Astea Alliance Reviews

The Astea Enterprise product is a huge leap in automation for our company. The advanced workflow application saves our team members times as we can automate tasks that our team would normally do manually. The customization support allows us to set the application up in a way that is easy for our team members to learn.

The only complaint I would have is about the new Manager Workbench. It is rather slow, and missing some features for our dispatchers to properly use it correctly. This is a new feature so I am sure that Astea will be adding more options soon.

I like all of the information that is available related to each specific job. We use Astea Alliance for "break-fix" or "service" jobs, which are smaller jobs. I working as an Accounting Specialist and I bill several of these jobs in Astea every day. I enjoy being able to see location information for the project, the price of services and material, all of the actions that have been taken during the lifetime of the project, etc. We also use the attachment function a lot to provide backup documentation for the project.

My least favorite part about this software is that the search functions can be a little finicky and you have to be very specific with what you are searching for when using the search function in Astea.

Astea is a good system to dispatch and schedule “break fix” service calls.

The system is not great at scheduled maintenance and inspections.

Workforce planning with the dispatching console in ASTEA is a very self-explaining tool. A perfect visualization of the workorder status, travelling allows to plan highly efficient. Service Contract Setup is extremely flexible. Once set up, pricing is completely automised.

The system speed is someties very slow. Especially in Australia. The pages are sometimes overloaded with fields and buttons that are required in only 10% of all processes.

Astea Alliance is easy to use and provides a full picture of the customer and all activities. The mobile application has made the field service function fast and easy. Astea team is easy to work with and very helpful.

I feel it takes too long to get a customization through the process. Would like to see a quicker turnaround time in changes made to the software.

Ease of use and there are many functions.

it is slow because it needs to load the fields.

I like most that the application follows the ITIL approach. Also very helpfull is the embedded BI. The split of functionalities into modules. The user friendly mobile client and a "fully digitalized service management process" from call logging to invoicing.

The split between the mobile client and employee portal. The "ERP look&feel". Features within the self service portal.

MANY features and capabilities. More than I as a user will ever need.

There's way too many steps required to complete necessary tasks.

Can be very good to businesses who are documenting service tickets but for large scale companies, I would not recommend due to reliability.

As stated above, there was some reliability issues with the software. It was down quite often and we had to enter in all of our documentation again and it was a hassle. For a serious large scale usage, I would recommended another tool

The software offers a full feature set and can be used in a number of industries. The mobile component allows real time data entry from the field for instantaneous feedback.

Because it is very comprehensive, it can be overwhelming to learn. One step at a time is a good philosophy. There are also many things that will require assistance from the folks at Astea, and there is usually a charge for the assistance which can get quite expensive.

ASTEA Alliance allows for multiple options and good functionality when it comes to meeting the needs of our business. We are able to quickly implement changes and give our field personnel additional features to meet internal and external customer needs.

We had some bugs initially when upgrading to a new version. The support for the resolution of these issues could have been faster.

Astea has some powerful background processes that has allowed us to reduce order turn dramatically and reduce inefficiencies dramatically. The data held in the background is solid, which has enabled more accurate reporting.

Occasionally the service processes running on the server will run away with themselves, leading to RAM bottlenecks that degrade server performance. Records can lock the user updating them into the service order and not release them correctly, leading the record to not be usable before an Administrator has intervened.

The capability of the system is very good. There are many features we have yet to take advantage of since we implemented. The capability and flexibility is what I like most.

The advantage of having a lot of capability is that it takes time to uncover all of it's power. It's strengths are also it's weakness.

Flexibility Informational retrieval PM batching Exporting features

Mobile (we need to upgrade to 14.5) Core reporting Certain modules navigate differently Upgrade complexity

What I like most about this software is that it increased our productivity and allowed us to track our customer calls/issues as well as our installed equipment.

Least likable quality is when one experiences errors within the software, the explanation is not always clear to resolve the problem.

It’s very comprehensive and performs a great deal of background checks in terms of warranty claims takes out a lot of manual work

Takes a while to understand the backend of the software as an admin is is a little complex

Very functional and higly configurable and supports our overall service operations

Too many configurable functions makes it slightly difficult to setup and utilize

The software has some features that could make it a huge asset to business. It offers multiple modules to cover a variety of scenarios and processes for daily business.

The product was unreliable and and could not perform to a level that would benefit our organization. Customer service was poor, and excuses from Astea were plentiful. It was a painful experience that we devoted a huge amount of resources to with no return on our investment. We ended up resorting to a different software.

Ease of configuration and customization (e.g. the ability to easily add fields and functions the service order UI).

The lack of ability to create user generated reports across different (e.g. combine data from service orders, activities and checklists).

It’s ability to qualify warranty claims and validate their authenticity by doing all the background checks

It’s backend functionality is quite complex

Flexibility and Astea support. Leader is the service space

BI reporting needs a lot of work to become a leader.

Search capabilities. Flexibility to support multiple business rules. Technical tools such as Escalations and imports to extend capabilities.

Ongoing intermittent issues and Inability to troubleshoot. Only been using Astea for less than a year so still learning capabilities.

Easy to sort through owners or agents. I use it to find job numbers when I know which agent is working on a job .

For some reason I am not able to sort ticket numbers from high to low or low to high.

I do like this product. My note 4 went thru updates. After that I get kicked out of this app up to 30x a day. It's a pain when I'm trying to complete service calls.

Keeps kicking me out 20 to 30x a day. I try to complete my service calls and have to wait to log back in.

Customization and scale ability make this a very flexible and capable program.

Some functions are overly complicated requiring too many "clicks" to accomplish a simple task.