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Kantata PS Cloud

Kantata PS Cloud
Formerly Kimble + Mavenlink

Overview

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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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Kantata PS Cloud?

The Kantata Cloud (formerly Mavenlink + Kimble) is a collection of operational management, resource optimization, business intelligence, integration, and workflow automation functionality that optimizes resources and elevates operational performance. With a resource-first architecture, it is designed to enable services businesses to field the best team, every time and see up-to-the-minute progress against timelines and budgets so projects run smoothly and predictably.

Kantata PS Cloud Features

  • Supported: Operations Management
  • Supported: Business Intelligence
  • Supported: Staffing Intelligence
  • Supported: External Collaboration
  • Supported: Dynamic Reports and Dashboards
  • Supported: Personalized Workflows

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.

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Kantata PS Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationMobile Web
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

OpenAir PSA, Wrike, and Deltek Maconomy are common alternatives for Kantata PS Cloud.

Reviewers rate Usability and Support Rating and Implementation Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Kantata PS Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Kantata PS Cloud Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)5%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)80%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)15%
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Reviews and Ratings

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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.

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My company offers our proprietary marketing SaaS solutions to other businesses and we use Mavenlink to manage implementation projects. We use it mostly in one department - professional / client services and it is deployed across the globe as we have 15 offices worldwide. Mavenlink is integrated with Salesforce and it allows us to instantly create projects from templates as soon as a new opportunity is closed. Since we started using Mavenlink, our projects are moving quicker and customers are happier. In addition to that, we are able to track resource utilization and make hiring decision better better. All our projects are very transparent and organized so no stakeholders have to question the status of their projects at any time. That builds trust and creates a better collaborative environment with our clients.
Maryam Abbott Saldivia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Andrew Saldivia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
LIZET MELGOZA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Ask Ihonest | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mavenlink is the ultimate tool for project management. I have been using Mavenlink for the past 2 years now and it has certainly reduced my overhead of project-related things. Now I can focus more on projects and worry less about things like timesheet management. Mavenlink easily tracks everything and keeps me updated. One must have a modern professional tool like Mavenlink to improve overall project performance at work.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mavenlink across every department of our organization. We use it for scheduling, billing, time tracking, capacity management, client communications, among other things. It's a real beast of a tool that really does solve a lot of problems which we were previously solving using several different pieces of software, all of which were not terribly great at communicating together.
Rachel Stantliff | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mavenlink 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. Mavenlink helps us manage budgets and timelines in real-time. Mavenlink also provides insights into our bottom line and helps us project future needs to continue growing our business.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mavenlink is our entire company's project management solution. As a music production company, we struggled to find different solutions that would work for our team. We needed a highly customizable tool that did not come off as too cumbersome or "corporate" looking for our creative departments to be able to utilize. Mavenlink provides a simple and clean user interface that is easy to navigate, has clear data visualization tools, and lets our project managers see the exact information they need.

We use it across all our departments. Our operations team sets up the backend information, from budgets to planned hours, and goes over it with our creative and account teams. The account team manages the project hours and milestones, where our creatives manage their own expenses. We've set it up in a way that allows for checks and balances for approving invoices, and have also customized several reports ourselves. Mavenlink even provided me with their training tools they give to report building employees so I can learn and create them on my own.
Duane Thompson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Managing the entire lifecycle of a project from the conceptualization phase to the termination phase is critical and requires a powerful project management software like Mavenlink. We tend to rely on Mavenlink to manage tasks, deadlines and financial perfomance and we use it as an online workspace that features latest activities, team members and future tasks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Kimble has been brought into our organization in the past year to address a number of business problems. We decided that we needed an 'all in one' system for Operations, Project Management, Finance, and Reporting. Not only is it a platform that we use specific department issues but it is also a company single truth of data across the board.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it internally to track project hours & milestones and billables vs non-billable tasks. 3 of our departments use it. We are able to provide a breakdown of utilization hours for the client and also identify internally where the majority of hours are being spent (ie. troubleshooting, integrations, etc.).
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mavenlink is being used to track time within a large portion of our sales and support organization to track time, both productive and nonproductive, for all projects, both internal and external. Management uses it to determine if a given team is being utilized well and/or needs additional head count.
Scott Gellatly | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We use Mavenlink to manage our client services projects across the whole team. Mavenlink does several key things for us:
  • Systemises the customer experience, so that it's delivered consistently across the team.
  • Helps us manage due dates, deadlines, and dependencies.
  • Tracks job cost vs budget and reports on margin.
  • Schedules team and tracks utilization.
  • Manages team capacity so we know when and what to hire.
  • Client billing.
Joe Mills | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it across our entire organization to track progress and work on projects, track time, and keep track of expenses. Mavenlink is absolutely vital to our daily functioning as an organization. In my role, I use it to track various tasks related to deals I'm working on, expenses in my department, and even for some prospecting of prior clients/deals. It is a really solid tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mavenlink is being used as our team collaboration, resource management, time tracking and reporting tool. It is used by everyone in our company from the creative team to business operations to finance. The business problem it addresses is not being able to make more informed scoping and hiring decisions. Now with looking at actuals through time tracking and making weekly resourcing adjustments, we're able to make better decisions for our business. We pull reports that allow us to analyze this data in different ways and pivot in real time; empowering us to have productive conversations with our internal team and clients.
Mark Whitlock | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We adopted Mavenlink as our global project management system and our time tracking system for billing our services. Every project is broken down into its component parts. Mavenlink allows us to track hours spent on tasks AND projects by individuals and our entire agency. We require our entire agency to ONLY communicate through Mavenlink so we can see the entire process, every question, every answer, every iteration of deliverables, and more. Finally, we copy/paste links (from Dropbox) to all files related to each project so anyone who needs to find out about the project can do so from Mavenlink.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
For the last two years, our company has utilized Mavenlink as it's primary Project Management tool. Unfortunately, this tool fails in a poor user experience, bloated software, dated UI and very poor support from the professionals over at Mavenlink. We were met with promise after promise about exciting new features that are not detailed in any form of roadmap. We gave it two years and in the end, Mavenlink just couldn't keep up with modern day project management software.

It's incredibly slow and it's difficult to get the information that you need quickly and efficiently. As a person who has used it for 2 years, I can safely say that it lacks any real support. It hasn't received any kind of facelift since we adopted the program. Also, ITS INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE! I'm talking tens of thousands of dollars a year to get your company utilizing this system. It's simply not competitive and does not justify the cost.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Mavenlink is used for tracking time and projections. It is used by the Customer Success department mostly, but Sales also uses it. Before Mavenlink, we would spend a variable amount of times on projects and so it was difficult for management to decipher why this was happening. We used to use Salesforce before in order to track updates for all the projects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Mavenlink within professional services at my company to track project tasks on launch services. We have all the team members using Mavenlink to assign and track billable and non-billable time to help determine our gross and net utilization. Furthermore, we use the platform to understand if the time spent on actual projects is in-line and consistent with the projected project hours.
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