Deltek PPM Risk
Risk Hides in Disconnected Systems. Not Anymore.
Deltek PPM Risk is an intelligent risk management capability within Deltek PPM that helps project-based organizations connect enterprise risk management to project execution. Leaders gain a clearer understanding of the risks and opportunities that could impact business performance. Powered by Dela™, the AI orchestrator, PPM Risk enables organizations to identify risks earlier, improve collaboration around risk decisions, and understand whether mitigation efforts are reducing exposure.
Risk Is Everywhere. Visibility Isn't.
Too many project-based organizations are still managing risk without the visibility needed to respond early. Many firms are reacting to risk instead of getting ahead of it. Here’s what the data shows.
34%
of GovCon and A&D projects operate with no risk management practice in place*
<9%
of GovCon firms manage risk continuously across the full project lifecycle*
<31%
of firms have high or very-high visibility into schedule variance*
32%
of firms cite project delays as a top project delivery challenge*
Why Choose Deltek PPM Risk?
Manage Risk with Speed, Clarity, and Control
Turn Risk Insight into Action
Separate enterprise risks from operational noise so leaders can make faster, more confident decisions with a trusted view of organizational risk exposure.
Reduce Bottlenecks with AI Orchestration
Use Dela to accelerate risk discovery, bring the right expertise into risk assessments, and move to mitigation actions faster without sacrificing human oversight.
Prove the ROI of Risk Management
Track whether mitigation efforts are reducing exposure, show the value of risk management, and make better-informed investment decisions.
Risk Management for Your Industry
Energy
Make more informed investment and mitigation decisions across complex energy, oil, and gas projects before risks impact cost, schedule, and business performance.
Infrastructure
Strengthen governance across large utilities and transportation programs with a more disciplined approach to identifying and managing enterprise risk.
Architecture & Engineering
Manage enterprise-level risks across complex projects and business operations before emerging threats affect profitability, client commitments, or strategic priorities.
Construction
Move from reactive to proactive risk management across complex construction projects with greater visibility into organization-wide supply chain, workforce, and operational risks.
Government Contracting
Make more informed decisions across complex government programs with enterprise risk management designed to complement business systems.
Aerospace & Defense
Strengthen decision-making across complex programs with earlier risk identification and a clearer understanding of enterprise exposure.
Features of PPM Risk
Connected, Intelligent Risk Management
Expand Risk Discovery While Keeping Executive Reporting Focused
Encourage broader participation in risk identification while maintaining confidence in executive reporting. Separate emerging risks from verified enterprise risks with a dedicated draft board and formal risk register, helping teams surface issues earlier while keeping leadership focused on the risks that matter most.
Accelerate Risk Identification and Analysis with Dela
Accelerate risk management with AI-powered assistance embedded throughout the risk lifecycle. Dela helps teams uncover potential risks, surface emerging trends, and generate actionable insights faster, enabling more informed decisions with less manual effort.
Bring the Right Expertise into Every Risk Assessment
Make it easier for the right people to contribute at the right time. Automated requests through Microsoft Teams and email bring subject matter expertise directly into the assessment process, helping organizations evaluate risks more accurately and efficiently.
Connect Enterprise Risk Management Strategy to Project Execution
Understand how risk decisions influence project delivery outcomes. Through integration with Deltek Acumen Risk, organizations can incorporate project risk analysis into enterprise risk management and prioritize mitigation efforts where they matter most.
Measure the Impact of Risk Mitigation Efforts
Move beyond risk reporting to understand whether mitigation efforts are making a difference. Interactive dashboards provide visibility into threat and opportunity exposure, mitigation effectiveness, and business impact, helping organizations focus investments where they deliver the greatest value.
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See Deltek PPM Risk in Action
Discover how Deltek PPM Risk helps project-based organizations identify, assess, and manage enterprise risks with greater confidence and control for better financial outcomes.
Extend Your Risk Management Capabilities
One Connected Approach to Enterprise and Project Risk Management
PPM Risk & Acumen Risk
Connect enterprise risk management with quantitative project schedule and cost risk analysis. Assign enterprise risks to projects, evaluate project-specific impacts, and create a continuous feedback loop between enterprise decision-making and project execution.
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Insights to Help You Manage Project Risk
Webinar
Intelligent Risk Management for Better Business Outcomes
Join us November 17 at 11:00 a.m. ET to see how Deltek PPM Risk uses an AI-first approach to close these gaps, combining a dual-register workflow that keeps executive reporting clear and Dela, Deltek’s AI orchestrator, to accelerate risk discovery and SME collaboration.
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Webinar
Risk-Aware Forecasting: Where Threat Meets Opportunity
Turn risk data into decisions. Learn to run Monte Carlo simulations and read risk charts on the spot. Discover how enterprise threats, including funding freezes, workforce gaps, and policy shifts, cascade into project timelines and budgets.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get Answers to Your PPM Risk Questions
Deltek PPM Risk is an intelligent risk management capability within Deltek PPM that helps organizations identify, assess, mitigate, and manage enterprise risk while connecting risk management to project execution.
Dela, Deltek's AI orchestrator, helps generate draft risks, research topics, identify patterns, improve risk quality, and propose mitigation strategies. Dela also coordinates SME assessments and supports consensus building, while humans remain responsible for risk approval, scoring, and promotion decisions.
Deltek PPM Risk uses a dual-register approach that separates emerging risks from formally approved enterprise risks. Potential risks from contributors and Dela are first reviewed through the Draft Risk Board, helping organizations encourage broader risk discovery while ensuring the formal Risk Register and executive dashboards remain focused on vetted, decision-ready information.
Enterprise risks can be assigned to projects and analyzed through Acumen for quantitative schedule and cost risk analysis. Acumen's findings can then be published back to Deltek PPM Risk to help improve enterprise risk management and future mitigation decisions.
No. Deltek PPM Risk delivers enterprise risk management capabilities on its own, including risk governance via the Draft Risk Board and formal Risk Register, executive and risk manager dashboards, mitigation management, SME collaboration, and Dela-powered risk intelligence. Organizations using Deltek Acumen gain additional value through quantitative project schedule and cost risk analysis and a connected feedback loop between enterprise and project risk management.
No. While Deltek PPM Risk supports governance and compliance objectives, it is not a traditional GRC solution. It is purpose-built for project-based organizations that need to connect enterprise risk strategy with project execution and quantitative project risk analysis.
Deltek PPM Risk is available through the Deltek Cloud, where security, compliance, and reliability are built in and validated through annual audits against industry-leading standards. For organizations with FedRAMP requirements, an additional deployment option to support those needs is planned for 2027.
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*Source: Deltek Clarity Reports