About Kantata
The Kantata Professional Services Cloud is purpose-built to help organizations with 50 to 5000+ employees unify resource management, project management, financial management, business intelligence and team collaboration all in one solution. Elevate your performance and unlock your potential with better operational execution throughout the entire professional services project lifecycle.
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.
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- Free Trial
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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:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
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Features
Total features of Kantata: 135
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- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great Project Management Tool
Reviewed on 20/02/2017
We've been using MavenLink for over a year now and we are constantly learning new and better ways...
We've been using MavenLink for over a year now and we are constantly learning new and better ways to utilise all the tools it has to offer. We use it as our core method of communication with our clients, it helps to have all the information in one place. The Time tracking tool is easy to use and we are hoping to take full advantage of the Resource Allocation and Gantt chart in the near future
Pros
- So many options and ways to customise each feature
- Time tracking tool is very easy to use, our team prefers it over what we have had in the past
- Custom reporting, especially weekly project reports, have upped our client communication game. Our Clients appreciate the extra level of transparency and it has helped us prevent a lot of surprises when the invoice is sent out.
- Resource Allocation and Gantt chart really help when it comes to Project Planning.
Cons
- It's really difficult to see WHO is responsible for a task if multiple people are assigned to it. This is a problem when you are looking at a project and want to see who is responsible for what from 30,000 feet. Instead, you need to go to that specific task and read through the comments to see where it stands. There are a few workarounds for it, but then all involved extra work and monitoring to make sure everyone using the system is doing so correctly.
- There doesn't seem to be a way to edit a comment once you post it
- You can't customise the status options for the different tasks, so something is either in progress, not started, needs information, or completed. It doesn't really let you customise it to follow your workflows.
- 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: 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: 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.- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Works well for agencies
Reviewed on 18/12/2019
Overall, does well for project management. We lacked the ability to easily report on utilization...
Overall, does well for project management. We lacked the ability to easily report on utilization rates and time entries in convenient ways. Mavenlink changed that for the better.
Team collaboration with public and private posts can be more streamlined than emails, which can become siloed. Scheduling time and resource planner features are really handy, although I often don't get to what I planned...
Pros
Budget tracking is easy and effective, although depending on configuration, it can differ between the finances and budget tabs within a project. Gantt view is super helpful for changing timelines and communicating with client.
Cons
The task tracker sometimes is really slow to load when moving tasks around within a given project. There is often a huge number of notifications, but you can configure those to limit them significantly if necessary.
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:
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- 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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