Mavenlink (Kantata) vs OpenAir vs Parallax: Which is Right for You?
See why digital services companies are choosing Parallax over Mavenlink and OpenAir to give their teams accurate, real-time insights and forecasts that accelerate their growth,...
Focal Point: Insights from the Parallax Blog
Discover the best practices for sales pricing, project accounting and resource management needed to evolve your digital agency.
Productized Services: How Custom Digital Services Firms Can Adopt Them
Many custom digital services firms are looking for a simplified way to experience higher margins and obtain predictable, repeatable work. The answer lies in productized...
Parallax Introduces New Features to Enhance Personalization, Optimize Usability
Working in the services industry means dealing with fast-paced everything. People are often tasked with finding and sharing information with both colleagues and clients at...
Stay Profitable and Innovative: Use the Three Horizon Framework to Forecast Growth
Stay profitable and relevant today, with an eye on the trend-setting work of tomorrow. Learn how with McKinsey's 'Three Horizon's of Growth' Framework.
The Power of OKRs for Professional Services Companies
Objectives and Key Results, what most people call “OKRs,” is more than a buzzy acronym used across the tech community. This article explains the power...
How To Strive For 100% Productive Utilization: Complete Guide
This article discusses how digital services companies and tech consultancies can achieve a 100% productive utilization rate by pairing their billable utilization targets of 75-85%...
5 Best Mavenlink (Kantata) Alternatives And Competitors To Consider
Nearly all decisions that leaders of digital service companies make rely on accurate insights and forecasts — but to gather those insights and create those...
Uncomplicating the Complicated: What Utilization (Really) Is and How to Calculate It
Utilization and capacity planning can feel like an impossible equation to solve. But while it’s complex in nature, it can be simplified by focusing on the metrics that matter most.
Modern Work is Changing: Parallax’s Takeaways on Billing the Creative Process, Timesheets, and “Hustle Culture”
One of the main reasons agencies and development studios struggle to break the cycle of too much or too little work is because they haven’t considered how poor resource planning leads to confusion, stress, and burnout. Without mastering forecasting basics, this cycle will continue.