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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

Project Insight is a strategic project and portfolio management software that gives companies a complete picture of the work happening across their entire organization. Streamline workflows, automate processes, enhance collaboration, and capture project data points from all your teams and systems in one central command center so you can make confident decisions about business. Manage work at the project, program or portfolio levels and integrate with the tools you already use, including Azure DevOps, Jira, Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, and HubSpot to eliminate the need to manually key in data across teams. With the most views of any project management platform, teams can keep tabs on assignments, status, risks, resources, capacity, schedules, budgets, and more. Project Insight also offers free view only seats for clients. The power of AI can be used to assign action items after meetings, predict future capacity, balance workloads, & select the right resources. Additional AI-powered features include what if simulations to generate tradeoffs when priorities change and AI-generated project templates (WBS). Whether you are moving from basic spreadsheet project tracking or you have a sophisticated PMO with a complex web of unique business processes, Project Insight has the broad feature set to help you grow as you go. Our onboarding teams are known for being the best in the business and our platform can be fully customized to manage projects and data the way your company needs to.

Project management is as efficient as it gets. Zoho Projects, a cloud-based project management software, helps you plan and track your work efficiently. It also allows you to collaborate with your team from anywhere. To get things done on schedule, plan your project activities, assign work, manage your resources, and collaborate better with your team. Gantt charts can be used to create your project plan and track your tasks. Zoho Projects helps you keep track of your key tasks and their dependencies and shows you any deviations from your planned progress. Reduce time spent on repetitive tasks. Our project management software is easy to use, no matter how complex your process is. It has a drag-and drop interface that makes it easier to create and deploy new automations. The Projects timesheet module allows you to log both billable and unbilled hours. You can record every minute of your hardwork, manually or with timers. Our built-in integration with Zoho Invoice generates invoices.

TimeControl is a timesheet system that can be used for both finance and project management. TimeControl was designed to serve multiple purposes at once. TimeControl tracks time task-bytask and project-byproject. Despite its project-based controls it is still a financial timesheet that meets all the requirements of payroll, human resource, billing, and finance. TimeControl is available for subscription in the cloud and for purchase for an installation on-premise. It includes both a browser interface as well as the TimeControl Mobile App for iOS or Android.

DATABASICS strives to solve the most difficult Time and Expense management problems for large and small enterprises with distributed workforces. We combine two world-class tracking systems into one system, allowing us to address two critical business processes in one solution. Our system integrates seamlessly with any software or program you already use, so it is easy to configure and report. You can have your solution customized to meet your needs in just a month.

The Planfix platform allows organizations to manage their entire business online. Regardless of company size and industry, Planfix has something to offer as an excellent project and work management tool. With Planfix, your company gets a fully customizable management system, from process design to appearance. Planfix’s platform combines task and project management, CRM, sales, marketing, production, logistics, support service, accounting, and HR in one full-featured solution. Data is seamlessly transferred from one team to another - for example, a transaction at the implementation stage becomes a project and then is transferred to support. Planfix is equally well suited for businesses and non-profit organizations, public associations, or any other group of people working towards a common cause. Trusted by 7724 companies, automates business workflows of more than 68 000 users.

Runn is a real-time resource management platform with integrated time tracking and powerful forecasting capabilities. Intuitively plan projects and schedule resources with allocations, project phases, milestones, and time off. Flick between monthly, quarterly and half-yearly views to plan for the short and long term. Get a dynamic bird’s-eye view of your entire organization to manage capacity, workload and availability changes as you create your plans. Runn makes resource management dynamic and visual from a single, shared view. Drill into different roles, teams and tags to compare trends and understand which groups are overbooked. Plan out tentative projects to see how plans might change if work gets confirmed. Track projects, view forecasts, and get relevant metrics within Runn. Get insights like utilization, project variance, and overall financial performance. Use Runn’s built-in timesheets to monitor project progress. Runn integrates with Harvest, WorkflowMax, and Clockify. With the API, build your own integrations to connect Runn with your favorite tools.

Take productivity to new heights with Hubstaff! Hubstaff offers time-tracking apps for your desktop, web browser, or mobile device. Once you start tracking time to a task, Hubstaff will quietly run in the background as you work, consuming virtually no resources. You can easily switch between tasks or stop tracking with just a few clicks. Tracking your team's efficiency can be a challenge, but we've equipped Hubstaff with several great features to help you determine how they perform. Hubstaff works best when you have clear expectations for your team. It helps you determine each team member's average productivity levels to identify improvements or declines in their performance over time. In other words, the more you use Hubstaff, the better the results you'll get. Available for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS & Android.

Float is the #1 rated resource management software that gives 4,500+ teams the essential data and context they need when resourcing client work. Success in professional services isn’t just about assigning work: it’s building the high-performing teams who deliver it. With Float, you can make smarter resourcing decisions and adapt work as it shifts to build a winning team for every job. The world’s top teams don’t just wing it. They resource client work the right way with Float. You should, too. Try for free at float.com.

Breathe’s award-winning HR software helps over 13,000 SMEs to streamline their everyday people-tasks and covers everything from holiday, sickness & document management to expenses, rotas and performance. The software is GDPR-compliant & ISO27001-accredited, offering the highest level of data security. The system is also 100% cloud-based, making it easy to access from anywhere.  Breathe have been part of the ELMO Software group since 2020.