With over sixteen years experience in construction, we know that our software has to be easy to use for first-timers – and yet powerful enough to handle the requirements of project managers working on the world’s most complex construction projects. Features that help first-timers get up-and-running fast include:

• Same intuitive ‘look and feel’ as a Microsoft Office application.
• Draw activities/tasks directly onto the bar chart with the mouse, or type in the spreadsheet.
• An online tutorial to help you learn the software fast.
• Context-sensitive help for all features.
• Unlimited ‘undo’s’ – so you can fix any mistakes even after the project has been saved.
• Construction-specific template – to help you start planning quickly.

Communicate your plans effectively to clients, colleagues and contractors. Asta Powerproject helps you produce impressive plans that clearly present project information.

• Everything within Asta Powerproject can be switched on or off – you can choose whether to show or hide the critical path, float, holidays etc.
• Create customised company borders that incorporate logos, revision numbers, key projects dates, notes etc.
• Annotate the project plan to highlight important tasks – no need to export plans to a separate drawing package.
• Plans are completely scalable to any chosen size.
• Produce first rate, high quality output – as electronic files or on paper.
  

Effective project management involves controlling and monitoring progress to ensure successful completion. Asta Powerproject has powerful progress and baseline features that help you deliver projects on time, within budget and to the required quality.

Asta Powerproject enables you to communicate plans and monitor progress of other companies involved in project delivery. The main contractor or client advisor may manage the master plan and send relevant sub-sets of the plan to other parties involved.

Schedule projects with complete precision using Asta Powerproject’s comprehensive time planning features:

• Plan tasks in units from hours, days, weeks, months, years etc.
• Use sophisticated calendaring to schedule tasks and resources.
• Use hammocks, multiple links, link types, link categories, task splitting and joining, task positioning etc. to finely tune a plan.
• Use summary and expanded tasks to create a tree structure and bring order and structure to a plan.
• Code tasks and resources in any way and filter, sort and band to present the most focused information.

Asta Powerproject combines time and money to help you control costs and accurately forecast cash flows.

• Create cost centres to match your company’s internal account codes (labour, plant etc.).
• Assign monetary values to tasks as either costs or income.
  Specify costs as either fixed amounts or variable amounts linked to resource usage.
• Accurately forecast cash flow by combining time and cost/income. For example, this allows you to predict the Monthly Valuation Amounts.
• Record budgeted costs against the original project plan with the baseline feature, then track actual costs as the project progresses. Generate reports showing the variance between budget and actual costs/income.
• Identify the value of work done at any given point in time using Earned Value Analysis functionality within Asta Powerproject. Compare actual progress against the original plan to identify cost to completion, time to completion and expected final costs.
• Manage both direct labour and sub-contractor levels and costs as well as preliminary costs - such as cranes, hoists, site management, welfare facilities, etc.

Leading construction companies are adopting a portfolio management approach to projects. Asta Powerproject enables multiple and/or large-scale projects to be managed from a single database, with the following benefits:

Not all construction companies are the same, which is why Asta Powerproject is designed to work in three different ways. No matter how small or large your organisation, there is an Asta Powerproject solution that fits your needs and budget.

Perfect for the smaller business with one or more project managers who work independently on projects.

Suitable for project managers who need to share information and access each other’s plans quickly and easily.

• Designed for larger projects, or a collection of projects, with many users who need to work together in a real-time, multi-user environment.
• Manage multiple projects and resources from a single database.
  Project information can be shared via the Internet with Asta’s Web Viewer to keep all stakeholders updated.