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PROJECT SCHEDULE ANALYSIS, RISK MANAGEMENT AND ACCELERATION

The Acumen Suite automates project schedule analysis, project risk management and schedule optimization, enabling your team to make the best decisions and improve project success. Acumen Fuse, the foundation of the suite, evaluates plans to ensure solid, reliable project schedules in minutes. Adding Acumen Risk and 360 eliminates the statistical and logical challenges of typical risk models and automatically generates schedule scenarios that make smart acceleration a reality. Adding companion product Acumen Touchstone automates schedule submissions, assessments and feedback to improve quality and save time.

ANALYZE QUALITY, ADJUST FOR RISK AND OPTIMIZE

• The Acumen Suite provides a project maturity framework to align teams and improve schedule and risk management
• Acumen Fuse validates the base and critiques schedule and cost data to improve your probability of project success
• Acumen Risk and 360 risk adjust and optimize projects to help mitigate impacts and accelerate completion

ACUMEN FUSE FOR SCHEDULE QUALITY ANALYSIS

• Import and analyze ANY schedule to identify specific causes of poor schedule quality and forecasts
• Leverage forensics to easily identify changes over time and quickly find problems with updates
• Flexible reporting and configurable metrics meet a full range of planner, scheduler and executive needs

ACUMEN RISK FOR RISK MODELING AND ANALYSIS

• Improve forecast accuracy by accounting for and proactively reducing risk exposure
• Supports qualitative risk analysis with both opportunities and threats so you can make informed decisions
• Includes a full range of risk reports that can be run at any level of the project and for any audience

ACUMEN 360 FOR OPTIMIZATION MODELING

• Accelerate or decelerate projects by generating scenarios, making calibrations and comparing results
• Improve execution and save time by leveraging automation throughout the project lifecycle

DELTEK PM COMPASS OVERVIEW

PM Compass helps deliver better program management by improving project visibility and control. Leveraging its tight integration with other Deltek earned value management solutions such as Cobra, Open Plan, wInsight Analytics and Acumen, PM Compass improves all aspects of your project lifecycle. Key capabilities include automated workflows for integrated change management, project status, variance and risk analysis, along with comprehensive reporting.

AUTOMATE CHANGE MANAGEMENT

• Leverage integrated budget change request functionality to manage changes across multiple projects, simultaneously
• See the impact of changes on each other and on the total project
• Model, approve and implement changes seamlessly in one process

SIMPLIFY AND STANDARDIZE PROJECT UPDATES

• Guide project teams through automated monthly processes that minimize the effort needed to provide updates
• Leverage automation to help teams eliminate manual processes and meet deadlines more easily
• Help projects align with business and approval processes required for maintaining earned value management compliance

IDENTIFY AND MITIGATE VARIANCES TO YOUR PLAN

• Get ahead of variances with proactive alerts, real-time reports and project dashboards
• Leverage automated corrective actions to mitigate variances

TRACK PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN REAL TIME

• Integrate project performance data to produce real-time project dashboards, performance metrics and reports
• Receive predictive analysis and early alerts to performance concerns

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.

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

ANALYZE DATA & PREDICT PROJECT PERFORMANCE

Having the right tools to analyze project data and predict future performance is the key to achieving project success and meeting customer expectations. wInsight’s earned value management (EVM) capabilities give you access to dynamic project and portfolio analysis views and reports while enabling you to exchange data in required formats. Use its highly configurable dashboards to present stakeholders with accurate reporting so they can proactively manage project costs and forecast outcomes.

PORTFOLIO VIEWS, ANALYSIS AND REPORTING

• Leverage traffic light and trend indicators based on thresholds to identify areas that require attention
• Easily select and drill down on poorly performing elements to explore the lower-level details driving performance
• Leverage out-of-the-box reports to meet your reporting needs

IMPROVE EVM COMPLIANCE

• Use EVM variance reports to help identify performance issues and prepare for customer discussions
• View earned value metrics in dynamic charts to easily see variances and trends and identify upcoming issues
• Zoom in to charts and grids for detailed analysis

EXCHANGE DATA IN THE REQUIRED FORMATS

• Easily import standard format data from various sources (IPMR/XML, IPMDAR/JSON, MSP, Excel) for analysis
• Transform data, conduct earned value analysis and calculate EVM metrics and trends
• Easily export and report EVM data in required format

OPEN PLAN OVERVIEW

A robust schedule management solution that offers the power and flexibility to help complete medium-to-large and/or multiple projects on time and on budget. A key product in our PPM suite, Open Plan includes advanced project scheduling features like multi-project analysis, critical path planning, resource management and risk analysis to help improve plan and schedule quality. Advanced features help identify quality issues and improve compliance with industry and company standards and best practices.

IMPROVE PLANNING AND SCHEDULE QUALITY

• Facilitate planning through rapid data entry, analysis and powerful reporting on project status and forecasts
• Automated quality and logic checking provides immediate feedback as schedulers work
• Leverage industry standard, government compliance and user- defined validation rules and controls

OPTIMIZE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

• Multi-user concurrent access enables teams to work efficiently and securely across projects and programs
• Utilize multi-project and portfolio analysis to improve outcomes
• Critical path analysis, resource scheduling and risk analysis provide the tools project teams need

BROAD INTEGRATION

• Leverage powerful API to combine ERP data with schedule data to help your planners be more efficient
• Import/export Primavera P6 and MS Project schedules to meet contract and compliance needs
• Integrate with Jira and keep all your quantifiable backup data supporting project progress in one place

SUPPORT COMPLIANCE

• Easily produce your required deliverables including IPMDAR SPD and the older IPMR format 6
• Identify critical and driving paths based on logic or the DCMA Constraint Method
• Find and fix redundant logic quickly and avoid CARs

THE DELTEK PPM SUITE ADVANTAGE

• Integrates with all Deltek Project Portfolio Management products for total control of your projects
• Open Plan, Acumen, Cobra, PM Compass and Acumen Touchstone provide a comprehensive solution for project portfolio management

COBRA OVERVIEW

Without the right tools in place, analyzing project health and predicting future performance can be difficult. Using Cobra’s industry-leading earned value management capabilities, you’ll be able to easily integrate cost and schedule, establish cost controls, measure performance and forecast outcomes to help projects succeed. With accurate and compliant EVM reporting across all program phases, your team can spend more time proactively managing project costs and resources.

IMPROVE PROGRAM CONTROLS & MANAGEMENT

• Provide oversight by tightly controlling project costs and resources to improve project success and profitability
• Unlimited rate scenarios and top-down planning allow what-if analysis and modeling cost impacts
• Easily produce detailed and summary reports and support project audits

COMPARE MULTIPLE FORECAST SCENARIOS

• Leverage predictive analytics based on historical cost and schedule variance data to understand possible outcomes
• Reduce project risk by forecasting project duration, cost overruns, project budgeting and resource needs
• Produce what-if scenarios, including impacts of rate changes on overall project cost

MANAGE EVERY PHASE OF THE PROJECT LIFECYCLE

• Planning
• Execution
• Forecasting
• Change control
• Reporting and analysis