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Costpoint ERP advisory for government contractors
GUIDING ERP
FORWARD.
We lead Costpoint implementations, reimplementations, acquisition integrations, and connected ERP solutions from strategy through Day 1.
The Gage Progress MarkThree bars. One journey.
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Built for today.Deliver value immediately.
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Designed for tomorrow.Create room to evolve.
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Engineered for the long run.Leave lasting strength.
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Practical ERP offerings are being shaped around real implementation work. Four remain intentionally unrevealed while their purpose, controls, and client value are validated.
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Implementation
Services
Experienced guidance across the ERP journey—bringing clarity, control, and confidence to the work that matters now.
- Strategy & roadmap
- Solution design
- Implementation leadership
- Readiness & validation
- Stabilization & optimization
IS Implementation services
One disciplined journey.
Five connected movements.
Engage Gage for a focused challenge or leadership across the complete implementation.
- 01AssessUnderstand the current state, risks, and opportunity.
- 02DesignDefine the solution, processes, and success criteria.
- 03BuildConfigure, connect, convert, and prepare.
- 04ValidateProve the system and the business are ready.
- 05Go live & optimizeLaunch confidently, stabilize, and keep improving.
What comes next is still being built.
Product names, features, scope, and timing may change as the offerings are reviewed and strengthened.
Trusted consulting network
Independent expertise.
Proven through the work.
These are independent consulting peers Jeff has worked beside and trusts for their skill, judgment, and reliability. They are not Gage employees, partners, or affiliates.
Gage Proven reflects a direct past working relationship—not an endorsement of every future engagement or a guarantee of availability.
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1 trusted connection(s)
KMTRUSTED CONNECTION
INDEPENDENT CONSULTING PEER
Ken Moss
ERP Implementation
Experienced ERP and Costpoint professional with expertise across implementation, data conversion, testing, functional processes, and organizational change. Brings practical implementation experience and a strong understanding of how system design, data, business processes, and user readiness come together to support a successful ERP transformation.
DELIVERY LEVELAssessment incomplete1/10
ORIENTATIONFunctional assessed
LEADERSHIPNot yet assessed
BREADTH0 specialties at Level 3+; 6/145 assessed
FIELD EXPERIENCENot published
Introductions, not affiliations.
Gage Consulting can help coordinate an introduction or a broader team. The collaborator remains independent and decides whether and how to respond.
01 What we do
Costpoint should strengthen the
business—not complicate it.
Gage Consulting helps government contractors translate complex operational, accounting, compliance, and reporting needs into a Costpoint environment their people can run with confidence. Senior functional and technical leadership stays close to the work from current-state discovery through stabilization.
02 Selected outcomes
Experience is strongest
when it becomes evidence.
Confidential client examples showing how experienced leadership, technical depth, and production judgment protect ERP outcomes when the stakes are highest.
CLIENT OUTCOMEOUTCOME 01
GROUND-TO-CLOUD IMPLEMENTATION
Moving to the cloud required more than migrating eighty-plus extensions.
- Client situation
- A mature Costpoint environment was preparing for a ground-to-cloud transformation with more than 80 custom extensions. Like many organizations, the client did not fully understand the size and interconnected nature of its customization footprint until a deliberate inventory exposed it. The move also introduced new cloud security, deployment, reporting, transaction-access, and data-warehouse considerations.
- Gage role
- Jeff immersed himself in the organization, listening closely and learning its operating model with the urgency of a long-tenured team member. He helped inventory and organize the extensions, translate them into the cloud delivery model, and establish a repeatable packaging and promotion process with quality checks, feedback loops, ownership, and controls.
- Result
- The customization portfolio was successfully moved into the new format and controlled promotion cycle. The refined process increased confidence in packaging and releases, balanced cloud security requirements with operating efficiency, and better prepared the business for reporting, transaction access, and future data-warehouse needs.
CLIENT OUTCOMEOUTCOME 02
CUTOVER RECOVERY & IMPLEMENTATION READINESS
A launch scheduled in two weeks needed clarity more than another countdown.
- Client situation
- After more than two years of implementation effort, a client was preparing to move from Oracle to Costpoint. The organization was exhausted by delays and increasingly willing to go live and address the consequences afterward—even though billing and cash flow depended on a reliable conversion.
- Gage role
- Jeff was brought in two weeks before the intended cutover to independently review the solution and converted data. He identified more than 200 issues during the first week and ultimately helped expose, organize, isolate, and drive resolution of more than 600 defects across the Oracle-to-Costpoint implementation.
- Result
- The client replaced launch pressure with evidence-based decisions, corrected critical defects, and crossed the finish line with a solution the business could operate. The intervention reduced the risk of widespread billing disruption and cash-flow impact—and demonstrated why an experienced guide must sometimes challenge the date to protect the outcome.
CLIENT OUTCOMEOUTCOME 03
READINESS THROUGH STABILIZATION
When a billing conversion issue surfaced, the response protected Day 1 operations.
- Client situation
- During a phased implementation for one of the largest Costpoint environments, converted billing records carried the wrong disclosure treatment. A large population needed to be corrected before the next business day to avoid disrupting government-contract billing.
- Gage role
- Serving as part of the liaison and hypercare team connecting the client and software provider, Jeff helped isolate defects, reproduce them in the vendor environment, move fixes toward production, and support each go-live wave. For this cutover issue, he designed and presented a controlled SQL correction and worked alongside the client team through the night to execute and validate it.
- Result
- The records were corrected before users returned, billing continued with little to no operational disruption, and the solution proved reliable under real production pressure. It became an early demonstration of the responsiveness, technical depth, and commitment Jeff brings through stabilization—not only through go-live.
EXPERIENCE AT A GLANCEDepth earned across the complete Costpoint journey.
- 20+
- Years working with Deltek products as Costpoint evolved from on-premises implementations to connected cloud environments.
- 50+
- Implementations and reimplementations spanning smaller organizations through enterprises with approximately $6 billion in annual revenue.
- GovCon
- Deep experience supporting government contractors and commercial counterparts whose operations, controls, and reporting depend on Costpoint.
- Connected cloud
- Bridging Costpoint with platforms such as Concur, Salesforce, reporting solutions, integrations, and enterprise data environments.
ERP Connected enterprise
One system.
Every critical function.
ERP is more than software. It is the operating core that connects your data, decisions, and people across the enterprise.
ERPEnterprise core
01FinancePlan · Close · Report
02OperationsPlan · Produce · Deliver
03Supply ChainSource · Move · Fulfill
04PeopleOrganize · Enable · Grow
05Data & InsightMeasure · Learn · Decide
06 The Gage service journey
The ERP journey.
Engineered for results.
Engage Gage for one critical stage or for leadership across the complete Costpoint journey. Every service connects business objectives, solution decisions, implementation quality, operational readiness, and lasting value.
THE BLUEPRINT IMPLEMENTATION
Six volumes. One connected ERP journey.
A visual operating framework that keeps strategy, delivery, readiness, launch, and value connected from the first decision through optimization.
THE BLUEPRINTIMPLEMENTATION
Your roadmap to ERP success
6 VOLUMES · ONE ACCOUNTABLE JOURNEYObjective, scope, governance, risks, and measures.
Enterprise, solution, and process architecture.
Configure, integrate, convert, and prepare.
Evidence that people, process, data, and controls work.
Execute cutover, operate Day 1, and stabilize.
Improve, automate, and measure lasting value.
Align the destination
Strategy
Turn the business objective into an achievable ERP direction before delivery pressure begins.
- Current-state and legacy assessment
- Vision, goals, scope, and roadmap
- Business case and success measures
- Stakeholder alignment and governance
- Ground-to-cloud readiness
Built through every stageThe operating foundation
- PeopleReady & empowered
- ProcessAligned & efficient
- DataAccurate & trusted
- TechnologyReliable & scalable
- ControlsStrong & sustainable
Flexible engagement
One stage, one workstream, or the complete journey.
Founder-led guidance backed by a boutique network of trusted specialists when the work requires added architecture, accounting, conversion, reporting, testing, or cutover capacity.
CP Specialized Costpoint capabilities
Focused expertise.
Applied where it matters.
The journey provides the structure. These capabilities bring the functional, technical, cloud, and delivery depth needed to solve the work inside each stage.
Ground-to-Cloud Implementations
Lead Costpoint implementations and reimplementations from on-premise environments into the cloud, accounting for platform restrictions, security boundaries, controls, integrations, conversion sequencing, and production readiness.
Assess · Architect · Convert · StabilizeAcquisitions & Entity Consolidation
Bring newly acquired entities into an established ERP landscape while aligning organizations, projects, data, controls, reporting, and operating responsibilities.
Assessment · Conversion · StandardizationBlended Team & Provider Leadership
Lead internal teams, external providers, or a combined delivery organization while coordinating business, functional, technical, data, reporting, security, testing, and change workstreams.
One Direction · Clear Decisions · Shared OutcomesIntegrations, Reporting & Extensions
Develop connected solutions across Costpoint, Concur, ADP, Cognos, and other systems, including reports, interfaces, custom extensions, and stored procedures.
Concur · ADP · Cognos · Custom SolutionsSpecialized Capacity Through Stabilization
Draw on a boutique network of trusted resources for architecture, accounting, project controls, reporting, conversion, testing, cutover, command-center support, and the transition beyond hypercare.
Right Expertise · Right Time · Accountable DeliveryWorkflow & Operating-Model Design
Document current-state workflows, expose friction and gaps, and define practical future-state processes with clear ownership, controls, and system support.
Current State · Future State · AdoptionGround-to-cloud operating landscape
Convert the system. Protect the controls. Prepare the team.
LEGACY ERPCLOUD CONTROLSDELTEK COSTPOINTCONNECTED APPSREPORTING
US Government contracting
Built around the realities of regulated work.
Government contractors need more than a technically complete ERP. They need dependable cost accounting, project control, time and expense, payroll, reporting, security, and operational evidence that support the way federal work is managed.
Government Contractors & Subcontractors
Costpoint strategy and delivery aligned to project-based accounting, contract operations, indirect costs, and auditable business processes.
Aerospace & Defense
Structured programs that account for complex organizations, security expectations, controlled data, and demanding reporting environments.
Engineering, Construction & Manufacturing
Connected project, workforce, procurement, finance, and operational information designed around contract delivery.
Compliance-aware designDCAAFARCASITAR
Translate regulatory and contractual requirements into configuration, access, controls, workflows, reporting, evidence, and support responsibilities.
Our expertise
Built for today.
Designed to last.
From first decision to continuous improvement, we meet you where you are and help you build what comes next.
01
ERP Strategy &
Selection
Build the business case, define the roadmap, and choose technology with clarity and confidence.
02
Implementation
Leadership
Lead with disciplined governance, aligned teams, and an unwavering focus on business outcomes.
03
Optimization &
Adoption
Strengthen processes, activate your people, and realize more value from the platform you own.
02 Our approach
Progress you
can measure.
We pair a practical operating rhythm with honest, senior-level guidance. No black box. No unnecessary complexity.
Align
Get clear on outcomes, decisions, and ownership.
Activate
Turn the roadmap into coordinated, visible action.
Advance
Measure value, learn quickly, and keep moving.
03 Why Gage
The difference is
how we show up.
Partnership
We lead with your people, providers, and priorities as one team.
Integrity
We recommend what is right for the business, not what creates unnecessary work.
Expertise
Founder-led depth is reinforced by trusted specialists when the program needs them.
Impact
We stay focused on production stability, adoption, and value after the finish line.
Founder profileJeff Gage · Gage Consulting
Costpoint ERP transformation leadership
Senior leadership.
Still close to the work.
I help government contractors turn Costpoint complexity into an operating environment their people can understand, trust, and run with confidence.
FUNCTIONAL + TECHNICALSTRATEGY THROUGH STABILIZATIONGOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
HOW I SEE THE WORK
“The system is only ready when the business can operate it—and the leaders approving it understand exactly what they are accepting.”
My work centers on organizations using or preparing to adopt Deltek Costpoint. I lead implementations and reimplementations, help consolidate acquired entities, coordinate functional and technical teams, and stay engaged through testing, cutover, Go-Live, and stabilization.
I also design the connective tissue around the ERP: Concur and ADP integrations, Cognos reporting, interfaces, extensions, stored procedures, and workflow documentation that makes current-state realities and future-state decisions visible.
The goal is not more technology. It is a better operating organization—with clear processes, dependable information, accountable decisions, prepared people, and fewer surprises on Day 1.
20+ YEARS ACROSS DELTEK PRODUCTS
Experience across the journey.
Experience across the journey.
Focused on what comes next.
Jeff’s experience spans major stages of the platform’s evolution—from foundational government-contracting systems through connected, cloud-delivered Costpoint environments.
01
EARLY EXPERIENCEGCS Premier
Built a durable foundation in government-contracting solutions, project accounting, and the operating disciplines behind the software.
02
CONNECTED WORKTime & Expense
Implemented time and expense capabilities that improved visibility, efficiency, and the connection between people and project financials.
03
CLIENT / SERVERCostpoint implementation
Led complex implementations, configuration, conversion, reporting, integrations, and custom solutions built for enterprise operations.
04
WEB DELIVERYCostpoint Web
Helped organizations use increased accessibility, connected applications, reporting, and scalable collaboration across operating teams.
05
CLOUD DELIVERYCostpoint Cloud
Guides ground-to-cloud transformation with attention to security constraints, extension strategy, reporting access, data, and future growth.
EXPERIENCE THAT KEEPS EVOLVINGDeep roots. Broad experience. Bringing tomorrow.
The platform has evolved. The industry has evolved. Jeff has evolved with it—bringing lessons learned forward so teams can anticipate risks and make stronger decisions sooner.
JG How I engage
Bring clarity to the decisions
that move the program.
Translate across the room
Connect executive goals, business operations, accounting, compliance, functional design, and technical delivery so teams solve the same problem.
Make ownership visible
Put decisions, risks, actions, gaps, dependencies, evidence, and acceptance into a structure leaders can govern.
Stay grounded in production
Keep design and testing focused on what real people must perform with real data, controls, reports, exceptions, and support on Day 1.
Add strength where it matters
Lead the program, solve a specific technical challenge, document workflows, reinforce a workstream, or add experienced capacity during Go-Live.
DIRECT, SENIOR-LEVEL GUIDANCE
Let’s talk about where your Costpoint program needs clarity.
Why Gage Consulting
Depth that connects.
Clarity that accelerates.
The advantage is not simply knowing the business or knowing the technology. It is being able to move between both, translate the implications, lead the right mix of internal and external resources, and keep the complete decision connected from executive intent through stable production.
INVESTED IN THE OUTCOMEThrough the finish line.
Through the finish line.
Beyond hypercare.
Gage Consulting is invested in helping clients maximize Costpoint within reason: using the platform well, avoiding complexity that does not earn its keep, and leaving the organization ready for what comes next.
Maximize what Costpoint already does
Architect the configuration around business value, controls, maintainability, and adoption before adding customization or another application.
Bring the right team to the decision
Lead client resources, implementation partners, and trusted specialists as one coordinated team with visible ownership and clear decision rights.
Stay accountable after go-live
Carry the program through stabilization, move unresolved work into a governed improvement backlog, and help the organization transition from hypercare to continuous improvement.
Do the right work now. Build the capability to improve tomorrow.
EXPERIENCE AT A GLANCE
Built across scale.
Built across scale.
Proven across the implementation.
Experience that spans organization size, operating complexity, connected applications, and the full ERP lifecycle—with the hands-on depth to understand how implementation decisions perform in production.
Experience extending from mid-market organizations through $1B+ enterprises and some of the largest government contractors in the United States.
Leadership across Costpoint, connected cloud applications, data, reporting, controls, security, integrations, and the people who operate them.
Accounting foundations and technical fluency that connect executive intent to configuration, SQL, testing evidence, cutover, and stable operations.
Designed for real-world operations.
One continuous view from direction through dependable operations.
01LEADSet direction. Align people.
- Program leadership
- Business readiness
- Stakeholder alignment
- Decision facilitation
- Risk and issue management
Teams engaged.
02ARCHITECTDesign the right solution.
- ERP and solution architecture
- Account, Organization, and Project design
- Integrations and interfaces
- Security, controls, and compliance
- Cross-application architecture
supports the business.
03BUILDConfigure. Connect. Automate.
- Costpoint configuration
- Extensions and custom solutions
- SQL and data solutions
- Conversion and validation
- Reporting and workflow automation
to perform.
04VALIDATETest. Prove. Prepare.
- Testing strategy
- SIT and UAT execution
- Defect management
- Reconciliation and evidence
- Production readiness
Ready for Day 1.
05OPERATEGo live. Stabilize. Improve.
- Cutover planning and execution
- Go-live support
- Training and enablement
- Post-go-live stabilization
- Continuous improvement
Continuous value.
ARCHITECTING ACROSS APPLICATIONS
Designed to integrate.Costpoint Cloud delivery CRM Expense Payroll Reporting & BI Enterprise data
Built to perform.
THE GAGE ADVANTAGEOne conversation.
One conversation.
Every altitude.
Deep functional and technical experience lets me connect people who often speak different languages, accelerate decisions, and carry the intent from leadership strategy into the details that determine whether production works.
01FUNCTIONAL LENS
How the business must operate.
Operating modelBusiness processGovernment accountingProject controlsCompliance & controlsReadiness & adoption
JEFF
GAGE
CONNECTTRANSLATEACCELERATE
02TECHNICAL LENS
How the solution must work.
ConfigurationData conversionIntegrationsReporting & CognosExtensions & SQLSecurity & support
MOVE WITHOUT LOSING THE THREAD
From enterprise direction to production detail.
The level changes. The business objective stays connected.
Enterprise direction
Business goals, transformation thesis, operating model, investment, risk, and executive decisions.
Integrated design
Workstreams, future-state processes, organizations, requirements, gaps, data, controls, and solution architecture.
Delivery decisions
Configuration, integrations, conversions, reports, test scenarios, dependencies, ownership, and cutover sequencing.
Production reality
Fields, transactions, calculations, exceptions, approvals, reconciliations, defects, scripts, and Day 1 support.
Functional and technical teams reach the real issue sooner.
Business intent stays intact as decisions move into design and build.
Trade-offs become concrete enough for accountable leaders to act.
Strategy remains connected to the details people must execute on Day 1.
Connected solution architecture
The right architect
is the key.
ERP decisions do not live in isolation. The right resource can move between business intent and solution detail, see the connected consequence of each choice, and keep the application aligned to the people who must operate it.
Business intent → connected design → operational confidenceSTART WITH
Business intent
What kind of organization are we becoming?
Business goalsValue, scale, control
Process & controlsWork, approvals, exceptions
RequirementsNeeds before features
Roles & readinessPeople who own Day 1
Key architect
Business ↔ Solution
- Translates across teams
- Sees downstream impact
- Accelerates decisions
CONNECT THE
Application ecosystem
One operating model. Multiple systems.
Costpoint
Concur
ADP
Cognos
Legacy ERP
Acquired systems
Every decision becomes part of one solution.
BRIDGE THE APP TO THE PEOPLE
A solution creates value only when people can operate it.
Role clarity→Training→Adoption→Support→Day 1 confidence
The architecture advantage
Maximize standard configuration
Surface gaps earlier
Prevent isolated customization
Preserve business intent through Day 1
FOUNDER-LED DELIVERY
Senior perspective stays close to the decisions—and the details.
Costpoint user community
Bring the question.
Build the answer together.
A practical place for Costpoint users and government contractors to surface problems, exchange responsible ideas, and help shape future training.
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ASK · SHARE · LEARNHow would you like
How would you like
to participate?
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REVIEWED COMMUNITY BOARDQuestions worth
Questions worth
working through.
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THE BOARD IS OPEN
Be the first to start a useful Costpoint conversation.
Submit a problem, question, or lesson. After review, appropriate contributions may be shared here for the broader community.
04 ERP insights
Perspective for
the road ahead.
Gage Insights makes more than 30 years of ERP experience available to everyone—here and through channels such as LinkedIn. The goal is practical: share useful guidance, help teams avoid repeating familiar issues, and reduce the need to relearn the same costly lessons.
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ERP Investment Series · Vol. 1
The most expensive ERP decision might be the one that saves you money.
Why disciplined investment in process design, business participation, data validation, testing, training, rehearsals, and readiness is often the least expensive path to sustainable operation.
Business Readiness Series · Vol. 2
Your ERP doesn’t always need to go faster. Sometimes it needs to move right.
When readiness warning signs stack up, responsible leaders shift the conversation from protecting the date to proving readiness.
Business Readiness Series · Vol. 1
Technical readiness doesn’t guarantee business readiness.
Why a technically ready ERP can still leave the organization struggling on Day 1.
ERP
PEOPLEPROCESSDATACONTROLS
CHANGE, ACTIVATED
ERP implementation can become a catalyst for organizational change.
Use the disruption of transformation to modernize behavior, data, controls, and the way the organization operates.
FIELD NOTES · TOPICS IN DEVELOPMENT
Operational confidence before Day 1.
Potential additions to the Gage Insights library. These are editorial directions—not published guidance yet.
What stakeholders are really approving
Define the evidence, known risk, accountability, and operating commitments behind the decision.
Designing the Day 1 command center
Clarify triage, escalation, ownership, communications, and the transition into steady-state support.
Readiness beyond the happy path
Validate edge cases, workarounds, rejected transactions, dependencies, and time-critical scenarios.
Decision rights at different program scales
When one accountable leader works—and when larger programs need structured cross-functional governance.
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