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Olive is an AI-powered software sourcing platform designed to streamline the RFP creation process, enabling organizations to create and manage RFPs in minutes. Our platform helps IT leaders, consultants, and procurement teams make faster, smarter decisions with less effort. With Olive, businesses can: -Create RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs efficiently through AI automation. -Compare vendors, manage requirements, and conduct due diligence within a single, collaborative workspace. -Reduce reliance on third-party services, leading to significant cost savings and greater independence in the procurement process. -By leveraging AI for requirements management, vendor comparisons, and decision-making, Olive drives better technology investments and more successful digital transformations.

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Olive Technologies

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Olive Community

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

The first cloud-based technology evaluation platform created for teams to collaborate on and streamline digital transformation, Olive takes the best practices of digital transformation, shortens the process, and puts it all in one platform allowing you to make better decisions, faster.

Overview by

Aine McDonnell (Marketing and Brand Manager at Olive)

Olive Media

Olive Demo - Managing Multiple RFPs- Managing & sourcing multiple technology solutions

Manage all your technology evaluation projects in one place. Olive's Project Dashboard allows you to see everything in one place.

Olive Demo - Sample ERP Evaluation - Vendor responses to requirements

See at a glance which requirements are met and which need more work. Chat allows you to ask clarifying questions to vendor and get all the info you need to make the right decision.

Olive Demo - Sample ERP Evaluation - Gathering and ranking detailed project requirements

Share out your project criteria in simple to use Olive surveys. Gather and rank detailed project requirements. This collaboration and automations helps you quickly come to a consensus on what is truly important to the business.

Olive Demo - Sample ERP Evaluation - Project discovery and Olive surveys

Survey stakeholders through Olive surveys to discover what is most important and impactful to the business. Olive surveys let you gather insights to inform discovery and Digital Transformation strategy. The ease of collaboration ensures everyones voice is heard, which will help with buy-in and hi...

Olive Demo - Sample ERP Evaluation - Compare vendors to project requirements

While your stakeholders are gathering and ranking requirements you can invite vendors to the project, and begin to see how they compare to project criteria.

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Hemant R.

Architect Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/18/2025

"Ease of use"

5/5

What do you like best about Olive?

All in one place.

Ease of use.

Implementation is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

A lot of feature and also it would be really great if it can be customized on the company use basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/25/2024

"Olive portal review"

3/5

What do you like best about Olive?

I liked the UI of Olive. It was much easier to use than other RFI/RFP portals in the past. For example, at the same time I was using the Olive portal for Ulteig, I was also using the Ariba sourcing portal for another customer.

Ariba was finicky, glitchy, and no user friendly. It was very hard to find where you should add comments for answers. None of these issues were present in Olive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

I felt at times it did not save progress from multiple users. I think it would be great to have a "live" document view for multiple users similar to Google Docs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consulting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/9/2024

"Olive RFP Management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Olive?

Great data handling tool for large and small RFPs alike...never want to return to the days of Excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

Not always as fast as I'd like and not overly intuitive, but with practice, easy enough to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/25/2024

"Used as a seller, to communicate with buyers on their RFP"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Olive?

The things I liked best about Olive were its ability to break down RFP requirements, in an easy to read and clean view. It was also easy to respond to each individual requirement, in a way that wouldn't confuse the buyer. It's also very easy to collaborate with my team. For example, during RFPs, my SEs helped me complete the RFPs in Olive - this was easily done by sending them a request to join, and we could all work in Olive without disrupting each other's work. I also like that Olive continues to keep insightsoftware in mind, and reach out to us about RFPs we might be a good fit for! Customer support from my rep was also great, he was on top of everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

The calendar section with the key dates outlining the buyer's process was really helpful, but it seemed that timeline feature went away with a recent update. The messaging/communication area with the buyer also got more confusing with the recent update. Prior, each question had it's own 'answer field' where you could easily see the buyer's response to that question. Now, the questions are all in one big thread and it's hard to track answers and questions, and I think leads to the buyer's not seeing and/or answering all our questions. I think it would be better if there was a higher frequency of use, but that's not the case currently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kevin M.

Solutions Engineer Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/26/2024

"Not a great user experience"

2/5

What do you like best about Olive?

Provides a centralized repository for multiple Vendors to respond to a Customer RFP, but does not appear to provide much more functionality than a shared document/spreadsheet for significantly more cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

The user interface for Vendors is not especially intuitive or responsive, and it's not immediately clear what work is being performed by other users in real-time. The Customer can share/communicate a Timeline for deliverables, but there does not appear to be a notification feature to remind Vendors of upcoming deadlines. While there might be better comparison/analysis features for the Customers/Consultants, I'd much rather use a Shared Document like a Google Doc/Sheet or O365 Word/Excel document as a Vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/30/2023

"Olive facilitated a (mostly) smooth vendor select process"

4/5

What do you like best about Olive?

Olive really did help us to run a smooth vendor selection process for a new software to support our essential business processes. Vendors could respond clearly to our core requirements, and the selection team could rate each response individually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

Olive sometimes felt like a start-up beta product for which we were paying top dollar. We found many bugs in the system, and while the team was responsive, it wasn't as developed a product as we would have hoped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aine McDonnell of Olive

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We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the bugs you encountered in the system. We appreciate your feedback and are continuously working to improve Olive to provide a more polished and reliable experience.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/31/2022

"Olive has saved us so much on consultants"

5/5

What do you like best about Olive?

Olive takes the most repetitive and tedious parts of vendor selection and automates them. It is not a panacea, but it does drastically reduce the workload of someone comparing and interacting with vendors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

Honestly, there isn't anything I can think of. The team has been incredibly responsive to feedback and has fixed any issues we've brought forward. Good team to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aine McDonnell of Olive

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We like working with you too anon, thanks for your review and feedback!

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Azmina R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/11/2023

"Easy to use interface, functionality still limited though"

4/5

What do you like best about Olive?

You can create projects for different surveys/analysis you need to do. The overall interface is easy to understand and you can collaborate with others outside your organisation with no hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

We were unable to use our company domain to send/receive email from Olive to our clients instead of having to use the Olive email domain. We want to keep all our messaging on brand, but unfortunately Olive does not allow the emails triggered from it to be customised to align branding to your own company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aine McDonnell of Olive

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We appreciate your feedback and are pleased to hear that Olive has been helpful for your survey and analysis projects. We understand your concern about customizing email domains and will take this into account for future enhancements.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/23/2023

"Olive for requirements gathering"

5/5

What do you like best about Olive?

We use olive to help with requirements gathering in RFPs. We are able to list all of our requirements for a system and have vendors respond through the system. We used to do this in excel and it was a lot more labor intensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

Olive could be better with their user management. We usually have an admin over an account that can maintain the system and administer it for us and we have users that can freely work. Their "stakeholder" can only make minor changes to projects inside of the system, so we have to have multiple admin accounts. I believe they are working on this model and will make changes in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?

During our requirements gathering phases, we have used Excel in the past to send to a vendor to fill out. After all vendors have filled out their requirements, we could then combine them. We no longer need to do that. We can provide access to the requirements project in Olive and let all of the combined work happen at once. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bran J.

Senior Consultant / Analyst - Selections

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/24/2024

"Excellent for Self Service RFP Preparations"

4/5

What do you like best about Olive?

The Product is easy to use, and the support from the Olive team in exceptional. The feature list is very detailed and fully suits the expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Olive?

The customisation options were a bit lilited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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