Replicon’s Debut at Deltek ProjectCon 2024: Innovating for the Future of Project-Based Businesses

Deltek ProjectCon 2024, held from November 12-14 at the Gaylord National Harbor in Washington, D.C., gathered 3,700 customers, partners, and industry experts to explore cutting-edge solutions for project-based businesses. This year, Replicon made its debut at the event, offering a dedicated track that showcased innovative, premium solutions designed to drive better project outcomes for Deltek customers across diverse industries.

With a focus on government contracting, project time tracking, and resource management, Replicon introduced solutions to help businesses streamline time tracking, improve project profitability, enhance resource utilization and unlock new levels of efficiency. Our team of product experts demonstrated how these advancements—ranging from AI-powered solutions to seamless integrations between Deltek and Replicon products—can help our customers meet the evolving demands of an increasingly competitive project-based landscape.

This blog highlights key takeaways from Replicon’s first-time participation at Deltek ProjectCon 2024 and how our innovations are shaping the future of project and resource management for Deltek customers.

Driving Success in Government Contracting with Premium Solutions

At Deltek ProjectCon, Replicon introduced a suite of premium, purpose-built solutions for government contractors. These solutions are designed to address the unique challenges of the government contracting industry—helping businesses improve project efficiency, maintain labor compliance, and allocate resources more effectively.

Our focus was on two key areas: AI-powered resource management and premium time tracking solutions. Let’s take a closer look at the innovations that can transform the way government contractors manage projects:

New, Add-on Resource Management Solution for Costpoint

In today’s competitive landscape, government contractors face growing pressure to meet federal clients’ service delivery expectations. However, identifying and deploying the right talent for projects remains a significant challenge. Staffing projects with the right resources requires balancing skills, availability, and budget constraints. Combined with complex, evolving project scopes, a high volume of resource requests, and limited visibility into the project pipeline, these challenges can lead to inefficiencies such as skill mismatches and the over/under-utilization of resources—ultimately impacting project delivery.

One of the most pressing challenges in government contracting is staffing projects with the right resources. To help solve this, Replicon launched the Replicon Resource Management add-on for Costpoint. This cloud-based solution uses AI to recommend the right resources for projects based on skills, availability, and budget, ensuring that government contractors can meet federal clients' service expectations efficiently.

By leveraging AI-fueled resource recommendations, real-time visibility into project controls, and seamless integration with Costpoint, organizations can drive smarter decision-making, improve resource utilization, and ensure compliance with regulatory standards.

Premium Solutions for Government Contracting

We also introduced two premium, AI-powered solutions for time tracking and Polaris PSA specifically designed for the government contracting sector, ensuring compliance with global and regional labor laws. These solutions help organizations boost project profitability and operational efficiency by accurately tracking all billable hours and workforce time, while optimizing labor compliance costs. Let’s take a closer look at the premium solutions that can transform the way government contractors will manage projects:

Replicon Time Tracking for GovCon: This solution streamlines time tracking while ensuring compliance with labor laws across 145+ jurisdictions. It helps contractors account for all billable hours and optimize compliance costs, leading to increased project profitability and reduced non-compliance risks. Key features include:

• AI-powered time tracking for accurate billing and payroll
• Automated clock-in/out with facial recognition and voice commands
• AI-driven scheduling optimization

Polaris PSA for GovCon: Polaris PSA is an integrated time and resource management solution specifically designed for HGM customers and prospects. For organizations struggling with multiple disconnected systems, Polaris PSA provides a unified platform to track resources, time, costs, and financials and offers an ERP agnostic integration with leading ERPs such as Deltek Costpoint, SAP and Oracle. Leveraging advanced AI, it helps match resources to open contracts, proactively mitigates project risks, and ensures audit-readiness through real-time visibility and comprehensive reporting.

Key features include:

• Optimized resource allocation with AI-powered resource recommendations
• Proactive risk mitigation with AI-powered project risk scoring
• Accurate time tracking with AI-powered timesheets
• Audit-readiness with real-time visibility into projects, resources with advanced analytics & out-of-the-box reporting
• Accurate, skill-based resource matching to open contracts
• Continuous monitoring of resource utilization to drive timely course corrections

These solutions help government contractors manage complex projects with greater efficiency, while also offering the flexibility to scale as their businesses grow.

AI in Time Tracking: Simplifying the Timesheet Experience

A standout innovation we showcased at Deltek ProjectCon was AI-powered timesheets from ZeroTime™. Traditional timesheet processes are often manual, time-consuming, and error prone. With ZeroTime™, employees can automatically capture time data from over 100 collaboration tools, including Jira, Zoom, and Slack. Pre-populated timesheets require only a quick review and submission, eliminating delays and inaccuracies.

This innovation not only boosts employee productivity but also increases billable hours, improving project profitability. Furthermore, robust security measures ensure that sensitive project and employee data remains protected.

Improved User Experience: Simplicity and Efficiency at Its Core

At Deltek ProjectCon, we also focused on enhancing the user experience across our solutions. With an emphasis on usability, our product teams have refined the interface to ensure its intuitive, fast, and accessible:

• Clean, Simple Layout: A user-friendly design that minimizes complexity.
• Fast Performance: Smooth transitions and quick navigation between features.
• Mobile Optimization: A modern mobile interface, available for both Android and iOS, allows users to easily navigate the platform and complete tasks on the go.
• Enhanced Accessibility: We’ve designed our platform to be fully accessible, adhering to WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines, to ensure a more inclusive user experience.

These improvements help organizations simplify workflows, boost efficiency, and create an exceptional user experience for everyone.

Continued Integration Opportunities

Deltek | Replicon’s integration capabilities continue to be a cornerstone of our value proposition. We seamlessly connect with Deltek Costpoint and a wide range of ERP, CRM, HCM, and accounting systems, ensuring that data flows smoothly across platforms and minimizing errors.

Looking ahead, we are exploring additional integration opportunities with other Deltek products, such as Vantagepoint and Deltek Talent Management, to create a fully connected ecosystem for project-based businesses. This will drive operational excellence and seamless collaboration across the entire project lifecycle.

Customer-Centric Innovation: Shaping the Future with Your Feedback

At Deltek, customer feedback is at the heart of our product development. Deltek ProjectCon provided invaluable opportunities to connect with customers and gain insights that shape our future roadmap. We’re committed to continuing this dialogue through blogs, webinars, and Town Halls.

Thank you to everyone who attended and shared their insights with us. If you missed this year’s event, don’t worry—we’ll continue to share more highlights and innovations in the coming months. We look forward to seeing you at Deltek ProjectCon 2025!