Deltek opens office in Canada

April 26, 2007 – based on an interview conducted by Michael Burns of 180 Systems – Deltek is one of the leading providers of Enterprise Applications Software for project-focused organizations. They have acquired many competitors over the years including Wind2, Sema4 and Harper and Shuman. They have been very successful in the US public service sector with their own Costpoint system. A few years ago, they released their Vision system, which, along with Costpoint, GCS Premier and Enterprise Product Management, is one of Deltek’s four product lines. Vision is one of the few Professional Services Automation solutions that not only includes all the operational functionality required by professional service-based organizations (project management, time and expense management, client billing…), but also includes financials.

Vision is targeted to companies with 50-5,000+ employees. There is also a Vision Small Business system that contains the same code but preconfigured for smaller firms. Deltek has about 12,000 customers worldwide (1,200+ on Vision), with aggressive plans to expand. They recently opened up a new Canadian office and now have 5 employees. Deltek will provide implementation services direct for their larger clients and their business partners will provide implementation services for the smaller clients.