Deltek Vantagepoint vs. Monograph

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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I think it's clean and easy to use for most firms that are small to to small mid size. Once your firm scales out of that, I think the firm misses some critical functionality that is much harder to correct when your firm gets bigger and "heavier." There are really only 2 other software's in the space and they are Deltek and BQE CORE. I would say that Monograph is a beautiful interface, but maybe not appropriate for a firm that needs better customization at scale.

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• Consolidation of CRM
• Project data
• Project financials

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• Customer Service
• Fraudulent Charges
• Listening to their clients

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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 It still feels somewhat outdated.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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It's easy to use generally, until you start diving deeper into it. The more niche the issues, the clunkier it gets. We have some critical infrastructure issues that can't be remediated without substantial lifting. Fixing PDF formatting on the invoices is also pretty much impossible, even with simple things like bolding and increasing font size. Overall, it's good but misses the mark in a lot fo small ways

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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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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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Honestly, the firm owner pivoted last minute from BQE CORE due to Monograph being suggested by AI. I think the promise of project time tracking and capping hours was really promising. Also the idea of a "big stop sign" when we are going out of expected hourly allotments was compelling to him.

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

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