Kantata Reviews - Page 4

• Campaign-based invitations allowing only relevant team members access to specific projects • Details, Checklists, Notes, Proofs, etc. for each individual task • Post (and pin) overviews, descriptions, files, and comments to the Activity Feed to keep all team members informed • Task-related Time-tracking, Budgeting, and Resource Planning for all types of team members • Proofs section for collaborative reviews

• Beginners may be overwhelmed with so many options and use-cases. However, the organization of tools and the vast availability of features and documentation help the user establish their own workflow that fits their unique individual needs.

For the modules that I use often as a "basic" user, the product can easily be navigate. Very easy to use. Every aspect of the product i use is very straight forward. That being said, i am a basic user. I submit my time, i review my direct report's times and i review the reports that our admins produce from the product.

I have seen that some aspects of the product are not that agile or flexible. For instance, if we are confident we will start a project and "lockdown" the data to start a project, and then something unforseen happens with a client and we have to post pone something and people have already billed to the project, we have to perform rework because adjustments cannot seemingly be made

In terms of enterprise software, this is actually speedy. Like, I've used time tracking software that requires a page refresh every single time you make an entry. I don't have to wait a couple seconds after each edit in my time sheet. "Not clunky" is a low bar for enterprise software, yet so many SaaS products don't meet it. Mavenlink does.

Needs a desktop app. Also the way to put in time off is a MASSIVE discoverability issue. It should be right on the sidebar, or at least in the time and expense tab, not 4 clicks deep from a button without a useful label on the dashboard. Oh, and this is most likely low priority, but dark mode would be nice.

It has made it easier for me to assign tasks to each of my colleagues to ultimately bring them together in a single project and be able to make better decisions based on real graphs and thus reduce the final delivery time of each project. I can develop multiple projects at the same time, managing to advance faster in each one without confusion.

I only ask kantata to improve customer service in terms of response time not being so long since sometimes they are responses that take a week to give a solution, it is the only bad thing I see in kantata

The invoicing and billing functionality is great as well as allowing resources to be forecasted and allocated to multiple projects

It is a bit clunky to use at first as there is a lot of functionality within it

Our team loves the amount of perspectives Mavenlink affords us when we need to gauge our incoming work and available resource capacities. The easy to operate Task Lists give our Creatives clear information when it comes time every morning to quickly get to work and know what is important and what can wait. The drag-and-drop gantt charts make scheduling and adjusting projects quick work for our Production team.

Given how powerful the suite is, it might come across at first to the unseasoned Creative as slightly overwhelming. Though, this feeling is quickly surpassed by empowerment once they understand how intuitive the UI/UX is.

The software helps our team communicate effectively throughout projects. We are able to capture the specific time used by each employee. Collaboration is easy and the templates allow us to save time.

When cost of per hour work differs with multiple employees work on a specific project, there is a discrepancy causing the budget to not align. Comments can get buried within projects unless the specific staff member is tagged each time.

Master planning - easy to use and understand once I got into the swing of it. Once of the most useful features for our company.

The project management features are really lacking, this is a resourcing software with some clunky project management features.

In one place I have tasks, wall to talk with the team and project gantt.

Have to pay by collaborators. The price is very high.

Our company switched to using Mavenlink over a year ago before a company merge and rebrand. The Mavenlink team worked very closely with Operations to incorporate new processes as we evolved into a new company. Previously, our company used another program to track project progress and time sheets. Mavenlink offered more features, visuals, and overall better experience.

Although Mavenlink does offer more features for users, there is definitely a learning curve to using it. It did take some time to find places to input hours or track projects and our company still works closely with the Mavenlink team to discover new functionality and learning how to effectively use the software. However, overall would definitely recommend this for any Marketing agency.

I like the way you can create sub-data within a project/task

There are serious gaps in the product. #1: MavenLink does not allow for ulti-tiered timesheet approval process. This capability is a "must have" for any enterprise-level account and is provided in all of the solutions I have used in the past (OpenAir, Changepoint, Sophity, to name a few.) Only the simplest of organizations can get value from this solution.

Andrea, thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We¿re thrilled that you¿ve found the flexible work breakdown structure features of Mavenlink to be of value. In terms of our timesheet functionality, although we¿ve released a number of timesheet innovations and enhancements this year, we¿ve yet to release the feature you¿ve mentioned. We¿ll definitely take your valued feedback into consideration to guide our roadmap and future development priorities. Also, we¿ll be reaching out to you directly with the hope of scheduling time to better understand your needs and the enhancement opportunity. Thank you, again. Tiffany Nguyen Client Advocacy Mavenlink

A key tool for resource management. Thanks to its numerous functionalities, Kantata is a simple and efficient tool for project management.

Kantata does not offers a lot of features. I think this can be perfect for beginners

Since I was hired a little more than a year ago, Mavenlink has been an integral part of how my team and I work on projects. Mavenlink's built-in modules have made it easy for team members to leave feedback on project deliverables. The platform also provides an archive of project deliverables, making it easy for team members to upload and download any given aspect of a job, from images to text documents. Mavenlink's task tracker also helps team members prioritize and stay on schedule. I would highly recommend Mavenlink for any digital marketing group.

Trying to find something I dislike about Mavenlink is actually sort of a challenge. Email notifications can get to be a little much, but those can be adjusted in users' profile settings.

It's great to have a single tool to manage projects, time and expenses, also it gives you a great visibility or resource utilization. Also it gives you a great overall analysis on all of your projects

I takes time to configure Kantata to your business needsrequires some training due to configuration complexityvisibility of uploaded files against a single project is not great

It does have decent formatting options within task descriptions and comments

Completely unintuitive. Lacking basic features like sorting tasks, cloning/copying tasks. Sometimes the limit on nesting tasks becomes a problem.

Thank you for your feedback. We value your insight and have shared your comments with the product team to help us improve and make the product more intuitive. You have some concerns and we would like to address those a little more directly in order to improve your user experience. We would like to have your CSM reach out to you, but due to the anonymity of this review, we are unable to do so. Please feel free to contact our support team at support@mavenlink.com, for further assistance on how we can possibly help. Thank you.

When I integrated it to my business, it was easy. It is also easy to use. The features that I find most impactful are the resource management, resource planning and forecasting. With the forecast feature, I can plan for the next month's possible performance as well as even the following year. Using the full suite of forecasting tools to maximize is my secret for future-readiness. I just like to manage and plan effectively that's why I use this software.

I liked the software but I think it can be improved with the color scheme. Maybe try to develop a dark mode or something. I mostly work at night and I prefer to see a contrast in when I'm on screen. I do that in some of my apps.

We've used Mavenlink for a few years, and the biggest asset to it is time tracking and project/task time allocation. The resource availability and scheduling are also nice features.

The biggest hindrance we encountered was the lack of integration with the Canadian version of Quickbooks we use. This led to some additional work required on our accounting side to export the time entries and bring them into Quickbooks.

Not a bad product -- good UI, project visibility, ability to communicate between team members.

Poor external communication. Reporting is not so user friendly.

The time tracking feature is useful for our team.

Mavenlink support is difficult to work with and does not prioritize any of our requests. The integration with SFDC also routinely wipes our tasks which renders Mavenlink essentially useless.

The project tracking, in terms of the timesheet collection and revenue management this works great for our business and is absolutely essential.

From an overall user perspective, the system can be quite clunky to use without adequate training which has caused some hiccups.

Great tool for maintaining client communications and managing timelines effectively!

It would be great for the Project Plan to have more configurations options and editing capabilities like in Excel.

I like that it's online and accessible anywhere. Also like that the timer remembers where you are at even when the browser/computer is restarted.

I think it would be better or nice to have a different method of time tracking where the start time is an actual time of the day and then you (and managers) can what you did at what time specifically instead of just knowing "I spent 4 hours doing X sometime today, but don't know when". The timer can be a bit cumbersome. Whenever you're finished, you have to manually search for the project/task to...

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We rely heavily on the software's built-in time management features to keep projects within budget. I also appreciate their responsiveness when we have a problem.

The billing process could be improved to mesh even more smoothly with Quickbooks.