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# Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) Reviews
**Vendor:** Kantata (formerly Mavenlink + Kimble)  
**Category:** [Professional Services Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/professional-services-automation)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 1,568
## About Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)
Kantata helps professional services organizations of 50 to 5,000+ employees ensure consistent excellence and profitability across every project. With a platform that connects everything from scoping to resourcing to forecasting, you can always deliver amazing. The real challenge for most PS organizations is that their projects are so unpredictable. They never really know how an engagement is going to play out until it’s too late to do anything about it. And that undermines profits, strains resources, and leaves clients wondering what they’re really paying for. Kantata PSA puts an end to unpredictable projects by enabling you to: • Instantly assemble the ideal team – so you can deploy resources based on the best match for scope, scheduling, skillsets, and more • Easily amplify institutional knowledge – by turning past experience into real-time intelligence so all your expertise is available to all your people • Confidently forecast every outcome – with an accurate, comprehensive view of everything from revenue and margins to capacity and sentiment Not every services firm operates the same way — and your PSA shouldn’t either. Kantata is the only PSA offering both a Salesforce-native and an open infrastructure option, so you can choose the ecosystem that fits your business. With over 1,200 prebuilt connectors — including Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, Workday, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Google Workspace, and Jira — Kantata extends the value of your existing tech stack while keeping all your operational data connected in one AI-powered platform. That’s why professional services organizations across software, IT services, management consulting, and marketing agencies rely on Kantata to operate with greater precision, predictability, and profitability. Leading organizations like Deloitte, Sage, and Hitachi trust Kantata, and our customers consistently achieve a 33% increase in on-time project delivery.



## Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users value the **efficiency and simplicity** of Kantata, enhancing their project management and workflow processes effectively. (35 reviews)
- Users value the **efficient project tracking** of Kantata, enhancing workflow and simplifying resource management processes. (28 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of Kantata, making it easy to navigate and utilize its features. (27 reviews)
- Users value the **reporting efficiency** of Kantata, enhancing resource management and project tracking for better decision-making. (23 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **robust report generation** in Kantata, which enhances project tracking and simplifies financial management. (20 reviews)
- Users value the **robust reporting capabilities** of Kantata, enhancing project management efficiency and integration within the platform. (19 reviews)
- Users value the **efficient time tracking** feature of Kantata, which streamlines data management and enhances productivity. (19 reviews)
- Users value the **effective resource management** capabilities of Kantata, facilitating team allocation and insightful reporting. (17 reviews)
- Team Collaboration (17 reviews)
- Customer Support (15 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users find the **complex usability** of Kantata PSA challenging, particularly regarding navigation and workflow efficiency. (17 reviews)
- Users face a challenging **learning curve** with the interface and data optimization, necessitating early and ongoing training. (16 reviews)
- Users find the interface **not intuitive** , making it challenging to track resources and necessary updates efficiently. (15 reviews)
- Users face **rigid task management** that lacks flexibility, making project tracking and input tedious and time-consuming. (14 reviews)
- Users find the **lack of customization** challenging, impacting their ability to tailor reports and insights effectively. (12 reviews)
- Users find the **limited customization** options in Kantata PSA frustrating, especially for reports and project management tasks. (12 reviews)
- Slow Performance (10 reviews)
- Limitations (9 reviews)
- Users note the **limited features** of Kantata PSA, wishing for enhancements in reporting and task management functionalities. (9 reviews)
- Lack of Intuitiveness (8 reviews)

## Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) Reviews
  ### 1. Wonderful experience

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Ease of use and organizational abilities

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Might be a user gap but the ability to make bulk changes to multiple projects

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Budgeting projects and staying on budget

**Official Response from Michelle  Della Rocco:**

> Thanks for sharing your experience using Kantata. We’re thrilled the product is delivering meaningful results for you and your company. Thanks for being a Kantata client!

  ### 2. easy process for submitting time.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Justin D. | engineering intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

How easy it is to submit time and expenses and bill the correct department.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The most annoying thing is how on the home screen when you submit a time for the day you cant submit another one that same day

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I have not used this service.

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Thank you for sharing your feedback! We’re so glad to hear Kantata has made submitting time and expenses a much easier task for you. Please continue to share your feedback with us, and thank you for being a Kantata client! 

  ### 3. Great PSA System

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

easy to use, constantly updated and really good support. Makes PS delivery easy to manage from Sale through to invoice.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I haven't found anything to dislike to date

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Resource management made easy

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Thank you for sharing your feedback! We’re so glad to hear we’re producing results for you and your team. Thanks for being a Kantata client!


  ### 4. Good tool to manage the resources and budget of the projects

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tiago A. | Engagement Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

the ease of obtaining analytical data for decision making inside the project, and within the organisation

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

if there was a mechanism for approving allocations it would be easier for project managers to request a specific resource from HR or extend their allocation

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

It's a good choice if you have to manage your entire project portfolio and get analytics easy from them

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

definitively the management of costs and allocations in a project, and consequently the task of invoicing the correct hours to the client

  ### 5. Good at some things

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jacob S. | Software Development Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Easy to manage timesheets and some project work.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Scheduling and projections are clunky, PTO is hard to manage, both for myself and for my team. Project management is good internally but bad for external collaboration. So we end up having to use multiple project management platforms.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's easy to manage how billable my team is.

  ### 6. My "Mavenlink" review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Resource planning across the organization is probably the greatest feature.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

WBS functionality is limited. you cannot do basic copy and paste or duplication of tasks. Creating a WBS is a bit tedious.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Resource planning.

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> We're sorry to hear about your recent experience - could you please get in touch with me or your CSM? We're anxious to resolve this issue for you. 


  ### 7. Good Time Tracker for the Projects

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Abhilash P. | Senior Implementation Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Mavenlink helps me track my time over the projects in a week, and it's very user-friendly.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I am still exploring the product, and now I am pleased as it shows multiple options per your work and projects.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

As per my experience, Mavenlink can be an essential part of the organization. It communicates with both managers and subordinates in a user friendly manner.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Mavenlink resolves the problem of time tracking for each project. As an individual contributor, I used to track all my time on the Mavenlink, and it helps my manager to track the time of the project too.

  ### 8. Kimble PSA

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ben S. | Head of Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2020

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Kimble plus salesforce acts as a single source of truth for 90% of our day to day operations. This reduces the amount of time spent integrating systems together. Once you have it running the way you want it really makes most questions about the business straightforward with a report, and it's integration with salesforce allows you to analyse the whole customer journey if you want.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The learning curve for new starters is quite steep. Kimble has a lot of UI to learn and the documentation is considerable but difficult to search for relevant content in.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

The real benefit is having everything in one place. There may be competitors in some areas who outperform kimble on specific tasks (e.g. expensify for expense submission), but these come with the burden of integrating them all if you split into multiple vendors.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have several hundred consultants across three regions and managing and reporting on usage and forecasting is handled by our small resourcing team of half a dozen people. This would not be possible without the level of automation kimble provides.

  ### 9. Mavenlink - Professional Services & Project Managment/Planning combined.

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kyle P. | Digital Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Super fast, drag and drop stuff with the ability to work across multiple areas of the business on projects and planning.  The reporting was great as well as the project by project details. TIme tracking was nice as well.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

It was new, asked to replace a long time existing system, and more time could have been spent on training by the new team to make sure there was a 1:1 documented how-to on how to do basic things. The software was fine and worked great. The implementation needed more work and more time.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Take your time getting up to speed. Ask questions and ask for documentation.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It was a solution to replace an existing time tracking and logging software (OpenAir). It was also used to build project schedules and reserve resources across multiple departments.

  ### 10. Lots of potential

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

How it connects time tracking with project management and resource management on one platform.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

That the connections aren't currently working for us - we need to do some re setup.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Centralized place to manage resources and projects. More visibility and one source of truth.

  ### 11. Very useful platform with great features

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in International Trade and Development | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2019

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

User friendly, continuous improvement and in line with customers requests and suggestions

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The fact upgrades and new features happen very frequently means, as a SME, we do not always have time to understand and use them all.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are improving billing processes and reporting.
It's has great features  for time and financial management.

  ### 12. Mavenlink offers great functionality.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The most helpful and standout feature that Mavenlink provides is the various filter methods that help in extracting the actual useful data without much of an effort.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Although it is a great tool a few shortcomings that you face while using it is the lack of help guides present which often leads to users struggling to find a way to use the tool.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Mavenlink helps me formalize and better understand the project and resource related findings through a very intuitive and responsive dashboard that is actually very fun to use.

  ### 13. Just great

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The UI, team builder and the team at Mavenlink that are accommodating and very helpful!

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The default Insights dashboards could be more thought through and simpler

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Resource management across a very fluid organisation

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Thank you for sharing your feedback! We’re so glad to hear we’re producing results for you and your team. Please continue to share your feedback with us, and thank you for being a Kantata customer! 

  ### 14. Great tool for Project and Task Tracking

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mainak D. | Senior Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Very easy to use and manage tasks and projects. It helps me to track where my efforts are going each day.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I have used other time-tracking tools in the past, but I find Mavenlink better. So no such dislikes from me so far.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Daily task tracking helps me to focus and helps me on productivity. So at month-end, I have a clear picture of where my efforts went.

  ### 15. Overall good support, more focus needed on overall Project Management

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Marty B. | Director Cloud Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Able to react quickly to needs when need

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The sub contractor that was utilized was very poor on overall Project Management skills.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Resource mgt, project costing etc.

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Hi Marty, we appreciate your feedback. We're so glad Kantata is helping you with Resource Management and Project Costing! Your CSM will be in touch to further discuss how we can  improve the Project Management experience. Please continue to share your feedback with us, and thank you for being a Kantata client! 

  ### 16. Important for our finance function

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alison P. | Financial Controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Kimble has been a very valuable tool for our growing business and in the finance department specifically it is such an important part of our processes. 
Kimble gives us the financial position of all projects including time completed to date, forecasts, how much PO cover is available and crucially what can be invoiced to our customers.  The invoicing process is smooth for time and expense and fixed price projects. The business is multi-currency across several countries and Kimble allows us to invoice from one system for all of these circumstances which is then exported into our finance system.
From a reporting point of view we can analyse our various business units and departments to ensure the right people see the most useful information.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

When we first implemented Kimble some of the functionality regarding supplier invoices was not as good as the customer side. The Kimble Development team have improved this area over the past couple of years. We have appreciated that they have implemented some of our suggestions on how to improve this area.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Kimble enables us to manage our invoicing process including the work in progress to ensure that time and milestone invoices are raised in a timely manner. 
Revenue recognition is calculated automatically requiring only a sense check rather than a lot of manual processes.

  ### 17. I had good experience with Kantata

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

project cost controlling, time controlling, reporting

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

too long loading time of the pages, general operations

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

simpler user interface, more and better interfaces to established accounting systems

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

project cost controlling, time controlling, reporting

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Thank you for your feedback, it truly is appreciated! I'm thrilled to hear Kantata is able to help you with project cost and time controlling. As for the loading time, we have passed on the feedback to our product team for review.  Thank you for being a Kantata client! 


  ### 18. Good tool for Revenue and Resource Management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nikhil A. | Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2020

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Kimble helps in easy revenue forecasting and resource allocation. Being built on Saleforce platform, a lot of customized reports and dashboards can be created even using SFDC objects.

As an Operations Manager, at the end of every month, Kimble makes it easy to close the revenue numbers because of the great workflow in Period Management. 

Great work on the Kimble team to continue to enhance and add more value to the tool

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Overall experience is really good, one suggestion for enhancement is "able to divide the Element into various tickets and log the time on the tickets". This enhancement would make the tool complete in my opinion

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

1. Project management and invoicing are in sync
2. Revenue forecasting and resource management are solved using Kimble

The benefit is 'Kimble is one solid goto place for all the data required by the management team'. Keeping the project data (revenue, invoicing, allocation) clean is very easy and saves a lot of time

  ### 19. Powerful integration of sales and delivery processes

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Chris M. | Director Of Engineering And Operations, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2020

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

A single tool brings together resource management, time tracking, and project management with financial forecasting.  Tight integration with Salesforce Sales Cloud.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

There are parts of the tool that are not intuitive or have clumsy interfaces.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have visibility into our revenue forecasting and resource allocation that we didn't have before using Kimble.

  ### 20. Better Tool as all in one Solution

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dheeraj  S. | IT Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Integration and flexibility of the tool is wonderful. Simple to understand and configure

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Support time for issues is something I don't like.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's keeping our business stats up to date, easy to collaborate on business insides

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Hi Dheeraj, thank you for your feedback! We're so happy to hear Kantata SX is helping in keeping your business stats up to date! As for the support issues, your CSM informed me its currently being resolved. If there is anything I can do to help, please don't hesitate to reach out! 

  ### 21. Good solution for consultancies

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Christian H. | Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Seamless useability between mobile and PC
General design
All in one solution for project management, time & expense and management reporting

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

High complexity of the solution at least for the project management
No connection or API to Datev or other systems (just CSV export)

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Hours booking, incoiving, recording of travel expenses, project management and staffing, calculation of profitabilty,

  ### 22. Good

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

project services and deliver outcomes to customers

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

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.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

timesheets

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Thank you for sharing your experience using Kantata. We’re so glad to hear Kantata is allowing you to deliver outcomes to your customers!Thanks for being a Kantata client!

  ### 23. Great help for Project Management

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Emmanuel A. | Software Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

My best tool within Mavenlink is the time tracker and the timesheet, they're very useful to track my tasks for different projects.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Sometimes the projects assignation process goes incomplete if PM is not aware of the full process.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The time investment and utilization percentage are very important for us.

  ### 24. Lovely customer experience, still developing analytics

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kristin S. | Project Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Best new(er) feature is in the gantt view. You can casade just the tasks you'd like to be visible on the export. then when you export, it's nicely formatted and clearing shows (with indents) how tasks nest.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I'd like to be able to select and duplicate multiple task lines. Right now I have yo goninto templates and create a whole nee template.

The project budget. There's no real way to show external AND internal budget. Yes, you can use the rate cards but in the budget used/breakdown visialization you can only see one.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Resource management. Being able  to allocate the precise hours available on the project by resource and either schedule to specific days or leave assigned to a date range.

  ### 25. Mavenlink  is the best tool for project Management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Very Satisfied! 
- It's very intuitive 
- Delegate things with one click
- Adequate control of the project progress
- Easily evaluate project loss and profit

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Need below features: Doing manually now.
- Import the MS Project management MPP excel. 
- Import the holiday list and accordingly dates updated.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

- Project details in one glance. 
- Scope and cost tracking. 
- Task allocations and effort status
- Invoicing

  ### 26. I have an good experience with Kimble. Kimble is a very good tool to plan and organize processes

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Reporting, Time&Expense, Ressourcemngt..

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Kimble is difficult to use and load long

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Nothing

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Time&Expense, because now we are more efficient in this points

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Hello, thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We're so happy to hear the time and expense functionality is allowing you to achieve your goals. As for Kimble being difficult to use, our product team reviews each product  suggestion and analyzes them to identify the enhancements that will have the biggest impact, so we will be sure to share this forward. 

  ### 27. A fantastic team of seasoned professionals who support you through the whole journey

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The Kimble system helps us optomize our business and drive efficiency throughout the whole company.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I think sometimes the Support service is a little slow and clunky and could use an overhaul.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Kimble is a single source of truth in the company and helps us increase revenue and profits.

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> We’re so glad to hear we’re producing results for you and your team, and that you've had a great team along the way. Please continue to share your feedback, and thank you for being a Kantata client! 

  ### 28. Overall had a good experience at work using the Kantana Cloud for Professional Services (Kimble)

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Networking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The integration of having all the data in one tool for customers, projects, billing etc.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Occasionally it can be a little slow when doing certain tasks like invoicing.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Having one place / integrating  all the data in one tool for customers, projects, billing etc.

**Official Response from Nataly Bautista:**

> Thank you for sharing your experience using Kantata. We’re thrilled Kantata is giving your business one source of truth - thanks for being a Kantata client!


  ### 29. Excellent Project Management Software

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Allison M. | Office Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Mavenlink has a ton of functionality and flexibility. You can build out many custom fields to help you track exactly what you need. The time tracking and timesheets work well and allow for detailed tracking of both unbillable and billable time.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Because Mavenlink is such a large piece of software, there is a learning curve! This isn't something I dislike exactly, just something to be aware of. Thankfully, Mavenlink offers a lot of training, knowledgebase articles, and paid training. One issue that we have run into is how well Mavnelink syncs with Quickbooks.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Check and see how Mavenlink integrates with the other business software that your company uses. Make sure you are prepared to put some time and money into training your Administrators.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We build out all our client and internal projects in Mavenlink. It helps us track hours, ensures our projects are within scope, budget and on time.

  ### 30. Senior Designer

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Michael W. | Michael Wagner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The communication aspect is clearly the highlight of Mavenlink. It is easy to keep track of a lot of the details of the project without needing to incorporate multiple links to documents and emails. It was easy to understand and had a simple interface. The user interface was simple and clean—overall it was appealing for what it was.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

It wasn't as customizable as I would have liked. Also not as visual as I would've liked either. Great for communicating but didn't include some major features other project management tools have. My company ended up switching to another tool simply because we demanded more from our project management software. I still like Mavenlink and think it is a great tool for certain companies, but in our case, we just needed a little more due to the size of our client list.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Mavenlink was a great tool for keeping track of communication with projects. It was easy for clients to use and understand as well.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We used Mavenlink for project management, and it made it very easy to keep track of communication with all of our projects.

  ### 31. Helps to get the job done!

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Mavenlink is such a collaborative tool, I am a huge fan of the way that projects and tasks are labelled and organised. This way I can keep up to date with all my projects in one spot and assign relevant team members to things. It's quite intuitive to use.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Improvements I'd love to see for Mavenlink would be having fewer moving parts as setting up can take up a lot of time. To simplify, we usually resort to filling everything within one single task. If there was a way to detect date data, URLs, actions within a task and have this displayed in a calendar or Gantt view, it would be awesome. I'm finding that I need to supplement Mavenlink with other products such as Google Sheets and SmartSheets as it feels more seamless and easily viewable. 

Also the way that timesheets and their reports work don't make a whole lot of sense. I really hope that there could be a way to see all my live projects in the previous week so I can simply update the time allocated to each. The utilisation reports take a while to load, hopefully there could be a summary all in one place.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Mavenlink gets the job done.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

At any given time, I manage 30-50 projects and sometimes need to collaborate on projects from others. Mavenlink is the one-stop shop for me to log updates and access links to all my projects.

  ### 32. Covers all of the bases without angst

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Mavenlink attempts to be an all-in-one agency management tool, spanning estimating, resourcing, forecasting, time tracking, task management, project management, client comms, etc. For the most part, it pulls this off, but I think going all in as the only tool to use would not be a fit for my firm. The parts we like best are the resource planning, time tracking, forecasting, and data analysis features. At the time we adopted Mavenlink, it had a more modern UI compared to other older competitors like At Task, which was an important consideration for our team to spur adoption.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

For some types of work – particularly short cycle and templated deliverables – we use the task management features. However, the task management features get unwieldy for long, complex bespoke projects. The UI for conversation threads on a ticket is poor compared to tools like Jira, and how emails notifications are titled and formatted hampers utility. Rather than frustrate our staff, we use Mavenlink to manage tasks only for those types of work where it doesn't become cumbersome and use other tools like Jira where appropriate.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Mavenlink primarily helps us manage resourcing team members across multiple projects, each with constantly shifting milestones. The process is only as good as the quality of the data in the system, so keeping on top of account leads to update data weekly is an ongoing chore. However, acceptance of the utility of the tool by the team and relative ease of learning the UI has made it a reliable part of the operation.

  ### 33. Great adaptable tool that can benefit a wide range of business users.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Georgina T. | Business Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Reporting - output is great in so many different formats.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Reporting is limited by complexity of data and calculation options within Kimble.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Do not overcomplicate implementation - deviating from out of the box will cause problems.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Efficiency of the sales process and revenue forecasting.

  ### 34. Kimble gives the buisness the info you need

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Hector P. | Operations  Insight Analyst , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2020

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

It has allowed our business managers to have more visibility of the process, costs and hours spent in each project and opportunity.  

There is a standard deck of reports and dashboards that we have use as a guide for customization. Which has been very helpful to quickly get the information the business needs to assess the project pipeline and costs. 

Additionally, Kimble has work very hard to incorporate missing vital fields in a fast and efficient manner.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Reporting sometimes is hard do to similar field names and like any other salesforce reporting sometimes objects are not joined.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Understand implementation requierements of your process.

Learn how the close period process works.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are currently reviewing costs per project, time compliance per department/team and time utilization. We have linked this in a way that we can analyze this variable by account, by case or any other SFDC objet needed.

  ### 35. Simple and Easy to Use!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arezou T. | Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

straightfoward interface, easy to navigate

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

nothing! this time tracking tool is much more streamlined than any other I've used at larger firms

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

easy to track time to projects and tasks. easy for project management to see where effort is exerted and where more support is needed

  ### 36. Simple PM tool with everything you need

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Bianca S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Its pretty intuitive to use. The comment board is really helpful, and so is the time tracking tool. I use those items the most and never have any issues with them.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

None. No dislikes about mavenlink to express here.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

none

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have to show how many hours we're spending on projects, and consequently how profitable each project is. Mavenlink solves that problem for us.

  ### 37. Great for straightforward time tracking, struggles a bit with custom reporting needs

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Enjoy how you can structure tracking for your entire team, setting in place standardized tasks to allow for consistent measurement

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Have found that it struggles when trying to manipulate data in specific ways, and some of the built-in reporting is too simplistic

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Helping us measure profitability, make decisions around when we need to hire more

  ### 38. Powerful tool for Project Management

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 04, 2022

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Allows you to manage all aspects of your project in one space.  It makes collaboration easy and keeps information transparent to everyone on the project.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Sometimes it can be a little slow.  Issue management isn't as robust as some other tools I've used and faces some limitations due to it being implemented as "tasks" vs having dedicated issue management functionality.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easy to track time and provide budget reporting.  Project team collaboration was greatly increased.

  ### 39. Mavenlink is efficient to use!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Alex C. | Video Producer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The fact that I can time my work and check off my tasks. Mavenlink allows me to view my dashboard and the hours I have worked for the day. I clock my projects in and out and time myself appropriately. I am able to see the projects I need to work on in the future and in the present. I organize my task list according to my due date which makes it 100% simplier to get my work done and helps me stay on track of projects coming my way! I love using Mavenlink to organize myself and plan ahead based on the work that I see on my time line. Additionally, it lets me see how much time I am spending on specific projects on my dashbaord and timesheet. It's an extremly helpful tool that I really could not live without!

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The lack of freedom to modify your dashboard. I appreciate how on the task list you are able to modify you task view. For example, I like to organized based on due date and how many hours I need to compelte a project. Additonally, I am able to see where I am on the overall timeline of the project alloted time. I would like for the dashboard to be a bit more flexible with how I can change and arrange what I see when I first log onto Mavelink. For instance, I would like to see my time and projects specifically on my list.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Completing work assignments is easy and great for organizing workload. The benefits have allowed me to use my time more wisely and efficiently.

  ### 40. Very robust, not very user friendly

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2020

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I like that Kimble provides us a very complex, detailed platform for our business needs. It gives us the capabilities to do proper accounting, tracking, and forecasting for all our portfolios. It has a great set of pre-built reports, but the custom reporting features are where we really get the most use out of the tool. We run a lot of heavy analytics on forecasting and utilisation and this is a great tool for that, as long as we maintain tight and regular governance.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Kimble has never been very user friendly, and still actually continues to be the same. It required a lot of man-hours for our internal admin team to master, and they are continually having to learn and QA test features that don't seem to be fully tested and thought out. Many new features in each upgrade are released with bugs and defects, most of which seem to always be unknown to the Kimble team themselves. There are also some limitations within the system for more complex reporting, and a lot of workarounds need to be created on our side to avoid errors in data representation.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

I think if you have a dedicated in-house administrative team, a large budget, and a lot of time, Kimble PSA can be a really useful tool for an organization. In order for your data to be accurate, you need a team that is highly analytical and has a background in data systems to be able to spot inaccuracies and errors in the data. You also need a team that will be absolutely rigorous and unyielding to regular governance maintenance, as the quality and reliability of the data becomes more stale with each day that engagement-data is not properly managed.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Kimble PSA is definitely the most robust one-stop-shop so far that helps meet our business needs. We needed a platform that helped streamline both our Professional Services and Products business to help us effectively analyse and promote growth.

  ### 41. Good experience with Timesheet Submission

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Vijaya Sankar N. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Excellent and clean User Interface that helps the users to get things clear. Ability to log multiple time entries for the same task and then the cumulative sum displayed is a great plus! The calendar view that summarizes what was logged on that day.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The ability to copy past similar hours from the previous day is missing. There are some tasks like internal meetings that might have the same recurring hours. Adding that feature would be a great plus! Unable to edit right from the Calendar window, it actually redirects to the timesheets every time and then we need to get back to the calendar window again.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

If you are looking for a tool to track your timesheets, review, and see the past logs in a clean and clear User Interface, you can go for Mavenlink! I have also heard that the capacity planning, resource forecasting and project management is also good from the people who have used those. So, go for it.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Timesheet logging, tracking hours, and reviewing the past timesheets.

  ### 42. My time at MavenLink

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Juan Sebastián C. | Front-End Developer Trainee, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

All the tools to distribute time, the way they are presented, and likewise the number of options available to achieve a correct customization of the workspace, as well as the forums and all the spaces to share files and information with coworkers, I like being able to track tasks that I am not assigned to, in order to see the overall progress of the team and to establish better time optimization strategies or at least suggest changes in case something is not working.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The unintuitive way of finding tasks when there are many, likewise, I don't think things are organized clearly and there is a need for a tool that helps to search for tasks or activities in writing, without having to drag the mouse. The timesheets are very cumbersome and I only use them when I already know the task I am going to report, and the forum, although very useful, is rarely used.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Dedicate time to see all the options

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am improving my time management, and I can also see what I and my colleagues are assigned to, so I can better plan what to do and which tasks I won't clash with my colleagues on. I can also keep an accurate record of which tasks take me more time and later review the difficulty points of future tasks. I have also realized which tasks I forget and whose expiration date is approaching, so I can finish them on time.

  ### 43. Mavenlink is a huge organizational help!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Marianna v. | Project Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Mavenlink helps me so much in my job, I have to keep track of a plethora of projects and without Mavenlink I would easily get confused or projects would be forgotten. Mavenlink helps me to be able to do my job to the best of my ability and it is the only organizational tool that I use because it is so well done. I am constantly going to look at my Mavenlink and what I need to do next on my projects.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

It was not the most user friendly platform when I first started working at Qualtrics. I had to have multiple trainings on how to use it and I still really only know the parts that I actively use every day. I honestly do not understand how to use the due dates feature very well.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

I would say that you should talk to someone in your organization who really knows how to use Mavenlink so that they can explain it to you. My mentor at my job is a Mavenlink wiz and really helped me in learning what I now do everyday with Mavenlink.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Like I mentioned above, it helps me organize and keep track of every single one of my projects. A benefit that I have noticed is that it allows me to break each of my projects down into the specific stage it is in, so with a single glance I can know where I am at and what I need to do next.
Another benefit is the time tracking, it is something that my company uses extensively and it is SO easy because I often do a lot of the same things each week and I can just carry over the "work titles" from the previous week instead of logging everything back in again.

  ### 44. Mavenlink Review

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Calvin H. | Technical Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I can enter Timesheets in Mavenlink quickly. I can also quickly track what projects I need to work on and find out how long I have spent on each of these projects and tasks.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

At the start, Mavenlink was a little difficult to get started with. I did not receive any instructions with getting started with Mavenlink and, as a result, started with some confusion with its usage. Being unable to search and assign my own tasks/projects can pose difficulties as well, as I need to wait for senior management to enable me access before I can log hours under the correct project.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

Mavenlink is a fast and efficient tool to improve your company hours management and maximize the efficiency of your organization. With the help of Mavenlink, I am able to understand where I am putting my time, and what processes are taking more or less, and allocate the appropriate resources to each one.  Thanks to Mavenlink I can properly allocate the correct number of hours to each individual customer and their needs, and provide my customers with the proper support and assistance. A definite game changer in resource management.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are using Mavenlink to track timesheets for our company. Using Mavenlink, we can quickly and efficiently share timesheets and team information. Also, using Mavenlink, we can track the amount of work we are putting into each of the projects and their specific tasks and use that information to allocate resources in the future accordingly.

  ### 45. Lots of functionality, and easy to plan projects!

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Riley L. | Project Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Mavenlink allows you to track the utilization of your staff and helps in forecasting upcoming deadlines and projects. It also integrates with the G Suite so accessing files and your calendar is seamless. Great features like Gantt charts and activity feeds allow you to collaborate closely with your clients and display how the project is running. The collaboration that you can have between your clients is priceless, and provides you with a better reputation.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Only allowed one filter view when looking at all your projects which can get annoying when you want to have multiple views. Each project can only be billed at one rate, regardless of which resources are assigned, it would be great if you could bill different tasks, or by different resources.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

If you're looking for a project management tool for your professional services company, Mavenlink is a great tool that allows you to track your projects, employees, providing insights, and integrate with multiple other software.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Gaining better visibility across all of our projects, and can give us a sense of what projects are coming down the pipeline. We've been able to utilize the insights and reporting tools to make strategic decisions that help us be more efficient and effective. It has been able to help us easily follow along with our projects so we can intervene before anything gets out of hand, this has helped us realize many cost savings.

  ### 46. Amazing Time and Expense Tracking for the entire organization

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Onkar P. | Software Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Easy navigation and seamless integration in the application which ensures an effective time and expense tracking mechanism for the organization. The overall design of the website is very intuitive as well as very organized which leads to easy navigation.

Project management made very easy through the application since it ensures the entire aspects of the project are accounted for (budget details, expenses, time and many other factors)

Time tracking made easy with MavenLink. Expense tracking is very much easy with the application as well which leads to better expense tracking for the organization in the most appropriate manner. Expense reports creation is so seamless and easy which leads to preventing any expense leakages.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Nothing which comes to my mind really now. May be the tabs can be modernized better to give an even more pleasing and aesthetic appeal. It would lead to a lot more modern version of Maven link liked by everyone

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

It is an amazing website for easy expense and time tracking in terms of project management

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Time tracking made easy with MavenLink. Expense tracking is very much easy with the application as well which leads to better expense tracking for the organization in the most appropriate manner. Expense reports creation is so seamless and easy which leads to preventing any expense leakages.

Project management made very easy through the application since it ensures the entire aspects of the project are accounted for (budget details, expenses, time and many other factors)

Easy navigation and seamless integration in the application which ensures an effective time and expense tracking mechanism for the organization. The overall design of the website is very intuitive as well as very organized which leads to easy navigation.

  ### 47. Great for detailed allocations and tasks, but project management and forecasting features need work.

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Lauren S. | Sr Program Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The ability to add a large number of tasks, robust permissions and unique rate cards.

I appreciate being able to run a report that actually gets me closer to a realistic project burn if time has been entered and rates are configured correctly. Reminders to enter time would be helpful as well.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The lack of forecasting. While creating a custom report can let you see a rough scale of where things will wind up,  you don't have the ability to adjust allocations to see what adjustments could bring your project back within budget.

I would prefer that project management gantt/project plan tool be disconnected from tasks for time tracking or be connected only optionally. 

I do not use the tool for project plans because I do not want to confuse the team when every single task or milestone appears for time tracking  when every tasks is rarely applicable for the entire team. However, a project plan tool would be helpful to have attached to the same area. 

I also noticed team members can enter expenses toward by projects even when there is no expense budget or approval to use such a feature. These get lost.


I felt the data mapping an import from our legacy tool was poorly completed and re-run several times. This resulted in hours of rework when 70 + person teams have to be re-entered.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

be descriptive in your goals for the tool, as its not cheap to implement so you need to ensure its the right decision for your organization

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

resource allocations and rates are much more robustly used.

Previously our tool (10k feet) was absolutely horrible at showing actual time burned and whether it was over or under the allocations. I like the ability to create robust custom reports

  ### 48. Best time keeping service

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ben G. | QA, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The ease of tracking hours worked is my favorite part. Hours are tracked by the week, and I am able to see how much over the 100% allocation I go over/under. It's also very easy to export hours (once initially figured out).

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Honestly, I can't think of many things I don't like. One perhaps is that it took me a while to figure out how to export my hours, but once I did, it became effortless. The only other complaint I have is that once I submit my hours for the week, they are no longer editable. This makes it tough to correct mistakes that will inevitably be made.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

I don't have any recommendations for others, given my experience with Mavenlink. All I would tell them is that it's an excellent service for tracking time.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The problem of having a space I can easily track my hours worked has been solved. I think one of the main benefits I've realized is that I can see what percentage of hours allocated to my role have been filled throughout the week. I love this because I'm definitely a math guy. By seeing how far along I am in terms of percentage, I can gauge how much more I "need" to work every week. Generally, it's helped me work more because I can set goals of over 100% to hit every week and keep track of my progress using this feature.

  ### 49. Junior Copywriter

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

The timesheets function is my favourite part. The account manager breaks down the project, and I just have to track my time against my deliverables. I can always see how I'm doing for the week as a percentage. The user experience for this is amazing and I love being able to see the split between my billable and non-billable hours. I also enjoy I don't need to create a new line everytime I log work for the same project.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

I wish there was a way to sort tasks according to deadline or have things in My Tasks change colours when they are nearing deadline or over deadline. If there was a way to sort or move tasks so they don't just appear alphabetically that would be great.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

The better you build a project and add details and break down tasks, the more your team will be able to work seamlessly and quickly. For creatives, this saves you having to create all sorts of systems and spreadsheets and I find it way more organized than other CRM tools because it doesn't include a chat function. Also - update details and timelines early and OFTEN! The more you use MVL to its full potential as a platform, the more you reap the rewards.

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Keeping all of my projects and information/details in one place. Keeping track of all of my project deadlines in one place. Easy to spot new projects. Whenever I don't know what to work on, I just scroll through and it reminds me of things I need to follow up on. Plus, checking complete and having the task disappear is useful to prevent overwhelm.

  ### 50. After 7yrs on Kimble I do not know how our company would operate without it.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** James L. | Global Salesforce Application Manager - Group IT, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2019

**What do you like best about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

When it comes to Kimble they always put customer support first. They assign you a support person to manage all of your questions and work with you to make sure the tool is fitting your needs. They constantly improve on how they communicate changes and are building a community of companies to help each other out. They have very informative meetings and have support over multiple timezones to always have someone there working when needed. That is really a benefit for our company as we are also spread through Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

**What do you dislike about Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble)?**

Sometimes the adaption process for new joiners is a little bit difficult but once they get past that learning period they really become more efficient. Kimble is working with us to develop onboarding training as part of their customer library to make this process easier.

**Recommendations to others considering Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble):**

I would recommend Kimble to any company looking for a truly global solution. They have the support staff to adapt to your needs. No matter if you are a large company with an internal support staff such as ours or a smaller company with a dependency on Kimble as in my first company to implement Kimble. I have played almost every role in the user side of Kimble. I went from a standard user to a power user. I was then a country operation manager and then supported multiple countries working with global management. Then I  lead a team of business analysis focusing on how the company is to work on Kimble to now the global application manager. I worked in locations with 25-50 users and now the company with close to 6,000 users. I can truly say the tool can adapt to any role that you have and let you easily focus on what is important. 

**What problems is Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We use it for the whole process from pipeline management in sales, resource management, staffing, delivery, and invoicing. The ability to report on where your business is in a few clicks is very beneficial to our senior management. It makes the system, and our Business, completely transparent allowing the users to know exactly where to focus. This increases the efficiency of the Business and gets all of our locations working in a global role.


## Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) Discussions
  - [Can I invite clients into my project? What does that cost?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/2145-adding-clients-to-projects) - 1 comment, 4 upvotes
  - [What is the best way to make schedules?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/36504-what-is-the-best-way-to-make-schedules) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [can you get email notifications when an invoice is paid on a project?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-you-get-email-notifications-when-an-invoice-is-paid-on-a-project) - 1 comment, 1 upvote
  - [Does Mavenlink have an integration platform?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/does-mavenlink-have-an-integration-platform) - 2 comments, 1 upvote
  - [Why is Mavenlink a leader in more than one G2 Crowd category.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/why-is-mavenlink-a-leader-in-more-than-one-g2-crowd-category) - 1 comment, 1 upvote

- [View Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/kantata-professional-services-automation-formerly-mavenlink-kimble/reviews?page=97&section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+01%3A21%3A17+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=92f267b6-0e08-4a2e-8f27-e1272c6dc1cd&secure%5Btoken%5D=c5adc47d5606bc6ed94f963fdf8aadb596ac1786cf57febe691212a1f90dc9c7&format=llm_user)
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## Kantata Professional Services Automation (formerly Mavenlink+ Kimble) Features
**Tasks**
- Creation & Assignment
- Due Dates
- Task Prioritization
- To-Do Lists
- Dependencies
- Mass Updates
- Drag & Drop
- Recurring Tasks

**Planning**
- Resource Definiton
- Capacity
- Scheduling

**Customer Management**
- Customer Profiles
- Sales
- Marketing
- Client Portal

**Automation**
- Workflows
- Customization
- Data repository

**Projects**
- Planning
- Project Map
- GANTT
- Calendar View
- Views
- Project Budgeting
- Issue Tracking
- Templates
- Critical Path
- Time & Expense
- Methodologies

**Optimization**
- Performance
- Forecasting
- Corrections

**Project Management**
- Project Planning
- Project Tracking
- Resource Definition
- Resource Management

**Administration**
- Permissions
- Procedures
- Remote Work

**Resource Management**
- Resource Definiton
- Capacity
- Scheduling

**Accounting**
- Revenue Recognition
- Invoice Management
- Payments
- Project Accounting
- Budget Tracking

**Project management**
- Task Prioritization
- Dependencies
- Planning
- Views
- Scheduling
- Critical Path
- Dashboards

**Project Monitoring**
- Baselining / KPIs
- Resource Allocation
- Dashboards

**Portfolio Management**
- Portfolio Definition
- Portfolio Performance
- Risk
- Portfolio Mix

**Workload**
- Resource Allocation
- Workspace
- Configuration
- Insights

**Analytics**
- Forecasting
- Reporting
- KPIs

**Communication & Collaboration**
- Communication Channels
- Document Management
- Collaboration

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

**Administration**
- Standard Integrations
- Workflow
- Access Management

**Cost Management**
- Project Budgeting
- Time & Expense
- Profitability

**Agentic AI - Project Management**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Adaptive Learning
- Natural Language Interaction
- Proactive Assistance
- Decision Making

**Platform**
- APIs
- Internationalization
- Performance and Reliability
- Mobile
- Offline Access

**Integration**
- Front Office
- Back Office
- External data

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

**Generative AI**
- AI Text Generation
- AI Text Summarization

**Artificial Intelligence - Professional Services Automation**
- Predictive Forecasting
- Smart task suggestions
- Automated workflows

**Agentic AI - Work Management**
- Autonomous Task Execution
- Multi-step Planning
- Cross-system Integration
- Natural Language Interaction

**Agentic AI - Professional Services Automation**
- Adaptive Learning
- Proactive Assistance

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