Microsoft Viva Goals (discontinued) vs. Quantive

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Viva Goals (discontinued)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Viva Goals (formerly Ally, or Ally.io) was a Strategic Goal-Planning & Execution Management software. Ally.io became a Microsoft brand after the October 2021 acquisition, and is slated for retirement December 2025.
$48
per year per user
Quantive
Score 7.3 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Quantive helps organizations to achieve their strategic potential. Quantive’s Strategy Execution Platform is based on the OKR management methodology. By embedding strategic context, priorities, and progress into the day-to-day, Quantive aims to help users to create organizations that excel at execution, boasting users among 2,000 global customers across enterprises, not-for-profits, startups, and governments, helping them to accelerate growth and transformational change by creating better…
$0
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Microsoft Viva - Learn Module
$48
per year per user
Microsoft Viva - Insights Module
$48
per year per user
Microsoft Viva - Topics Module
$48
per year per user
Microsoft Viva Suite
$108
per year per user
Essential
$0
per month per user
Scale
$9
per month per user
Enterprise
Upon request
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsEnterprise pricing is available upon request.
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
Microsoft Viva Goals (discontinued)Quantive
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
I believe Ally.io to be one of the best OKR software tools available and it can be deployed easily to small, medium, large enterprises. The tool is easily scalable and its implementation can be deployed without necessarily having a pilot test. I can not find scenarios where it would not be appropriate.
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Gtmhub is great for aligning cross-functional marketing team members on centralized goals. In general, different positions have different tactics to support the same goal and Gtmhub provides really easy visibility into how each person is contributing. OKRs are a relatively straightforward framework but Gtmhub helps make the planning process much more straightforward than a makeshift or manual solution.
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Pros
  • The default state of transparency. This helps in reinforcing the superpower of OKRs. In Ally.io, the default mode of any objective created is public (unless stated otherwise). This helps people across the organization to understand where and how the organization is progressing.
  • The above feature of transparency is also reinforced by the feature of creating dependencies. This allows for people to understand the parties involved in achieving a particular goal and creates accountability. It is clearly understood which party has not contributed enough and RCA can be done on the same.
  • It allows for integrating with a host of other tools such that the check-in process can be automated. This allows for reducing the effort of managers in terms of updating multiple tools.
  • The dashboarding feature has helped us in reducing effort spent in creating presentations for retros, planning, and demos
  • Ally.io's customer success team is among the best that I have worked it. Always ready to help, proactive, and up for the next challenge. They take the success of their customers extremely seriously. Kudos to the team for this attitude.
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  • Aligning to overarching goals
  • Relatively simple to use UI with a great recommendation engine as you are building OKRs
  • A lot of support resources for the product as well as for orgs implementing OKRs for the first time
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Cons
  • Accelerate integrations and add more integrations.
  • Ally.io has room for improvement in providing benchmark in-depth analysis across industries, same-size companies, etc.
  • Ally.io can still improve upon some of its product features and communicating the releases. Videos have been extremely helpful.
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  • Sometimes can lag a bit - not a deal breaker but an opportunity to be a bit more zippy
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Alternatives Considered
Ally was preferred over the alternatives due to the following:
  • Quick turnaround by reps
  • Detailed product demo
  • Ease of use in comparison other tools
  • Clarity in terms of how Ally.io could resolve Crayon's existing issues
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Ease of use, Cost Effective, Continuos evolution of the software
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Return on Investment
  • AI co-pilot makes it easier to be more direct and less "wordy"
  • Teams is a great program and I like how it's seamless and more advanced when you want to convert a file type.
  • Tasks section is great way to keep track of lists that I constantly forget. Now I just use my computer to keep track of my "to-do list"
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  • Better visibility and support across the team
  • Much easier to maintain than a spreadsheet
  • High completion rate of tactics to support goals
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ScreenShots

Quantive Screenshots

Screenshot of Brainstorm OKRsScreenshot of Strategic alignmentScreenshot of Automatic progress measurementScreenshot of performance trackingScreenshot of Progress reports to review organizational strategy