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Business Problems Solved

Mavenlink is a versatile project management software that is vital to the daily functioning of organizations. Users utilize Mavenlink for a range of tasks, including project management, time tracking, expense reporting, resource planning, and collaboration across departments and organizations. With Mavenlink, users can create and manage projects, track progress, assign tasks, and effectively manage time. The software provides transparency and organization to projects, allowing users to see who is assigned to each project and manage their weekly time effectively. Mavenlink also offers better visibility on projects, resources, and tracking, enabling users to make informed strategic decisions. Additionally, the software integrates with other tools like Salesforce and Netsuite, further enhancing coordination among different functions within an organization. Despite its powerful features, some users find Mavenlink difficult to navigate and expensive. Nonetheless, it remains a valuable tool for managing complex projects and improving project management efficiency.

Reviews

50 Reviews

Kantata PS Cloud review

Rating: 9 out of 10

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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a great product to track progress on projects. The timesheet functions make it easy to manage utilisation and forecast progress.
Vetted Review
Kantata PS Cloud
1 year of experience

Fantastic Project Management tool for Solutions Delivery!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Kantata PS Cloud is great for project management where clients can maintain communication in one centralized location. Project members receive all notifications and can communicate in chains, upload documentation without size limits, link deliverables to tasks in the task tracker, and view project plan updates in real time. I can't think of any scenarios where is wouldn't be appropriate because the tool is really versatile and can be helpful in a range of different scenarios.

Easy to use tool for streamlining your Agency

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Since we are a growing agency with multiple project and hundreds of resources, it is easy to use Kantata for resource planning, allocation, and following that allocation during execution. We can aim for higher resource utilization with this.
I don't dislike anything in particular but more filter and sorting options on project page would have been more helpful as it takes a while to find what you are looking for in it's current view.

Great product ! Very intuitive.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it as a way to track project progress, as well as tasks within the project. It also allows us to track to easily track the time spent on every specific task.
Another use for Mavenlink is the ability to communicate efficiently regarding individual project. This avoids a lot of wasted time and confusion.

Pros

  • User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • Clearly displays project status
  • Tracks time spent on individual tasks to better estimate total duration of a project

Cons

  • Showing time spent on billable vs non-billable tasks.
  • User-friendly interface, but could be more aesthetically pleasing.
  • Individual permission and access can be clarified more.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.
Vetted Review
Kantata PS Cloud
1 year of experience

Improves the operational and financial performance of the organization.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Mavenlink is useful for planning and maximizing our resources. Improved resource visibility and control. It helps us determine who is accessible in terms of skill and competency, as well as the amount of work they are capable of handling. Mavenlink is beneficial for forecasting resource needs and reallocating resources to meet goals. Mavenlink is useful to have a control over the work minute by minute, without having to wait for answers. It's flexible to monitor how time, money and margins are managed from anywhere at any time. Mavenlink allows us to examine and act through an industry-leading business intelligence layer that provides you with dozens of well-crafted reports to solve pricing, profit, usage, and availability issues.

With advantages for managing our projects' life cycles.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Manvenlink allows us to use the dashboard of the cost rates of all our managed projects in the macro and micro perspectives of the company to get an idea of ​​the expected profit and loss statements. Manvenlink is useful for time and expense billing, as well as built-in methods for sending specific email reminders to team members for things like deadlines. When it comes to assigning tasks, tracking time, managing resources, and keeping track of our project budgets, Manvenlink is versatile.

Pros

  • Manvenlink is effective in project planning, collaboration, tracking and deliverable analysis.
  • Manvenlink makes email alert handling possible by customizing it in various ways so you don't get overwhelmed by changes.

Cons

  • Manvenlink has several complexities that require team members to put effort and time into understanding how to use it to its fullest capacity.
  • Manvenlink's Gantt charts can have issues at times, and the task monitoring mechanism is not always obvious.

Likelihood to Recommend

Manvenlink examines our project portfolio down to the task level, generates real-time information using the Gantt chart, and assesses the status of tasks or deliverables. Manvenlink is competitive for project and dependency automation; allows us to replace manual procedures with applicable solutions and alternatives.nManvenlink allows us to design reusable templates and procedures, break down silos for deeper insights, and connect tasks within a single project. Manvenlink is really helpful for getting updates on the status of each of our projects. Manvenlink Integrations Baselines allow us to create baselines that demonstrate how the breadth of our projects changes over time.

Organization is key with Mavenlink

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Mavenlink for a couple of things. For example, timesheets and expenses report. With the timesheets, it would let us create time entries for all projects and expense reports that would track expenses for projects. It also had the capability to filter by category and see project receipts. Very handy and easy to use. I had 2 ladies use this program and had no complaints.

Pros

  • Tracking
  • Time sheets
  • Data Entry
  • Reports

Cons

  • I have no suggestions.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for an office that wants to keep things on track and a manual report on things.

Reduce Companywide Administrative Task Time with Mavenlink !!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mavenlink has very well helped my affiliates to effectively manage and organize projects, resources, invoices, timesheets, and expenses. Its easy-to-use features and user interface is what we love. It helps in a critical part of the business cycle from project management through customer invoicing management. It automates a lot of manual tasks like scheduling and assigning the resources on the projects based on their availability.

Pros

  • Project Management
  • Resource Assignment and Scheduling
  • Integrations

Cons

  • Data Insights - Can be made more real-time.
  • Nested APIs - They're already working on it.
  • Dynamic Functionalities

Likelihood to Recommend

Mavenlink can be actually used by any organization irrespective of its size. Someone might want to use it for automating project management and client invoicing. Or the larger organizations might take advantage of resource scheduling and assignments based on their availability. You can also consider it when you have got documentation to maintain.

Mavenlink as a project collaboration tool

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used as a project management tool to drive client implementations for professional services. It is being used to structure our project plans and governance, resource client implementations, and provide reporting to management. We have found Mavenlink provides a good means to collaborate across our professional services function. Its activity feed is useful to provide regular updates and keep everyone informed. The task tracker enables Project Managers to assign deliverables to the team and thus helps the team collaborate towards client deliverables. The Gantt helps communicate the delivery plan to the client and enables collaboration with client resources. Customized reports allow management to see the progress of projects and take strategic decisions. The resource planning module allows resourcing coordinators to plan resource assignment for client projects. Tracking of time through timesheets allows Project Managers to manage the project budget. Upstream and downstream integration with tools such as SalesForce and Netsuite enables the organization to coordinate amongst functions such as Sales and Finance. Overall the tool remains a one stop shop for our function and business to align on client implementations.

Pros

  • It's activity feed is useful to provide regular updates and keep everyone informed
  • The task tracker enables Project Managers to assign deliverables to the team and thus helps the team collaborate towards client deliverables.

Cons

  • 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

Likelihood to Recommend

It is a useful collaboration tool to work on projects together as a team. Functionality to plan projects at a detailed level and report on it could be improved. The Gantt chart does not allow for baselines to be stored. Schedule does not allow planning off holidays. Creating project plans using templates is easy however it would be nice to have the ability to upload an excel sheet to create a task tracker. The roll up of budgets is not available at a milestone level that inhibits ability to track budget at milestones. It would be good to have a status report generated for clients that could be either available as a standard report or as a custom report.
Vetted Review
Kantata PS Cloud
2 years of experience

Mavenlink: The operational system of record you can't live without!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Mavenlink is used for project management across all service teams. We have integrations with our CRM so pipeline projects are automatically created so we can directly manage capacity within Mavenlink. We also have integrations with our finance system so ACV is automated. For each project we track pace, margins, and workload balance.

Pros

  • Logging time
  • Outstanding/upcoming project tracking
  • Capacity planning

Cons

  • Custom reporting
  • Gantt chart

Likelihood to Recommend

Mavenlink is a great tool managing a project's entire lifecycle including pipeline, capacity, margins, etc. Whenever I have any questions their support staff is always quick to respond! I've seen their new availability match for team builder and love the ability to drill-into people availability so I can better staff my projects based on project specific needs.
Vetted Review
Kantata PS Cloud
3 years of experience