Velrada Accelerates Business Growth Through Accurate Forecasting and Increased Clarity With Kantata

According to Rob Evans, CEO at Velrada, “It is extremely difficult for a rapidly growing company to understand and manage all the changes that are happening at the same time. You can easily lose control over the business if you don’t have the proper tools to manage long-term projects.”

Rob says, “Kantata provides the consistency that spreadsheets can’t enforce and it creates better behaviors in the organization. It’s a user-friendly application that our managers feel comfortable with. Furthermore, with regard to functionality, Kantata offers one of the best services on the market. We’ve tried several other products but for time management and forecasting, Kantata is by far superior.”

Kantata was chosen to provide a smart solution able to supply accurate forecasting and implement efficient behaviors and management style. According to Rob, “Kantata contains best practice and reporting which is important. Often you have people in the team who want to invent their own methods, but Kantata is best practice and works so there is no debate.”

With Kantata, the business has grown in a healthy, controlled manner. Understanding every process, the impact on the business, and the sectors that needed improvement helped Velrada to improve its day-to-day efficiency and generate revenues at a faster pace. “By allowing our management team to oversee and manage scheduling, costs and forecasting, Kantata enables us to grow at a healthy rate. Having a scalable application that grows as we grow is really helping our business outcomes,” explains Rob.

Kantata has improved utilization rates as it gives a clear view of each project’s elements and the rate of utilization of its consultants at all times. Rob shares, “For a professional services company the opportunity to sell a billable day can never be recovered, once it’s gone it’s gone. Kantata helps instill the mentality that you’re billing time throughout the organization, rather than just the management and finance teams being conscious of the impact of a lost day.”

Being able to access and control specific data enabled Velrada to become more agile and flexible, which translated into better quality projects and a valuable competitive edge that facilitated winning new complex projects. According to Rob, “Kantata offers one of the best experiences in terms of customer service and the app has been created by people who understand our business and the subtleties involved in management consultancy. They also have very good training modules that enabled our people to get control over the application and get comfortable with it in a very short time.“