Acumen

Deltek Advanced Partner

Deltek Acumen

The Acumen tool suite takes project analysis and schedule optimization to the next level. Acumen Fuse ensures a solid, reliable project schedule in minutes, while Acumen Risk eliminates the statistical and logical challenges of typical risk models. Automatically generate schedule scenarios and make smart acceleration a reality with Acumen 360. And Acumen Touchstone fully automates the schedule submission process while adhering to your company’s quality criteria, best practices and standards.

Why use Deltek Acumen

Data-Driven Analysis

Sound scheduling is the cornerstone of project success. Quickly identify schedule issues and work to a reliable plan.

Risk and Acceleration

Effectively manage project risks while identifying opportunities for earlier project completion.

Automate

Schedule submissions are automatically analysed based on your best practices and standards.

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Acumen 360

Accelerate (Or Decelerate) Project Time Frames In A Matter Of Minutes

The pressure to complete projects faster and cheaper will always be there. However, we can make the task of accelerating a schedule to meet owner or contractually-driven requirements less difficult and time consuming.

Deltek Acumen 360 helps make smart acceleration a reality.

✓  A powerful engine to generate scenarios in minutes and keep projects moving forward
✓  Tools to run “What-If” analysis over and over again
✓  Defendable results with data-backed information
✓  Complete customization, including acceleration rates and compression order

Duration Calibration

Acumen 360 Duration Calibration allows you to interactively accelerate or decelerate activities, groups of activities, or the entire project schedule. Select activities that “Require Less Time” than planned or those that require more and immediately see the impact on the project as a whole.

Scenario Generation

Acumen 360 lets you create multiple versions of your schedule so you can weigh different options and choose a new scenario or go back to your original plan.

Criteria Builder

Use your knowledge of the schedule to target specific areas for acceleration and set the limits for reducing durations.

Decision Support

Use the diagnostic capabilities of Acumen Fuse to evaluate the acceleration options or gain further insight into the impact of slips and delays.

Acumen Fuse

Sound Scheduling Is The Cornerstone Of Project Success

Accurately forecasting cost, completion and revenue all hinges on a solid, reliable project schedule. Fuse produces clear and concise reports so analysis and performance can easily be reported to contractors along with to-do lists of any needed improvements.

Fuse reporting is designed to be hierarchical so that it accommodates planners, schedulers and executive’s needs. You can drill down, slicing and dicing through multiple levels (e.g., Work Breakdown) or by any other code or user field to quickly pinpoint potential issues with your schedule. Conversely, summarize detailed results and publish to project dashboards, executive briefings and PowerPoint presentations, all at the click of a button.

Meaningful Reports

Risk Exposure — Identify probabilistic completion dates and required contingency at any selected confidence level

Risk Drivers — Find out the driving risk events and which activities have the highest risk exposure

Risk Comparison — Compare the S-curves or distribution of any number of scenarios such as: mitigated vs. non mitigated and identify which paths carry the most risk driving out the completion date

Uncertainty Inputs — How much of the schedule has been flagged as realistic? Find out quickly with the Uncertainty Inputs report

Risk Sensitivity — Quickly assess the relationship between durations and/or costs by generating a scatter chart showing their interaction. Add a Joint Confidence Level (JCL) curve to the view to gain insight into the probability of meeting cost and schedule commitments

Integrated Risk Register — Map events to the activities they affect for true insight into impact on the schedule. Evaluate the overhead of mitigation plans to determine if their benefit outweighs their cost

Unrivaled Performance — From input to reporting, Acumen Risk performs up to five times faster than current risk analysis software

Acumen Risk

Accurate, Reliable Risk Modeling

Acumen Risk is incredibly powerful, analyzing thousands of activities in seconds while accounting for scope uncertainty, work complexity, risk events, weather events and opportunities. Acumen Risk is also full-featured and very user friendly, so it eliminates the statistical and logical complexities of building risk models against large project schedules.

✓  True cost and schedule risk analysis against native project plans

✓  A clear, accurate and user-friendly way to capture risk scores for exposure forecasting
✓  Combined Risk Analysis & Register for determining the most cost and schedule effective risk response plans
✓  Integrated means to easily link schedule risk to cost risk to measure cost impact

Acumen Fuse Delivers Competitive Advantages:

✓  Fuse is implemented and enforced with ease
✓  Software seamlessly integrates to import numerous types of project data for immediate analysis
✓  Fuse customers report time-savings over manual processes
✓  Required and/or recommended agency oversight standards are built in
✓  Fuse offers unrivaled reporting flexibility, tailored to fit your audience and information

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Need More Information?

We’re here to help you find the right solution for your business. Whether you’re exploring Deltek, Fortes, or need guidance aligning software with your project goals — our team is ready to assist.

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