 Deltek is the leading provider of enterprise management software for project-focused organizations. They used Panopticon's Developer SDK to create a new visualization module for their system that allows managers to quickly understand the status of large numbers of projects.
Deltek’s project management software enables companies to maximize profitability and productivity, integrating all aspects of their businesses and project portfolios. Their software applications and solutions help more than 12,000 organizations achieve success worldwide.
Customers use Deltek software to:
- Enhance the bottom line
- Streamline and optimize project processes and methods
- Assure project, IT and corporate governance
- Improve project team collaboration
- Measure progress toward objectives
- Complete more projects successfully
Large-scale IT, consulting, engineering and architectural projects require managers to track thousands of constantly-changing variables and make decisions that affect the budget, time-to-completion and quality of the completed effort. Traditional reports and spreadsheets only go so far and are very limiting — especially when dealing with multiple projects at one time.
 One of the core problems in project management is being able to quickly identify problems that require management attention. This can be a daunting task that grows in complexity along with the growth in the project portfolio. Panopticon's intuitive and interactive visualization tools make it possible to find problems when they are still small — when cost-effective action is still possible.
The Deltek Vision® solution is real-time, web-based enterprise software designed specifically for project-based firms that integrates end-to-end business processes by automating the planning, tracking and administration of resources and projects. It provides managers with the real-time access to key business metrics and performance reports they need to make critical business decisions.
Through a combination of shapes and colors representing project-related metrics and risks, Deltek’s new Visualization module provides a single, interactive snapshot into the health of professional service organizations. Managers can analyze trends and risks quickly by drilling-down to underlying performance metrics to determine an appropriate course-of-action and improve business performance.
New Visualization Module Built Using Panopticon SDK
Deltek used the Panopticon SDK to implement our interactive information visualizations into the Deltek Vision® system. They created a new module called Visualization.
Visualization is a powerful management tool that empowers businesses to take control of their data and quickly turn it into actionable information. A mission-critical technology in the financial services marketplace for many years, Deltek has harnessed the power of Visualization for the project-focused organization with the release of Deltek Vision 4, enabling engineering and architecture firms, IT services companies and management consulting firms to instantly discover trends and opportunities across their entire project portfolio. Visualization provides a simple display that depicts mission-critical information about a firm’s entire business – including project performance, status, trends and risks – using color and shapes to alert viewers of any performance issues at a glance, and allowing them to focus on the most critical issues.
Customers all over the world are using Deltek Vision to quickly identify projects that are in trouble, potential cash flow issues, project managers that are excelling or having difficulties, business segments or offices that may be struggling and much more. Further, Visualization not only gives you quick access to easily interpreted information, but it also enables you to drill down on the information and get the details you need to make timely, accurate decisions.
New Visualization Module Simplifies Project Management
With Deltek’s introduction of Visualization to the market, there is now a unique tool that executives and project managers can use to turn complex information analysis into a single, graphical understanding of their project performance and ultimately of their firm’s health.
- Graphical Representation of Project Portfolios — Get instant visual analysis of project trends and risks that facilitate decision-making, improve business performance and align users with common goals.
- Change Views Quickly — Instantly change a view to gain greater insight into an issue. For example, the manager can recast the view on profitability by project in order to view profit by industry type or by project manager.
- Provides drill-down performance metrics — Highlight key indicators to determine project health, and provide detail to pinpoint and quickly resolve root causes of issues.
- Run reports for greater detail — In any Visualization view, users can directly access relevant reports to help them better understand issues.
- Customized views — Configure Visualization to identify business trends in specific geographies, markets and functions to determine future opportunities. Measure project and employee performance across divisions or types of work to align resources with common objectives.
For more information about Deltek, visit www.deltek.com
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