Item: Kantata PS Cloud
Rating: 7
Author: Spence Hackney

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our whole organization uses it for managing our projects. For us it is primarily a project management tool that tracks the hours and gives us an idea of project profitability.

Pros and Cons

Tracking project financials
Store housing project communication
Managing sub-tasks for a project

Its integrations aren't the best. The Google Drive and QuickBooks integrations are flawed enough to make them unusable for us.
They need a mobile app bad. They tout the responsive version of their web app as the answer to this, but it is so stripped down it is useless. This is a significant disappointment for us.
They don't handle recurring projects (those that happen every month) well at all.

Return on Investment

We've been able to see pretty clearly which projects are making us money and which are not.
It's made it easy enough for staff to track their time that they will actually do it.

Alternatives Considered

Function Point Productivity Software, Basecamp and Asana

Mavenlink is definitely more full featured than Countersofte Gemini (our old system), Basecamp and Asana and felt more refined that Function Point.

Other Software Used

Asana, Basecamp, QuickBooks Pro, Adobe Send & Track, G Suite

Likelihood to Recommend

It's particularly well suited if you're doing project work and are young enough in your business cycle that you're willing to adapt your business model to how Mavenlink is structured.

Mavenlink Ain't Perfect, but it's About the Best Around

Overall Satisfaction with Mavenlink