Stalis improves project delivery and profitability with Asta Teamplan
The Business Context 
- Stalis, a leading UK healthcare data management company supply information solutions and support to a large number of healthcare organisations both in the public and private sector
- The company had doubled in terms of staff causing the operations department to carry out a structural review in order to maintain flexibility in services
- Staff tend to work on more than one project and for different customers and also do a mixture of support and development work
- Stalis must be able to provide quality data and accurate reporting on the many initiatives they support
The Challenge
- To find a fully integrated system that would support individuals working on more than one project simultaneously
- Current system, Microsoft Project, was no longer able to support the business' growing needs including the absence of 'what-if' scenario planning tools
- To find a scalable solution that would grow alongside the business
- To balance the resource demand as there is always more work to do than available staff to do it
The Solution
- Asta Teamplan meets all their requirements including resource optimisation, cost control, revenue and margin tracking as well as real-time management reporting
- Asta Teamplan can cope will all sorts of planning scenarios and boasts unlimited baselines to test plans, unlike Microsoft Project, which is limited to ten
- A fully integrated system providing web-based timesheets and expense management solution
The Benefits
- Clearer visibility and much better control of actual costs and timescales, which in turn, allows efficient quoting
- Significant improvement in company performance and profitability
- Real-time project information means Stalis can make solid decisions, solve conflicts and forecast realistic time-frames
- Improved insight into resources and their availability across all projects
- Asta Timesheets allows actual figures to be fed back into the project plans
- The expense management tool is accessed by the accounts department for prompt expense payments, as well as applying this data back into the projects to give exact costs throughout the projects life cycle
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