Press Release: Asta Powerproject Enterprise enables North Midland Construction to realise successful integration with SAP system

Leading innovator, North Midland Construction, creates Live customer data transfer using Asta Powerproject Enterprise and SAP; integrates hundreds of projects worth £200 million

September 30 2010 – Engineering and construction enterprise North Midland Construction has successfully realised the first phase of a massive data integration project  with SAP collaborative business software using Asta Powerproject Enterprise from Asta Development. 

The ability to transfer live, up-to-date financial and programme data between contractor and customer is vital to the success of any large, complex construction project. North Midland Construction has secured a way of delivering just this by managing to integrate its enterprise project management software with the SAP system of its customers. Over the past few weeks the company has been stepping up its testing phase and has gradually increased the number of projects it is integrating with "Live" data from the client SAP system.  Now it has transferred financial and programme data between the two systems that amounts to hundreds of projects worth approximately £200 million over a five-year period.

“Asta Powerproject Enterprise and the server have handled the huge import of data without a problem,” said Gavin Clegg, programme manager at North Midland Construction. “It has been a very stable environment to work within and I am delighted with the results. I have had fantastic support and service from Asta Development during these intense weeks and together we have managed to integrate hundreds of projects and align SAP data with our programme data with a few clicks of the mouse.”

The power of Asta Powerproject Enterprise project management solution continues to grow, giving large construction firms the ability to communicate live with their customers and contractors ensuring speedy, smooth and successful delivery of the clients’ requirements.

 “We are delighted North Midland Construction is benefiting not only from the ever improving functional capabilities of Asta Powerproject Enterprise but is also realising more from its investment by utilising the openness of the solution and integrating it successfully with SAP.  In the current economic climate it is essential that companies make better us of their data, minimising data islands, and North Midland Construction’s foresight to ‘align SAP data with their programme data with a few clicks of the mouse’ is a prime example.” – Paul Bamforth, Managing Director, Asta Development.   

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Asta Development

Asta Development is a leading international developer of project, portfolio and resource management software. The company’s two distinct lines of business focus on the construction and engineering markets, and the IT and professional services markets.

For the construction and engineering markets, Asta Development provides a complete range of project management solutions for managing any size and any type of project. Customers using Asta Development’s software range from small trade contractors using one licence through to global contractors working on some of the world’s most complex construction and engineering projects with over 1,000 users.  High-profile projects using Asta Development’s software include: The London Eye, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, The Space Shuttle, Schipol Airport in the Netherlands, Hong Kong Airport, Petronas Towers in Malaysia, Jumeirah Park in Dubai, Renewable Energy Projects in France, the Commonwealth Games Village in India and the Reichstag in Berlin.

For the IT and professional services markets, Asta Development provides one core solution, Asta Teamplan, which provides a resource-centric view of projects, programmes and project portfolios. Asta Teamplan is primarily used by small and mid-sized service-based organisations and departments within large corporations where the key requirement is to optimise resources, typically staff, in what is generally a complex multi-project environment.  Customers span public and private sector organisations and include IT departments, software development houses, consultancy firms and other service-based organisations. 

In the UK, Asta Development supports customers directly from its offices in Oxfordshire and Shropshire with a comprehensive range of services including consultancy, training and technical support. Outside the UK, it has a network of distributors who supply, train and support customers, with the software available in up to five different languages.

Asta Development is part of Eleco plc, a holding company listed on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market.  More information about Asta Development and its products can be found at www.astadev.com, www.teamplan.co.uk and www.astaeasyplan.co.uk.  More information about Eleco plc can be found at www.eleco.com.

About North Midland Construction

North Midland Construction plc has more than 60 years’ experience operating in the Construction Industry with six Operational Divisions and subsidiaries, undertaking Civil Engineering, Building, MEICA, Utilities and Highways works.

North Midland Construction delivers design and build projects across business sectors including water industry, power generation, power distribution, telecoms, commercial buildings, municipal waste plants , highways and bridges, and rail industry.

More about North Midland Construction can be found at http://www.northmid.co.uk/