# ASTA Powerproject Reviews **Vendor:** Elecosoft **Category:** [Construction Scheduling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/construction-scheduling) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About ASTA Powerproject Planning and project management for the built environment, Asta Powerproject is the power behind successful and efficient projects. Used by more than 100,000 professionals worldwide, Asta Powerproject by Elecosoft is the preferred scheduling software trusted by construction teams of all sizes. Powerproject combines easy-to-use drag and drop functionality with powerful feature rich capability, equipping teams with programme and resource management tools necessary to support the built environment regardless of scale. Build your schedule in minutes with an easy-to-use and simple-to-learn user interface with task pools and code libraries; making it easy to visualise your project. Powerproject includes an integrated BIM module for 4D BIM planning by combining a 3D model and project plan in one application, plus a free viewer for easy sharing throughout the build process. Asta Powerproject is part of the Asta Suite of products, created specifically to address the challenges that modern construction teams face in delivering projects under increasingly challenging circumstances. Asta Vision has been designed to transform how teams manage project reporting and compliance with a powerful web-based portal to simplify the vast amounts of data that construction projects have – allowing teams to make smarter decisions underlined by true collaboration. The Asta Powerproject portfolio makes it easy to plan, track, manager, and deliver your project through collaborative tools and a single source of business intelligence. ## ASTA Powerproject Reviews ### 1. Great program to plan projects **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Freek H. | Ontwerpleider, renovatie en ondergrondse uitbreiding Paleis Het Loo, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2021 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** The program is easy to use, schedules for the projects can be set up quickly. monitoring the planning provides a clear overview. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** We only use it for planning the projects, there are too many options and variables to choose from. we hardly ever use these. **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Keep the program simple, easy to use, the financial option of linking money to resources is too complicated for most users, keep it simple so we can use this tool, now it's too complicated, we don't use it. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** be in charge of your project ### 2. Very Versatile Scheduling Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew P. | Project Highway Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2020 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** The ability to accurately assign predecessors and successors, and being able to save the template so you don't have to start over every time. Very user friendly. Unlike most other programs where you are forced to use the old provided by the program, you can actually mold Powerproject to work for you. There are many ways to complete the same task which is both a blessing and a curse. It's very customizable, and you can arrange columns in an order that makes sence for you. Most of the data in the columns can be set to different formats also contributing to the user friendliness for powerproject. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Adding a task breaks links between tasks. There are almost too many ways to do thins which can make the program overwhelming at first, but once you get sued to it, that becomes a great feature. It allows the user to find a groove that works for them and use it. It can be difficult to see all the information on a screen sometimes, but i think this is pretty well par for the course with most scheduling software. **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Powerproject is a great scheduling software and required for many State projects. The online portion of the software makes it easy for your project managers to advance the progress of a project with out having a full knowledge of how the overall program works. Can be overwhelming at first, so investing in a good initial training will be invaluable. On the flipside to that, I had the program almost completely figured out before even going to my first training, so it is possible for those of you that prefer to figure it out yourself. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Too many benefits to name. This is the first scheduling software I have been able to accomplish everything I want to. From eh ease of creating baselines to the ability to link tasks and durations by simply clicking and drawing arrows, to the ease of finding the critical path. All good stuff. ### 3. Great for construction scheduling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed E. | Senior Planning Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Easy filtering and dashboard reports. Also the 4D function is OK. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Difficulties in assigning costs of the resources. **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Using dashboard reports is great and better than exporting data to excel and PowerPoint **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using Powerproject to develop construction schedules with ease. ### 4. Experienced Powerproject in my degree **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan S. | Construction Site Scanner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Being able to strategically structure a construction sequence. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** It can get complex when producing large sequences and logically linking them. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Planning efficiently without the clash of different trades. ### 5. Total project management software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2020 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** The ability to completely customise the information on the programme and how it’s displayed. It’s easy to tailor the information and the display to client or internal requirements. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** There are certain parts of Powerproject that are very unwieldy. For example, when you want to create or edit custom columns of information in the spreadsheet, you need to save the file each time before each edit can be made. It can be OTT for small projects. **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Perfect for projects that are £250k+ in value; or lots of smaller projects that have a fixed workforce that needs sequencing. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** People that are historically very resistant to trying new software or programming tools will find this software very easy for basic planning tasks with minimal tuition. It’s easy to roll this out to people that have not used it before as long as advanced user skills are not required. ### 6. Horses for courses **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bill (William) S. | Open, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Graphics and BIM alignment make it ideal for construction projects that require a strong emphasis on stakeholder engagement **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** My career experience has mainly been working with primavera, so I admit to bias. My ‘Gut’ feeling with Powerproject is that it has always been considered as old school and limited to construction contractor preference? **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not currently using the software and it is a number of years since I have. ### 7. User-friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** User interface, presentation of trade schedule, presentation of schedule to stakeholders, simplicity of the program. Undo and drag and drop options are exceptional. Easy claims/delay analysis **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Difficult to program complex schedules. Difficult to find resources online compared to P6. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can easily track progress with SiteProgress Mobile. Managed the schedule more effectively. ### 8. Asta Compared With P6 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2019 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** The ease of adding activities and adding links and logic. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** The Filter function is not as good as P6, for example, you cannot filter out 1 activity and then use the function "go-to" its predecessors and they show up on the screen each time leaving you a view of the path to one chosen activity. Also, the option to save layouts and export them to other users would be useful. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not solving any problems as such however Asta benefits include a wide range of visual aspects that are far greater than P6 and assist the project team when viewing programmes. ### 9. User friendly and simple to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2019 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Asta is easy to manipulate to show the relevant data to the relevant people. With views, layouts and particularly the hide function **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** You cannot pause and restart activities like in primavera. **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Asta powerproject is very user friendly for the novice to build a programme of works. As you become familiar with the software it is easy to produce reports and extract filtered information to make it easy for relevant trades to see there relevant work streams. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Resource problems. Activities and trades that are over resourced in the project plan. The software easily allows you to demonstrate this to management visually via the numerous histogram views. ### 10. Planner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yarkin B. | Managing Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2019 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** It’s easy to manage, you can track the process easier. It’s simple to explain to the other management disciplines. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Cost part of the app is quite confusing, also some basic information can’t be accessed easily. There should be a book or something. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can easily manage the project with setting codes and resources. ### 11. Worked in Powerproiect throughout my Thesis **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Connecting 3D model to the schedule in it **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Resources allocation process in the scheduling **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Yes **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking progress, and also Monticarlo analysis in analysing Quantitative risk ### 12. Most visually appealing scheduling software. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek R. | Project Lead Scheduler, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2019 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Visuals and reports. Ease of making logic ties **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Not many people use it. System crashes on large complex projects **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have taught Scheduling to undergrad students. It has the least learning curve ### 13. Detailed algorithms **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2020 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** It's industry recognised, we've moved away from power project to Asta. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** It can be complicated to use, need assistance for a while and good training. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most companies work with Asta so we can send programmes to others that they can amend if necessary. ### 14. Best Programming Software Out There **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** It is very simple to use and update unlike another well known software I have used and easily customisable with colours for trades etc **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** It can be quite difficult to link lines together to form a critical path **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** Get some training **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to get all trades to understand a large programme ### 15. After a brief introduction and orientation to the software, Asta PowerProject is a powerful tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** Asta can be used to schedule a project as simple as building a log cabin, or as complex as renovating a power plant. The flexibility within the software allows the user to building a schedule based on the projects complexity, and the user controls how detailed they want to be, or how much data they want to input. If you want to stay simple, you can stay simple. If you want to be detailed, you can be detailed. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Some of the point and click scheduling can be very difficult and tedious if you have a complex schedule. A lot of the tools in Asta are so common sense and efficient so it's difficult when you do run into an issue, or try something that in theory should be easy to do. **Recommendations to others considering ASTA Powerproject:** If you are used to other scheduling softwares like SureTrak or Microsoft Project, you will be able to jump right into Asta and will notice a lot of similarities. What's nice about Asta is the simple point and click for linking schedule items, ease of adding/modifying line items, and just the general interface of the software. I'd recommend Asta for small to mid size construction projects. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asta is a tool that we can use at all levels to schedule projects, update clients, forecast manpower, track efficiencies and more. All types of skill levels are able to jump onto the software and process data and the output is easy to read and understand. ### 16. Fluid Program and Quick to learn **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2018 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** this software was easy to learn and is simple to create logic to the schedule **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** The user doesn’t have to know the scheudling basics because the program does the thinking for the user, which in my opinion is a little dangerous **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project schedule and coordination conflict foresight. Helps with managing resource workload and useful to track overall project versus the original schedule ### 17. very good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Erica C. | Database Administrator, Construction, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2017 **What do you like best about ASTA Powerproject?** It seems to be very user friendly and robust. We've been looking at it and comparing it to some of its competitors. It's definitely a step above. My end users are giving it rave reviews and so far they like it much better than p6. It's becoming more popular. **What do you dislike about ASTA Powerproject?** Since we are a construction company, we need to be able to collaborate in remote locations. That is a challenge we are currently addressing. Not just for Asta but for a number of applications that we use. **What problems is ASTA Powerproject solving and how is that benefiting you?** We really need a replacement for P6. P6 is very difficult to work with. So far, it seems to be easier to deal with. ## ASTA Powerproject Discussions - [not necessary, I know enough to carry out my work.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35957-not-necessary-i-know-enough-to-carry-out-my-work) - 1 upvote - [View ASTA Powerproject pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/asta-powerproject/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+13%3A21%3A01+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0a5e039b-d6ee-4f84-a429-d3b1d5981207&secure%5Btoken%5D=5a2a47e33915015865649654e1c8bf13768b1d6f079b02e6ffec20a172eba942&format=llm_user) ## ASTA Powerproject Features **Document Management** - Centralized Platform - Versioning - Document Management - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology - Linkage **Scheduling Workflows - Construction Scheduling** - User Permissions - Time Tracking - Calendar Management - Gantt Charts **Site Management** - Site Progress Monitoring - Mobile Access **Reporting & Analytics - Construction Scheduling** - Scenario Planning - Project Reporting - Baseline Management **Productivity - Construction Scheduling** - Construction Stack Integrations - Mobile Capabilities - Communication Tools ## Top ASTA Powerproject Alternatives - [Oracle Primavera](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-primavera/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (340 reviews) - [Autodesk Forma (formerly Autodesk Construction Cloud)](https://www.g2.com/products/autodesk-forma-formerly-autodesk-construction-cloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (5,196 reviews) - [Procore](https://www.g2.com/products/procore/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (4,103 reviews)