Asta Powerproject: The power behind successful projects WHY PEOPLE PREFER ASTA POWERPROJECT Asta Powerproject has been developed with input from our users over more than 20 years and is the preferred software of thousands of project professionals throughout the world across a wide range of industries who like its combination of ease of use with feature rich functionality. Asta Powerproject is a comprehensive product suite with the flexibility to meet the varying needs of everyone involved in running projects and who rely on project performance. These are some of the key reasons our customers have mentioned as reasons for choosing Asta Powerproject instead of other software. ▲ SUPERIOR PRESENTATION “Asta Powerproject means we can produce better quality information than we could with MS Project. We can enhance it by using histograms to give clients the cashflow forecasts that they want – it’s simple to do using the software and clients like it, it gives them more information and more confidence in us.” “In terms of presentation, Asta Powerproject is far superior. When you start up a project in MS Project, you have to set up date scales and grid lines for example. In Asta Powerproject that just works straight away. The grid lines are perfect, the holidays are already there, and the date scales are correct. It’s so easy to set up and begin quickly and provides professional-looking output.” ▲ SIMPLER PRINTING “A unique thing with Asta Powerproject is having multiple activities on the same line, so it is easy to see what is going on and easy to produce summary print outs. On large complex projects like I work on to do the same in Primavera without this would be complex and take lots of pages to print” “In terms of printing, Asta Powerproject lets you just click and print, you don’t have to adjust anything; it sizes it automatically www.astadev.com ▲ “What Asta Powerproject is particularly good at is presentation, which is exactly what you need for good reports. With a very small amount of effort, the user can easily produce a very presentable and professional-looking report. I have worked with other programmes, but none have been as presentable as Powerproject.” for you. MS Project is not as straightforward as this, it prints over several pages, which is annoying, and often you find some of your data has been chopped off for size. You can’t rely on your information being complete and correct.” EASIER TO CREATE TASKS “We can see where contingency is being eaten away and the effects on on-time delivery. MS Project told us very little, and we had to rely on one project manager telling another about resource overlap, this made project management very difficult. Asta Powerproject enables us to give advance warning to a project sponsor that there may be a slippage in schedule, this makes them far more accepting of a possible delay.” “Asta Powerproject, has become the standard because traditionally a lot of the higher-end project management software on the market needs a very careful coding process and a very long-winded period of preparation before you can actually start planning. With Asta Powerproject you can start pretty much within an hour of getting an understanding of how the software works because the interface is so intuitive and crucially, it offers the same, if not more power, than many of the competing higher-end products.” Robert Douglass, Denbighshire County Council “Creating tasks is easier in Asta Powerproject because you can draw them on yourself. You can put your mouse on a line, click and draw a bar. Then specify how long you want it, and click on duration; on MSP it’s impossible to draw your own task easily or even move it. With Asta Powerproject you have so much more control”. WHY PEOPLE PREFER ASTA POWERPROJECT “The engineers simply love Asta Powerproject, and could immediately see how the software worked when they switched over from MS Project. We discovered that it was more user-friendly than P6 and it could perform with higher functionality if we needed it.” ▲ MORE POWERFUL NAVIGATION FEATURES “It’s like an early warning system. Asta Powerproject is used to level resource and where possible no-one’s allocation is above 100%. Basic software systems don’t let you have full visibility across multiple projects.” “If we get a lot of change requests at one time, we cannot fulfil them all straightaway; not everyone has the right skill set. But with everything we need to know in one view what we can do is see when the right skills will be freed up, so Asta Powerproject helps with forward planning -- we couldn’t do this without it.” “Asta Powerproject suite gives us a single repository of information providing an overview of current and future workload, giving us clear visibility of utilisation” www.astadev.com INTEGRATED TIME SHEET MANAGEMENT “The beauty of Asta Powerproject suite’s Time Sheet is that it feeds directly into Asta Powerproject, eliminating inputting time for project managers,” “The software links costs, people and projects together, everyone knows exactly what they are being charged for. Asta’s software has changed the way we record our time, and this is what project work heavily relies on.” Steve Allan, Banora Point Upgrade Alliance ▲ ▲ CLEAR RESOURCE VISIBILITY TO OPTIMISE ALLOCATION ▲ “I love the way you can move around quickly. Whereas in MS Project you must create summary bars to group activities, in Asta Powerproject it lifts them all into a single window so you can see exactly what you need. It makes it really easy to break the job into different areas, and you never have to scroll through page after page of activities to find something. If you have two areas you want to compare and see how they interface, you just click ‘Control’ at the same time and they both appear side by side. The visual navigation capability of Asta Powerproject is one of its very best features.” “We can look at work in progress, and by way of a simple bar chart we can see exactly which individual resources are over- or under-used and it helps us realign resource where it is most needed.” BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR EASY STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT “Often, stakeholders are only interested in the grand totals such as how much of our time was spent on projects versus how much of our time was spent on support. This was a task that was particularly timeconsuming before we used Asta Powerproject suite and specifically Business Intelligence - now we can run a report quickly and easily whenever we want.” “Before dashboard reporting we would have given senior management a printed list of all projects and their stages, they had no visibility of anything else other than what the project manager told them. Now they have a dashboard that gives them not only the high level view of everything that they need to know, but the option to drill down and see the information at a more granular level.” “We dismissed two companies straightaway as they did not match up to our scoring system. We had further demonstrations from the remaining With Business Intelligence we companies and chose Asta’s software. can show senior management Not only did it fulfill our needs but we that we need extra resource to complete on time. It also shows liked the people and their approach, we them the knock-on effect that this felt that they were more on our will have on other projects if we don’t. wavelength and understood Most importantly the dashboard tool our needs.” helps senior management understand Ali McGuckin, Client Services Director, Stalis Ltd what we are up against; therefore, they are more engaged with what we are doing and our requirements.” WHY PEOPLE PREFER ASTA POWERPROJECT ▲ CLEAR VISIBILITY ACROSS MULTIPLE PROJECTS “We had not come across Asta Powerproject before and were assessing a couple of other tools including Primavera and MS Project. We chose Asta Powerproject ultimately because it was more user-friendly compared to the other tools we were looking at, and because of how we could use it as a management tool.” “Asta Powerproject suite gives us visibility across all projects – and forecasts. We can see what the current set of projects look like and get a heads up on how busy people are likely to be,” “What Asta Powerproject gives us is full visibility of resources and tasks across multiple projects. More basic, less sophisticated software is really no more than a spreadsheet. With Asta Powerproject we can see what each resource has coming up, what they are working on now and next and highlight conflicts, so we can give an accurate time of when that testing can be carried out” Matt O’Grady, Hansen Yuncken “To have all this capability, enabling everyone to work concurrently, the investment was well worth it.” ▲ ▲ MULTI-USER UP-TO-DATE ACCESS “I have been using Asta Powerproject for many years; I have witnessed the various versions and I have seen a lot of changes. It is way ahead of the other contenders – for example, when multiple undo’s came out as a new feature in Asta Powerproject, it proved very valuable. It allows you to test out different scenarios and ‘What if?’ situations, which is really important in ▲ “When we were using P6 there was a big time-lag. We never really had an up-to-date programme because the information was always based on engineer updates from a week or even up to a month before. Any issues arising could add a few days more delay. The information was never accurate – but now, the master programme effectively updates itself” MULTI-UNDO LETS YOU TEST DIFFERENT SCENARIOS WITH CONFIDENCE planning. In fact, it proved so useful that the next version of MSP to come out also contained that feature, although it doesn’t work quite as well as in Asta Powerproject because it doesn’t let you undo after a save or with autosave on.” RE-SCHEDULING IS SIMPLER “Rescheduling is made much simpler with Asta Powerproject. In MSP if I put a completion percentage on a task, for example a two-week bar, it automatically reschedules the rest of the bar, which I don’t want it to do, this is so unhelpful. In Asta Powerproject I can put in my own completion percentage and then reschedule it, as I like to be able to analyse before I reschedule -- I like to have that control. MSP is simply not as user friendly.” ▲ PROGRESS MONITORING PUTS YOU IN CONTROL “The software compares what was planned with actual progress. It plots a line that shows whether the programme is behind or ahead of schedule, from that we can see which items have fallen behind and take the appropriate action, in time.” “Progress periods are clearly defined in Asta Powerproject. You can build an asbuilt programme as you go along. The bar is colour-coded and this is added along the way. Asta Powerproject makes no assumptions, it gives you automation, but let’s you stay in control.” www.astadev.com WHY PEOPLE PREFER ASTA POWERPROJECT ▲ COPYING CODES FROM ONE PROGRAMME TO ANOTHER SAVES TIME “Asta Powerproject allows you to create and add various codes to the programme which can then be filtered out as needed. For example, a programme can have high, medium and low risk codes added to all the activities, then a filter applied to show all the activities that have risk applied to them in the next 2 weeks. It also allows you to copy codes from one programme to another, whilst in MS Project, the codes have to be created every time a programme is created.” ▲ EASY INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SOFTWARE FOR SIMPLE COMMUNICATION “It is an extremely flexible tool in planning and sharing the information coming from other project management software tools, such as Microsoft Project and Oracle Primavera” “Asta Powerproject acts as a good interface with our customers’ software – it’s compatible with MS Project and Excel so you can easily cut and paste only the data you need into other software and present the information in a pdf format that everyone can read.” ▲ SCALABLE FOR LARGER PROJECTS “Asta Powerproject is good at managing sheer size, and some of our projects are enormous, I couldn’t possibly manage them in MSP. In MSP I’d have to put in all the sub-contractors’ links and information myself, and I can’t afford to make a mistake. With Asta Powerproject I can import the sub-contractors’ projects straight into the Master Programme, thus lowering risk, we can have peace of mind that the information is absolutely correct, and of course – it saves lots of time.” www.astadev.com “Sometimes clients specify a particular software. If I’m asked to produce a programme, for example, in MS Project, I usually produce it in Asta Powerproject first, because of its superior functionality and ease of use, then save it as an MS Project file for the client.” Robin Percy, J Breheny Contractors ▲ “Asta Powerproject’s ability to import and export files to and from Primavera has greatly simplified executive reporting” MULTIPLE TASKS AND LINKS ON ONE LINE “We like a lot of the features in Asta Powerproject, specifically multiple bars in one line being able to link from anywhere in that bar to anywhere in another bar – this is better than anything I have used before.” WHY PEOPLE PREFER ASTA POWERPROJECT ▲ SUPPORT YOU CAN RELY ON “Asta’s support service is excellent, they get back to you very quickly.” “We compared Asta Powerproject with other programmes like Primavera, and decided that this would better fit our needs…mostly because it is so much more user-friendly and cost-efficient; it offers us the amount of functionality we need, without paying for additional capabilities not required for the framework, in essence right-sizing the product for customer usage.” “My experience with the team at Asta, whether Helpdesk or Sales is always a pleasure - polite, considerate knowledgeable and efficient all of which are lacking in Oracle’s offering of Primavera P6.” “What is a really good about Asta’s support is that it is based in the UK – they work the same hours as we do. You don’t have to think about what the time is in the US for example, it’s easy just to pick up the phone, and they are very helpful and extremely responsive.” Gavin Clegg, NMC Nomenca PLUS ASTA GIVES YOU: ▲ FLEXIBLE LICENSING With a flexible licensing model Asta Powerproject provides a cost effective price per user to suit your needs – ask us for a personalised quote. ▲ FREE VIEWER You can provide everyone involved in your projects with the ability to view, navigate and print out project plans for free so those who only need to view output do not need to buy a licence. Use Asta Project Viewer to view projects created in Asta Powerproject, Asta Easyplan, Microsoft Project and Oracle Primavera. Windows®, MS Project® and Microsoft Excel® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Oracle Primavera® is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. ©2012 Asta Development plc Asta Powerproject is a registered trademark of Asta Development plc. All trademarks recognised. E & OE. 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