Polaris PSA 2025 Release Roundup: Driving Stronger Project Delivery

As we continue to navigate 2026, it’s worth pausing to reflect on how Polaris PSA evolved over the past year. 2025 was about laying the foundation for a more intelligent, scalable, and connected PSA built to support professional services organizations as they deliver complex work, protect margins, and adapt to constant change.

Across four releases, our focus stayed consistent: reduce friction in the moments that matter most. From time capture and billing to resource planning and day-to-day execution, each improvement was designed to help teams move faster, work with greater clarity, and stay in control as priorities shift. Here’s a look back at what shaped Polaris PSA in 2025, and why it matters going forward.

A Year Focused on Clarity Over Complexity

One of our defining themes in 2025 was clarity. We focused on simplifying how teams interact with Polaris every day, whether that meant modernizing the My Work experience, improving navigation across resource management, or making bulk administrative actions more predictable and intuitive.

Individually, these changes may have felt incremental. Together, they reduced noise, removed unnecessary clicks, and made Polaris easier to adopt across entire organizations. The result is a more intuitive experience that helps teams spend less time navigating systems and more time delivering work.

You can explore these usability improvements in more detail in this blog.

Stronger Financial Guardrails, Built into the Platform

Another major focus in 2025 was financial control. We introduced capabilities that help teams bill more accurately, prevent revenue leakage, and align invoicing with real-world approvals, without adding more manual steps.

By embedding financial guardrails directly into billing and expense workflows, Polaris helps organizations stay audit-ready while maintaining momentum across projects. For finance and delivery teams alike, this means fewer surprises at month-end and greater confidence in financial performance.

Read our blog and dive deeper into how these updates support stronger billing operations.

Designed for Scale and Integration

As Polaris PSA continues to support larger and more global organizations, scalability and integration remained a priority throughout 2025.

Enhancements like ISO-standard currency codes, cleaner data imports, and improved sample data ensure Polaris integrates more smoothly with ERP, payroll, and billing systems, while also making onboarding faster for new teams. These improvements may not always be visible to end users, but they are critical to supporting long-term growth.

Listening Closely to Customer Feedback

Nearly every update delivered in 2025 was informed by direct customer feedback—whether it came through support conversations, enhancement requests, or real-world usage patterns. Features like billing sub-statuses, role-based rate filtering, and flexible actuals entry exist because customers told us where the friction was, and we acted on it. That feedback loop continues to guide how Polaris PSA evolves, ensuring improvements stay grounded in how teams actually work.

What 2025 Made Possible and What Comes Next

The work we did in 2025 set the stage for what’s ahead. By simplifying core workflows, strengthening financial controls, and modernizing the user experience, Polaris PSA is now better positioned to deliver deeper automation, smarter insights, and tighter intelligence across the Deltek platform in 2026.

We’re excited about what’s coming, and even more excited to continue building alongside our customers.

Thank you for being part of the Polaris PSA journey.

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