Microsoft Viva (Ally.io)

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.

UI/UX can be improved on further--this has been highlighted to them. It is understandable, as they are still growing.

Different filters for view options are missing at this point. As a result, it becomes difficult to get customized reports/views. For example, the tree view of OKRs does not show the entirety of the tree on one page; it keeps breaking to the next page. This has also been highlighted and they are working on a release for the same.

Permissions for making changes at different levels (company, team, and individual) should be worked on to ensure that individuals cannot add goals at the company level.

Ally has a friendly platform that is easy to learn.

Ally.io provides great reports, metrics and dashboards.

Ally excels at customer experience and provide value added benefits.

Ally provides useful resources for OKR champions.

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.