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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

Canopy, a cloud-based practice management system for accountants, is available. Our suite of features allows you to streamline your firm and connect with clients. It includes workflow, document management and billing, payments, a robust CRM, secure client portal, and tools that automate any post-filing issues such as IRS notices.

eMembership is a cloud union management platform from Winmill Software, designed from the ground up for labor unions rather than adapted from a generic CRM. Its data model reflects how unions actually work: members tied to employers, contracts, and dues classifications, with remittance arriving from multiple employers at once. Winmill owns and operates the physical infrastructure behind eMembership instead of renting capacity from a public cloud provider. The equipment sits in a colocation facility that holds SOC 1 and SOC 2 audit reports and ISO 27001 certification, and Winmill maintains HIPAA Security Rule and PCI DSS compliance for the eMembership environment. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Unions connect eMembership to the tools they already use through an open REST API and prebuilt integrations with QuickBooks, Great Plains, Mailchimp, SendGrid, Twilio, Stripe, PayPal, DocuSign, and others. Staff work in a web application, while members use a native iOS and Android app or a web portal that reads and writes the same database in real time. Functionality is split into 18 modules, so a union licenses only what it needs and adds more later. Two releases ship each year as part of the subscription. Pricing is set by module, never by seat or member count. Winmill has been building software since 1994 and launched eMembership in 2008. Today, 55+ labor unions across North America rely on it.

Planview ProjectAdvantage brings clarity, control, and scalability to enterprise project management by unifying project data, resources, and performance insights in one platform. Built for growing PMOs and complex organizations, it eliminates silos and inefficiencies by connecting teams through a single source of truth. Users can monitor resource allocation, track workloads, and forecast capacity with precision using dynamic dashboards. ProjectAdvantage’s portfolio scoring tools and sandbox environments make it easy to prioritize initiatives and align them with company strategy. Its flexibility supports any methodology—Agile, hybrid, or Waterfall—making it ideal for diverse industries and workflows. Seamless integrations with leading enterprise systems like Jira, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Teams enable cross-functional collaboration and real-time visibility. Backed by AI-driven analytics, Planview Projectadvantage helps accelerate project delivery, improve performance tracking, and ensure continuous strategic alignment. Designed for agility, it’s a transformative solution that turns project chaos into structured, measurable success.

Mentornity is mentoring and coaching program software for organizations that run structured programs and need to show what came of them. It covers the full cycle. Participants enrol and are matched by an algorithm that scores every possible pair against weighted criteria the program defines, discarding pairs that fail a mandatory rule; administrators approve suggestions individually or in bulk, assign by hand, or open a mentor pool and let participants choose. Mentors publish availability, mentees book within it, sessions sync to Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, and reminders go out automatically before and after each meeting. Measurement runs alongside rather than after. Surveys and forms can be scheduled at any point in a cycle, and a program health score tracks participation, meeting frequency and completion against each program's own targets, flagging programs that drift before the cycle ends. Certificates are issued automatically on completion. Each program runs under its own branding on its own domain, with role-based access and six interface languages. Free for up to 10 users with no expiry and every feature enabled; paid plans start at $289 per month and scale by participant count. Running mentoring programs since 2015.

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.

Planview AdaptiveWork, previously known as Clarizen, empowers PMOs and professional services teams of various sizes to achieve instant visibility across their operations, streamline workflows, proactively address potential risks, and enhance overall business outcomes. By aligning with the company’s strategic objectives, organizations can maximize workforce effectiveness, ensuring that teams concentrate on delivering the most critical tasks timely. It facilitates the tracking, management, and prioritization of work requests, guaranteeing that each request automatically encompasses all necessary information for execution. With bi-directional integration with your CRM and custom triggers in place, opportunity details can be effortlessly captured to aid in planning client projects. The platform automates and governs the various phases of the request lifecycle, including submission, scoring, prioritization, routing, and approval, thereby streamlining the pathway for converting requests into actionable projects, tasks, or work items. This comprehensive approach not only boosts efficiency but also fosters a culture of accountability and transparency within the organization.

Most finance teams run two systems: one for lease accounting, one for treasury, reconciled by hand. ZenTreasury runs both as one governed subledger, because the ERP that posts the journal entry does not know the contract behind it. ZenTreasury does. Add a lease and the platform generates the full schedule automatically: right of use asset, lease liability, depreciation, interest, and balance carry forward, all following the standard from the moment the lease is saved. Index-linked remeasurement is handled automatically, with index rates, base values, and next indexation dates tracked per contract. Every later change, such as a scope change, term extension, rate revision, or partial termination, recalculates the schedule and logs it with a timestamp and user, so auditors get the before and after picture without asking. On the treasury side: centralised FX position management across forwards, swaps, and cross currency instruments with mark-to-market valuations; internal and external loan tracking with valuation against yield curves and automated interest accrual; trade finance and guarantee monitoring with fee and exposure tracking; and group wide cash flow forecasting with scenario modelling, all multi entity and multi currency. Direct bank connectivity included. One platform, accounting included, priced to the scope you run. Every customer gets a dedicated, isolated database. Lease calculations are independently reviewed by an international audit firm. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client directly to your contract data.

Compliance work eats engineering time. Hyperproof exists to give that time back by automating the parts of GRC that don't need a human: pulling evidence out of GitHub, Jira, ServiceNow, Snyk, and cloud storage on a schedule, running recurring tests against high-frequency controls, and kicking off a task automatically the moment something fails instead of waiting for the next audit cycle to find out. Under the hood, Hyperproof maps one control to 160+ frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, NIST, and others), so a control tested once can satisfy several standards instead of forcing teams to rebuild the same work per framework. AI agents handle the first pass on evidence review and gap-flagging, leaving humans to make the actual judgment calls rather than hunting down documentation. Teams using it report cutting audit prep by roughly 350 hours a year, a 66% drop in duplicate controls, and about $150K saved annually on control orchestration. It also scales to messier org charts, with the ability to scope controls by business unit or entity instead of flattening everything into one program. Built in 2018 out of the Seattle area, Hyperproof is used by engineering and security-heavy orgs like Reddit, Fortinet, Appian, and Outreach that are tired of treating compliance as a manual, spreadsheet and email process and want it to run more like the rest of their infrastructure: automated, monitored, and auditable.

InEight is integrated project controls software for capital construction, built as a modular platform where cost, schedule, contracts, and project information share one connected foundation. Organizations implement flexibly and scale from a single complex project to a billion-dollar capital portfolio. Purpose-built applications cover every project phase, and because the products are connected, field data updates budgets, forecasts, and schedules in real time, so every team works from the same numbers. Advanced analytics turn live project data into smarter decisions. Customers in 60+ countries run more than $1 trillion in projects on the platform, across industries including mining, nuclear, power and renewables, transportation, water, and oil, gas, and chemical. Teams use InEight to standardize best practices, manage budgets and forecasts, control scope changes, and modernize how capital projects get delivered.