Deltek Marketplace Partners Share Their AI Innovation Stories

Just like our own AI work at Deltek, our Marketplace Partners are pushing the boundaries of innovation. Recently, we've asked partners about how AI can support project-based businesses in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction space. Similar to how we launched Deltek Dela™, our intelligent business companion, our partners are also exploring how AI can enhance their products and services.

Our Deltek Marketplace is a vibrant community of strategic business partners who share our commitment to delivering high-quality products that extend the value of our customers' investments in Deltek. These partners integrate with our project-based solutions, offering time—and money-saving automation and using Vantagepoint, Maconomy, and ComputerEase data for deeper and more insightful analysis.

AI is important to the A&E space. According to the latest Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study, 62% of firms expect AI to improve operational efficiency, and just over half (52%) have an AI strategy or are working on one.

“AI usage in data analytics jumped from 17% to 44% in just one year, reflecting a broader shift toward evidence-based decision-making. While nearly half of firms believe AI can provide a competitive advantage, expand services and improve job satisfaction, many remain uncertain about its long-term impact."

Our Marketplace Partners are more certain of the long-term impact and are deploying AI with a focus on operational efficiency—the number one reason companies say AI will be adopted.

Let's look at two AEC-aligned partners and how they are using AI to drive innovation, help the industry work faster, and save money.

Prophix: Deploying AI to help the Office of the CFO

As the 2024 Deltek Marketplace Partner of the Year, Prophix is transforming the finance sector by enabling professionals to transcend traditional spreadsheets and embrace more sophisticated Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) solutions. By integrating data from Deltek's Maconomy and Vantagepoint ERPs, Prophix empowers customers to make smarter decisions faster, leveraging real-time data and performance insights.

Central to this transformation is the exploration of Agentic AI, spearheaded by Lead Technical Project Manager, Kari Ostevik. The company recently rolled out Prophix One Intelligence, an advanced AI engine natively integrated into the Prophix One Platform via Prophix Copilot, and other capabilities.

It enables immediate productivity enhancements through natural language processing and machine learning, while also laying the foundation for fully autonomous financial operations in the future.

Prophix focuses on four key areas:

• Freeing the Office of the CFO from menial tasks: Prophix One Intelligence removes menial and boring tasks, allowing financial users to focus on higher value-added analysis, increasing efficiency, and encouraging better and faster decision-making.
• AI for everyone, not just data experts: Business users can independently access the insights they need when they need them, eliminating the need to wait on finance or data teams.
• Future-proofed: Leveraging AI from Anthropic and Amazon, Prophix provides real-time, accurate, and continuously improving financial intelligence.
• A Natural Language interface: Prophix Copilot answers questions on how to use FP&A Plus, provides answers about the data model, and executes leveraging existing functionality.

“Our AI focus is specifically on what the Office of the CFO needs – the various personas, including financial analysis, business unit managers and CFOs," Kari explains. "But it is also for the people in the business that need data, and don't want to fill out a request to get it.’’

Kojo: Making it Easier & Cheaper to Buy Construction Materials with the Help of AI

Kojo helps ComputerEase customers save money on construction materials by getting the right materials at the right time, place and price. And it does this, in part, by using an AI-powered Kojo Intelligence Layer.

Their productized integration syncs POs, providing consistent and up-to-date material cost data across teams and systems and helps companies process POs faster with less manual effort. It's particularly beneficial for ComputerEase customers who buy a lot of product for their jobs to procure materials more efficiently. Amidst the challenges posed by tariffs in the construction industry, Kojo is well-positioned to help customers save up to 4% on material costs.

Kojo’s AI-powered intelligence layer focuses on better sourcing—getting the right materials at the right time, place, and price. With a single click, Kojo syncs purchase orders from Kojo to ComputerEase, providing consistent and up-to-date material cost data across teams and systems, and helping companies process POs faster with less manual effort.

The Kojo Intelligence Layer simplifies the complex task of material sourcing by leveraging vast amounts of intelligent data. It helps contractors efficiently find project-appropriate materials at optimal prices.

"Materials account for up to 40% of construction budgets, but until now, contractors lacked the data needed to make fast and informed sourcing decisions," says CEO and founder Maria Davidson. "By adding this AI-powered layer to our platform, we've simplified materials sourcing for contractors, helping them answer questions like who has what they need in stock now, how much they've paid for an item in the past, and how much of an item they bought last year, driving smarter decisions."

Kojo helps contractors like Deltek customer Tutor Electric save time and money on purchasing their materials.

Partnering with Innovative Partners to Help Project-Based Companies Thrive

Kojo and Prophix are two of many Marketplace partners that innovate in different ways to extend the value of our customers' investment in Deltek. We seek partners that are like us – they are committed to purposeful innovation and committed to helping the project-based businesses that we work with daily.

Kojo and Prophix' efforts track with what Deltek is doing around innovation: Helping users find answers much more quickly, understanding resource utilization to inform processes and business needs and engaging users through natural language to enhance productivity and efficiency.