Certinia Wins Best SaaS Solution for Project Management in the 2026 SaaS Awards

Amanda Ulery

August 12 6 Minute Read

Summary

Certinia PS Cloud won Best SaaS Solution for Project Management in the 2026 SaaS Awards, judged independently against SaaS providers worldwide.
The win reflects the differentiated value of Certinia’s single-record architecture, which brings together sales, services delivery, financial management and customer success within a single platform. This allows organizations to manage the complete project lifecycle more effectively.
Veda, Certinia's AI System of Action for services operations and delivery, gives humans and agents access to real project and financial context that generic AI tools don't have — allowing them to act with certainty.

Every experienced project manager knows the painful ritual: chase the consultant for a status update, chase finance for the real numbers, chase a spreadsheet that was already out of date by the time someone opened it.

This year, The SaaS Awards judges gave their top project management honor to the solution built to end that ritual for services organizations: Certinia Professional Services (PS) Cloud.

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What the Judges Rewarded

The judging criteria asked a direct question: does the SaaS product solve a real business problem at scale? For services organizations, the problem has always been the same. Sales makes a commitment. Delivery has to keep it. Finance has to account for it. Too often, those three functions are working from three different versions of the truth and leveraging different siloed tools and technologies.

PS Cloud gets everyone back on the same page, anchored around a single customer record. A change in scope, staffing, or budget shows up everywhere it matters, the moment it happens. The status update stops being something a project manager hunts down and becomes something the system already knows - with the context that allows for faster, more effective action.

AI That Doesn't Have to Guess

That single record architecture philosophy is also what makes Veda possible — Certinia's AI System of Action for services operations and delivery.

Veda combines purpose-built agents and intelligent actions grounded in decades of institutional knowledge to shift services organizations from reactive workflows to autonomous operations. It’s built natively inside the Certinia platform, so it inherits the same project, resource, and financial context PS Cloud already holds.

A generic AI copilot can summarize a status update, because summarizing text is what generic models are good at. But understanding whether a project's margin is drifting requires the underlying financial and resource data, and that's what most AI tools never have access to.

Veda has it by design. The Staffing Agent draws on live resource and financial data to find a qualified replacement in minutes. The Project Assistant Agent surfaces a missing time card or a milestone approaching risk while there's still time to fix it.The result? A win-win for both the project manager and the team members, consultants, delivery leaders that need to act.

Pro Tips

Before adding another project management or AI tool to your stack, check whether it can see your project's financial and resource data. If it can't, it's summarizing guesses, not managing risk. Veda was built inside PS Cloud specifically to close that gap.
Count how many systems a single staffing change touches today. If the answer is more than one, that's the fragmented architecture PS Cloud's unified record was built to eliminate.

The Numbers Behind the Win

Certinia powers services operations for roughly 1,400 organizations worldwide, with net retention above 105% and the highest NPS in company history achieved in our most recent complete fiscal year.

Over two million users across the spectrum of professional services are putting that platform to work every day. PwC uses PS Cloud to standardize resource management across a 370,000-person talent pool, coordinating more than 100,000 professionals from a single source of truth. Databricks has automated project workflows and gained 24/7 real-time visibility across global services delivery, resulting in a 10x increase in project tracking efficiency. Salesforce has integrated 10 companies onto PS Cloud, added 7,000 users, and pushed $2.5B through the platform while holding revenue forecasts to within 1% variance.

From System of Record to System of Action

Our PS Cloud solution sits inside Certinia's system of record, alongside Customer Success (CS) Cloud and Financial Management (FM) Cloud, the operational foundation that holds a services business's project, customer, and financial truth. Veda is what turns that record into action: the AI layer built to read across all three and move work forward instead of just tracking it.

That layer is about to get wider. Veda, and PS Cloud with it, are expanding to cover the full services lifecycle, connecting operations and delivery into one continuous motion.. (To that end, stay tuned for some exciting news from Certinia in the coming weeks!) This award is a marker on that path, set by judges evaluating what a modern services business critically needs to succeed in the next generation services economy. It’s also the second award Certinia has earned for best Project Management software this year.

Learn more about the 2026 SaaS Awards here. Then see what the judges saw: book a demo and put PS Cloud against your own projects!

Frequently Asked Questions

Veda is Certinia's AI system of action for services operations and delivery. It combines purpose-built agents and intelligent actions grounded in decades of institutional knowledge to shift services organizations from reactive workflows to autonomous operations.With Veda, organizations convert scattered data and manual busywork into real-time, actionable outcomes.