On Friday, June 28th, 2019 Deltek released updates to their schedule management tools Acumen and Open Plan. We've outlined the key updates, and we've included the product release training videos below from Deltek.
Deltek Acumen 8.5 Release
Release 8.5 to Deltek's Acumen tool includes a few key items. These being:
Reporting
- Update of Acumen 360 to include reporting functionality and integration options
Regulatory Compliance Updates
- The latest update to the DCMA EVAS metrics having renamed to DECM, including version 3.3
- New reports for history and metric validation
- Reading Cobra codes for WPs and CAs
- A new capability for finance teams which allows team members to load Cost without the need for a Schedule
Mentor Feature Updates
- Developments to the Mentor feature including 2 new mentor aids in S3 Risk which seeks to get new team members up to speed in the tool faster
- Various other changes to make the Acumen program easier and faster to use
Check out the presentation on these new features to Acumen 8.5 from Deltek below..
Deltek Open Plan 8.3 Release
The Open Plan 8.3 release includes regulatory compliance updates, adding Deltek Mentor to Open Plan, and customer commitments. These include:
PARCA (now AAP) driven IPMR2 deliverables
Mentor feature added to Open Plan
- Time analysis warning when a majority of the remaining work has a 0 or negative float
Resource Management Improvements
- The ability to copy and paste resource spreads from Excel or emails to make updating easier and more fluent
- Improved reporting functionality on Designated Alternate Resources in histogram when the primary resource is not available.
Baseline Management Improvements
- Baseline Updating process improvements - a preview of user made changes to the baseline is now shown so users can be more confident in their schedule
- Enhanced logging of baseline update and creation options
Technical Changes
- No change to the database in this release - 8.2 and 8.3 can work in the same environment
- API updated in support of Deltek Touchstone
Added 3rd party support
- Microsoft Project Professional 2019
- Microsoft Project Standard 2019
- Microsoft Project Server 2016
- Kidasa Milestones 2019
- Oracle Primavera 17.12
Check out the presentation on these new features to Open Plan 8.3 from Deltek below..
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