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How The M Group Designs Business Success with Deltek

Moving from a product like Quickbooks to Deltek Ajera, a product specifically designed for project-based architecture and engineering businesses, was a game-changer for The M Group. Now, with Deltek’s project-based software and support, they are able to scale their business and expand their staff’s knowledge.

May 14, 2020

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Goodson Associates Lay The Foundations For Efficient Project Delivery And Office Connectivity

Civil and structural engineering consulting firm Goodson Associates, share their journey to bring efficiency to project and document management, and ensure connectivity across the business with Deltek PIM.

April 21, 2020

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How CDG is Transforming Their Project Management Process with Deltek

CDG Engineers and Associates redefined their project management processes – contributing to their most successful year yet. This visionary engineering firm elevated their business to one system firm-wide for managing information. Read on to learn how CDG’s process improvement strategy is powering project success.

March 24, 2020

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Bath Engineering Gets Real-time Visibility Across the Firm with Deltek

Bath Engineering Principal, Phil Rothstein, describes how their firm’s efficiency benefited from Deltek’s real-time business management information.

January 16, 2019

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Customer Spotlight: How RS&H is Driving Schedule Consistency with Deltek Acumen

Explore how RS&H, a top ranked architecture, engineering and consulting services firm is driving schedule consistency and quality with Deltek Acumen Fuse.

April 26, 2017

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Customer Spotlight: How Deltek Acumen Helped TransCanada Cultivate Confidence in Risk Analysis

To expand the understanding and confidence of project teams with high quality risk analysis, TransCanada needed a way to simplify and streamline without giving up the quality of their results. Read on to find out why, after a careful evaluation of a variety of software solutions for schedule risk, team leaders at TransCanada settled on Deltek Acumen Risk.

March 21, 2017

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Customer Spotlight: How Ameren Improved Schedule Quality with Deltek Acumen Fuse

Due to its rapid growth, Ameren Transmission (ATX) needed a solution to ensure it could consistently produce top quality schedules for the large volume of projects it manages. Read on to see how Deltek Acumen Fuse helped ATX improve the overall quality of their schedules, ultimately leading to more consistent project success.

December 12, 2016

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10 Keys to Project Management Excellence

By: Howard Birnberg Project management (PM) is the centerpiece of design and construction organizations. Many firms have only basic or partially developed project management systems.

January 10, 2014

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Key Financial Ratios and Indicators for Engineers and Architects

by Dave Wahby, Principal, Wahby & Associates Your firm’s accounting software for architects and engineers will include two reports: An Income Statement (Profit and Loss Report) and a Balance Sheet. The income statement measures income relative to expenses for the period of time covered by that particular statement.

August 15, 2013

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Do you DPE and Overhead

By Andrew Sam, Axium Certified Consultant I recently completed an Online Training Session on the “How and Why of DPE and Overhead.” Adding the cost of Direct Personnel Expenses (DPE) and Overhead to project costs is not a new concept, but it is a rather important one.

March 17, 2013

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Performance-Based Incentive Compensation Plans for AE Industry

Part 1: Performance-Based Incentive Compensation Plans for the Architecture and Engineering Industries By Kenneth J. Hedlund, CPA NOTE: This article is the first in a two-part series related to the implementation of a performance compensation plan for Architectural and Engineering Firms.

January 31, 2013