Managing E-mail in a project based organization

Overview Managing your company’s project e-mail in any kind of organized fashion is always a challenge. At the root of the problem, most organizations are simply trying to minimize their risk. Good record keeping is essential if your company is ever involved in...

Moving Vision to the Cloud

Overview Cloud, cloud, cloud….and some more cloud. Yes Cloud is a word that is everywhere these days and many engineering firms are moving many of their traditional IT functions to the cloud. Probably the most common is Hosted Exchange, perhaps SharePoint or any...

What’s in a number?

Overview I get a lot of questions around Project Numbering in Vision, questions like: what are best practices? what is a good numbering format? what are the limitations? how do I create custom auto numbers? Many of the questions around project numbering don’t...

Key Conversions on a grand scale

Overview Most seasoned Deltek Vision users have experience using the Key Conversion utilities. Key Converting is basically a way to modify Key fields in your database like Project No. (WBS1), Org, etc. without breaking important relationships within the database. Key...