Compare Polaris PSA vs. Synergist

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

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.

SuperOps is the AI-native unified platform for modern MSPs and internal IT teams. It replaces the typical four-to-six-tool IT operations stack - PSA, RMM, helpdesk, MDM, asset tracking, network monitoring, patch management and IT documentation - with a single, built-as-one platform on a shared data layer. That architectural choice is what makes the rest of the platform work, particularly its agentic AI. Monica AI, SuperOps' intelligence layer, was designed alongside the platform from day one. It triages tickets, surfaces patch and CVE risks, drafts worklogs, suggests knowledge base articles, and increasingly handles fully autonomous workflows for routine work. SuperOps supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, iPadOS and Android, integrates with the IT and MSP ecosystem (Slack, Teams, Azure AD, Okta, QuickBooks, Xero, Bitdefender, SentinelOne and more), and bundles Splashtop and ISL Online remote access free. Transparent pricing, fast deployment, founder-led product investment.

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.

Project Insight helps organizations connect project data across teams and systems to make better decisions about their business. As a strategic project and portfolio management platform, it brings together resource and capacity planning, financial management, project requests, execution, governance, and portfolio performance. The result is a connected project data backbone that gives PMOs and executives visibility into organization-wide work and supports trustworthy reporting, forecasting, and AI analysis. Teams can continue using familiar tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and HubSpot while Project Insight brings their project information into one central command center, reducing manual data entry and disconnected reporting. Manage projects, programs, and portfolios using flexible workflows, intelligent scheduling, Gantt charts, Kanban boards, time tracking, budget management, and customizable dashboards. Leaders can monitor workloads, project health, costs, and strategic priorities without chasing information across departments. AI-powered features help create project plans, turn meeting discussions into action items, recommend resources, forecast capacity, and evaluate what-if scenarios. From growing teams outgrowing spreadsheets to established PMOs with complex business processes, Project Insight adapts to the way organizations work through configurable processes, dedicated onboarding support, and free view-only access for clients and stakeholders.

Wrike is a powerful work management platform that gives cross-functional teams full visibility into complex projects. Our cloud-based collaboration software software is trusted by 20,000+ leading companies around the world, including tech giants such as Fitbit and Siemens. Wrike boasts a wide range of award-winning features, including dynamic request forms, automated workflows, cross-tagging, custom item types, and 400+ app integrations. Work smarter with Work Intelligence™: our advanced communication software that offers voice commands, smart replies, and document processing. We also offer tailor-made templates to help teams kick-start Agile projects and tick every box for compliance. As well as 99.9% uptime, our enterprise-grade security offers single sign-on, role-based access control, and continuous data backup. For extra peace of mind, you can use the Wrike Lock add-on and gain full ownership of your master encryption key. Wrike has been proven to make organizational processes 40% more efficient, eliminating time-consuming admin work and reducing costs across the board. Discover how it can benefit your team — start your free two-week trial today.

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.

Resource Guru makes it easy to schedule people, equipment, or other resources online. Resource Guru is designed to replace cumbersome, outdated scheduling spreadsheets. It helps managers get organized quickly. The platform includes reporting, resource planning, resource scheduling and resource management. Resource Guru costs as low as $4.16 per month.

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.

Striven is comprehensive business management software that reduces your expenses, enhances your workflows, and simplifies daily operations. Keep your company's information unified, integrated, and actionable. With more than 20 years of experience in Software Services, we've partnered with over 8,600 organizations across numerous industries to help them create operations that are more protected, streamlined, and beneficial to their clients. Our mission has always centered on helping people achieve more. Today, that mission drives everything in our software. We provide clear, uncomplicated pricing options and a guarantee you won't find anywhere else. You can begin using it today without spending a dime. None of our plans include trials, time limits, or binding contracts.