This section provides an overview of the Budgeting & Planning product, its capabilities, components, and interaction with other Deltek products.
By the end of this chapter you will be able to:
Describe the Budgeting & Planning product
Highlight the application functions
Explain how it integrates with the Deltek Product Suite
The Budgeting & Planning solution is a fully integrated, centralized, web-based solution designed specifically for project oriented businesses and government contractors. The budgeting and planning solution works seamlessly with Costpoint and GCS Premier, and integrates project budgeting, corporate budgeting, resource planning, indirect rate forecasting, and project and financial reporting into a single, unified application. Budgeting & Planning provides an Excel look and feel to make the solution intuitive and easy to use for project managers, programs controls professionals, and finance staff. Finally, project managers will have everything they need in one place to manage their project budgets, forecasts, and resources.
With Budgeting & Planning, Project managers will have access to meaningful reports to make real time decisions and successfully manage their projects. In addition, finance executives can develop organization budgets, reconcile their corporate and project budgets, and more accurately forecast indirect rates. The Budgeting & Planning solution streamlines budgeting processes and monitor company performance.
Budgeting & Planning is a Singular Integrated Application for:
Budget development and forecasting
Bid and proposal costing
What if analysis to understand the impact of changing rates on utilization
Resource optimization
A Centralized Solution that seamlessly complements existing applications:
Tightly integrated with Deltek Costpoint, Deltek GCS Premier and Deltek Time & Expense
Imports project schedules from Microsoft Projects or Primavera P6
Conforms to the WBS and OBS in Deltek GCS Premier without any additional setup required
Deep budgeting and planning capabilities:
Integrated Resource Planning with access to employee schedules for informed resource loading
Project and Corporate Budget Rollups where project budgets can roll-up to organizational budgets and budgets can be built at any level of the project or organization
Built In EVM Reporting including EVM Cost Performance Reports (CPR) Formats 1 through 5
Over 180 Project and Financial Management Reports
Rapid Deployment that is Up and Running in Two Weeks
The solution is installed quickly and upgrades are straightforward requiring no need to synchronize versions of individual modules
Budgeting & Planning integrates with Deltek Costpoint, Deltek GCS Premier and Deltek Time and Expense
Costpoint:
GCS Premier:
