Essence PM Boosts Efficiencies and Delivers More Projects with Mastt

About Essence Project Management: Employee-Owned, Client-Side PM

Essence Project Management is a vibrant and energetic employee-owned and operated project management consultancy, with a purpose to develop trusted relationships and deliver enduring places where people and communities thrive.

Established in 2016 and with offices across Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, Essence has active projects in most Australian states and territories.

Their team of project managers offer expertise across a broad range of industries including hotels & hospitality, retail, commercial, education, build-to-rent, healthcare, and residential developments.

The Challenge: Monthly Reporting Pulling Project Managers Away from Site

Essence is operating in a competitive landscape while focusing on scaling up the business to become a national Project Management super power. This requires systems that can meet the demands of the changing industry environment while providing the highest standard of value to its clients and end-users of the projects they deliver, ensuring repeat work.

"The monthly reporting at the end of the month consumes a lot of our time as project managers - but working with Mastt helps reduce that time..."
_{- Therese Jensen, Project Manager}

Core to their services, the team at Essence are responsible producing reports on the progress and status of each project. This is a recurring compliance activity for Essence' team of project managers which consumes valuable time every month.

Monthly Reporting is critical and necessary, yet takes project managers away from driving quality on-site where Essence can maximise value to their client's budget, delivering multi million dollar construction projects.

In addition, an unwavering need for each project to maintain the highest data security standards is critical for Essence to maintain trust and assurance.

The Solution: Automated Reporting and Configurable Dashboards in Mastt

"The project team have found a huge amount of efficiencies in the product, which has enabled the team to spend more time on the technical capability and delivery of the project."
_{- Caitriona Circosta}

Producing reports is made easy, supported by Mastt's best in class modules for critical client side project management tasks, such as maintaing project finances and risks.

Previously, project managers would waste valuable time duplicating effort and double handling data between spreadsheets and reports. With Mastt, financial management and reporting is automated in an easy to use solution.

“Mastt allows us to complete our cost management activities in a more efficient way and gives us more time to focus on technical project management activities that we face in the role of project manager.”
_{- Therese Jensen}

Essence makes use of Mastt's configurable dashboards for producing project progress snapshots without double handling data.

"Very detailed, without being complicated to work with."
_{- Caitriona Circosta}

The output is a rich, visual report that highlights only the relevant data required for their client to get informed and make decisions quickly. With Australian hosted data, Essence can be sure their client's information is onshore and protected by the highest security standards.

The Results: How Mastt Helps Essence Take On More Projects

Mastt has proven to be the right decision for Essence and met the needs of their business case with a reliable, trustworthy solution. Mastt has become a core component of Essence operations and now rely on the value that Mastt delivers.

"Mastt has allowed Essence to take on more projects, absolutely."
_{- Caitriona Circosta}