Deltek Maconomy vs Unanet ERP AE

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.

Unanet ERP AE brings project management, resource planning, accounting, and reporting together for architecture, engineering, and multi-discipline firms. It tracks utilization, financials, and performance at the project level. Its functions include prospect management, project and resource management, time and expense management, accounting and financials, and reporting and analytics. Unanet describes predictive modeling, financial automation, smart planning, AI-assisted timesheets, and mobile receipt capture using OCR. The mobile app supports time entry, expense submission with receipt scanning, and approvals. Unanet Connect links ERP data with CRM, HRIS, and payroll systems, and offers more than 100 pre-built connectors alongside APIs. The product is listed for Android, iOS, and web; Prospect Management is also available on desktop. Unanet Cloud uses AWS hosting and states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest. The company says its cloud services have an SLA of 99.9% or greater uptime. Pricing is available on request, with a demo offered as a starting point.