Category: Project Management
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Kantata Feature Spotlight: How Adage Technologies Uncovered Hidden Project Risks with Kantata Pulse
Adage Technologies creates software, ecommerce, and AI web solutions for organizations that make a difference. As their portfolio grew, they needed a better way to monitor project health across teams and clients — beyond surface-level metrics like budget and timelines. Using Kantata Pulse, Adage surfaces real-time sentiment data from delivery teams and clients that enables…
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Kantata Earns Top 10 Spot on G2’s 2025 Best Software Awards for Project Management Products
IRVINE, Calif., and LONDON – March 6, 2025 – Kantata, a leading global provider of purpose-built technology for professional services, has been recognized on G2’s 2025 Best Software Awards, ranking #6 on the Project Management Products list. This marks six consecutive years of Kantata earning a top-ten spot, highlighting its impact in a market often…
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Kantata Shortlisted in The 2024 SaaS Awards
Leading Vertical SaaS Provider Recognized as a Top Project Management Solution IRVINE, Calif., and LONDON – June 25, 2024 – Kantata, the leading global supplier of purpose-built technology for professional services, was shortlisted in the 2024 SaaS Awards program in the Best SaaS Product for Project Management category. As a long-established software-as-a-service awards platform now…
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The Top 5 Project Management Challenges the Professional Services Industry is Facing in 2024
In the realm of professional services, project management has always posed a challenge, no matter how experienced managers and their teams are. There are so many factors to consider – project managers need to consider how any decision they make will impact the project budget, the timeline, the scope, the satisfaction of the client, and…
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Kantata Earns #10 Spot on G2’s 2024 Best Software Awards for Project Management Products
IRVINE, Calif., and LONDON – February 7, 2024, Kantata, a leading global supplier of purpose-built technology for professional services, today announced it has secured a spot on G2’s 2024 Best Software Awards for Best Software by Function (Project Management Products), marking its fifth consecutive win in the category. Kantata’s continued success in a project management…
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Insights from the Latest Kantata Survey: How Strategic Technology Decisions Address Distinct Challenges in Professional Services Organizations
Technology’s role within professional services organizations has never been more crucial. Get your technology stack right, and your business will have the insights it needs to operate confidently, aligning your highly skilled workforce with client-enabling work. Get it wrong, and your teams will be managing the professional services lifecycle in the dark, which can impact…
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Kantata Survey: Strategic Tech Choices Vital in Tackling Unique Professional Services Challenges
85% of professional services leaders recognize technology’s impact on daily operations, but just 47% trust current tools for crucial decision-making data IRVINE, Calif., and LONDON – November 8, 2023 – Kantata, the leading global supplier of purpose-built technology for professional services, today released the results of a new survey that explores the state of professional…
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Optimizing the Professional Services Value Chain: How to Demonstrate Value at Every Stage of the Project Lifecycle
Powerful forces are reshaping the professional services industry, changing client expectations. Demand is volatile. Competition is fierce. And needs evolve rapidly. To win projects, meet client expectations, and build long-term relationships, professional services firms must adapt, too. Traditionally, sales conversations centered around exactly what the customer was buying. For product-based businesses, it was all about…
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Top Ten Strategies for De-Risking Projects
In recent years, project management has been marred by high-profile failures that highlight the immense costs incurred due to project delays or cancellations. While project managers have historically evaluated projects based on completion of tasks and monetary progress, the manner in which projects are managed is changing. A project may appear viable on paper but…
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Maximizing Project Success Through Effective Burn Rate Management
Professional services project managers looking for ways to better understand and control the execution of projects and improve project margins will inevitably be told about the value of project burn rates. But what exactly are burn rates, and why are they crucial to project success? Every project is built on a budget, and the successful…
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3 Project Management Solutions for IT Services
In today’s world of digital business, IT services firms can mean the difference between success only possible through the use of advanced technology, and falling behind competitors who are taking advantage of the modern technology ecosystem. However, IT services firms face major challenges in providing a wide variety of fast, in-depth services to a broad…
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4 Reasons Why You Need a Project Health Dashboard
One of the most difficult aspects of managing any project is keeping performance healthy throughout the entire project lifecycle. If you don’t, there can be damaging effects on the success of the project, including hindering employee productivity and leaving customers dissatisfied. It’s crucial to track project health to ensure every task associated with a project…
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What is Operations Management and Why Do You Need It?
Running any professional services business is complicated, even for experienced managers and C-level executives. But when an organization grows – and the range of responsibilities and team members in the workforce grows along with it – it can be overwhelming. While detailed resource management and project management is crucial to taking control of the day-to-day…
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Three Ways To Optimize Your Business During Uncertain Economic Times
By Banoo Behboodi, Vice President of Advisory Services These are uncertain and unpredictable times, something I see every day as I work with professional services businesses in my role on Kantata’s Advisory Services team. No one knows exactly what lies ahead, but business leaders are already changing their behaviors, and their plans, based on a…
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Kantata Earns Spot on G2’s 2023 Best Project Management Products List
Kantata is proud to share that it secured the seventh spot on the Top 50 Project Management Products & Tools list for G2’s 2023 Best Software Awards. 80 million software buyers visit G2 every year, making it the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. Its annual Best Software Awards rank the world’s best software…
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How To Accurately Estimate Projects for IT Services and Consulting
In the worlds of IT services and consulting, it’s not enough to provide great projects that benefit clients. These projects need to be planned in detail so that companies can keep budgets and timelines in check while providing clients with work that meets their high expectations. But in a hectic, fast-paced industry, it can be…
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Project Burn Rate: How to Effectively Gauge Your Project Progress
Even the most experienced professional services businesses can have trouble tracking project costs without a reliable system. Thankfully, there is a reliable process for gauging financial progress so that project managers can make effective decisions before issues arise – project burn rate. If you think of your project like a candle wick, burning from one…
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How To Improve Project Performance: The 10-Step Guide
You can improve project performance through a combination of managerial skills and software tools. A good place to start is to ensure that the team understands the goal of every project, has access to open communication channels, and understands the priorities of tasks. These seemingly simple — yet essential — steps are necessary for successful project…
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Focus on the Work that Matters with Project Tracking Tools
When you’re knee-deep in multiple projects, it can be almost impossible to get a sense of what needs to be done first, how much is left to handle in the pipeline, and if all the pieces are in place to deliver on time. If you’re using outdated project management methods like paper and pen, calendars,…
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4 Ways Project Managers Can Use Technology To Take Their Work to the Next Level
This is an excerpt from Kantata’s ebook “Level Up Your Project Management Career: Top 4 Growth Opportunities for the Future.” To learn about critical areas of growth for project managers, check out the full eBook here. Technology is going to be an invaluable asset in your career, but not all technology is well-suited to the…
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Workflows: The Next Step in Your Project Management Evolution
No task stands alone in a project. Every single piece of work comes within a connected stream of decisions, whether large or small, that lead to a complete project. But many companies become so focused on getting individual pieces of work done that they neglect the larger connective tissue between them. These are known as…
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What Profit Margins Say About Your Company’s Biggest Challenges
This is an excerpt from the new whitepaper “How To Tell If Your Professional Services Organization Is Flagging” by Steve Brooks and Roy Edwards from Enterprise Times, in collaboration with Kantata. To learn more about the four major signals that professional services organizations (PSOs) should monitor to understand what factors are limiting performance, check out…
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Breaking Down Project Management Software vs PSA
Employees spend up to a whopping 30 hours a week checking their personal and private email accounts. If your company relies heavily on email as a way to communicate or manage your employees, then you’re wasting tons of money on time that could be spent doing productive — or billable — work. Implementing technology with…
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How to Make the Most of Your Project Management System
Every time you start a new project at your company, there’s a lot of planning involved. You’ll need to estimate the time it takes, gather physical resources to reduce delays, and assign the right number of people for the task – you might even need to hire new team members in order to successfully complete…
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10 Important Aspects of Project Efficiency
This blog covers the 10 important aspects of delivering successful projects in the professional services industry.
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Stay on Budget With Project Accounting
If you’ve worked in project management for any period of time, you understand how crucial it is for professional services teams to stay on budget. This isn’t just about execution, it also involves rigorous planning. Setting realistic project budgets requires you to level-set with clients, thoroughly going over expectations and needs to ensure that what…
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Common Spreadsheet Problems (and How They Affect Business)
An over-reliance on spreadsheets can cause unnecessary complications within your business. Here are some common avoidable problems.
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Modern Project Management: An Introduction
Modern project management serves projects that result in unique deliverables, such as a website build or software implementation. Learn how it’s different!
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How Marketing Companies Can Benefit from Project Management Software
Organization is key when it comes to finishing a project on time, and it’s no different for marketers. Marketers who prioritize organization are 674% more likely to report success than those who don’t. So if you find yourself working until midnight every day the week a big project is due – or you know other…
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What is a Project Proposal and Why is it Important?
This blog answers the following questions: What is a project proposal and why is a project proposal important in services success?
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Seamless Communication with Team Collaboration Tools
Communication is one of the most critical elements of a successful business. In fact, well-informed employees outperform their peers by 77%. But it can be difficult to keep everyone on the same page because it’s easy to accidentally leave someone off an email or forget to loop a co-worker into a meeting invite. That’s why…
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Unlocking The Power of Project Budgets With Kantata
This is part 2 of a three-part series on how your professional services business can unlock hidden value with the Kantata Professional Services Cloud. Learn more about the power of resource allocation in our previous post in the series. The Hidden Value of Project Budgets If you’ve been working in professional services for any length…
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Integration Management: Dos and Don’ts
Cross platform integration software is becoming more advanced than ever before. More and more tech companies are creating software solutions with the intent of supporting integration from the get-go, making their products more accessible and desirable to the corporate world. However, because integration has become so synonymous with descriptors like “streamlined” or “simplified,” project managers…
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5 Reasons Professional Services Organizations Need The Kantata Professional Services Cloud
Running a professional services business is more challenging than ever, but with the right strategy and execution, the rewards can also be greater than they’ve ever been. The continued expansion of the professional services world, the increasing types of products and services required to keep up with client demands, and the seemingly limitless potential of…
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Purpose-Built Technology: What It Is and Why Professional Services Companies Need It
Running a professional services business often means creating solutions on the fly and making whatever’s available work to keep projects going and clients happy. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a better way. Frequently, software used by organizations isn’t specifically designed for the professional services industry and doesn’t have the right features for a company’s…
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Get Ahead with Project Planning Tools
As much as movies and television tell us differently, improvisation is not the way to make your mark on the corporate world. Successful projects are defined by detailed project plans, not doodles scrawled on a napkin. Project plans need to loosely encompass the entirety of the project lifecycle and provide parameters like timelines, workloads, expenses,…
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Project Time Tracking: Make the Most of the Moment
Most aspects of project tracking are fairly intuitive. Frequent progress reports, task completion, and various milestones all provide valuable insight about the state of a project and its estimated completion. A less intuitive aspect is project time tracking. Many of us are familiar with recording hours worked in the form of clocking in or out.…
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Project Management Software: Find the Balance
While there are many contributing factors to the success of a project, nothing is as key as establishing a good project management system. There’s no singular “best” way to manage a project, as every project has its own needs and expectations that need to be met to achieve success. Some management styles may be better…
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Should My Business Use Professional Services Automation?
The phrase “professional services automation” is often thrown around when business owners look into optimizing their operational strategy. However, professional services automation (PSA) isn’t just a hollow buzzword without any real world application. Businesses of all sizes could immensely benefit from implementing PSA software into their day-to-day operations. But what exactly does professional services automation…
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Being Outcome-Centric: Ensuring End of Project Success
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the final part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. Read the first part on building a great project foundation here and the second part on harnessing the power of your project team here. Successful project…
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Keep Your Project Strong During Execution: Harnessing the Power of Your Project Team
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the second part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. Read the first part on building a great project foundation here. The Lazy Project Manager’s Theory of Projects is: “All projects are thick at one end,…
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The Art of Building a Great Project Foundation: 2 Critical Areas Every Project Needs At Its Start
By Peter Taylor, international keynote speaker, author of “The Lazy Project Manager.” This is the first part in a three-part blog series on the journey of a successful project. There is a well-known project maxim that says, “Projects don’t fail at the end. They fail at the beginning.” Failure at the beginning is just harder…
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Do You Have What it Takes to Scale Your Professional Services Business?
Growth is the hallmark measure of success for all organizations, but scaling your professional services business is difficult. The following are critical elements for every professional services firm that is looking to successfully scale.
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Kantata Professional Services Cloud – What is it and Why Do You Need It?
The increasingly complex, fast-paced world of professional services needs a new technology solution. Find out about the Mavenlink Kantata Professional Services Cloud and what it can do for you.
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What Sets the Highest Performing Professional Services Teams Apart?
One critical component of successfully growing and scaling a product-centric business is maintaining a high-performing services team that can hit the ground running at the start of each engagement and deliver value to customers quickly. Product companies that get a strong reputation for customer service can build on that foundation, using glowing reviews and references…
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Financial Benefits of Accurately Priced Proposals
As a sales manager, you spend a great deal of time analyzing the deals suspected to close in the next few months. You’re looking at the sales pipeline, and oftentimes there is one proposal in particular that’s near close and seems to promise a healthy margin — but this is only at first glance. Upon…
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Make Every Minute Count: Why Time Tracking Still Matters
When it comes to time management, companies in the services industry need to strike a balance between oversight and insight. Understanding the value of time tracking and how to manage it in a positive way will help your services company stay ahead and build even greater success.
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How Data Science Training Gives Project Managers an Edge
Successful project management requires data insights—now more than ever before. While today’s project management solutions deliver automated insights during planning and review, being the project manager of tomorrow calls for strong data science skills.
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Online Collaboration in 2021: Evolution or Revolution?
By looking at how online collaboration will change in 2021, you can make informed decisions on how you collaborate today and in the coming years.
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The Essential Elements of a Project Timeline
Learn about the major elements of a project timeline for effective project planning and on-time process execution.