Deltek Vision vs. Microsoft Dynamics SL

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Deltek Vision
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Deltek Vision is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for project based companies.N/A
Microsoft Dynamics SL
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Dynamics SL is one of the ERP products in the Dynamics family. This product was acquired from Solomon 2000. The product is typically used by SMBs, particularly in project-based businesses (e.g. construction). It has strong accounting and project management capabilities.N/A
Pricing
Deltek VisionMicrosoft Dynamics SL
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Deltek VisionMicrosoft Dynamics SL
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Deltek VisionMicrosoft Dynamics SL
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Deltek VisionMicrosoft Dynamics SL
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.0
16 Ratings
3% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
8.5
2 Ratings
16% above category average
Pay calculation6.914 Ratings9.62 Ratings
Benefit plan administration7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Direct deposit files7.213 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.5
12 Ratings
3% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.0
6 Ratings
19% below category average
API for custom integration8.011 Ratings6.06 Ratings
Plug-ins7.08 Ratings6.04 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
8.0
24 Ratings
2% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
7.3
9 Ratings
11% below category average
Single sign-on capability8.018 Ratings7.49 Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.023 Ratings7.38 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
6.0
29 Ratings
15% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.8
9 Ratings
2% below category average
Dashboards5.027 Ratings7.15 Ratings
Standard reports6.029 Ratings7.19 Ratings
Custom reports7.029 Ratings6.19 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.6
29 Ratings
0% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
7.4
10 Ratings
3% below category average
Accounts payable9.025 Ratings7.610 Ratings
Accounts receivable7.024 Ratings6.07 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.07 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers8.014 Ratings6.63 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.015 Ratings7.43 Ratings
Configurable Accounting8.012 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Standardized Processes8.016 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
5.4
2 Ratings
37% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
4.3
5 Ratings
58% below category average
Inventory tracking6.52 Ratings6.05 Ratings
Automatic reordering3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Location management6.12 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.9
4 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.7
3 Ratings
15% below category average
Pricing7.04 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Order entry7.02 Ratings6.03 Ratings
Credit card processing8.01 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Cost of goods sold9.03 Ratings7.02 Ratings
Order Orchestration8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.1
17 Ratings
4% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
5.8
3 Ratings
24% below category average
Billing Management7.015 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management6.010 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management8.015 Ratings5.01 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting4.013 Ratings6.32 Ratings
Period Close8.014 Ratings7.43 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.7
13 Ratings
1% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
4.7
3 Ratings
47% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting8.012 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Project Costing8.013 Ratings6.33 Ratings
Cost Capture8.011 Ratings2.12 Ratings
Capital Project Management8.07 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition7.012 Ratings2.01 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
7.0
12 Ratings
2% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
-
Ratings
Project Planning and Scheduling8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
8.0
7 Ratings
6% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.3
1 Ratings
18% below category average
Award Lifecycle Management8.02 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
8.5
3 Ratings
20% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
-
Ratings
Bids Analyzed and Compared10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Authoring7.31 Ratings00 Ratings
Contract Repository8.21 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
6.6
2 Ratings
1% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
-
Ratings
Risk Repository6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
9.0
1 Ratings
27% above category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
-
Ratings
Fulfillment Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
6.2
6 Ratings
16% below category average
Microsoft Dynamics SL
-
Ratings
Proposal Management7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Product Master Data Management4.51 Ratings00 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
-
Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.0
1 Ratings
23% below category average
Production Management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Deltek Vision
-
Ratings
Microsoft Dynamics SL
6.0
1 Ratings
19% below category average
Inventory Planning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Deltek VisionMicrosoft Dynamics SL
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(31 ratings)
6.6
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
5.4
(8 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
1.8
(6 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.9
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.5
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
1.4
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Deltek VisionMicrosoft Dynamics SL
Likelihood to Recommend
Deltek, Inc.
It is very well suited for Project Accounting - we have thousands of Project codes in the system. I wish it were easier to make changes to data already entered. You have to jump through hoops to make any changes or corrections and timing is everything.
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Microsoft
For a small to mid-size business, MS Dynamics SL is effective. We are capable of managing our finances with a very low risk of error. We have worked with MS Dynamics for almost 15 years and have more than doubled the size of our business in that time with very few issues from the program. We have exponentially increased our revenue and reporting demands and have found SL to be very dependable and stable. The program does have the occasional glitch and those are sometimes outside of the realm of expertise of our IT department. SL support is excellent, but their timeliness is not as urgent as ours.
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Pros
Deltek, Inc.
  • Deltek is a very integrated system for accounting purposes. It stores documents as support for postings (e.g. AP invoices) so you can easily access the source information.
  • Time tracking for our consultants is a must and Deltek has a good platform for tracking time and for accounting for time.
  • Deltek has the ability to run almost any kind of report that you could possibly think of! There are fields for almost everything and if there aren't specific fields you can add them.
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Microsoft
  • Provides flexibility for complex project based cost accounting
  • Strong and flexible allocation processer for cost allocations, markups, and pricing
  • A "Flexible Billing" module under the project controller series that allows for multiple billing formats ranging from fixed price schedule of values, T&M or Cost Plus, and scheduled billing.
  • Flexible reporting with options using Crystal Reports, SSRS, a Quick Query tool, and ability to tie into MS Office tools such as MS Access and MS Excel
  • Tight integration with Financials, but also the ability to integrate with modules such as Sales Order, Inventory, and Field Service
  • Customization abilities ranging from a VBA (visual basic for application) foundation to allow customizing existing forms to the ability to use the SDK (Software Development Kit) to build more complex customizations that integrate with Dynamics SL.
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Cons
Deltek, Inc.
  • Deltek Vision's use of the desktop browser interfaces could use some major upgrades. It's not very user-friendly. When a field is left blank it would prevent the user from saving the timesheet but would not clearly inform the user where the error has occurred.
  • Deltek Vision should provide a simple method to print summaries like have its own built-in pdf export program instead of relying on a 3rd party program like Adobe.
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Microsoft
  • Reporting in the Project module is lacking functionality. I understand that most companies have specific needs when it comes to tracking project information but the standard reports are not good.
  • I would recommend a product like Management Reporter that is for Projects only. Project Reporter should allow users to pull in all Project related data into reports.
  • Fixing suspended batches. Obviously all of us users have experienced this mess. SL knows what needs to be corrected and there could be some step by step fixes in a separate repair module to do the steps we do in Query Analyzer.
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Likelihood to Renew
Deltek, Inc.
Because we are looking to upgrade to the next software level of Deltek.
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Microsoft
Unfortunately, Dynamics' lack of ability to smoothly integrate with our CRM system is causing us to look at other solutions. The efficiencies that we gain by using Dynamics for our day to day accounting are lost in the constant headaches of getting sales quotes to import properly into the system for invoicing. Another major issue for us has been budgeting and reporting. We currently do all of our budgeting and board reporting in Excel, which is too time consuming and inefficient, especially when a system as robust as Dynamics should easily be able to handle this relatively simple task.
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Usability
Deltek, Inc.
It's on the verge of being awesome. Right now it's a matter of money -- if you have the money to hire consultants round the clock, yeah this is awesome.
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Microsoft
I rate it a 10 because we have removed the fields we don't need so users can really crank the data into the system. The software was designed for the professional services firm in mind but does a tremendous job for construction firms and "blended" companies that are both distribution firms but project centric as well. Perhaps they drop ship inventory to a project where their employees or subs need to work on a project for example.
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Reliability and Availability
Deltek, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
We have had only one unplanned outage for 2 hours in the last 30 months. We shut down for 30 min to 1 hour once a month, but that is for Microsoft OS updates to the servers. Being a 24/7 world wide operation, the reliability is really important. We do get an 8 hour window on the weekend that we can be down for a short period to install Microsoft Dynamics SL updates, but we do not have many of those. On our last version upgrade, we shut the users out at 9:30 am and were fully operational in less than 6 hours. The upgrade was New SQL server, New SL server and 2 new Citrix servers.
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Support Rating
Deltek, Inc.
99% of the customer service specialists and technicians that I've encountered are quite awesome!
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Microsoft
Support is only used when needed, so unfortunately ,they get all the odd issues. It's a difficult business, but Microsoft and our firm do a great job of meeting customer needs. We get routine feedback that our support services are very good.
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Implementation Rating
Deltek, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Just to let it take its course. The implementation for me once I became a part of my former organization was pretty seamless. Just get to know the basics and call the support team to ask questions if you need help on an issue, should they arise. They are ready, willing, and able to help!
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Alternatives Considered
Deltek, Inc.
We have used Deltek Vision and previous versions (names) of the product since the early 1990's. We are engaged in the system and are committed to the continued use of the product. I have long supported the value added to our company and benefits realized by our users.
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Microsoft
Of the comparable mid-range ERP systems, Dynamics SL competes at the lower end based on price, but also above the high-end based on flexibility, data, and reporting. Being able to stay with the same core accounting from a $100 million dollar company to a $3 billion dollar company shows the range of capabilities.
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Scalability
Deltek, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Microsoft
Since the backbone of the database is MS SQLServer, the database can be easily scaled.
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Return on Investment
Deltek, Inc.
  • We went from using a DOS-based accounting system that all the management had to go to Accounting for a weekly printout of status reports, and there wasn't much visibility into the network. Deltek Vision gave our PMs and management information at their fingertips, without having to wait on someone else to get the info.
  • A lot of quality control was handled outside of an electronic system through Microsoft Excel forms. With Deltek Vision's user-defined functions, we were able to bring those functions into a system that could then be reported on, send automatic reminders, and create dashboards. This has been hugely beneficial in not losing sight of action items etc.
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Microsoft
  • More time is spent on manipulating reports which can and should be automated.
  • Lack of electronic invoicing process and other green technology features creates more cost on printing and storage costs.
  • The lack of a user friendly interface requires more training and a bigger learning curve for staff.
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