Deltek ProjectCon Arms Government Contractors with the Latest Innovations to Navigate Tomorrow’s Market Landscape

Deltek Costpoint customers got a head start on their 2025 planning while attending Deltek ProjectCon, held November 12-14th in Washington DC. Deltek’s annual customer conference brought together a record number of 3,700 attendees, with 1,500+ being Costpoint users and product experts. Topics of conversation ranged from responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and the evolving cybersecurity landscape to how technological innovations can address industry challenges like contract consolidation and support for small businesses.

And we can’t forget about the Costpoint product knowledge and innovations presented over the course of the event. Customers arrived at the Gaylord National Harbor ready to attend over 90 product-specific breakout sessions, with the Costpoint Product Kick-off being the first stop to get updates on what’s on the horizon for Costpoint in 2025.

New Costpoint Features & Enhancements for 2025

In the Costpoint Product Kick-off on Wednesday, Deltek Costpoint’s VP of Product Management, Todd Walker, shared how Deltek’s vision of Powering Transformation to meet both current and future needs of project-based businesses is manifesting in Costpoint. User Experience (UX) improvements and automation will continue to show up in a big way across many the Costpoint domains in 2025. This includes reimagining every-day processes like bank reconciliations, month-end-close and contract close-outs. In the Costpoint Manufacturing domain, new capabilities for Maintenance Repair and Overhaul (MRO) and non-conformances will promote greater visibility for production teams to support customer repairs. Here are some additional announcements and topics that were creating a buzz at Deltek ProjectCon.

Deltek Harmony – Designing a New User Experience

One of the most exciting ways Deltek is Powering Transformation for government contractors was the unveiling of Deltek Harmony™, a new design experience intended to deliver a consistent, intuitive experience across Deltek’s product portfolio. Costpoint will be the first Deltek product to incrementally roll out Deltek Harmony beginning in 2025. Deltek Harmony will be the foundation for the future user experience (UX) of all our project-based solutions.

Innovation has always been at the heart of what Deltek does, and Harmony is a perfect example of how we’re continuing to evolve our solutions to work the way our users do. Understanding the growing needs of multi-generational users, we’ve prioritized creating personalized and seamless experiences that drive productivity and satisfaction, ensuring our solutions evolve with their expectations.

Deltek Learning Hub for Costpoint

Deltek’s focus on UX also extends to learning how to use our software, help resources, and accessing product documentation. With valuable input from our customers and users, Deltek is transition to a new learning platform. Launched in early December and now live, the Deltek Learning Hub combines documentation, learning content, support articles, and news, all in one place. With a new AI-powered search engine looking across all these information sources, users will have a more consistent and integrated experience. All users can access this platform without leaving Costpoint, with no credentials needed. By making these materials easily accessible in the Deltek Learning Hub, we aim to empower users with the knowledge they need to succeed by broadening access beyond power users and administrators. For more information on the Deltek Learning Hub for Costpoint check out this dedicated blog post.

Deltek Dela^™ - Deltek’s AI-powered Intelligent Business Companion

In addition to anticipation over new 2025 Costpoint innovations, Costpoint users were excited to share how they are leveraging new features released in Costpoint 8.2 including, Deltek’s AI-powered intelligent business companion, Deltek Dela. Introduced earlier this year, Ask Dela, Costpoint’s AI assistant, allows users to ask questions about various applications from within Costpoint and receive data-driven responses without having to run reports, view dashboards or open specific records. Costpoint users even got to put Ask Dela to the test with a dedicated space to trial the questions and prompts that the AI digital assistant can assist with. In 2025 Dela will continue to improve by expanding the types and complexity of the questions and tasks it can assist with, including generating visualizations that can be utilized in reporting.

By utilizing our Smart Summaries™ functionality, currently available from within the Capture and Contracts domain, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to gather and report on key financial metrics, period of performance, and subcontractor data. Look for additional Smart Summaries™ coming in 2025 for Projects, Vendors and more!

Not only can Ask Dela be accessed from within Costpoint, but with the new Costpoint MS Teams App, you can ask those same questions without ever leaving Teams —bringing your project data to the places where you're already spending the majority of your workday. The Costpoint MS Teams app enables users to receive all their typical notifications directly from within MS Teams and then act on those notifications by completing tasks like approval workflows or entering and approving timesheets in Teams.

Deltek ProjectCon also gave attendees the opportunity to learn about Costpoint’s recently released integration with Replicon Resource Management. While Costpoint’s strong budgeting and planning capabilities can help government contractors effectively manage projects to stay audit-ready and maintain compliance, integrating Replicon Resource Management can elevate budget optimization with AI-driven resource management capabilities from Deltek Dela. With one unified solution, Costpoint and Replicon Resource Management helps government contractors elevate their processes to prevent cost overruns while ensuring compliance with strict workforce allocation and financial regulations.

Replicon Resource Management provides real-time visibility into resource allocation and skills, supported by AI-based resource and skill matching. This AI-driven resource matching allows you to identify the most qualified resources for every project, enhancing efficiency with quick resource allocation for optimal project fit and visibility.

The Continued Evolution of Costpoint Time & Expense

In case you haven’t seen Costpoint T&E lately, in addition to the ability to enter time from Microsoft Outlook or Teams, timesheets were given an interface upgrade, making time entry simpler and more intuitive. We’re bringing some of these same benefits to expense entry and approvals. Quick Entry Expense Reports were released this summer, allowing employees to enter their expenses and attach receipts from one simplified screen. In 2025 this same capability will be available for Quick Entry Expense Report Approvals and Expense Authorizations, plus we are expanding our Outlook and Teams integrations by providing the ability to enter and approve expense reports via email and Teams messages.

Deltek’s Focus on Cybersecurity Compliance

With the CMMC Program kicking off in 2025, DoD contractors need guidance and solutions to help them achieve CMMC compliance to win new contracts. Deltek offered multiple sessions centered around CMMC, including a session from Bob Metzger, the “Father of CMMC”, followed by a panel of industry experts to break down the details of the program. Below are the latest CMMC informational resources that will help answer your initial questions:

• Breaking Down the CCMC Rule for You
• Making Sense of CMMC: What You Should Know Right Now (Written by Bob Metzger)

Deltek has made significant investment in supporting CMMC compliance with our Costpoint GCCM offering, which achieved FedRAMP Moderate Ready status in January 2024 and remains on track to renew that FedRAMP Ready status in January 2025. We are actively working with our FedRAMP Recognized 3PAO to create our body of evidence package in alignment with DoD policy.

Additionally, Deltek will be adding functional changes within Costpoint to support CMMC. Starting in 2025, Contracts Managers will have greater visibility into certifications, like CMMC in Costpoint. Instead of only tracking the certification level for vendors, Contracts Managers will now be able to enter additional details like Agency Name, Certification Status, and Start/End Date and will support tracking multiple certifications.

Celebrating Customer Successes

The MVP Awards, which are announced each year at Deltek ProjectCon, honor the most innovative organizations among Deltek’s worldwide customers and partners across nine categories. This year, Costpoint customers were the recipient of three of those category awards:

• The Partner Award went to longtime Deltek partner Baker Tilly and customer FHI 360. Baker Tilly worked with FHI 360 to redesign their overall business structure with Deltek Costpoint and reimplemented Costpoint in the Cloud.
• The Enterprise Award was given to Acentra Health, who migrated to migrated to Deltek Costpoint GovCon Cloud Moderate (GCCM) to consolidate legacy systems, providing enhanced accounting and financial benefits, system compliance and operational efficiencies.
• The Government Contracting Award recognized QuesTek and their use of Costpoint to streamline hundreds of projects and reduce accounting payments and admin costs while staying fully compliant.

To learn more about how Deltek customers are leveraging our products to solve their challenges, check out the winners of Deltek’s annual Most Valuable Project (MVP) Awards that were announced at Deltek ProjectCon.

Looking Ahead & Staying Connected

In addition to Costpoint, be sure to check out announcements you may have missed with Deltek’s entire solution set for Government Contractors including GovWin IQ, Tip Technologies and ProPricer. After a week of learning and networking, attendees and Deltek employees left Deltek ProjectCon inspired about what’s to come!

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