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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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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.
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- Supported: Operations Management
- Supported: Business Intelligence
- Supported: Staffing Intelligence
- Supported: External Collaboration
- Supported: Dynamic Reports and Dashboards
- Supported: Personalized Workflows
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Mobile Web |
| Supported Languages | English |
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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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The most common users of Kantata PS Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Kantata PS Cloud Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 5% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 80% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 15% |
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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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January 02, 2024
Fantastic Project Management tool for Solutions Delivery!
- Client Communication
- Project Plan and timeline setup/Deliverables tracking
- Documentation repository
- Reporting
- Resource management
- Project status and health visibility
- Task Tracker configuration
- Reporting training
- Dashboard configuration/project health reports
June 06, 2023
Easy to use tool for streamlining your Agency
- Timesheet management
- Resource planning
- Dashboards
- Reports
- Saved preferences and Views
May 15, 2023
Great product ! Very intuitive.
- User-friendly and intuitive interface
- Clearly displays project status
- Tracks time spent on individual tasks to better estimate total duration of a project
- 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.
November 11, 2022
Thoughts on Mavenlink after 2 years...
- Friendly user interface - very modern and clean, easy to use even for a non-experienced project managers or clients. It also comes with a mobile app and even browser add-ons.
- Robust feature set - variety of alert settings, project templates, permission system, detailed analytics and reporting, billing, estimates, and planning modules.
- Integrations - Salesforce, JIRA, and many other which is possible thanks to Mavenlink API.
- Customer service - very helpful and available 24/7. Easy to access from the user interface which is great.
- Task management - not easy to copy/paste tasks and milestones within the same project, can't select multiple tasks to do some mass changes/actions.
- User interface significantly slows down once you have 30-50 tasks expanded. Also, default view is "collapsed" and you have to "expand" milestones and tasks one by one in a project.
- User permission system is there and pretty good but not always intuitive. It's not easy to move people from between two participating project parties or switch leads (you have to demote existing admin and make someone else an admin first).
- 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.
- 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.
March 31, 2022
With advantages for managing our projects' life cycles.
- 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.
- 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.
March 23, 2022
Organization is key with Mavenlink
- Tracking
- Time sheets
- Data Entry
- Reports
- I have no suggestions.
December 29, 2021
Reduce Companywide Administrative Task Time with Mavenlink !!
Score 10 out of 10
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- Project Management
- Resource Assignment and Scheduling
- Integrations
- Data Insights - Can be made more real-time.
- Nested APIs - They're already working on it.
- Dynamic Functionalities
November 04, 2021
Mavenlink as a project collaboration tool
- 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.
- 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
- Logging time
- Outstanding/upcoming project tracking
- Capacity planning
- Custom reporting
- Gantt chart
October 20, 2021
Mavenlink: A Modern solution for overall project management
- Graphical user interface
- Real time project tracking
- Useful insights
- Easy timesheet management
- Resource management
- Mobile application
- More Graphical insights
October 14, 2021
Mavenlink consolidates project management and finance into one
- scheduling
- time tracking
- communications
- software is slow
- easy to get lost
- not great about image/video previews
October 12, 2021
Mavenlink: A Masterful Tool for Project Management
- 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
- Checklist items need to be checked off before a task can be marked complete
- Would love a more visual way to create and manage tasks for staff that work better in a visual environment
- Integration with Trello
August 05, 2021
Perfect Tool for Growing Companies
- Graphical User Interface - it's extremely easy and intuitive to navigate
- Customization
- Rate Cards and Budgeting
- Integrations
- Timesheets - cannot push previous week's projects/tasks to current for easier entry. You have to manually select the projects/tasks each week, every other time tracking software has a push previous week feature
- Bulk editing - cannot bulk assign users to tasks. Makes it extremely tedious to do each project
- Rate Card Issues - you cannot choose which roles are active/inactive on rate cards. Causes several duplicates/zeros for unused roles on rate cards.
- Timesheets - there's no accountability for having people track their time. No option to lock accounts or notifications that they're behind on time tracking
- Too robust in areas - there are several areas in Mavenlink that I would likely want to take advantage of but just don't know how to operate. Did not get adequate training on newer features. Maybe webinars?
- Tasks - no hours tasks vs. expense tasks. Hard to prevent user error from tracking hours to expense tasks which causes the budget to burn.
- Sorting of active projects using the project cards
- Estimation and management of project resources using the profit margin modeler
- Timesheets and expense reports to track time and expenses
- Most advanced features are included in the Enterprise plan
- Can take some time to learn but gets easier once you get used to it
- Operations, timesheets
- Reporting
- Project management
- Not the most user friendly interface, a lot of data on many screens.
- Navigation through different pages is not the smoothest process.
- More user flexibility around reporting.
February 25, 2021
A functional tool that checks a few boxes
- Track hours granularly
- Provide detailed project plans
- Easy timesheet view for hours tracking
- UI can get a tad overcomplicated.
- External client facing links are static.
- Older UI
February 20, 2021
It's the worst time tracking software... except for all the other time tracking software
- Doesn't require page refresh.
- Works in Safari.
- Text input is flexible.
- Entering PTO is a UX nightmare.
- Logs out too frequently.
- Searching for tasks is a pain.
September 10, 2019
The Hottest Project and Resource Planning tool for services business
- Project margin reporting. We really know the profitability of projects, clients and portfolios, and can track where things WENT wrong when we don't.
- Team utilization. We can schedule and control when and what people are working on, so the team is highly profitable and efficient.
- Automating and productizing the delivery of our services with templates gets us away from time billing into value-based, high margin services.
- The best reporting stack of any project management platform I have ever seen.
- Visual, drag and drop capacity planning makes life very easy.
- Closer integration between bottom up scheduling vs top down capacity planning.
- More customization options on project and task status.
August 02, 2019
Mavenlink is a good option for project planning
- Project Management: dashboard to see all activity in your project and task
- Expenses: easy to find categories and attach receipts
- Resource Management: know who is on what task, and assign tasks only as needed
- Mobile app doesn't show same information as the website always.
- Website is mobile-optimized so if the app is giving you trouble you have no options.
- Time tracking is annoying - your tasks sometimes don't show up so then you refresh and lose some work you've already done.
- Customized business insights reporting
- Easy to use Master Planning view to see resources capacity in real time based on individual's work weeks
- Easy to use time tracking tool
- Better communication to clients when new features are released, even if they are minor changes
- Agile project planning
July 30, 2019
Mavenlink is the high-powered, company-wide project management tool you've been longing for
- Allows quick tagging of other team members so you can bring them into the conversation.
- Connects with automation software tools so that exports and imports from other programs run seamlessly.
- Clone functionality throughout so creating similar tasks or projects is super easy and fast.
- Sometimes when searching for a task, Mavenlink doesn't "find" it because I'm not searching in the right channel. There's not a global search feature that works for my needs.
- The interface is ugly and cold. It's also highly technical in how it works. It isn't intuitive to operate.
- The mobile app stinks; using a mobile browser works okay, but it's not optimized for mobile.
- You can't really create bookmarks for tasks in your browser. So it takes several clicks to get to were you're going.
- Offers visuals on project budget
- Has a decent interface for managing your team
- Email notifications, though difficult to filter can be good indicators of tasks starting and finishing
- Where to begin. The email notifications are next to impossible to get right. Your team will be bombarded with notifications that carry no real weight.
- The cost is just too high. Compared to other PM software, this one is in the tens of thousands of dollars for a company to utilize for such a dated piece of software.
- There are so many layers to this tool that it is difficult to decipher permissions for users.
- You can't add photos in comments! Seriously it's 2019 and they can't implement a simple field that allows for images to be pasted right in with the comments. Everything has to be an attachment, which is cumbersome and slows progress.
July 01, 2019
Frustrating tool for workers
- It allows a lot of customization in regards for projects if you want them to be extremely detailed on tasks
- Master planning feature gives a great overall view for me planning my projects out
- The design looks better than Salesforce, color coding certain projects indicating for their statuses
- Our team has to put all of our project updates in before a certain time before our meeting starts. Very annoying to remember that.
- Our current process is extremely tedious in regards to marking each task as complete as I work throughout the day. As an engineer, I don't want to be thinking about marking tasks all day, I want to make it as streamlined as possible.
- Extremely difficult and time-consuming to search for specific projects and tasks. Very frustrating for me as a worker when I need to do it quickly.
- Mavenlink is an easy to use tool out of the box that requires very little training for new team members, usually, no more than 20 minutes of coaching is required by a peer to get someone using the tool effectively.
- Reporting functions are powerful and the ease with which you can set up and run custom reports is great. We spent a little time developing, automating and scheduling reports which have saved us a tremendous amount of time and effort every week.
- Mavenlink allows our team to use the tool in real-time to track the amount of time spent against given tasks, this allows us to accurately bill time against projects and track employee utilization.
- Albeit intuitive, the user interface can be complex at times requiring time to learn the platform before being able to harness the many features.
- Unless a project has tasks already assigned, you can't track time against a project and create a new task at the same time. This is a minor but annoying detail which forces one to go to another part of the portal to create a task and then revert to tracking time against the said task.
- Some things seem to be missing from the dashboard like a real-time project utilization for hours like a widget.