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Deltek, Inc. - Investor Relations - Financial Press Release

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:04:00 +0000

Deltek, Inc. - Investor Relations - Financial Press Release: "Deltek,... announced today that it has appointed Jim Dellamore as its new Executive Vice President, Global Services. In this position, Mr. Dellamore will be responsible for the strategic and operational direction of Deltek’s Global Services organization. Mr. Dellamore will report directly to Kevin Parker, Deltek’s president and CEO."

Deltek Partners with SilkRoad technology to Expand Its Human Resources Solution for Government Contractors

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:33:00 +0000

Deltek Partners with SilkRoad technology to Expand Its Human Resources Solution for Government Contractors: "Deltek, Inc. (NASDAQ: PROJ), the leading provider of enterprise applications software for project-focused businesses, today announced that it has signed a reseller partnership with SilkRoad technology to expand the human resources capabilities within Deltek Costpoint. Deltek will integrate SilkRoad’s best-of-breed Life Suite of talent management solutions with Deltek’s Costpoint Human Resources (HR) module. Deltek and SilkRoad already have more than 20 common customers using both companies’ technology to manage the end-to-end human resources process."

Please click on "Read the rest of this article!" link below.

"In today’s world, finding, retaining and developing top talent is a strategic priority for government contractors. Companies that embrace solutions and processes for attracting and nurturing talent have a competitive advantage over their peers. This enhanced Costpoint HR solution will enable government contractors to find the most qualified candidates and integrate them into the organization as fast as possible so they can have the right resources in place as new contracts are awarded. The Life Suite offers deep capabilities that include:

Advanced recruiting functionality that integrates with thousands of online job boards to quickly find the best, most-qualified candidates to fill critical positions – including those that require advanced security clearances
Employee onboarding to get newly-hired resources up and running quickly so they can be productive on day one
Flexible performance management with multi-rater/360 degree assessments, succession planning and development planning to keep employees engaged in their professional development
Robust learning management tools that can be personalized to each individual employee to continuously enhance employee skills and better position the company to win new contracts
Powerful employee intranet and content management providing one central source for department-specific data, materials and company information

All of these capabilities work together with Costpoint to maximize the time-to-value for getting employees as productive as possible in the shortest amount of time while creating a positive experience for employees and reducing stress on managers.

“We are extremely pleased to partner with Deltek, the industry-standard enterprise applications provider for government contractors,” said Andrew J. “Flip” Filipowski, CEO of SilkRoad technology. “The combination of our market-leading HR capabilities – that complement Deltek’s already deep HR functionality – with Deltek’s flagship Costpoint solution gives government contractors all the tools they need to find and retain the best talent.”

“In the competitive world of government contracting, what sets great companies apart are their employees,” said Jim Rogers, Market Vice President, Government Contracting. “Deltek’s Costpoint solution has long had deep capabilities for effectively managing employees. However, with the announcement of this partnership, we have taken the solution to a new level by ensuring that the right individuals are hired, trained, and developed as quickly as possible, so government contractors can rapidly and effectively execute projects for the Federal Government.”

About Deltek

Deltek® (NASDAQ: PROJ) is the leading provider of enterprise applications software designed specifically for project-focused businesses. For more than two decades, our software applications have enabled organizations to automate mission-critical business processes around the engagement, execution and delivery of projects. More than 12,000 customers worldwide rely on Deltek to measure business results, optimize performance, streamline operations and win new business. Visit www.deltek.com.

About SilkRoad technology

SilkRoad technology, inc. provides software as a service (SaaS) solutions that significantly improve the talent within its more than 1000 customers across the globe. Through SilkRoad’s Life Suite™, an integrated talent management solution, companies are able to hire better employees, identify high and low performers, drive a pay-for-performance culture and improve employee tenure. The SilkRoad Life Suite includes OpenHire™ for recruiting management, RedCarpet™ for employee onboarding and life events, WingSpan™ for flexible employee performance management, GreenLight™ for learning management, and Eprise™ for employee intranets and content management.

SilkRoad technology is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC with offices in Bedford, MA; Chicago, IL; West Long Branch, NJ; Jacksonville, Florida; Alberta, Canada; Singapore, Republic of Singapore; Sydney, Australia and Hamburg, Germany. More information is available on the Web at www.silkroad.com or by phone: U.S. toll free at 866-329-3363 or internationally at +1-336-201-5100."

Deltek Selects Informatica to Archive Costpoint Financial Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:31:00 +0000

Deltek Selects Informatica to Archive Costpoint Financial Systems: "Informatica, the leading independent provider of data integration software and services, today announced that Deltek has chosen the Informatica Data Archive solution to support Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE:SAI), a large user of the Deltek Costpoint financial management and project accounting software, to manage data growth, reduce infrastructure costs and enhance performance."

Please click on "Read the rest of this article!" link below.

"Deltek Costpoint is industry-leading software designed specifically to meet the business needs of sophisticated project-driven organizations and is used by more than 12,000 customers. Deltek Costpoint customers using the Informatica Data Archive are able to reduce storage costs and increase application performance while ensuring the integrity of critical business information. In addition, by removing inactive data from the Deltek application and lowering overall data volume, customers are able to streamline backups, upgrades, and routine maintenance to improve Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Informatica Data Archive for Deltek Costpoint provides a comprehensive archiving solution designed specifically to meet the business needs of sophisticated, project-driven organizations.

"This year we're expecting a significant increase in the size of our production database, so we needed to continue being proactive about managing our database performance," explains Greg Clare, vice president and director of Systems Engineering for SAIC IT Services. "As one of the largest Costpoint users, it was important for us to choose a scalable archiving solution that is specifically designed for our application."

Informatica is Deltek's preferred archiving partner and the only solution that provides pre-packaged accelerators across the most popular Deltek modules including: AP Vouchers, Cash Receipts, Journal Entries and Requisitions, and Deltek Time and Expense with Employee Self-Service. These accelerators dramatically reduce time-to-value by deciphering complex, proprietary data models, managing cross-module dependencies, and identifying key business entities logical (e.g. invoice, PO, etc.) that are the most relevant candidates for archiving.

"We're excited to provide the most complete Deltek Costpoint archiving solution on the market," said Adam Wilson, general manager, ILM, Informatica "Leading customers like SAIC that are looking for a way to cost effectively handle ever increasing data volumes, while meeting long term data access and retention requirements are turning to Informatica."

"Informatica's Data Archive solution provides Costpoint customers with a powerful way to manage data growth," says Richard Lowrey, executive vice president, Products and Strategy, Deltek. "Together Deltek and Informatica provide a solution enabling customers to further their business goals while reducing IT spend."

Informatica Data Archive for Deltek Costpoint is part of a suite of enterprise data management solutions covering data archiving, test data management, data privacy, application retirement and divestitures. The solutions are optimized for use with applications from vendors including Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, Siebel and Deltek as well as custom and third-party applications. These offerings manage the data lifecycle by helping IT align the business value of information with the most appropriate and cost effective IT infrastructure to manage it.

For more information, visit the Informatica Data Archive page.

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the leading independent provider of data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 3,600 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of varying complexity and scale. For more information, call +1 650 385 5000 (1 800 653 9871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.

Note: Informatica and Informatica Data Archive are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.

CONTACT: Informatica Corporation
Deborah Wiltshire
+1 650 385 5360
Mobile: +1 650 862 8186
dwiltshire@informatica.com"

Job Posting: SAIC openings

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:38:00 +0000

SAIC is looking for a Rapid Project Conversion Team Consultant and a Time & Expense Analyst. You can apply for these positions here and here.

Cognos Honors Global Partners For Excellence In Performance Management Innovation

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:45:00 +0000

Technology Partner of the Year: Noetix

By establishing themselves as an important part of the Cognos/Oracle integration strategy, Noetix was selected as Technology Partner of Year. The Noetix Generator provides a connector that automatically generates business intelligence content from enterprise applications...

Global System Integrator Partner of the Year: Accenture

Accenture was selected as Global SI Partner of the Year due to its commitment to Cognos, its extensive investment in training and for developing leading industry-focused solutions. Accenture was also the top revenue-producing GSI partner for Cognos this past year.

Global Alliance Partner of the Year: Deloitte

Deloitte was selected as Global Alliance Partner of the Year for its key strategic alliance with Cognos, which has resulted in both companies’ strong success in the performance management market. Through their understanding and commitment to IBM Cognos products, Deloitte is helping Cognos clients deliver innovative, high-value solutions that solve industry-specific business challenges.

The Powered by IBM Cognos Software Partner Solution Award is given to partners for developing outstanding solutions based on Cognos products. This year the top Powered by Cognos Award for all Alliances was awarded to BearingPoint for their work in developing and marketing the POM Budget solution for the United States Department of Defense.

Cognos Honors Global Partners For Excellence In Performance Management Innovation

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:34:00 +0000

Interesting Rob Ashe interview @ ZDNet.com:

Ashe said part of the reason the industry grew up so quickly was that customers were looking to BI applications to squeeze returns out of ERP systems. Today, it’s clear that ERP systems are about automating transactions, but BI is the real differentiator because it optimizes the business. That realization is one reason why Oracle and SAP bought BI companies.

[...]

IBM’s approach to BI is to take Cognos and integrate it into the so-called information life cycle. In other words, IBM will take Cognos and layer its performance management software on top of its information server, data quality tools, storage and data warehousing applications. “They (SAP and Oracle) are selling transaction environment. We’re selling data and information management independent of transaction.”

[...]

“Most enterprises have performance management already, but are looking for more centralized capability to get a single strategic view of data.”

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

Robot as teacher

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:29:00 +0000

Deltek User Conference coverage from Nick Wakeman at Washington Technology:

Deltek took over the Opryland complex with 4,000 attendees. It was an impressive sight to see that many people focused on one set of products. I went to the opening session on Tuesday, thinking this was going to be the big sales pitch.

Sure there was some rah-rah stuff, but it was not obnoxious. Kevin Parker, the CEO, gave a good overview of the company and where it is headed. Look for more on that in an upcoming issue of WT.

Robot as teacher

NASA's publicly accessible workforce information Cognos PowerPlay cubes - InformationWeek

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:06:00 +0000

NASA has public Cognos PowerPlay cubes accessible online containing all its workforce data available here.

The Workforce Strategy Division in the Office of Human Capital Management provides updated WICN Cubes every two weeks. The cubes contain multiple dimensions - any of which can be dragged over to replace the row or column currently shown. Clicking on a row or column label will drill down to a lower level of detail.

Who Works Where?
Locations, occupations, grades, salaries, demographics of NASA employees. This information comes from the personnel/ payroll system.

Who Works on What?
Deployment of the workforce across all the Agency’s missions, themes, programs and projects. This information comes from the Agency’s labor distribution system
and more...

Found in a related article about NASA's retiring workforce woes:

The average age of NASA employees is 46.2 years and rising, and the space agency forecasts that more than 4,000 of its full-time workers will retire over the next six years [...]

It's easy enough to see the demographic data that's driving NASA in this direction. The agency makes its workforce data publicly available via Cognos PowerPlay business-intelligence software. You can view NASA's workforce data cubes on the NASA site here.

Social Networking As Rocket Science - Startup City Blog - InformationWeek

Social Networking for government contractors: Deltek Partners with mySBX

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:50:00 +0000

Deltek... announced that it will be sponsoring two on-line communities within the mySBX destination portal to help Government contractors connect, collaborate and share information and opportunities to enable their businesses to grow.

[...] mySBX is a destination portal that will enable users to grow their businesses, find new opportunities and access content specifically built for their industry. Enabled by a first-of-its-kind collaborative platform, government contractors are able to partner, share information, exchange billable opportunities and access valuable insight into best-of-breed vendors and services.

[...] Deltek is sponsoring two cornerstone communities: Earned Value Management (EVM) and Cost Accounting Systems. Some of the many features of these communities include an "Artifacts" section for hosting documents and training materials, a "Directories" section of constantly updated and ranked source for community key players, as well as sections for service and technology providers, government agencies, useful websites and company professional associations. There are tools for managing upcoming events, conferences, training and user meetings. In addition, webinars are offered to help users stay on top of topic issues as well as journals, articles, research capabilities, on-line books and blogs. Users can even utilize an "Ask the Expert" section to access a group of on-line industry professionals to help with designating the top contributions in each area to maximize their mySBX community experience.

PR-USA.net - Deltek Partners with mySBX to Enable Government Contractors to Connect and Collaborate in New and In

Cognos will protect its partners, says executive | COMPUTERWORLD

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:27:00 +0000

More comments on the Cognos partner eco-system business model:

Cognos partners needn't worry about being swamped by the over 90,000 members of IBM's PartnerWorld program. Cognos partners will be protected, and IBM partners wanting to sell Cognos will need to apply to join the Cognos program like any other partner.

Cognos will protect its partners, says executive | COMPUTERWORLD KENYA

IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:23:00 +0000

In bookstores now! Available on Amazon.

John Daniel Associates (JDA), a Platinum Reseller and accredited Cognos partner, has announced the release of the first Cognos 8 Business Intelligence (BI) book, IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide. The book is published by McGraw-Hill and is the only book IBM Cognos recognizes as official representation of its Cognos 8 BI solution. The book is authored by Dan Volitich, president and owner of John Daniel Associates. It debuts today at Cognos Forum 2008 in Las Vegas

John Daniel Associates, Inc. Announces Authoring and Release of: IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide

IBM Plans To Double Cognos Sales In Under Three Years - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:49:00 +0000

As IBM moves to integrate Cognos, some partners had been concerned about their future role:

IBM Plans To Double Cognos Sales In Under Three Years - IT Channel - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness: "To grow the Cognos market IBM wants to increase the amount of Cognos-related consulting services available in the marketplace. 'This is actually a tremendous opportunity for our partners,' Zeledon said, citing performance management and data integration as consulting service examples.

IBM intends to use a controlled distribution model to "preserve the Cognos ecosystem," Zeledon said. IBM will not automatically make Cognos products available to the 90,000 members of IBM's PartnerWorld channel partner program. Such a move could create "a dilution of the [Cognos] ecosystem" because many won't know the technology or add sufficient value, the Cognos executive said. PartnerWorld members that want to resell or work with Cognos products will have to apply to Cognos to do so."

Forrester Information Management Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:16:00 +0000

Forrester Research has an interesting blog post that puts BI in the context of a management consulting initiative rather than a stand-alone IT project, focusing on Cognos' new CXO access through IBM's strategy consulting relationships.

...Business intelligence (BI) is still very much an art, less so a science (see our latest "It’s Time To Reinvent Your BI Strategy" and "Strong Partners Are Key To Successful BI Initiatives" research reports), is causing vendors with significant BI product portfolio to lead the trend. Most notable relevant transactions were the acquisition of PwC Consulting by IBM and Knightsbridge by HP. These acquisitions allowed IBM and HP to take their rightful place alongside with Accenture, CGEY, Deloitte, Bearing Point and others as generic, vendor neutral management consultants with strong BI capabilities.

The trend is far from over. Now that SAP, Oracle and Microsoft moved into big time, stack independent, heterogeneous BI products, it most probably won't be long before they acquire a large management consulting firm with strong BI capabilities, or one of hundreds boutique BI consultancies that are out there and are doing extremely well. SAP, Oracle, Microsoft desperately need these management consulting capabilities to continue to compete effectively with IBM. If they don't, IBM will always have that one advantage and strong differentiation.

Forrester Information Management Blog

Deltek Announces Release Date for First Quarter 2008 Results

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:30:00 +0000

Deltek Announces Release Date for First Quarter 2008 Results: "(Deltek) announced today that it will release its first quarter 2008 financial results on Thursday, May 8, 2008. The Company will host a conference call at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss the first quarter results.

The dial-in number for the conference call is 1-877-381-6419 in North America and 1-706-643-9496 outside North America (no password required). Interested parties may also go to the Investor Relations section of the Company's Web site (http://investor.deltek.com) to listen to the earnings call. Those unable to participate in the live call may hear a rebroadcast by dialing 1-800-642-1687 in North America and 1-706-645-9291 outside North America (pass code: 43441906). The rebroadcast will be available through May 15, 2008. In addition, a recording of the call will be available on Deltek's Web site through May 15, 2008."

How To Choose Among The Four Bright Lights Of BI -- Business Intelligence -- InformationWeek

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:54:00 +0000

InformationWeek has an interesting article about the BI market place. Some interesting excerpts:

Understanding their (the big four vendors) strategies will help you decide whether to listen or walk away. In one short year, Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) acquired Hyperion, SAP (NYSE: SAP) bought Business Objects, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) grabbed Cognos. Including Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), the big four BI vendors now account for about half of the $7 billion-a-year BI tools market, which is expected to grow 11% this year, according to IDC.

On pricing (and open source vendors):

Oracle, IBM, and SAP will need to lower their pricing if they want to compete with inexpensive open source providers like Pentaho and entry-level tools that are gaining more capabilities, such as the Google Docs spreadsheet. Tools from IBM-Cognos, Oracle-Hyperion and SAP-Business Objects typically cost well over $1,000 per user. Microsoft has adopted a pricing structure to make the cost per seat decrease as the number of users increases, charging $20,000 for PerformancePoint Server 2007 and $195 per user.

On IBM Cognos:

IBM is positioning itself as the go-to megavendor that can help customers create a company-wide information architecture, from the desktop down to the bowels of the data repositories. But BI tool-buying decisions are typically made based on application functionality and not how well they work with data management systems. IBM's approach forces IT departments to consider not just what users want from BI tools, but how they integrate with the search, content management, master data management, data cleansing, data warehousing, and data integration systems to form a cohesive whole

...since IBM has been a "neutral player," it isn't going to show favoritism toward any one enterprise app, Ashe (head of IBM's Cognos unit) says

In the coming year, Ashe says Cognos technologies will be tied more closely to a "treasure trove" of IBM capabilities and products. One plan is to tap into the company's extensive work in natural language processing to develop new products and capabilities for analyzing unstructured data, such as e-mails and customer service transcripts. IBM also is creating more collaborative BI capabilities by tying Cognos to Lotus Notes. "There's a lot of smart thinking and research going on in how this will all work together in a social environment," Ashe says.

On Oracle:

Since Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion a year ago, the company hasn't provided much explanation of which products it expects to be strategic and which will just be maintained and supported. In fact, Oracle said its BI executives were too busy to talk with InformationWeek for this article, despite several weeks' lead time, and could provide Kopcke (Oracle's senior VP of enterprise performance management) only via e-mail.

On Microsoft:

Microsoft, a BI leader. Who knew? Among the four megavendors, it's been the dark horse that may have a shot at winning...(PerformancePoint Server 2007) pulled together Microsoft's products, including business Scorecard Manager, Excel, and new apps for planning, budgeting, and forecasting, with advanced visualization and analysis technologies acquired from ProClarity.

How To Choose Among The Four Bright Lights Of BI -- Business Intelligence -- InformationWeek

Technorati Tags: Business Intelligence,BI,Oracle,Hyperion,SAP,Business Objects,IBM,Cognos,Microsoft,PerformancePoint,Pentaho,InformationWeek

Deltek Announces Consulting Edition of its Vision Product

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:20:00 +0000

Deltek announced the release of the new Consulting Edition of its Deltek Vision product. This product contains new features and capabilities designed specifically for today's consulting firms.
The new Consulting Edition of Vision was created by utilizing Deltek's more than 25 years of experience with project-focused businesses and gathering extensive input from hundreds of consulting services firms currently using Deltek Vision. Through this process, Deltek added new functionality around human capital management (HCM), client satisfaction analysis and workforce optimization.

Deltek Announces Consulting Edition of its Vision Product

IBM rolls out tools for non-techies, developers to build mashups

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:23:00 +0000

It is not clear if this is Cognos related, but given the fairly recent acquisition of Cognos, it would make a nice addition to Cognos Connection. At a Deltek User Conference technical session a few years ago, I had asked if there was an easy way to enable RSS feeds out of Costpoint data. The starter scenario was to allow project managers to view the latest accounting activity regarding their projects on their intranet launch page with an RSS feed. This would make data more accessible and allow them to catch erroneous charges without waiting for month end reports, running a Cognos report or even navigating to a Cognos dashboard. The presenter responded that generating RSS feeds would probably be in the Cognos reporting tools domain. The new mashup products below might take us closer to making this happen.

IBM unveiled two mashup products today, one designed to enable non-technical business users to quickly build new applications by melding data from various sources, and another that's positioned as a mashup development environment for technical users.

The first product, the IBM Mashup Center, is designed to allow any business user to drag and drop mashup components from personal, enterprise and Web sources to create new customized Web applications, IBM said. Planned to launch in beta on April 15, the Mashup Center also includes the management, security and governance features that IT departments usually require for the corporate use of mashups.

IBM rolls out tools for nontechies, developers to build mashups

Technorati Tags: Cognos,IBM,mashup,Deltek,Costpoint

e-DUG Events Calendar

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:26:00 +0000

You can now find interesting events on the shared e-DUG Google calendar!

Click the calendar icon in the sidebar to view the entire calendar.

Events coming up include user group meetings for the Columbia Maryland Deltek User Group, Cognos Planning DC Area User Group, Capitol Area Cognos Users Group, the Deltek Insight '08 user conference and the Cognos Forum user conference.

Technorati Tags: deltek,costpoint,cognos,google calendar,deltek insight,cognos forum

Cognos Planning DC Area User Group Meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:28:00 +0000

The Cognos Planning DC Area User Group will meet on Wed. April 2nd

from 9am-12 at the IMF in downtown DC. From the meeting announcement:

"The April meeting of the BI user group will include a presentation on the TM1 product that Cognos acquired last year. This may be a topic of interest to members of the Planning user group so please join us if you can."

To attend this meeting, sign up to join the group and RSVP at:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cognos_planning_dc/

Cognos YouTube Channel

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:06:00 +0000

Cognos has a YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/cognosBI. It currently has three short videos describing new features in Cognos 8 BI v3. Here is the first one titled "Easier to Deploy and Manage".

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:55:00 +0000

Lumigent and Deltek Sign Partnership Agreement

Lumigent will bring to market an automated auditing solution specifically designed for Deltek Costpoint customers. Called the Lumigent Advantage Pack for Costpoint, it brings a custom-designed version of the industry's most complete application data auditing solution to Deltek's Costpoint customers.
...
The Lumigent Advantage Pack for Costpoint enhances database security and thereby strengthens SOX compliance and fraud prevention by providing continuous data-level auditing of relevant Costpoint tables and fields as well as the tracking of unique Costpoint users IDs to application data changes. Pre-configured rules, policies and reports specific to the Costpoint application provide users with the simplest and fastest way to implement and maintain continuous monitoring and auditing of the underlying Costpoint infrastructure. In addition, the solution provides comprehensive vulnerability scanning of the customer's implementation and immediately flags any changes to the system which would reduce security and introduce risk.
The Lumigent Advantage Pack for Costpoint is available in April 2008. For more information and a demonstration, please visit www.lumigent.com or call +1-866-586-4436.

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:22:00 +0000

New Deltek partners

Deltek Expands Market Reach by Signing Bredet Services Inc. as a Deltek Software Partner
Deltek... has signed Oakville, Ontario based Bredet Services Inc. as a Deltek Software Partner further expanding the company’s growing partner network.
Bredet Services, established in 1983, has grown from a computerized accounting service to a firm specializing in business management software solutions involved with ERP implementations on a global scale.

Valiant Announces Workforce Management Solution with Deltek, Inc.
Valiant, a premier provider of comprehensive workforce management solutions delivered on a hosted SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, announced today that it has partnered with Deltek...Together the companies will deliver a complete software solution for contract security firms that combines the power of Deltek’s leading financial and project accounting system with Valiant’s single-database workforce scheduling, HR and payroll solution. Organizations that manage large, highly-regulated hourly remote workforces will see immediate sustainable benefits.

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:11:00 +0000

Meetings In Profile: Attendee Feedback Spurs Tech Co. Meeting Changes

The Deltek annual user conference - Deltek Insight '08 is coming up May 19-22nd in Nashville. BTNonline has an article on how Deltek analyzed feedback from the conference last year and made changes for 2008 working with Maritz Travel (disclosure: I once worked for Maritz' local St. Louis smaller competitor Meridian)

Deltek late last year implemented a customer evaluation strategy to increase the return on investment of its annual user conference.

Deltek reassessed its annual Insight event for users of its enterprise management software after implementing third-party meetings management firm Maritz Travel's Meetings Effectiveness approach, which surveys meeting stakeholders and attendees to ascertain goals and determine the type of event that would provide the best return on investment (Meetings Today, Aug. 13, 2007).

"We were looking to figure out how we could continually make our events more effective and more appealing to our audience," said Deltek chief marketing officer Bill Clark.

Deltek started working with Maritz in August and within one month developed a 20-minute survey to send to its customers, "working very closely with the Maritz team to figure out the right questions to ask," said Caroline Proctor, vice president of corporate marketing. Survey questions covered customer preferences for the conference, including speakers, breakout session topics and time devoted to networking.

"It was very helpful to us to understand precisely what the customers like and what they don't," Clark said. "It's always helpful when you have real data as opposed to comments."

The survey results led to changes in this year's program, to be held in May, including more advanced topics for breakout sessions.

"We found out that those who tend to come to our conference have between three and 10 years of experience with our products, and tend to rate themselves as intermediate or advanced users," Proctor said. "We looked at that and said, 'We need to offer a lot more intermediate and advanced sessions versus entry-level.' "

She added that while many conference planners thought that attendees overwhelmingly would be new customers, "we find it's the customers who have been with us a few years who come in greater numbers, so we've changed the mix of sessions."
...
Customers also indicated that they wanted to meet with Deltek product specialists at the conference, so Deltek invested in a "meet the experts" area where customers can do so.

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:48:00 +0000

Q&A: Kevin Parker, CEO Deltek - Yahoo!7 News

Some interesting comments from the Q&A:

Before I started out at Deltek two-and-a-half years ago, I didn't know much about the company. Its one of the best-kept secrets in software, but its probably the worlds leading provider of software for projects. Other companies have specialized in ERP for manufacturing or other industries, but they operate in fundamentally different ways from us.
...
We have 12,000 customers built up over a long period time, particularly in government and areas such as in architecture and engineering. It can also be used in places like consultancies and advertising agencies. Most ERP customers buy stuff and then spend lots of time customizing, but most of our software is deployed with no customization.
Its basically ERP for services companies or projects. We occasionally see SAP and Oracle for bids, but most we co-exist, as companies will use Oracle for rest of the business and our software for project work.
Our biggest footprint is in the mid-market; 98% of our customers have less than 1,000 employees.

noreply@blogger.com (Adi Gadwale) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:36:00 +0000

Deltek strengthens its position in the project software market...

Bloor research has a very upbeat analysis of Deltek post-IPO:

In November 2007, Deltek completed its Initial Public Offering (IPO), pricing its shares at $18. Deltek's shares are currently priced around $13 largely due to the global downturn in the financial markets. Not that this is bad—the share prices of SuccessFactors and NetSuite, who IPO'd at the same time, are down 35% and 45% respectively.
One key difference between Deltek and the SaaS vendors is that Deltek is profitable. Revenues for 2007 increased 22% to $278m and net income increased 47% to $22m. These are profit figures that SaaS vendors can only dream about. For example, Salesforce.com's 2007 revenues were $497m and net income was only $1/2m.
In addition, Deltek is investing back into its business. Around 15% of Deltek's sales revenues are ploughed into R&D, whereas Salesforce.com's R&D accounts for 1% of sales revenues. Deltek's more traditional business model therefore offers relatively more to its stakeholders in terms of product innovation, sustainability, and profits