
About Kantata
The Kantata Cloud for Professional Services™ is a powerful collection of operational management, resource optimization, business intelligence, integration, and workflow automation functionality that optimizes resources and elevates operational performance. A resource-first architecture, enables services businesses to field the best team, every time and see up-to-the-minute progress against timelines and budgets so projects run smoothly, predictably, and profitably. Visit www.kantata.com to learn more.
Single source of truth: Kantata centralizes project management, project accounting, and custom reporting into a solution known as Professional Services Automation (PSA). Kantata’s cloud application provides a single workspace for executives, project managers, team collaborators, and contract resources. This includes powerful features for collaboration, file sharing, time and expense tracking, resource scheduling, and more.
Move the levers that drive performance: Kantata helps organizations optimize utilization rates, improve margins, accelerate cash collection and accurately predict future work and revenue. The application’s optional enterprise-grade Business Intelligence (BI) layer, Kantata Insights, offers expert-built dashboards and custom reporting for project health and profitability. Kantata Insights enables organizations to build unlimited custom reports in only a few clicks; this includes the ability to look at key business metrics by specific drill-downs.
Create connections between business systems to unite teams and processes: Thanks to strategic integrations with leading CRM and accounting solutions (including Salesforce, Intacct, and QuickBooks), Kantata customers can build a unified platform for planning, delivering, and recognizing revenue related to services delivery across their entire business lifecycle.
Designed by services professionals, for services professionals: Kantata’s customers include consulting firms, marketing, creative agencies, tech, IT services, and other professional services providers. Typical clients are growing companies that need a software solution to successfully manage client demand with maximized profitability at scale. Kantata clients reside in more than 100 countries at both public and private companies.
Pricing starting from:
US$59.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of Kantata
Resource Management:
Your resources are the heart of your business and the Kantata platform. Kantata is purpose-built to tackle the resource management realities you face every day. Kantata offers powerful resource optimization functionality that leverages operations management science, advanced algorithms, and analytics to overcome previously intractable business problems.
Operations Management:
From project management and team collaboration to all of your back-end accounting, Kantata's operations management gives you the functionality you need to operate with greater clarity and control. Provide the right views to the right people and make better decisions faster. With Kantata, you can easily manage all your project finances in the same place. We also offer flexible invoicing options where you can submit separate invoices for Fixed Fee and Time & Materials, or create a blended invoice with all the Tasks, Deliverables, and Milestones in your project.
Business Intelligence:
With Kantata, all your operational data is in one place and easy to access allowing you to work smarter and drive continuous improvement. Robust reporting, real-time monitoring, and customization put you in control. Data is the backbone for timely decisions that drive your success. With Kantata, all your operational data is in one place and easy to access. Customizable dashboards. Over 60 meaningful, services-centric reports.
Integrations and Workflows:
Connect with existing systems. Empower your teams. Extend the value of your technology investment. And infuse agility into your work with Kantata's solutions, all purpose-built for professional services. Kantata will enable your technology to work how your business works, leveraging your unique business processes. When your technology is optimized your people can focus on what they do best.
Business size
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Singapore, United States and 3 others
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$59.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Kantata: 139
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Awesome platform that's only getting better
Reviewed on 2019-10-31
Overall, using Mavenlink has been great - it has made a very positive impact on day-to-day...
Overall, using Mavenlink has been great - it has made a very positive impact on day-to-day functions as a business. I would recommend it highly to agencies for its flexibility and extensive functionality to manage resources and projects.
Pros
The reporting functionality Mavenlink offers is extensive and has enabled us to get much better visibility to our project, program, portfolio and resourcing data.
Which in turn has allowed us to set/adjust our KPI/KRIs and better inform business decisions with the data we have available.
In using Mavenlink how it's meant to be used, not only have we improved our business practices but our PMO has gained valuable insight into important aspects of the business that were previously siloed.
The fact that Mavenlink actually continues to improve its platform based on user feedback is a massive plus, as new functionality becomes available to better utilize the platform.
Cons
There are some small (very small in most cases) problems we have with some functionality i.e. the naming/categorization of metrics in the reporting suite could be clearer, when approving/rejecting timesheets, adding a comment to a specific entry would be preferable, rather than the comment being published to all entries.
Reasons for Choosing Kantata
Budgetary reasons mainly but we also needed a platform that would allow us to manage resources more efficiently as well.Switched From
Adobe WorkfrontReasons for Switching to Kantata
Fitted to our budget and offered functionality we saw as essential to resource management.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
It's a fantastic time and task management system
Reviewed on 2022-06-14
Mavenlink sits directly on our Salesforce platform, and it has been great for our business to have...
Mavenlink sits directly on our Salesforce platform, and it has been great for our business to have a more comprehensive perspective from Pre-Sales through project close-out ever since we implemented the product about three years ago with the help of Mavenlink's amazing support. From the perspective of Resource Management, I find everything about Mavenlink to be extremely well executed.
Pros
My preferred time management application is extremely feature-rich, allowing for extensive customization of how time and money are spent. Mavenlink is a great addition to our corporate finance tools since it provides us with a new way to examine data and monitor progress on several fronts simultaneously. For me, it's a plus that Mavenlink is always working to enhance its platform and provide new educational resources for its users.
Cons
I haven't utilized many goods or features, but it would be helpful to have a consolidated dashboard where I can observe how everything is interacting with one another.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Good system but some frustrating issues
Reviewed on 2020-09-22
Useful overall, but the more time I spend with it the more I realize it is missing some key...
Useful overall, but the more time I spend with it the more I realize it is missing some key functionality that would save a lot of time. It's much more difficult to update a project in Mavenlink than past systems I've used, and I think there are some beneficial tweaks that could be made
Pros
From an ease of use standpoint, time entry and project creation is fairly straightforward. It's also nice to have access to so many reporting features, although I imagine that's even more valued by the leadership team rather than staff.
Cons
Three major issues stand out to me and my colleagues:
1- the software is very slow at times, and the more time I spend making edits to a project the longer it takes. In some cases, the lag is so bad that a task that should take 10 minutes ends up taking 30 since I wait so long for the system respond. The more tasks and individuals assigned to a project, the worse it is. Customer service suggested I delete my cache, but this was a temporary and fairly ineffective solution
2- It'd be great to have a simple place where I can see exactly how many hours a team member has on a project. Right now, we can only see time assigned to individual tasks, and then need to calculate the total manually
3- When tasks get extended or shortened, it'd be great to have a way to have Mavenlink automatically distribute time accordingly. For example, if I have 1 hour assigned for a 1-week long task, it'd be nice if I could automatically change this to 30min/week if that task were extended to being 2 weeks long. I know time can move automatically if the gantt is updated, but that only works if the task stays the same duration and hasn't started yet. Other systems offer this feature
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Realtime Time Tracking and Burn Rate View
Reviewed on 2022-01-27
The biggest problems that Mavenlink has solved for us would be the ability to see if our projects...
The biggest problems that Mavenlink has solved for us would be the ability to see if our projects are profitable or not as well as saving us valuable time with some automation features like repeating tasks, having templates, etc.
Pros
Mavenlink has really helped us to see whether or not our projects are profitable. It's also saved us valuable time with the integration that was implemented from the start to repeat monthly tasks for all of the monthly recurring marketing projects we have.
Cons
There are some very minor things that I am hoping will be addressed in a future feature improvement, but not enough for me to stop using Mavenlink. For example, you can mark a task complete without checking off the checklist items for the task, you don't get notifications within the platform (only via email) when you've been tagged/added to a project/assigned to a task, there are limited task status options to choose from, and there's no way to follow-up or be notified when a task due date is approaching/someone hasn't responded to a comment/tag, etc.
Reasons for Choosing Kantata
All of our project information was in a platform called Gemini (which is more of an issue tracking system), but all of the time tracking was in a separate platform called TSheets. I was spending hours and hours trying to reconcile time entries to project budgets to see what the burn rates were. By the time I could realize a project was in danger of going over budget, it was too late.Reasons for Switching to Kantata
Mavenlink had everything we were looking for except for the task repeater, but they were willing to create that integration for us. None of the other platforms had everything we were looking for.- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great company and product - still room to grow but on the right track!
Reviewed on 2021-10-31
The product has brought our processes to the next level and the overall experience has been...
The product has brought our processes to the next level and the overall experience has been positive.
Pros
Resource planning was made 1000% better by using the Mavenlink product. It is an intuitive modern UI that is feature rich across the board.
Cons
There are some gaps in the product and areas where I wish it had been more configurable. For instance, invoicing could use more flexibility in terms of how you build out an invoice (and how you display things on the invoice). Also, time tracking is easy but notes aren't required nor is there a config to make them required which has been a big pain for us.
Alternatives Considered
FinancialForce PSAReasons for Choosing Kantata
OpenAir is a horribly overly complex product with a very clunky resource planning module. In addition, NetSuite is now owed by Oracle and their responsiveness in terms of improved product features has come to a halt. Mavenlink's product is a breath of fresh air after OpenAir.Switched From
NetSuite OpenAirReasons for Switching to Kantata
Because of it's ease of use and company culture.Kantata FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Kantata.Q. What type of pricing plans does Kantata offer?
Kantata offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$59.00/month View Pricing Plans
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Mavenlink offers plans to meet your needs. Choose from resource management to complete PSA with advanced BI. Try a plan today! Mavenlink Premier / Enterprise: Resource Management and Professional Services Automation custom pricing based on request To receive accurate pricing information, contact Mavenlink directly.
Q. Who are the typical users of Kantata?
Kantata has the following typical customers:
51-200, 201-500, 501-1,000, 1,001-5,000
Q. What languages does Kantata support?
Kantata supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Kantata support mobile devices?
Kantata supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Kantata integrate with?
Kantata integrates with the following applications:
Dynamics 365, Expensify, FinancialForce ERP, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Workspace, HubSpot CRM, Jira, Microsoft 365, NetSuite, PayPal, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Quickbooks Online, SAP Concur, Sage Intacct, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Slack, Workday HCM, Xero, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Kantata offer?
Kantata offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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