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Kantata PS Cloud

Score8.5 out of 10

108 Reviews and Ratings

What is Kantata PS Cloud?

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.

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

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Mavenlink: A Masterful Tool for Project Management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Kantata is used across our entire organization. We use it as a project management tool. We manage monthly, recurring marketing projects/services as well as one time, web development projects. Kantata helps us manage budgets and timelines in real-time. Kantata also provides insights into our bottom line and helps us project future needs to continue growing our business.

Pros

  • Real-time view of budgets/burn rate
  • Time entry is easy
  • Integrates well with Google Drive
  • Provides a central location for all project information
  • Helps us to accurately forecast how long it takes to do things
  • Custom Task Statuses

Cons

  • Checklist items need to be checked off before a task can be marked complete
  • The mobile version isn't good
  • Integration with Trello

Most Important Features

  • Quick and Easy View of Project Burn Rates
  • Easy Time Entry
  • Templates for Cloning Projects
  • Custom Task Statuses

Return on Investment

  • Easier to enter time into tasks/projects (estimate 5 hours/week used per Project Manager & 2 hours/week used for other staff clocking in and out prior to Kantata)
  • Real time view of budgets/burn rates (estimate 2 hours/project of time used to see burn rates per project prior to Kantata)
  • Better insights into estimating project costs (Having a real time view of budgets has helped us improve our estimations and see a better ROI on projects.)
  • Quickly able to view the status of tasks for each project with customizable task statuses

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Asana, Smartsheet, Trello and monday.com

Other Software Used

Trello, Slack, Google Drive

Kantata PS Cloud review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Kantata PS Cloud for Project Planning, Project Management, Resource Management, time entries and invoicing. We integrate it with Xero for invoicing and customer account management. Kantata PS Cloud helps us to collaborate with clients & vendors. Our integration with Xero improves the invoice creation each month. Clients are able to be added to their projects to stay informed with the project activity.

Pros

  • Time entry management
  • Resource management
  • Project tracking

Cons

  • Insights reports ability to update in real time
  • Bulk invoicing capabilities
  • Improved view for timesheet approval eg. view of task budgets & entry approval all in one

Return on Investment

  • Central booking and time tracking

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft SharePoint, Xero and Jira Service Management

Other Software Used

Jira Service Management, Xero

Fantastic Project Management tool for Solutions Delivery!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Mavenlink to manage all of our solutions delivery processes, project management and client communications. It helps us maintain transparent communication in real time in regards to project work, deliverables and timelines. It's accessible and provides visibility across the company and to client stakeholders. We are also able to create reporting and analysis for our project work and identify areas for improvement.

Pros

  • Client Communication
  • Project Plan and timeline setup/Deliverables tracking
  • Documentation repository
  • Reporting
  • Resource management
  • Project status and health visibility

Cons

  • Task Tracker configuration
  • Reporting training
  • Dashboard configuration/project health reports

Return on Investment

  • Increased implementation speeds
  • Provided full project transparency
  • Identified problem areas in implementations

Alternatives Considered

Smartsheet

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Salesforce CMS, Slack

Easy to use tool for streamlining your Agency

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use it's Dashboard to review all submitted, resubmitted and pending timesheets which makes weekly timesheet review a simple task. It is much better than Tempo timesheets that I have used in past

Pros

  • Timesheet management
  • Resource planning
  • Dashboards
  • Reports

Cons

  • Saved preferences and Views

Most Important Features

  • Resource managemnt
  • Timesheets

Return on Investment

  • Higher employee utilization
  • Transparancy
  • Budget tracking

Improves the operational and financial performance of the organization.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mavenlink facilitates visibility throughout the process to help us better understand everything and make informed decisions. Mavenlink offers procedures that are automated to eliminate human work, data silos, and save time and money. With Project Pulse capabilities, it offers real-time information on the vitality of a project. Mavenlink allows the ability to forecast and allocate staff to different projects, as well as invoice, it is efficient. Mavenlink is a very useful configurable project management tool with KPIs and an open API.

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Small businesses might find it prohibitively expensive.
  • It does not supply mobile applications; simply a website optimized for mobile devices.
  • It does not provide a chat application or other means of contact.

Most Important Features

  • Smart Snip is a fantastic tool in Mavenlink that allows us to add highlighted comments to uploaded files directly in the browser.
  • Mavenlink provides a simple methodology to mark any file connected to a task or project by drawing a box around the part you wish to discuss for comments.

Return on Investment

  • To record the exact amount of time spent by each employee.
  • Collaboration is simple and templates help us save time.
  • It allows us to track the work and expenses associated with our clients' projects.
  • Mavenlink is used to increase productivity in situations of scale.
  • Mavenlink can be used to improve project planning and multi-project pipelines.
  • Mavenlink helps us save time by automatically uploading timesheets and data.
  • Increase cooperation within teams with Mavenlink allowing you to work on many projects at the same time and on the same board.

Alternatives Considered

Kimble and HaloPSA

Other Software Used

ConnectWise Manage, TouchBase, HaloPSA