Deltek Vantagepoint vs. Epicor CMS

I have used Vision/Vantagepoint with 5 different companies. Where the business model is project-based it works very well. This is the rule for most AEC companies. My current organization does not really have a project-based business model as they have many, many small "projects" that never get entered into Vantagepoint as it would be time prohibitive to do so. This makes the use of the system very limited for all employees outside of accounting and unreliable for reporting pipeline and historical revenue data. This is not the fault of Deltek, however, just an observation of how it is used with my current company.

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CMS is well suited for automotive manufacturing businesses.

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• Consolidation of CRM
• Project data
• Project financials

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• EDI Order Processing
• Serialized Inventory Tracking
• Order Processing

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• Customer Service
• Fraudulent Charges
• Listening to their clients

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• Visual interface
• Report Customization

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It is ok to use; it is not the easiest to use in terms of usability and user-friendliness but it is not the worst. It still feels somewhat outdated. Many cloud options are cleaner or look more modern. But it is good enough and you should be able to get the hang of it.

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CMS takes time to learn and use the menu driven green screen. However, once you are familiar it makes for fast navigation.

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I would rate Deltek VantagePoint highly in terms of the overall support. You can receive support any time you need it and there is a representative from Deltek assigned to your account so that you can always get the help when you need it. Sometimes, they want to go more in-depth than I would like, however.

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Support is getting better but can still be slow to respond.

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BQE Core. I think that BQE Core is definitely harder to use, and has a lot of features atleast from the users perspective that dont seem entirely neccesary. Deltek is very straight forward and easy to use.

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We have more control over the backend of CMS and the fact it runs on a 5250 emulator it run a lot faster for data entry.

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• Provides a customizable option for many current and to-be-determined use cases.

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• Inventory tracibility
• Order Processing
• Customer Integration
• EDI Processing

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