Deltek Vantagepoint vs. Unanet ERP for AE

It is well suited to connecting customer relationship databases and a project lifecycle. Business development people and other personnel should be able to get good use out of it in their daily jobs and functions. It is helpful to keep a record of ongoing projects and new pursuits among the team.

Incentivized

All of our accounting needs, from Accounts Receivable tools and Accounts Payable have been able to be met and exceeded by the automation tools that Unanet ERP for AE has implemented. Less appropriate is use for Business Development and marketing, of which we have an additional external system to use as a resource.

Incentivized

• Time logging
• Checking remaining PTO
• Checking total hours on a project.

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• Timesheets
• Expense Reports.
• Billing

• Reporting is very clunky and anything but intuitive.
• Compared to Vision, Vantagepoint layouts are very cookie-cutter. The latest release allows you to create up to 5 columns, still, it is so much less customizable than Vision in look and feel.
• Customer service is poor. If you have a question or issue you can expect it to be addressed in 2-4 weeks, minimum.
• Software testing has been poor in the past. Too many bugs have made it through to release on things that should have easily been caught, such as certain workflows not working, etc.

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• The report module can include more canned reports.

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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 It still feels somewhat outdated.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.

Incentivized

I rate Unanet high because overall, it is good at what it does. It is user-friendly, allows my organization to bill properly, and is easily adapted by our staff. The drawbacks of Unanet are that its interface is outdated and it is lacking some reporting options. It also has some small issues regarding timesheets.

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.

Incentivized

The one-stop-shop of CRM, accounting, reporting, and planning is the biggest appeal for Vantagepoint. When you set up your system to provide a "single source of truth" it makes use of other systems impractical and obsolete. Other systems can provide a portion (CRM, accounting, planning, etc.) of what Vantagepoint offers in a single package, but very few provide the one-stop-shop Vantagepoint provides.

Incentivized

We use both Paylocity and Unanet at my organization. Each has its benefits and drawbacks. They work well together. We use Unanet for project management and billing, and Paylocity for payroll processing and management. We chose Unanet for the listed reasons. It makes sense for our business and industry.

• It had no ROI for us

Incentivized

• Improves efficiency.
• Increases productivity.

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