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.
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.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- 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: 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 31/10/2021
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
ERP CloudReasons 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.- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10
Disappointed
Reviewed on 17/09/2020
Not great.
Not great.
Pros
Very robust. And I like that time tracking is integrated into the software.
Cons
For the price, and for what we THOUGHT we could do, very disappointed with the tool to date. Good chance we're moving away from Mavenlink before the next renewal.
Response from Kantata
We are sorry about your disappointing experience and appreciate your feedback. Our CSC is working with your team to help provide more support and training to help with your utilization/capacity hardship that you are facing. We hope that this will help resolve and make things better. We always strive to do better moving forward. Please feel free to reach out to us directly if there's anything else that we can assist you with. You can reach your CSC here at 800- 860-9544 or our support team at [email protected]. Thank you.
Tiffany Nguyen
Senior Manager, Customer Advocacy
- Industry: Events Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 11/07/2023
Pros
It is great to have all of our tools in the one place that integrates with the rest of the business.
Cons
The booking calendar isn't as granular as we have been used to, but that is more of a change management requirement on our end.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
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Reviewed on 16/12/2020
Mavenlink has been great to work with from conversion to ongoing support.
Mavenlink has been great to work with from conversion to ongoing support.
Pros
Mavenlink enables us to know the workload of our teams and Ike projects on schedule and within budget.
Cons
I wish the reporting was easier so that more users could work in it.
Reasons for Choosing Kantata
Needed more functionalitySwitched From
BasecampReasons for Switching to Kantata
Evaluated systems against goals developed by product review team.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:
- 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, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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