Audience
Businesses looking for a robust schedule management solution that offers the power and flexibility to help complete medium-to-large projects
About Deltek Open Plan
A key product in our PPM suite, Open Plan includes advanced project scheduling features like multi-project analysis, critical path planning, resource management, and risk analysis to help improve plan and schedule quality. Advanced features help identify quality issues and improve compliance with industry and company standards and best practices. Create, manage, validate, and maintain project plans and schedules. Capture progress and update forecasts. Leverage controls to validate logic, check quality, and follow industry best practices, company policies, and federal requirements. Review, allocate and manage your resources and budget to maximize performance while minimizing risk. Facilitate planning through rapid data entry, analysis, and powerful reporting on project status and forecasts. Automated quality and logic checking provides immediate feedback as schedulers work. Leverage industry-standard, government compliance, and user- defined validation rules and controls.
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Governed Workflow Automation
-Low-code workflow automation for any step in the portfolio and project management process
-Changes ripple automatically across hundreds or thousands of projects
-Admins create and manage workflow changes without code
-Waterfall, agile, stage-gate, and hybrid delivery supported in one governed system
Resource and Capacity Planning
-Time-phased planning and allocation across thousands of resources by month, quarter, or year
-Planning horizon extends years forward and back without restructuring the system
-Supports employees, contractors, equipment, and other non-labor resources
Financial and Portfolio Reporting
-Bidirectional reporting: top-down portfolio to project, and bottom-up project to portfolio
-Time-phased financial planning, forecasting, and tracking, including when funds are committed or earned
-Role-based and executive-ready reporting dashboards
-Native data export on any data object, including custom fields, for ALM, PLM, ERP, and BI systems
Extensible Data Model
-Every standard object, custom field, and custom object automatically generates API endpoints
-Custom objects support hundreds of configurable fields, each API-enabled by design
-Data model can be extended without breaking integrations or requiring middleware
Embedded AI with Planview Anvi
-Natural language questions answered about any project, program, or portfolio using live data
-Scheduled agents automate recurring status reports on a defined schedule
-Risk identification agent surfaces risks at project initiation from scope, timeline, and resource profile
-Work plan agent surfaces recommendations based on delivery patterns across the organization
-Sentiment analysis across project text fields and an in-app text assistant for tone, grammar, and translation
-Customer data is not used to train AI models
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Deltek Open Plan Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Deltek Open Plan work with?
Deltek Open Plan works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does Deltek Open Plan support in their product?
Deltek Open Plan supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does Deltek Open Plan offer?
Deltek Open Plan offers support via phone support and online.
Q: What other applications or services does Deltek Open Plan integrate with?
Deltek Open Plan integrates with: InEight.
Q: What type of training does Deltek Open Plan provide?
Deltek Open Plan provides training in the form of documentation, live online, webinars, in person, and videos.
