Deltek Maconomy

Overview

Deltek Maconomy is a cloud ERP built for professional services firms, described by Deltek as an AI-powered system that brings project management, resource planning, financial accounting and business intelligence together. It is aimed at consulting practices, marketing and creative agencies, IT services, architecture and engineering firms and research organisations, and at the mid-sized to large end of those, where client-billable work runs across several locations or legal entities. The modules cover project and financial management with work in progress, revenue and profitability tracking; automated billing and revenue recognition for hourly, fixed-fee and progress billing; time, expense and absence entry with mobile-first capabilities; People Planner for scheduling staff and capacity; financial budgeting; CRM pipeline tracking; and workflow automation with approvals. Business performance management adds role-based dashboards, predictive analytics and AI-generated Smart Summaries. It sits alongside Deltek's other ERP products, Costpoint for government contracting and Vantagepoint for architecture and engineering practices, and Deltek does not publish a price list for it.

Best for mid-sized and large professional services firms that bill projects and want the ledger, the schedule and the invoice in one system.

Maconomy assumes a firm whose product is billable hours, and everything follows from that: the ledger, the schedule and the invoice describe one project rather than three systems reconciled at month end, which is the case for buying an ERP this specialised instead of a general one. It is pitched at the upper mid-market, so a small studio will meet a scope and an implementation effort out of proportion to what it needs, and Deltek's own line already splits by industry, which makes the first question whether Maconomy or Vantagepoint fits the practice. With no published price, budgeting starts with a sales conversation and there is no way to size the commitment beforehand. Firms already running other Deltek products have the shortest route in.

Key Facts

Features

Project costing

Yes, project and financial management with work in progress, revenue recognition and profitability tracking, alongside financial budgeting

Invoicing

Yes, automated billing for hourly, fixed-fee and progress billing models, with revenue recognition and work-in-progress management

Digital receipt capture

Yes, in the Maconomy Touch mobile app: a receipt is attached to an expense sheet or a single expense sheet line either by taking a picture with the camera or by picking an existing photo from the gallery, and Quick Capture photographs a receipt for attaching to a sheet later

Reporting and controlling

Yes, role-based dashboards, predictive analytics and AI-generated Smart Summaries covering project, customer and financial performance

Time tracking

Yes, time, expense and absence entry with mobile-first capabilities for remote teams

Integrations and API

Yes, the Maconomy RESTful API framework, which Deltek names as the only supported integration route for the Essentials and Flex cloud editions, plus a Maconomy connector for Deltek Unionpoint, the vendor's own integration platform as a service

Integrations

• Deltek Unionpoint
• Pagero

Deployment and Support

Deployment

• Cloud (SaaS)

Support

• Email helpdesk
• Phone

Onboarding

• Documentation and knowledge base
• Video tutorials
• Live online demos and webinars
• Personal consulting

Company size

• Small and mid-sized
• Enterprise

Suitability

The table combines the industries the vendor addresses with the company sizes the tool is aimed at. An empty cell means the combination is not stated, not that it is ruled out.

Pros and Cons

Pricing

• Custom

  Not stated

  Not published; Deltek asks interested firms to request a demo or a quote.

Best For

• Consulting
• Agencies
• Architecture & Engineering
• Technology

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