Function Point Productivity Software vs. Kantata PS Cloud vs. RationalPlan

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Function Point Productivity Software
Score 7.2 out of 10
N/A
Function Point is a project management software built specifically for ad agencies, design studios, and marketing departments.
$46
per month per user
Kantata PS Cloud
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Kantata Cloud (formerly Mavenlink + Kimble) provides project management and collaboration software for small to mid-sized professional services companies. Features include resource management, project dependencies, time and expense tracking, file sharing, versatile user permissions, private messaging, planning and reporting.N/A
RationalPlan
Score 7.7 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
RationalPlan is project management software that has been designed to help project managers keep their projects on time and within budget. The main goal of this software is to make the process of planning projects as short and as straightforward as possible and to guide novice project managers through each step but offer enough tools to those who are more experienced.
$0
per month per user
Pricing
Function Point Productivity SoftwareKantata PS CloudRationalPlan
Editions & Modules
Agency (30-49)
$46
per month per user
Studio (10-29)
$48
per month per user
Boutique (5-9)
$52
per month per user
Enterprise
Call for Pricing
per month per user
Premier
Contact Sales Team
per month per seat
Enterprise
Contact Sales Team
Free
$0
Beginner
$4
per user
Master
$12
per user
Production
$19
per user
Stakeholder
$64 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Single
$145 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Multi
$288 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Server
$668 USD
Lifetime License per Seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Function Point Productivity SoftwareKantata PS CloudRationalPlan
Free Trial
NoNoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequiredOptional
Additional DetailsCustomers save 11% on annual billing. Demo’s available.
More Pricing Information
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Features
Function Point Productivity SoftwareKantata PS CloudRationalPlan
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Function Point Productivity Software
7.9
6 Ratings
2% above category average
Kantata PS Cloud
-
Ratings
RationalPlan
6.6
4 Ratings
16% below category average
Task Management8.86 Ratings00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Resource Management8.85 Ratings00 Ratings6.84 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.86 Ratings00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
Scheduling8.86 Ratings00 Ratings6.44 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.06 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration7.96 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology7.25 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology8.35 Ratings00 Ratings7.32 Ratings
Document Management5.45 Ratings00 Ratings3.63 Ratings
Email integration7.24 Ratings00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
Mobile Access6.34 Ratings00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking8.86 Ratings00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.15 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Function Point Productivity Software
9.0
6 Ratings
15% above category average
Kantata PS Cloud
-
Ratings
RationalPlan
4.5
1 Ratings
53% below category average
Quotes/estimates9.66 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Invoicing9.66 Ratings00 Ratings4.51 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.86 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software8.05 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Function Point Productivity SoftwareKantata PS CloudRationalPlan
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(6 ratings)
9.1
(50 ratings)
7.7
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
9.0
(8 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Function Point Productivity SoftwareKantata PS CloudRationalPlan
Likelihood to Recommend
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Well suited in:
  • Project management from estimate creation to final billing.
  • Time tracking per job.
  • Delegating tasks internally (and externally if choosing to use this feature).
  • Creative agency environments where jobs have many moving parts and employees working on.
  • Customer contact information management.
  • Internal creative collaboration (brainstorming).
  • Management oversight allowing team leads to review hours logged per employee to each job.
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Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
It is appropriate and even exceeds expectations 90% of the time. It makes project tracking very easy and visually accessible for most cases. The only occasion where Mavenlink came slightly short was for a special project that required more interaction options among project members. I am certain there are ways to work around that issue, but we did not find them.
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Stand By Soft
Appropriate as a great alternative to MS Project. RationalPlan provides most of the features needed to develop and maintain mid-level complex schedules. Less Appropriate for large complex schedules of long duration. These can be a challenge due to Duration at top-level. It is also a challenge to generate reports for management - reporting feature is limited.
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Pros
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
  • Time tracking - like several time tracking solutions, FP uses a clock that will track in real time so that you do not need to remember how long you worked on a project to input later.
  • Dashboards - I love FP's dashboards that let me track my personal utilization, the utilization of my team members and all of my open tasks.
  • Reporting - FP's reports provide insight organization-wide into how we are doing and where we (as an organization) are spending our time. As with any reporting, though, it is important to manage the cleanliness of your data to make the reporting useful.
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Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
  • With Mavenlink when starting to assign tasks to people, set deadlines and milestones, and add files to our projects we can look at it all from a variety of perspectives, including a task tracker view and a Gantt chart view
  • Through Mavenlink each project also includes an activity stream where we can view all project details as they come up, as well as an activity feed for all the projects it is linked to.
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Stand By Soft
  • Portfolio view is great to get a feel for how your programme is running at a glance and which areas possibly might require attention. The fact that you can customise your view by adding your own columns is another plus.
  • All project information in one tool is a big plus for me considering the amount of projects we run with. This really improves efficiency and saves me time. You have the ability to add documents to tasks, manage risks, email resources tasks due for projects they are assigned to(might need some refinement depending on your requirements), material db with costing etc.
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Cons
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
  • Function Point often provided reports that were inaccurate due to bad calculations. The support team would work with us to troubleshoot these issues, but the fact remained that calculations were wrong.
  • Function Point was purchased by a new parent company that increased prices over their nearest, superior, competitor, pricing themselves out of the market.
  • Function Point's interface is dated, as is its code base.
  • New features are being implemented not as software revisions or upgrades, but as new for-pay features.
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Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
  • The Gantt chart does not allow for baselines to be stored
  • There is no means to upload an excel task tracker and build a plan using an upload
  • The schedule does not allow for planning of holidays
  • The status report functionality needs to be improved
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Stand By Soft
  • Milestones should be a primary option instead of 0h to create one.
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Likelihood to Renew
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
Although the company I currently work for does not use the product I have recommended that we do switch to Mavenlink. We will be opening some new sites internationally this year and I can see that Mavenlink would be a great product for us to use
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Usability
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
I think Kantata is one of the most robust and best project management tools out there for an organization like ours. However, some of our staff feel like it isn't as user-friendly as it could be. From a Director point of view or a Project Manager point of view, Kantata is exceptional. From the point of view of a task-doer, it could be more visually appealing. Also, the mobile version isn't great.
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
Mavenlink gives advance notice for system upgrades, and they're not during our business day. Mavenlink has always been available when we needed it.
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Performance
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
Very good integration with Google apps. Some complexity is called however in the synchronization between Google Tasks and Maven links tasks. This can sometimes lead to duplicate records in Google Tasks. It has been dissolvable that becomes cumbersome if not properly curated.
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
  • Receive weekly emails from FP team about new features being added and webinars to review.
  • Always extremely reliable and quick to respond with answers to questions or concerns.
  • Includes function for their clients to make recommendations to their platform.
  • Allows for customization on the back end to provide the best solution/functions for each client.
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Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
Kantata support is fantastic! Any issues that arise are always handled quickly and efficiently. Granted, we haven't had many issues to report. Typically, my team tends to only reach out to support if they need assistance remembering how to do something or asking about an improvement. We had Kantata build an integration when we first started using the software, and the support team worked hard to listen and improve the integration.
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Stand By Soft
I had to ask for support once and got a response immediately.
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In-Person Training
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
We prepared questions in advance, and our trainer was an expert in what Mavenlink was and wasn't able to do. We were able to have multiple people trained at once.
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Online Training
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
The training was very well-organized. We were able to send questions in advance so the instructor knew what to cover, and the brought up related topics to maximize the usefulness of what they were teaching us.
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
Dedicate as much internal time to the implementation effort as possible, even if you're using a 3rd party or Mavenlink services. Your team knows your processes the best
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
Workamajig was NOT a good fit, after over a year of back-end setup. FunctionFox didn't have the financial integration capabilities we needed, but we used it for years and were happy with the service and support. FunctionPoint brought together the 30,000-foot view of the projects and resources with a simplified process for getting day-to-day jobs into the queue, which was essential for our organization.
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Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
We have since switched over to JIRA and let me tell you, it was probably the best decision we have made as a company. We chose Mavenlink based on promises from the sales team about future roadmap work that really never happened. We thought Mavenlink would easily integrate with our billing software but we couldn't have been more wrong. We ended up never utilizing Mavenlink invoices as they don't even allow you to fully customize your invoices that go out to clients!
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Stand By Soft
RationalPlan is cost-effective and allows most users to prepare and manage their schedule. The software lacks comprehensive reporting and duration changes at the top level of a project.
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Scalability
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
No answers on this topic
Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
It's very easy to add users and contractors into Mavenlink. There's also an option that let's you manage access for teams in multiple locations.
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Stand By Soft
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Function Point Productivity Software Inc.
  • We have a much more timely and accurate sense of our financials since switching to FunctionPoint
  • Our team is more efficient at tracking time, and we are much more able to track resources and profitability
  • Our accounting manager is able to use Quick Books in a much more efficient manner than previously
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Kantata (Kimble + Mavenlink)
  • Manvenlink is perfect for showing expenses and income over time and across people.
  • Manvenlink is adaptable for the integration and automation of the processes of each of our projects in order to optimize resources and improve operational performance.
  • Mavenlink allows us to determine if our projects are profitable or not, as well as save significant time by automating components such as recurring tasks and having templates, among other things.
  • Manvenlink is advantageous for our operations due to its simple portfolio management of our projects: manage several projects at once and receive a complete perspective of the development of each one at a glance.
  • Manvenlink kindly provides us with robust discussion threads, access restrictions, and built-in document management, allowing us to contextualize communications.
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Stand By Soft
  • Helps explain the target schedule and resource estimates for cost of the project
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ScreenShots

Kantata PS Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of real-time project status tracking.Screenshot of visualizations that help track resources with confidence.Screenshot of at a glance capacity and staffing monitoring.Screenshot of financials and project margin monitoring.Screenshot of revenue tracking, to scale a business with confidence.

RationalPlan Screenshots

Screenshot of Project infoScreenshot of Notes and linksScreenshot of Working calendarsScreenshot of Gantt chartsScreenshot of Resource levelingScreenshot of Baseline management