to par.
David
Defense & Space, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed November 2019
PM Compass Concerns
PM Compass is unreliable and time consuming. Very poor product. Please improve.
PROSMy 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.
CONSPM 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
Reasons for switching to Deltek PPM
MPM no longer supported. For PM Compass, we had an internal program.
Jason
Government Administration, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed June 2018
aka GCS Premier with T&E
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.
PROSI 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.
CONSUnfortunately, 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! :)
NATHAN
Management Consulting, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2018
Projeqtor Open source Project Management Platform
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.
PROSLet 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
CONSThe 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
Richard
Aviation & Aerospace, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
Cobra: A powerful tool
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.
PROSBeen 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.
CONSRestoring backups takes ages. The tool could do with a refresh with the architecture.
Terry
Defense & Space, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2016
PPM has a lot of functionality, but a time investment is needed to master it.
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.
PROSCobra reports are created as Excel files. Easy budget re-calculation, budget import.
CONSThe integration wizard is a little quirky.
Tyler
Defense & Space, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
2
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2019
Deltek tools mostly work just need lots of consultants
Haven’t used other software to really compare besides MPM.
PROSHelps get EV effort done and Cobra has a good user interface.
CONSPM Compass user interface is not very good and clunky to navigate. Have issues getting WADs to work in PM compass when using Microsoft project.
Nicole
Architecture & Planning, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
1
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed February 2017
If you're ready...
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!
PROSIf everyone is one board to learn this program, you are in for a real treat.
CONSVery 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.
Rose
Defense & Space, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
I love Deltek
We use both Cobra and Winsight for Budget and EV. We like the functionality of the products to support project execution.
PROSCobra is used for budget and scheduling
CONSEase of use for users!
Kathleen
Research, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
Cobra for EVM and proposal pricing
Pricing, reporting for research/ space flight instrumentation
PROSReally great at EVM metrics and pricing baseline/ forecast at WP
CONSClient server—should web app by now. Process log should be more intelligent and include more specifics
Reason for choosing Deltek PPM
Industry standard
Kristen
Airlines/Aviation, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed November 2016
Cobra 8 Release
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.
Beverly
Accounting, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2019
Ease of Used
Easy to use, accepted software, training
CONSnot much, it works great. Thank you for asking.
Mallori
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2015
Deltek First takes a lot off the IT dept and gives it to administrator
The updates get implemented automatically without the need to upgrade on-site servers, and the customer service is always very prompt.
CONSMost 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.
David
Government Administration
Used more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2015
Great for small business.
Visually appealing and easy to use. Software out of the box is always a plus.
CONSNothing specific I like least about the product or vendor.
Melody
Aviation & Aerospace, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2016
Cobra
Cobra is a good earned value system. Great for meeting the government reporting requirements and for managing cost/schedule on projects.
PROSEasy 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.
CONSNot a lot, upgrades sometimes create new issues and have to wait for a patch/fix to come out.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed October 2018
Needs to coexist better with Deltek Vision
managing an overwhelming amount of project e-mails and documents on our server
PROSIt is great for project management. Makes archiving of project e-mails a breeze
CONSIt is not very user friendly. Also we are one of the first SAAS users and the interface between PIM and Vision is not good
Sean
1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2016
Cloud ERP
Deltek First is a great idea and platform whose time has come.
PROSReduced IT overhead cost and up to date patches.
CONSYou have no direct access to the raw data so interfaces for third party feeds are nixed.
Nicole
Used less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2015
SaaS Client - enjoying the server maintenance freedom
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
CONSThere isn't anything I don't like at this point. Works well.
Colleen
Used free trial
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2016
Super Support
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.
Ana
501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Excellent for projects
What I like about this product is that is very good when managing long projects. The follow up is easy and Reports are easy to analyze.
CONSNo cons. Maybe at the begging it is not so easy to use. You may need to look for some tutorials. For the rest very good tool
James
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2019
Great tool for the future
Allows the user ultimate control in the process
CONSCan be a bit overwhelming to launch the system
Musa
Civic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2021
Easy to manage project
It is easier to manage project with this
CONSLanguage problem with user is a barrier. It is better to have translated
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2019
Deltek Project & Portfolio Management Review
It helps a lot in managing business projects and keeps one organised. Thumbs up!
PROSOne can customise to suit one's needs. One can schedule people with no hassle and it gives good reports.
CONSThe server can be slow. One also needs time to learn how to use it. Not much to complain about.