Deltek Maconomy vs Striven

Deltek Maconomy is a cloud ERP for large and mid-sized professional services firms handling complex, client-billable projects. It brings together project management, resource planning, financial accounting, and business intelligence, with work-in-progress, revenue, and profitability tracking by project. Billing supports hourly, fixed-fee, and progress arrangements, alongside automated invoicing, revenue recognition, and work-in-progress management. Time, expense, and absence tools include mobile use, approvals, and policy enforcement. The browser-based web client supports tasks such as time and expense entry, approvals, jobs, invoices, purchase orders, and reports. Ask Dela answers natural-language questions about Maconomy data; Smart Summaries provide overviews of project, customer, and financial performance. Cloud formats include Essentials, Flex, and Enterprise; Essentials has no extensions, while Flex offers basic and intermediate extensibility. Pricing is on request, and there is no free plan. Deltek offers cloud subscribers packaged Customer Success Plans covering support, professional services, training, and customer success management.

Striven is cloud-based business management software that combines accounting with operations tools for small to midsize businesses. Its feature list includes CRM and sales, project management, inventory, human resources, reporting and analytics, and workflows; finance, order management, manufacturing, and multi-entity support are also listed. Teams can share files, message, manage tasks and projects, and use shared calendars. Collaboration tools are available through native Android and iOS apps, and the platform also supports web access and an API. Striven says the API supports custom integrations, real-time data syncing, and secure data transfer. Listed integrations include Authorize.net, Google and Microsoft Calendar, Onfleet, ShipStation, Shopify, Square, Stripe, Gmail, and Twilio. Standard costs $35 a month and Enterprise costs $70 a month, each billed monthly; each adds $25/user when there are under five users. The 90-day trial includes premium features and requires no credit card.