Deltek Remains the Master of Its Selected Few Domains Part Four: Deltek's Differentiators

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Deltek Systems, Inc. (www.deltek.com), the leading vendor of the software of company and solutions for companies project-based and services companies professionals, remainders made potentially with single, elevated level of the investment in the development of product compared to other suppliers of software. According to the deLaski of Kenneth E., the President and Managing director of Deltek, the supplier of average public software only roughly invests 14.5 percent of his income in the development of product and, with 24 percent, the customers of Deltek should take this as strong signal which the supplier is deeply made with the investment and the improvement continuous of each one of his continuations of product for companies of businesses of project and services professional. Deltek also announced that, again, it carried out the strong margin of profitability and for 2002 tax, which supposedly marked the 18th consecutive year of profitability for the company. Moreover, the company added more than 300 new customers during the year in a series of industries including/understanding space, construction, technology, the services, the consultation, architecture, and projected based manufacture.



Deltek aggressively continued two important initiatives of development of product in 2001:

  1. Development based on the WEB of the application software package of Costpoint for advanced project-directed companies

  2. Development of a news, based on the WEB continuation of product of PSA for services companies professionals

Moreover, Deltek also developed and presented several modules of new use during 2001 and since strongly continued to maintain and increase its broad line of 125 existing products.

Consequently, the company 'the product of S.A. increased of the requests to control the processes of in back-office of core at the before-office and the e-business of the professional services and different the companies project-based, much of which provide the products and the services within the framework of the American federal governmental contracts. Deltek also became almost 700 employees in eight offices in the whole world and almost $100 million (of USD) in the incomes and also contracted more than 8.000 customers since his beginning. Moreover, with its two decades of experiment, appraises and exceptional track records while conceiving, while developing and by providing the project and the financial plans of accountant to the companies and other of professional services the organizations project-based, Deltek spy a reputation to provide functionality-rich person applications and service to the high-sensitive customers and customer support, as seen with its disc of conservation of customer of 98 percent.



As already mentioned, since its beginning, Deltek concentrated on satisfying the single needs for businesses of the project-directed organizations, having for result a competitive advantage relative with larger suppliers of ERP which offer the software of universal use of company which requires heavy personalization, and the small solutions available immediately of project-management which became too large soon for by the company of user. Solutions of Deltek always were very concentrated on the needs of its selected project manager of customer it of target, which is responsible to share and detect the income, the expenditure, and the profitability of a project. Reciprocally, the majority of the economic systems on the level of the company sold by other suppliers of software are of universal use in the design and, without significant personalization, do not address several of the single conditions of the companies occupied mainly by providing products and services under the project-specific contracts and engagements.

For a detailed comparison of ERP project-directed against the generic GL-directed systems see ERP Project-Directed against the generic GL-Directed systems of ERP/Accounting .

the Project-directed organizations have many the project-specific conditions of businesses and accountancy including/understanding the costs and the profitability of way of the need on a basis for project-by-project; provide convenient information of project to the directors and to the customers; and, subject the invoices or the invoices precise and detailed. Often this must all be made in accordance with the conditions suitable for industry and of standardization complexes. Consequently, Deltek states legitimate that all its requests were made with projects rather than the book as a their core.

Not much of products of company the processes project-based following will support: calculation of the labor costs; management of the secondary-circuit-closer; financial informations; management of the labour; time and expenditure of process; new businesses of profit; purchase of the goods and the services; management of the project; and, construction with the order. If these processes with elevated level seem rudimentary, then the decomposition of their processes will indicate their true complexities. The need for detail is seen in processes such as time of the employees, the rates of the invoices, saving, the collections, or the proposals for a project, all what are only supported by some suppliers without counting that Deltek. For example, the stages implied in the support of construction to order the process indicates Deltek 'functionality full with inventory management of ERP of core of S: ask of customer; nomenclatures (BOM) /routings; technical notification of change (ECN); material requirements planning (MRP); planning of capacity; ask/buying order; reception and guarantee of quality; fill inventory; publish the work orders; final partial assembly and end products; delivery and invoicing of customer; identification of income, and PSR.

Moreover, much of project-directed organizations provide products and services within the framework of the governmental contracts, and the accountancy of project often requires the use of methodologies sophisticated to assign and calculate costs and incomes of project. There are many various types of contracts the American uses of government and in each one of those there is more than dozen of variations, by which each variation leads its own type of the invoicings, of the identification of income and conditions to pay to the customer of government again. Because of an increase envisaged in the expenditure of defense and national security, one expects that also the federal expenditure and the activity of governmental contract increase in several years to come (see that EDF gives to ERP a help).

For the last two decades, Deltek was a chief identified by providing systems for the companies which make deals with the federal government. Its solutions make it possible customers to maintain their recordings statistical according to directives regulated by the American bodies of inadvertency of government such as the Agency of checking of the markets of defense (DCAA); Federal payments of accountancy (FAR); and, standards of account of cost (CASE). The government requires its contractors to gather and affect costs in certain manners; for example, according to DCAA orders, of the costs of labor must be recorded daily. Moreover, a contractor is required to maintain several contracts simultaneously, to satisfy the rules for various types of contracts and to explain a certain number of indirect costs. Thus, of 8.000 customers of Deltek, approximately 2.000 are federal contractors who explain more than 50 percent of the supplier of 'income of S. Presque 4.000 customers additional are contractors working on the state and the local businesses, whereas the remaining customers are commercial sector that Deltek started to aim completely later.

According to the database of service of approvisonnement of Pro-NET of administration of small company, there are tens of thousands of small and per minority had companies making of the businesses with the federal government. With the news emphase on improving safety of fatherland and increasing operations the antiones around the world, several of these companies will probably know a request appreciably larger for their services and the rapid growth during the several years to come.



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