Fantastic Project Management tool for Solutions Delivery!
We use Mavenlink to manage all of our solutions delivery processes, project management and client communications. It helps us maintain …
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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.
Kantata PS Cloud Features
- 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.
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
| 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!
Smartsheets is a great tool but it was missing the client communications piece. That has been the best part of Kantata where I don't have to search back for emails anymore and it's very easy to find notifications and signoff for deliverables within Kantata. Smartsheets does have more configuration capabilities which where very useful.
May 15, 2023
Great product ! Very intuitive.
I have not had much experience with this other product, It was only for a few months during a part-time so I did not have to interact with the product on a regular basis.
However, Mavenlink is much more intuitive and requires little to no training prior to using it. It is also more flexible in its ability to display project status in a variety of ways.
However, Mavenlink is much more intuitive and requires little to no training prior to using it. It is also more flexible in its ability to display project status in a variety of ways.
November 11, 2022
Thoughts on Mavenlink after 2 years...
- Sciforma, Celoxis, Workfront, Teamwork Projects, Podio, ProjectManager.com, Easy Projects, ProWorkflow, LiquidPlanner, Genius Project, Project Insight, Wrike and EPM Live
We have evaluated about 15 different project management platforms and narrowed down our list to only five (Celoxis, Sciforma, Podio, Mavenlink, and Teamwork). Other solutions we evaluated were not able either to meet our vendor security requirements or were not flexible in pricing (or had costly integrations and add-ons that we needed but they were not included). Other reasons were lack of 24/7 and multilingual support, only one user interface language (English, but we needed French, German, and more), absence of a dedicated account manager from a vendor, and overall user experience.
March 31, 2022
With advantages for managing our projects' life cycles.
- HaloPSA and Easy Projects
Mavenlink is a great option that consolidates project and resource management, communication, time tracking, and budgeting into one platform.
March 23, 2022
Organization is key with Mavenlink
We are doing fine with what we have.
November 04, 2021
Mavenlink as a project collaboration tool
It was selected as it provides a central base for us to manage to business. The project management tools along with resourcing tools allows us to make the best use of our resources. User interface is intuitive and as it is browser based there is no need for installing any software.
October 14, 2021
Mavenlink consolidates project management and finance into one
- Workamajig and Basecamp
For holistic project management and finance, Mavenlink blows these competitors out of the water, at least that was the case when we made the switch, though I'm sure both programs have been continuing to improve. As far as time tracking, Mavenlink is so much faster and easier than Workamajig, particularly the way we schedule out time and incorporate that into timesheet tracking.
October 12, 2021
Mavenlink: A Masterful Tool for Project Management
While Trello is very visual, it doesn't have the same, robust abilities that Mavenlink has for time-tracking, burn rates, and timelines. My design and development teams love the visual aspects of Trello for QA and for Content Layout of website builds, but Trello lacks all the things that Mavenlink provides for managing a project from start to finish. Smartsheet is basically a glorified spreadsheet system and doesn't come close to comparing to Mavenlink. Asana is okay for managing issues/bugs but isn't as robust as Mavenlink.
August 05, 2021
Perfect Tool for Growing Companies
The biggest benefit of using Mavenlink is that the vendor allows you to pay for only what you use. Mavenlink is capable of connecting projects with people, unifying projects and financials and provides teams with technology and methodology that enable them to complete projects on time.
The initial package bundles all the features so no recurrent costs.
The initial package bundles all the features so no recurrent costs.
Prior to Kimble, we were using a system called Deltek Traffic Live. This system was sufficient in handling simple small data but was extremely not user-friendly. It required a lot of manual adjustments with exported data since we couldn't tailor the system to our business requirements. Kimble has offered us greater data accuracy, more flexibility, and wider visibility over a larger data set.
February 25, 2021
A functional tool that checks a few boxes
- Smartsheet and Asana
Mavenlink had more broad capabilities and was a tad cheaper.
September 10, 2019
The Hottest Project and Resource Planning tool for services business
July 30, 2019
Mavenlink is the high-powered, company-wide project management tool you've been longing for
Note: I used these in other agencies and other companies before coming to Golden Spiral. While the interfaces and mobile functionality for Asana and Trello are much nicer than Mavenlink, they just don't have the power and connectivity of MVL. Microsoft Project requires a slide rule and an on-staff engineer to operate properly. Basecamp is nice and we use it in some ways, but it doesn't have the wide breadth of features that MVL does. The ones I listed are like driving a Yugo. Mavenlink is like driving a V8.
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!
July 01, 2019
Frustrating tool for workers
I preferred Salesforce better. In Salesforce, I would have a query view of all my projects on one page that I'd bookmark. Then, I'd update each project when needed (that's 3 clicks, from bookmark, to clicking on project, to description). Mavenlink, it takes so much more. There is such a thing as a query view of all my projects, but that doesn't work. It gives me projects that I wasn't assigned but was just added to it.
Besides SFDC for project updates, I haven't used any other similar software. I've used Workday for timesheet several years ago and didn't remember it being that much of a pain. Mavenlink is pretty average on timesheet's ease of use.
We performed an in-depth review of Wrike and Mavenlink and found Mavenlink to outshine Wrike in every category which mattered to our organization and business units. We looked at several case studies in similar companies as ours and found that Mavenlink best aligned with our needs, especially around reporting which is where Mavenlink really outshined Wrike.
December 21, 2018
Mavenlink
I feel Mavenlink performs a bit better and fits my needs more.
November 23, 2018
An Expensive but Robust Platform
Mavenlink is much more robust than other project management platforms that we have used in the past. The ability to match each task to a preset time, budget and invoice objective is better than their competitors. It is also worth noting that Mavenlink has the built-in time tracker for employees to use, a nice and convenient feature.
December 13, 2017
Mavenlink Ain't Perfect, but it's About the Best Around
December 13, 2017
Mavenlink was the perfect solution for our tech and telecom pr, marketing and event planning firm
November 22, 2017
Review on Mavenlink for Creative Agency
Mavenlink is not a creative agency specific system which Workamajig is. Mavenlink could use more updates to their resourcing tool, time tracking and reporting in order to be more beneficial to a creative based company.
September 01, 2017
Mavenlink Your Way to Success - Your Team Will Love You For It
Score 9 out of 10
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Mavenlink takes the best of what Basecamp, Harvest, and Trello have to offer and combines them into one easy-to-use, intuitive, cloud based suite. It's nice to have all of these different functionalities built into one place, that also features a dedicated customer support representative to help along the way. Mavenlink even offers intensive training at subscription startup and also offers their own optimization insights once they get to know how your team tries to accomplish workflow goals.
August 31, 2017
Best Project Management Tool
Score 10 out of 10
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- Asana and Harvest
More user-friendly and more fit for our industry and standard operating procedure.