Deltek Acumen Fuse is a tool that complements your existing scheduling and Earned Value Management tools. Acumen Fuse provides advanced analytics and project intelligence, which can quickly highlight improvements to your schedules, improves schedule quality, schedule maturity, compliance and accountability. But it’s so much more than a just scheduler analyzer, so let’s take a closer […]
Slipping a Project in Deltek Cobra 8
Did you know you can slip a planned project in Deltek Cobra 8 to a new start date? This neat feature allows you to tell Cobra the new start date and shift the entire project to the new starting date. This is cool because it sometimes happens that you setup a project ready to go, and […]
Getting Started with Deltek Cobra 8
Video: When you need to learn a new software platform like Deltek Cobra 8, where do you start? Deltek Cobra is an Earned Value Management (EVM) application. You need to have a good grasp of EVM concepts before Cobra’s interface will make much sense to you. Assuming you have a grounding in EVM, you need some […]
How to Map Resource Assignments to a Specific Cost Class for Import into Deltek Cobra
Recently I was challenged to map specific resource assignments to a specific cost class in Deltek Cobra. The reason for this was that the same resource could be subject to multiple rates at the same time. In order to accommodate this we have to set up multiple budget classes in Cobra and multiple rate sets. […]
What’s New in Deltek Cobra 8.1?
As we say goodbye to 2016, we get to greet a new version of Deltek Cobra for the new year. Deltek Cobra 8.1. This new release builds on all the great things that Deltek did when they released the first Cobra 8 back in June of 2016 along with the new 8.0 family of IPM products. […]
Mapping Primavera P6’s WBS into Deltek Cobra’s WBS Code Field
One of the issues with the integration of Primavera P6 WBS with Deltek Cobra is how to best use the integration to update the Cobra WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) code file with the P6 WBS. It’s an easy way to keep the WBS code file up to date in Cobra and aligning the information between […]
Top Seven Things To Look For When Reviewing an Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR)
When reviewing an Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) there are certain things I look for that can alert you to changes in the status of your project or highlight data integrity issues. The following list ranges from finding data anomalies that put the validity of the data into question, to analytics that help identify areas […]
Deltek Insight 2016 Recap
The Deltek Insight 2016 conference was held in the Washington DC area this year at the end of November. As with prior years, the conference was full of content that made it well worth the trip. One of the biggest benefits I get from Deltek Insight 2016 is interacting with other users of the Deltek […]
Roper Technologies Buys Deltek for $2.8B
Deltek announced on December 6th, that it is being acquired for $2.8 Billion. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo which purchased Deltek in 2012 has now sold the company to Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP). Deltek will still operate as separate company within Roper Technologies and maintain it’s brand and product names, strategy and global team. In addition, […]
How Deltek Acumen 8.0 Will Help Prevent DCMA Surveillance Audits
About a year ago we wrote about the new DCMA surveillance approach based on metric based analysis to determine the need and areas of focus for surveillance audits. In an attempt to bring more efficiency to the surveillance process, DCMA defined a series of metrics in relation to all ANSI 32 criteria. The goal is […]