The advanced, AI-powered alternative to Kantata
Kantata Cloud for Professional Services™ is a PSA solution offering a suite of tools to support firms throughout an engagement lifecycle. Yet, their inflexible AI options and lack of industry specialization means that professional services firms lack the specialist tools needed to optimize complex resourcing requirements at scale.
Dayshape cuts out the noise and focuses on what really matters to your firm. Unlock profitability and optimize your workforce with real-time engagement economics and seamless integrations with your existing systems.
By transforming and future-proofing your resource management function, you can drive operational efficiencies and improve the experience of your people as your firm grows.
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Optimizing everything that matters to your firm – today and tomorrow
Flexible, AI-powered resource scheduling
Streamline your resource scheduling with a single, intuitive screen that combines a demand planner and resource Gantt, featuring modern drag-and-drop functionality. Dayshape then takes it a step further with advanced AI.
Instead of tackling requests one by one and settling for less than perfect results, our AI engine quickly processes thousands of unallocated jobs. Our AI provides clear visualization of resourcing options to swiftly analyze scheduling options across your firm, eliminate talent supply mismatches and boost your utilization.
Optimize margins with real-time engagement financials
Dayshape’s unique real-time economics show you the impact of resource schedule changes on revenue, while you’re planning your engagements. This leads to informed and profitable scheduling decisions.
Of course, your engagements are too important for guesswork. Compare actuals to budget, and forecast financial performance for your in-flight engagements with real-time revenue projections.
Seamless integrations supported by dedicated professional services experts
Realize the full potential of Dayshape by integrating it seamlessly into your ecosystem. Dayshape smoothly connects to multiple third-party solutions, enabling you to make accurate, strategic decisions with confidence.
Every business is different, which is why we provide professional services experts to give you tailored support to help integrate with complex legacy solutions.
Predict the future with highly configurable reports and intuitive UI
Transform your firm’s data into valuable insights with unique reports and dashboards based on every data point.
Sync with existing systems to enable excellent in-app reporting with options to export, giving you the information you need, when you need it.
Built for your people, to build their careers
Empower your people to own their skills and schedules and give them the autonomy to suggest changes to their schedules.
Customise your skill preferences and increase or decrease their weighting within Dayshape’s suitability scoring, accommodating talent needs and improving resource productivity to strengthen client service.
Complete visibility and transparency
PSA solutions often lack niche process functionality such as audit trail capabilities, which restricts a firm’s ability to trace projects accurately and effectively maintain quality standards.
Dayshape provides full audit trails for every engagement, facilitating further analysis and continuous improvement, all while upholding quality standards like ISQM1.
Dayshape vs Kantata feature comparison
| Dayshape | Kantata |
|---|---|
| Offering | |
| Transparent pricing model provides all features to all customers with no extra licence costs | Not all features are available in both Kantata SX and OX. Some features carry add-on costs |
| Dedicated customer support with extensive professional services industry expertise throughout the implementation process. | Weak managed services support |
| AI-Powered Scheduling | |
| AI-powered, customizable suitability scoring and automated multi-project scheduling co-pilot | Suitability scoring not available in SX and automated allocation not available in OX. |
| Combinatorial optimization AI allocates huge pools of resources across many projects, ensuring firm-wide optimization | Automated allocation limited to smaller volumes of engagements or requests |
| Suitability scoring can include weighted skill preferences, accommodating talent needs whilst also focusing on client outcomes | Suitability scoring does not account for resource preferences |
| Resource Gantt viewer for firm-wide demand and supply visibility, and capacity planning | No resource Gantt viewer |
| Unified resource Gantt and demand planner view show suitability scores and automated suggestions in one place to make decisions swiftly | Automated scheduling sits separately to the Gantt where resources are not displayed |
| Intelligent bulk roll-forward of engagements auto adjusts for weekends and holidays | No roll-forward functionality. Templates are needed to build recurring projects |
| Engagement economics | |
| Live engagement economics calculate project profitability in real-time during planning and compare this year to prior year and 3rd party comparators for accurate budgeting | Budgeting limited by lack of comparison between this year to prior year and 3rd party comparators |
| In-built real-time engagement economics in the same place as the Gantt provide a complete picture of real time and future engagement performance | Actual-budget variance is only available as a report outside of the Gantt, making it harder to make real-time staffing decisions |
| Integrations | |
| Seamless integration with a broad range of 3rd party providers | Integration tool is labour intensive and error-prone |
| Workday packaged solution powerfully integrates PSA, ERP, and HCM systems with Dayshape’s advanced capabilities | Lacks niche and advanced resource management features |
| Controls | |
| Configurable workflow engine for complex and unique approval automation, profitability controls and alerts prevent overruns, write-offs and compliance issues | Limited built-in performance warnings and alerts, and no profitability controls impact engagement control and governance |
| Audit trail to accurately and efficiently track projects and maintain quality standards e.g. ISQM1 | No audit trail functionality |
| Reporting | |
| Highly configurable reports on every data point provide real-time firm-wide visibility to make strategic decisions with confidence | Less configurable reporting and lack of dashboards for real-time economics |
Still unsure whether Dayshape is right for you?
When comparing Professional Services Automation (PSA) software with dedicated resource management software, there are some key differences which impact what your business can gain.
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Need the best of both worlds?
Many of our customers want best-in-class workforce management combined with the niche and advanced features that a dedicated resource management solution can bring. That’s why we have partnered with Workday to provide seamless and powerful integrations between PSA, ERP, and HCM so you can maximize your talent to their full potential.
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