DELTA Group is a leading international architecture, engineering, and consulting firm operating across Central and Eastern Europe. With more than 400 employees spread across Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Ukraine, DELTA combines design expertise, engineering know-how, and consulting services to support clients through every stage of the project lifecycle.

Project references are central to how DELTA does business: they shape client communication, drive proposals, and showcase the firm’s expertise. However, as an international group with teams working across borders, DELTA was struggling with managing all these projects. They needed a more structured, accessible way to manage their project portfolio so their distributed team could use the firm’s rich repository of past experience to inform marketing campaigns and new proposals. 

The challenge 

Operating across several markets brings DELTA many advantages — but it also introduced friction when it came to managing project knowledge. DELTA Group frequently hit roadblocks with:

Different terminology across countries

Each market DELTA operates in has its own terminology, language, and documentation habits, which made searching for project references across countries more time-consuming than it should have been.

Decentralized project knowledge

Project information was often managed locally. While this reflected strong country-level expertise, it also meant valuable project knowledge wasn’t always visible across the entire group.

Growing need for consistency

As international collaboration became more important, DELTA wanted to present project references in a way that was more consistent, structured, and client-oriented.

Slow access to relevant references

When preparing proposals, presentations, or communication materials, DELTA’s teams needed a more efficient way to find suitable project examples that fit specific parameters. Finding projects according to country, service, client, size, or project type was difficult, as projects were often tagged inconsistently or buried in local drives.

The solution

DELTA implemented OpenAsset DAM as a shared, group-wide platform to make project references, visuals, and key project data easier to access, structure, and use across countries. 

The goal wasn’t just to store project information, but to make DELTA’s international expertise more visible and easier to apply in business development, marketing, and client communication.

Key elements of the rollout included:

• A shared reference platform for project information across all four countries.
• Standardized metadata to support better search, filtering, and comparison.
• Clear project categorization by country, service, client, project type, and size.
• Dedicated users in each country who were responsible for keeping project data up to date.

The impact was an immediate improvement in the efficiency of DELTA’s workflows for proposals, presentations, and creating marketing materials. As Kristína Obrcianová, Sales Manager at DELTA Group, explains: 

“Before, finding the right international reference could take several steps. Today, we can search more precisely and access relevant project examples much faster.” 

— Kristína Obrcianová, Sales Manager, DELTA Group

The results

With OpenAsset DAM in place to provide a single, consistently organized source of truth that every team could easily access, regardless of country, DELTA has seen measurable improvement across the board. After implementation, they experienced: 

• Faster access to international project references. Teams can now identify relevant project examples across countries more efficiently.
• More consistent client-facing materials. Reference packages and proposals are prepared in a more structured, professional way that remained consistent across initiatives.
• Stronger cross-border collaboration. Teams in different countries now work from shared project knowledge and benefit from each other’s experience.
• Improved visibility of DELTA’s expertise. OpenAsset helped the company’s project portfolio become more accessible internally and easier to present externally.
• Better support for business development. Project references can be searched by relevant criteria, helping teams respond faster and more precisely to client needs.

“When we need to prepare a client-facing reference package, OpenAsset helps us quickly identify projects that match the required criteria — by country, service, project type or client relevance.” 

— Kristína Obrcianová, Sales Manager, DELTA Group

Top benefits

Ultimately, this more streamlined approach to organizing and using past projects allowed Delta Group to enjoy the following benefits:

• Speed & efficiency: Relevant project references could now be found and prepared faster. 
• Increased visibility: Project knowledge from all countries is available in one searchable, structured system.
• Better collaboration: Teams across DELTA Group can access the same information, in the same format, and build on shared experience.
• Consistency: Project references are presented in a more unified, professional, client-oriented way. 

For an international firm like DELTA Group, the ability to find and present the right project reference — quickly, consistently, and from anywhere in the group — has become a real competitive advantage. As Kristína sums up:

“With OpenAsset, we have one shared place where our teams can find relevant project references across countries more efficiently. It supports the way we collaborate internationally and helps us present DELTA’s expertise in a more consistent way.”

— Kristína Obrcianová, Sales Manager, DELTA Group

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