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Andrew,
You shall be free to make your own choice.
Mine is Spider Project. I believe you have been recommended the two best choices there are, and yes I am ruling out everything else. Mastering Asta PP, Spider, MSP or P6 will always take some time no matter the claim of the software vendor of how easy it is. In my case it proved to be time well spent, now doing even the most simple things on the other packages is difficult when at a time it was easy.
1) Asta PP and Spider Project are good alternatives for the Construction Industry.
2) Both have personnel you can reach whenever there is a question. Before selecting Spider I tried Asta and their response was unbelievably well above average, same with Spider Project, top notch service.
3) Both are scalable. If you only have stand alone jobs running at the same time each with 30,000 activities even their entry level option you will be able to handle all with ease, not sure about MSP even when in paper they claim otherwise. If latter you grow to become as big as a Government Agency still they offer solutions that can stand side by side to other expensive and cumbersome software. Both offer true scalable solutions, where learning curve is short and all versions are compatible with no loss in training or investment.
4) Both offer a free viewer.
Still believe Spider have the edge; How about modeling of shifts? How about modeling for different resource productivity? How about resource loading using partial assignments, the way crews are assigned in the construction industry? Is very common to assign a crew to work at the same time on several activities. A simple concept, clean and powerful, the way a whole industry works but missing in most software packages. The software shall adapt to the way the industry works, not otherwise.
Finally I would compare resource leveling algorithms side by side. This can be a good match as I understand it is the British who made Operations Research a formal science.
In your evaluation be guided by your true needs, not by what the vendor say you need.
http://www.spiderproject.com/images/img/pdf/spider_project_advantages.pdf
Best regards,
Rafael
Hi Mike
When you mean power project is nec compliant. How do you mean.... I've not used power projects before if you shed a light that would be great....
cheers..
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