Deltek Ajera

By audience

Architecture

• Small architecture practices run timesheets, project budgets and client billing for each commission in one system.
• Fee invoices are generated from project data, routed for approval and sent electronically.

Civil Engineering

• Civil engineering firms track labor and expenses against project phases and bill clients from the same records.
• Dashboards show utilization and project profitability across the firm's jobs.

Structural Engineering

• Structural engineering firms record hours by project phase and invoice clients from that time.
• Project managers compare fee earned against budget before a job overruns.

MEP Engineering

• MEP engineering firms assign staff by availability and track hours and expenses per project phase.
• Invoices are produced from project time and expense data without re-keying.

Accounting & Finance

• Accounting staff run AP, AR, bank matching and month-end close in the same system that holds project data.
• The Ajera Payments add-on lets clients pay invoices online, with payments reconciled back into Ajera.
• Expense capture uses ICR, and invoice approvals are automated to cut manual entry.

Project Manager

• Project managers build timelines, assign employees by availability and watch workload on interactive dashboards.
• Role-based dashboards show budget, utilization and project health so issues surface early.

Executive Leadership

• Firm leaders see firmwide performance, utilization and cash flow in one place.
• Ask Dela answers questions about projects, clients and financials from data already in Ajera.

By phase

Concept & Planning

• Firms set up projects, phases and fee budgets for feasibility and programming work, then track hours against them.

Design

• Design teams log time to design phases, and project managers track fee earned against budget.
• Progress invoices are billed from design-phase time and expenses.

Pre-Construction

• Bidding-support and permitting phases are tracked and billed like any other project phase.

Construction

• Construction-administration hours and site-visit expenses are captured by phase and invoiced to the client.

Closeout & Operations

• Final invoices are issued and collected, and projects are closed out with profitability reported against the original fee.