ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management vs. Kantata

Maximize the effectiveness of your initiatives while hastening the pace of transformation across the organization. Develop a strategic plan that prioritizes and tracks activities in alignment with the broader business objectives. Cultivate organizational agility to drive better business outcomes by managing results that create value effectively. Gain insights into investment portfolios and business strategies to bolster performance. Regularly assess progress in real time to achieve a clear understanding of financial outlays and the value derived from ongoing initiatives. Stay ready to adjust planning in light of uncertainties that may arise. Connect your investment strategy with actionable work plans to enhance your organization’s responsiveness. Ensure transparency in project outcomes, assess critical investments, and continuously refine strategies as circumstances evolve. Improve processes to elevate the speed and efficiency of deliveries. Centralize the management of strategic and operational activities to remove bottlenecks and accelerate time-to-market. Additionally, enhance agility by optimizing and reallocating resources in response to shifting business priorities, ensuring your organization remains flexible and quick to respond. By implementing these strategies, you are setting your company up for success in an ever-evolving business landscape, ultimately fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

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.