Scoring & Comparison
A recommendation your whole organization can stand behind.
Vendor responses and demo scores compared automatically against your weighted requirements.
The weighted decision matrix
A weighted decision matrix that fills itself in
A weighted decision matrix scores every option against requirements that carry different weights. Most teams build one in a spreadsheet and fill it in by hand. In Olive the matrix is built from your requirements and your vendors' answers, and the weighted scores update as answers and scores arrive. You can set one up in a free account.
“When we were getting vendor responses and demo scoring in Excel, it could take my staff 20 or 30 hours to compile those scores into something useful, put it into graphs, and make it consumable so that it actually fed into a decision instead of just being a pile of numbers.
Now with Olive, for vendor scoring, the vendors enter all the data and Olive displays it automatically, so we don't spend any time on that. For the surveys, we spend a little bit of time pulling them together, maybe five hours.”
Vanessa Dennison, CEO, Owner, Dennison & Associates
Stakeholder scoring
Who fills in the matrix, and how
Every stakeholder scores. Prioritization surveys ask each department to rate only its own requirements. During demos, people score while they watch, so nobody confuses one vendor with another a week later.
“By doing it with the surveys, they're able to actually score while they're watching the demos because it's so clear and easy. For getting actual feedback on that vendor and not confusing it with other vendors, that's huge.”
Vanessa Dennison, CEO, Owner, Dennison & Associates
Fit, not familiarity
Scores tied to your requirements, not the pitch
The demo that impressed the room is not always the product that fits. Scores come from how each vendor meets the requirements you weighted, and Olive takes no money from vendors.
“We thought it was going to be vendor A or B, but it wound up being C. When we started to dig in, we realized the top vendors didn't meet our API needs or have a separate gift card component, but option C did.”
Anthony Mejia, Vice President Information Technology, Zippy's
The recommendation
A recommendation you can take to the people who sign off
The comparison, the scores and the reasons are ready to present. Nobody compiles a deck the night before.
“Compiling the scoring from vendor responses and demos took us so many hours. Olive does it automatically and produces graphs and visuals that we just show our clients. That's it. We don't do anything for that anymore.”
Vanessa Dennison, CEO, Owner, Dennison & Associates
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