Deltek Costpoint vs. Deltek GovWin IQ

Deltek Costpoint is the most frustrating and clunkiest software I've ever used, and I've been using software for 30 years. The interface appears to have been developed before the internet and HTML and does not appear to use any modern widgets made for HTML. Every button click or menu selection requires a pause while something else loads. Our employees waste much time trying to figure out (what should be) simple tasks, and I've spoken with nobody in our company that likes the software. We've had trainings on Costpoint, but people still have issues constantly.

I always recommend to my fellow professional Salespeople that they use Deltek GovWin IQ for detailed account information to assist in building a relevant and actionable profile of their accounts. Especially if their customers are larger agencies, Deltek GovWin IQ is a must for saving research time! Tired of scouring through Exhibit 300's and 53's? Deltek GovWin IQ will provide most of the important takeaways on focused IT programs, plans, and budgets in their agency-specific reports. Searching for updates and alerts on solicitation timing? Deltek GovWin IQ provides up-to-date alerts on Federal accounts daily in a concise way.

Incentivized

• I love how you can cut a check and it opens a PDF version so it can be saved for retention at a later date if needed.
• I love how you can research vendor history different ways. It allows you to input a range or just enter one at a time.
• I also love that there are tons of reports that can be run to help with any projects.

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• Upcoming year forecast
• Budget Request
• Business Plans
• Point of Contacts
• Amazing Customer Service assigned to our account

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• There were not enough dimensions for our project needs. We often had to combine fields, which resulted in a lot of project lines.
• I cannot stress enough how important it is to make reports easy to customize.
• Real-Time PTO balances would be helpful when running PTO reports.
• Needs a mobile app

Incentivized

• The training can be quite complex, so it would be nice to have canned presentations that users could refer back to for refreshers on some of the advanced techniques for mining account information or running complex searches.
• Some smaller or non-cabinet level accounts have only basic information available so some of those accounts could use a bit more focus.

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The cost for our size company may be to high by the time we review, because when purchasing additional licenses on two separate occasions, only 3 months apart, there was a price increase.

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For what we mainly use Deltek for it is a great system. The cost for licenses can become an issue because as a growing company we are in need of licenses from time to time and the process is very cumbersome.

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The software is so huge and clunky that I wouldn't know how to ask for support. Here is my example of support needed: "Hello, I'm filling out my timesheet like I have been doing every day for years, and suddenly this error message came up that says "Error: 6HX7: PLC not available". I just made that up as an example of the cryptic error messages, but what is that telling me?

It would be great if there were better training documents that could be downloaded without having to go through the DLZ.

Incentivized

Deltek Costpoint is really in a class by itself. There really aren't any true competitors that have project accounting as a staple of their software enterprise suite. Certain components of Costpoint might compete with large ERP systems but each one is unique to that particular industry whereas Costpoint works across all industries and is seamless.

Incentivized

Bloomberg does a better job with events in my sector. As far as ease of use, customer service I would go to Deltek GovWin IQ every time. I would like to see additional areas added that would increase my usage so I don't need to use multiple tools. Such as contacts and events

Incentivized

• Costpoint has made it possible for our business to get our invoices paid quickly and on time
• Costpoint has made it possible for our business to get a ISO audits cleared every year
• Costpoint has made it possible for our business to always setup projects in a standardized manner that either meets or goes beyond the industry standards.

Incentivized

• New opportunities
• New clients

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