How an Integrated ERP and Talent Solution Can Help You Hire Faster, Decrease Turnover and Increase Engagement

Many companies are using best-of-breed software solutions to manage every aspect of their business. While the Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study reveals that the #1 challenge firms are facing is recruiting and retaining talent, 40% of businesses haven’t invested in their talent solution in the last five years! Without a modern talent management solution, firms struggle to attract top talent, staff projects efficiently, maintain employee engagement and minimize turnover. And the administrative effort involved in recruiting and retaining employees is time consuming and labor intensive, especially if a business is still managing HR activities manually or in disparate systems.

Businesses need to be more deliberate in deploying the right strategies, employee benefits and technologies to incentivize talent to not only join the firm, but also stay long-term. With Deltek Talent Management, project-based businesses can streamline human capital management by allowing firms to evolve how they engage employees, cultivate a positive corporate culture, provide opportunities for training and advancement and develop sophisticated onboarding processes to ensure employee success. Connecting Talent Management to Deltek Vantagepoint enables firms to streamline resource planning, save time and reduce errors by syncing new hire and employee records.

Many companies are using best-of-breed software solutions to manage various aspects of their business – including recruiting, retaining and engaging their talent – all to successfully pursue and deliver on their projects. However when multiple systems are involved in managing critical workforce data, challenges inevitably arise –  data inefficiencies, redundancy and inaccuracies can ultimately waste time, resources, and affect your firm’s ability to effectively perform. What if those solutions could share up-to-date data to eliminate the re-entering of critical information into multiple systems, and automate important business tasks to streamline operations and minimize inefficiencies?

With Deltek Unionpoint,  this level of automation is a reality—made possible with our integration platform as a service (iPaaS) that seamlessly syncs ERP data, talent data, and more. Deltek Unionpoint  expands connectivity options by simplifying the development and deployment of integrations across a vast range of applications. Whether you'd like to connect our industry-specific products to one another or between other external solutions, the platform enables you to deliver a more cohesive experience to your team.

Understanding that Architecture & Engineering (A&E) firms in particular require efficient solutions to maximize their project success, Deltek has utilized the Unionpoint productized integration to specifically connect Deltek Vantagepoint and Deltek Talent Management solutions together. This tight, robust integration is built and maintained by Deltek, making it easier for your business to save time and reduce the errors that occur from manual or duplicative data entry. One powerful use case for this integration is that when employee information is entered in Talent Management, it will also automatically populate in your Vantagepoint solution, allowing project managers to staff projects faster by leveraging the most up-to-date resource data.

For those businesses interested in even more connection opportunities within their application ecosystem, Unionpoint is also built to expand connectivity options for citizen integrators (non-technical users) looking to automate workflows in other ways. By purchasing the platform, A&E firms can further customize application integrations to their specifications. By delivering connection opportunities that can be tailored to the unique needs of your business, Unionpoint empowers firms to streamline the transfer of information, save time, and avoid errors that inevitably occur when manually entering and updating data in multiple systems. 

Better Manage Your Workforce

According to the most recent Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study, firms are experiencing a near 14% employee turnover rate, with that figure rising steadily since 2020. With today’s challenges in acquiring and retaining talent, it’s more important than ever that project-based businesses transform the way they manage their workforce. In this environment, Deltek Talent Management is the ultimate tool for project-based architecture and engineering firms to successfully attract, engage and retain their most valuable asset – their people. And now with Unionpoint, you can more easily integrate Talent Management with your Vantagepoint solution.

Eliminate Manual Processes and Duplicative Entry

With the productized Unionpoint integration for Vantagepoint and Talent, users can benefit from an integration that automatically updates Vantagepoint resource pools with new hire and onboarding data, updated employee information, and termination information. This integration will eliminate manual processes and duplicative entry, and give customers the option to make Talent Management the system of record for all employee information.

Create Your Own Integrations

Without the tools needed to connect data from different systems or create time-saving workflows, your critical business information is likely to remain siloed. With the Unionpoint platform, the sky’s now the limit for developing integrations built to your specifications. Whether you’re a citizen integrator yourself or a business leader looking to get the most out of your systems, Unionpoint’s no-code/low-code platform will arm your team with the tools needed to develop and deploy connectors that best serve the unique needs of your business.

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For more information about how your firm can maximize the power of connectivity with Unionpoint, reach out to your Deltek Representative today.

#1 Hire and Onboard Faster

Eighty-nine percent (89%) of firms rank talent acquisition as the most expensive business process faced by HR teams in 2021, as demonstrated in the Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study. Having a tool in place to maintain relationships with qualified candidates is key for efficiently acquiring the right talent as open requisitions ebb and flow. Deltek Talent Management can help businesses build a talent pool and keep in contact with outside candidates for future positions, shortening the time it takes to assign new hires to billable projects.

#2 Better Manage Your Workforce

According to the most recent Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study, employee turnover has increased to 13.6% since 2020, which is why it’s more important than ever that project-based businesses transform the way they manage their workforce. In this environment, Deltek Talent Management is the ultimate tool for project-based architectural and engineering (A&E) and consulting firms to successfully engage and retain their most valuable asset–their people. With this robust solution, businesses can proactively develop skills through learning opportunities, identify employees who are ready for advancement and pinpoint those who need development or can be reskilled for other opportunities.

#3 Mitigate Lowering Retention and Engagement Rates

In the Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study, 49% of firms also identified that retaining talent and engaging employees are the top challenges faced. In Deltek Talent Management, businesses can mitigate lowering retention and engagement rates with the new survey tool, added pronouns, updates to learning content and more interaction on the public recognition board. Talent Management allows organizations to quickly understand how their workforce is doing, make their workforce feel included, identify important courses to improve skills and promote more interaction with one another no matter if they’re in the office, working onsite or remote.

#4 Eliminate Manual Processes and Duplicate Entry

By integrating Talent Management with Deltek Vantagepoint, users can benefit from automatically updating resources in Vantagepoint and eliminating duplicate entry of information for new hire, onboarding, updated employee and termination information. For example, employee information entered in Talent Management will automatically populate in Vantagepoint, allowing project managers to staff projects faster with up-to-date resources. Streamlining the transfer of this information saves time by eliminating manual processes and duplicate entry efforts, as well as making Talent Management the system of record for all employee information.

How Deltek Can Help

Now with Deltek Unionpoint, connecting your systems is even easier! Our new integration platform enables project-based businesses to connect Deltek Vantagepoint with Deltek Talent Management with a tighter, more robust integration to save time, eliminate manual processes and streamline resource planning.

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For more information about how your firm can maximize the power of connectivity with Unionpoint, reach out to your Deltek representative today.