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UniPhi vs Mastt

Mastt stands out as a leading technology solution in the construction industry, but what differentiates it from UniPhi? This comparison explores:

1. What is UniPhi?
2. Why Mastt?
3. Mastt Use Cases & Product
4. UniPhi Features & Gaps

Explore the Differences

What is UniPhi?

UniPhi started life in 1999 out of a consulting business to support many aspects of construction project work and remains owned by its original founder. Today, UniPhi presents as an older software and promotes itself as a business tool with solutions for a enterprise, major projects, and onsite. With such a variety of solutions, UniPhi has a very long and heavy set of features. Features include time sheeting and invoicing, through to instructions, documents and more. With such complexity and bloat, moving onto it has been described as a 'challenge' but perhaps one worth undertaking if it is right for your business.

Why Mastt?

In contrast, Mastt is a newer tool having been co-founded by Jamie Cerexhe & Doug Vincent in 2019. Mastt is supported by investments from Australia's leading venture firms, including the founders of Aconex - Rob Philpot and Leight Jasper. With Doug being a former Project & Program Management consultant, Mastt exists solely to provide a simple and easy to use tool for Project Owners of capital projects or client side project managers who struggle with spreadsheets and reporting across projects and programs.  The modern design of Mastt's software experience follows its mantra of enabling 'fast, easy reports & dashboards to power capital projects' and serves the key requirements from the client or owner’s perspective.

So, If you want a newer, simpler and easy-to-use solution for projects and programs then Mastt is right for you.

Mastt Use Cases & Product

Program & Portfolio

Provides Program Managers responsible for Project Portfolio Mananagement with best practice tools for automated roll up of Project data. Eliminates double handling and enables real-time visibility, standardisation and control of Reports, Budgets, Risks & more .

Project Portfolio Management

Automatically aggregates project data into for Program/Portfolio reporting, plus all the features you need for Program Controls (e.g. Program Risk, Program Budgeting etc)

Project Owner/Project Manager

Provides Project Managers on the Owner/Client's side with simple, easy to use tools to replace spreadsheets and make easy preparing Project Reports, Budgets, Risks, Progress Claims and more.

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Reporting & Dashboards

Provides self serve customizable reports and dashboards making it easy to produce, weekly, monthly, quarterly, board, risk or any type of report for Consultants & Owners. Replaces the need to prepare monthly reports in Microsoft Word

Historical Report Storage

Provides for the storage / archiving of reports and easy retrieval of past reports for comparison and auditing.

Risk, Issues & Opportunities

Facilitates the tracking and management of potential risks, issues, and opportunities for strategic decision-making (i.e. replaces your current risk register in excel and configurable to your 5x5 or 4x4 risk matrix)

Budgeting & Forecasting

Create project budgets & sub-budgets to track performance contracts, variations, payments and perform cash flows. Tag budgets to roll-up budget data across multiple projects.

Contracts & Payments

Makes easy the contract admin and payment processes, providing tools to upload contract schedules/line items and complete variations through to payment certification and letter production.

Phases & Key Milestones

Enables tracking and management of project phases and key milestones to ensure timely delivery (e.g. through Inception, Planning, Design, Construction, ELP)

Documents

Provides a centralized document management system for storingkey project documents.

RAG Status & Safety

Tracks Red-Amber-Green health and safety statuses for easy 'traffic light' project reporting and executive decision making

Audit History

Maintains a detailed audit trail for project activities and changes, ensuring accountability and transparency.

Gallery Images

Offers a visual documentation tool for projects through image uploads and galleries.

Project Templates

Enables the use of customizable project templates to streamline the setup and management of new projects.

UniPhi Features & Gaps

Project Manager

Provides Project Managers with an older set of tool for some aspects of project management.

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Feature

Included?

User Interface and experience

Being a 25+ year old software with a large and complex feature set, UniPhi presents an older user interface and is not a simple and easy to use solution for new generations.

Self Service Onboarding

UniPhi does not provide self-service access to its application, and users are required to book a demonstration and go through a sales process.

Ease-of-Use

Being an 25+ year old software with a large and complex feature set, UniPhi is not a simple and easy to use solution compared to newer tools like Monday.com

Timesheets

Provides resource planning tools, such as % allocation of people and roles to determine resource requirements, estimate cost to complete.

Resource Management

Time sheeting tools to display effort forecasts and allow for team member feedback on capacity to meet timelines and hours remaining. update resource forecasts which then instantly consolidate into capacity plans

AR and AP Invoicing

Provides tools for invoicing and integration with your account tool for reconciling differences. An alternative to Xero, or MYOB.

Financial Management

Consolidated profit reports created from transactions taking place by team members and project managers in the field. Integration with accounting systems.

Correspondence

Provides a thread style tool for communicating with two-way conversations. Not recommended as an alternative to Aconex.

Instructions

Assists with compliance of instructions given as part of your contract

Documents

Provides a document control module with version control uploaded to the system. Configurable access to see documentation stored in the system.

Issues Management

Track, manage and view issues and conversations. Ability to escalate to senior executive for awareness, roadblock removal and expertise

On / Off Boarding

Track approvals including communication of rates, role, start and end date, CVs and more. Checklists and training skills matrices to make sure all on-boarding tasks are complete.

Dashboards

Offers an embedded Power Bi that gives visibility into usage of it's features e.g. RFI, documentation, finances etc

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