Asta Development
Established in 1986, Asta Development plc is a leading European provider of project and resource management software applications and services.

The company’s mission is to help organisations achieve business success through the effective management of resources, costs and deliverables across projects and ongoing work.

Asta has helped organisations deliver millions of pounds worth of projects in the construction, IT, financial services, pharmaceuticals, professional services and utilities sectors. With the increasing adoption of project and resource management within IT and professional services, Asta is helping organisations achieve additional benefits, such as increased resource utilisation levels, more time for fee-earning activities, streamlined project delivery processes and tighter financial control.

Offices
Asta Development is headquartered in the UK. Sales, marketing, professional services and a fully equipped Training Centre are located at its headquarters in Thame, Oxfordshire. The development centre is in Telford, Shropshire. A network of global partners provides full product and service delivery in key markets outside the UK.

Management Biographies
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Products: Asta Teamplan

Asta Teamplan is a comprehensive project and resource management software application for IT and services organisations. A proven, scalable tool, it enables organisations to realise their strategic objectives through the effective management of people, costs, income and deliverables across multiple projects and ongoing work.

Although Asta Teamplan has strengths in many areas, its rich resource handling functions are particularly notable, being amongst the best available. Steve Cotterell, Project Manager Today, April 2003.

Asta Teamplan is designed to help organisations make the most of limited resources, in a dynamic and user-friendly way.

The solution is ideal for organisations who need to manage a complete portfolio of projects. The software system operates in real-time and provides a collaborative project management environment for multiple users.

Asta Teamplan is used widely in organisations that rely on knowledge workers for service delivery, including corporate IT, professional services organisations, high-tech/IT services, public sector, pharmaceuticals and financial services.

For detailed information on Asta Teamplan and the additional components, click here

Customers
Customers using Asta Teamplan to manage people, costs and deliverables across multiple projects include: Hays Consulting and Solutions Group, Wandsworth Borough Council, Desenco Group, Nicholson McBride and Sherston Software.

Hays Consulting and Solutions Group, the IT and consulting division of Hays plc implemented Asta Teamplan in May 2002 to underpin the delivery of a National Management Information System to the police force in England and Wales.

Nicholson McBride, the business psychology consultants implemented Asta Teamplan McBride to plan multiple projects and allocate resources more efficiently in order to increase the amount of billable work it could undertake.

Desenco Group, a Netherlands-based property and facilities management consultancy implemented Asta Teamplan across its five business divisions. The system provides Desenco with a real-time overview across all projects, visibility of resources in relation to current and future work, as well as accurate cashflow analysis and budgetary control.

Wandsworth Borough Council’s design services department is relying on Asta Teamplan’s timesheets facility to more effectively align projects with available resources. Benefits of using Asta Teamplan will include having a centralised management overview of projects and resources, the ability to plan work more effectively in line with resources, improved billing capabilities and the ability to produce high-level reports quickly and efficiently.

Sherston Software, the award-winning educational software specialist implemented Asta Teamplan to help manage projects undertaken across its two development centres in India, as well as to provide the UK-based head office with real-time updates on project progress, costs and resource utilisation levels.

Asta Timesheet
Asta has launched a new version of its web based timesheet module. Asta Timesheet is a key component of the Asta Teamplan solution, which helps services organisations, IT departments, and software houses to improve their productivity, resource utilisation and cost management.

Asta Timesheet is also used to help maximise fee-earning potential of services organisations, where progress on clients’ projects can be captured accurately each week, enabling consultancies to invoice their clients more promptly.

For detailed information on Asta Timesheet click here

Products: Asta Powerproject
Asta’s software application for the construction and engineering industries is Asta Powerproject. It combines a familiar Windows environment, the highest quality output, advanced scheduling, superior progress recording and reporting – allied to a full range of resource and cost aspects. Customers include Balfour Beatty, Ballast, Berkeley Homes, Bovis Lend Lease, Costain, Foster and Partners, Gleeson, HBG Construction, Lockheed Martin, Mace, Norwest Holst, South West Water, Stork, Try Construction and Wates.

First-time users find Asta Powerproject easy to learn as it has the same ‘look and feel’ as a Microsoft Office application and replicates many of the common manual ways of working in construction. It includes a construction-specific template with pre-set resources, calendars and reports.

Asta Powerproject is used in 70% of successful UK construction projects Source: Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) awards, 2000, 1999, 1998

Communicating plans and progress both internally and externally to clients, contractors and other third parties is vital in construction. Asta Powerproject streamlines this process through its distributed project management capabilities and powerful, graphical presentation options. Asta Powerproject is acknowledged as providing the highest quality output – both printed and electronic – of any available system.

For detailed information on Asta Powerproject and additional components, click here

Customers
Asta Powerproject is used in 70% of successful UK construction projects*. Recent high profile projects include the London Eye, the Eden Project, the Great Court at the British Museum and the Putney Wharf Development. Customers include major building and civil engineering contractors, housebuilders, specialist trade contractors , architects, clients (public and private sector), professional advisors, engineers and utilities operators.
(* Source: Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) awards, 2000, 1999, 1998).

Laing Construction, one of the UK’s leading contractors, selected Asta Powerproject as its primary project planning software tool. Laing Construction typically undertakes work on 40-45 large-scale, multi-million pound projects at any given time and has used project management software since its conception. It recently took the decision to undertake an internal evaluation of the key players in the project management market and standardised on Asta Powerproject.

NG Bailey & Co, Europe’s leading independent mechanical, electrical and building services contractor has standardised on software tool, Asta Powerproject to handle all its project and resource management requirements. Asta Powerproject replaced other project management tools after a market evaluation revealed that it best matched NG Bailey & Co’s project and resource management software needs.

Fosters And Partners. The London based architecture practice implemented Asta Powerproject to help manage its resource and projects when it expanded from a team of 100 architects to 300, in the space of five years. With up to 70 projects being handled at one time, the company used Asta Powerproject to manage its internal resources more effectively, optimise resource utilisation levels, maximise fee-earning potential and to provide the visibility it required to make planning decisions with confidence.