Deltek Announces Winners for Third Annual Project Excellence Awards
National Harbor, MD – May 19, 2010 – Deltek, Inc. (Nasdaq: PROJ), the leading provider of enterprise applications software and solutions for project-focused businesses, today announced the winners for the third annual Project Excellence Awards at Deltek's Insight 2010 user conference held near Washington, DC. These awards recognize outstanding customer and partner achievements in improving business processes and performance, increasing profitability, and winning new business.
The winners were selected from a broad pool of applicants that applied for awards in 2010.
- The winner of the Business Impact Award is VSE Corporation, one of the fastest-growing and most innovative government contractors in the nation. VSE won the Business Impact award because of the tremendous value it has driven from Deltek's government contracting solutions. The company attributes winning tens of millions of dollars in government contracts in large part due to process efficiencies that directly benefit VSE's clients as a result of utilizing a cadre of Deltek products and services. In one notable example, VSE won a seven figure contract due to their ability to share key project data with the government through Deltek-powered dashboards.
- The winner of the Innovation Award is Ballinger, a leading architecture and engineering design firm. Ballinger won the Innovation Award as a result of the benefits it has seen from using Deltek Vision in innovative ways. Ballinger uses Vision's unique capabilities to build custom project information center dashboards and leverages Vision's workflow capabilities to proactively track project status and make real-time business decisions. Ballinger's innovative use of Vision delivered many quantitative benefits including increasing employee utilization by 10%-25%.
- The winner of the Implementation Award is QinetiQ North America, a premier provider of world-class technology, responsive services and innovative solutions to Government and industry. QinetiQ North America won the Implementation award due to its world-class implementation of Deltek's Costpoint product family across thousands of users in multiple countries. After implementing Deltek solutions, the company achieved dramatic improvements. QinetiQ North America expects to reduce expense reimbursement costs by 25%, has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars using Deltek Employee Self Service, and has cut the time to perform its monthly close process in half.
- The winner of the Partner Award is SilverEdge Systems Software, Inc., a Deltek Premier Partner who successfully implemented Deltek Vision with American Structurepoint, Inc., an industry leader in the field of architectural, engineering, surveying, field, and environmental sciences. Through teaming, collaboration, and partnering, SilverEdge – along with American Structurepoint, Inc. – selected and implemented Deltek Vision and derived game-changing benefits from its use of the Deltek Vision solution along with custom extensions. Some of the more notable benefits included cutting the time it took to create invoices from 30-40 days to 20, increasing visibility into firm-wide expenses leading to a $250,000 reduction in costs, achieving $1-$2 million in savings due to fewer projects over budget, and increasing revenue by a projected $1.4 million due to better resource utilization.
"It is with great pleasure that we congratulate the winners of our third annual Project Excellence Awards," said Kevin Parker, President and CEO of Deltek. "Each year, we take great pride in recognizing Deltek customers for the tremendous success they have achieved driving measurable benefits for their organizations with Deltek solutions. We thank the winners for their partnership with our company, and we look forward to supporting these companies as valuable partners into the future."
About Deltek
Deltek® (Nasdaq: PROJ) is the leading provider of enterprise applications software and solutions designed specifically for project-focused businesses. For more than two decades, our software applications have enabled organizations to automate mission-critical business processes around the engagement, execution and delivery of projects. More than 12,000 customers worldwide rely on Deltek to measure business results, optimize performance, streamline operations and win new business. Visit www.deltek.com.
Deltek also offers govWin, the industry's only online community dedicated to solving common business problems for government contractors. The govWin network delivers unique and specialized content, offers innovative matching capabilities to establish and manage teaming opportunities, and provides applications to identify, pursue, and win government contracts. Over 12,000 registered members, prime contractors, and small businesses are part of the govWin community. For more information, visit www.govwin.com.
For further information contact:
Patrick Smith, Senior Director, Public Relations & Analyst Relations, Deltek, Inc.
703.885.9062, PatrickSmith@deltek.com
