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:
$59.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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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.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
$59.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Total features of Kantata: 139
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Our Next-Generation Project Management Tool
Reviewed on 12/09/2018
Our overall experience has been wonderful over the past few years. We were able to enable our PM...
Our overall experience has been wonderful over the past few years. We were able to enable our PM team to become more metrics and data-driven, expanding their capabilities. Change Orders are a big business process that we solved by using Mavenlink. Approval and communication have been GREATLY streamlined! Before, we were managing change orders through written communication and supporting documentation, but now we are able to have the discussion in project meetings, then pass through the Change Order approval as a budget change and there is an affirmative action on their part. It's great!
Pros
The activity dashboard is the best part of Mavenlink. A feed that allows you to keep track of official communications and notes is perfect, plus it keeps clients involved. The API is also very strong and allows us to generate reports FAR beyond what is offered by Mavenlink. Our ability to manage projects and people has greatly increased due to the features that have been implemented since we switched to Mavenlink.
Cons
The Gantt chart needs a lot of work. The interface is slow and clunky, plus it is not a great view for the executives and sponsors, visually speaking. The purpose of this chart is not really to "manage" the project, but instead show a high level overview of everything. There is currently no great way to show this to execs and sponsors. There needs to be a better mobile experience as well. We need a fully functional way to log time, complete tasks, post activity and generally manage projects from Android and iOS.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Getting better
Reviewed on 22/09/2020
Nice tool with powerful reporting that needs significant improvement on usability.
Nice tool with powerful reporting that needs significant improvement on usability.
Pros
Robust reporting, integration to NetSuite, hierarchical team management, Activity feed
Cons
Ease of use needs significant improvement. Needs user configurable workflows and fields. User roles and security have no flexibility. Interface and reporting designed by someone who never has to use the application to run their day.
Reasons for Choosing Kantata
Integration to NetSuiteSwitched From
Adobe WorkfrontReasons for Switching to Kantata
Integration to NetSuite. Easy to use time entry. budget and profitability reporting.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10
One of the weaker project management tools out there. I wouldn't recommend this product.
Reviewed on 25/11/2017
The ability to see my project list at a glance, although this product is plagued with poor support...
The ability to see my project list at a glance, although this product is plagued with poor support and ultra slow development.
Pros
The UI is simple to use most of the time. It's easy to see your projects listed out, even though the organization tools are pretty weak.
Cons
The software is slow. Updates happen at a snails pace. Our team worked directly with the development team at Mavenlink and their process is just plain slow. The program is bogged down and sluggish. It lacks sub-tasks beyond 5 layers, the estimating feature is a joke and they only just recently implemented a basic WYSIWYG in the activity section. You also can't undo activity unless you go back to the feed. Talk to PMs who actually use this product!
Response from Kantata
Thank you for your insight and feedback regarding your experience. We have forwarded your feedback to our product team and will continue to strive to do better. Your CSM has reached out out to you to learn more and continue to advocate on your behalf, regarding these product enhancements and all your concerns. We look forward to continue to working closely with you regarding your experience. Have a nice day and happy holidays.
- Industry: Market Research Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
New user, smooth implementation
Reviewed on 31/01/2022
The technical consultant support during the implementation was fantastic. Our POC was great about...
The technical consultant support during the implementation was fantastic. Our POC was great about helping us stay on track with all that needed to be tackled as well providing us in the moment or chasing down answers we needed to keep things moving. Adoption within the organization has been successful - a mix of the training support we got from ML and our own custom support. But the intuitiveness of the tool helped the adoption be smooth. Now we are just starting to reap the benefits of the visibility, insights and better overall management of our work.
Pros
We are new to having a PSA and PM tool. So it was great to go from each department having their own spreadsheets to one point of truth and full visibility across the project. But as well - all the in built finance management and integrations we setup has streamlined so many additional administrative elements of managing our work. And the real time visibility to project performance (timelines and finances) is great.
Cons
Navigating some of the integrations has been a little longer than I would have hoped for the roll-out. The support to get things implemented was not as timely as we would have hoped.
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It not only met our needs but excelled compared to others. It has additional functionality we can grow into as we evolve and advance.- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Mavenlink is a useful tool
Reviewed on 22/09/2020
Good
Good
Pros
Customization of task lists, project fields, etc.
Cons
Gantt Schedule (hard to display), Reporting (albeit powerful, application for creating reports is not user-friendly in the slightest)
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Program/portfolio management capabilities. ScalabilityKantata 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: $59.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Kantata offers plans to meet your needs. Choose from resource management to complete PSA with advanced BI. Try a plan today! Kantata 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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