--- title: Olive Reviews meta_title: 'Olive Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 57 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Olive works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 57 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Procurement url: https://www.g2.com/categories/procurement --- # Olive Reviews **Vendor:** Olive Technologies **Category:** [RFP Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/rfp) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 57 ## About Olive 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. ## Olive Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value Olive's **ease of use** , praising its intuitive interface that streamlines workflows and reduces stress. (2 reviews) - Users praise Olive for its **automation** that streamlines repetitive tasks, significantly enhancing workflow and reducing errors. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **clear and intuitive interface** of Olive, which simplifies workflow and reduces stress in task management. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **ease of implementation** with Olive, making it accessible for everyone to set up. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate Olive's **efficiency in automating tasks** , significantly streamlining workflows and reducing errors for a stress-free experience. (1 reviews) - Helpful (1 reviews) - Users praise the **implementation ease** of Olive, making it straightforward to integrate into their workflows. (1 reviews) - Intuitive (1 reviews) - Process Automation (1 reviews) - Time-saving (1 reviews) ## Olive Reviews ### 1. Transforms Healthcare Admin with Seamless Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nadia G. | Customer Service Representative, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Olive?** I really appreciate Olive's ability to automate repetitive tasks at work. Before using Olive, I would spend countless hours calling insurance providers or navigating through confusing paperwork. Now, everything is organized in one place, which has significantly streamlined my workflow. The interface is not only clean and intuitive but also stress-free, making managing my work much less of a headache. These improvements have freed up valuable staff time and reduced errors, which is a tremendous relief. **What do you dislike about Olive?** I have yet to run into anything I disliked **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Olive to automate repetitive tasks in healthcare systems, which reduces manual administrative work, freeing up staff time and reducing errors. ### 2. Ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hemant R. | Architect Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Olive?** All in one place. Ease of use. Implementation is easy. **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. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing business requirements at one place. ### 3. Olive RFP Management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2024 **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. **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. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Olive to manage all aspects of the RFP process. Assisting our clients in reviewing large amounts of data in an easy, manageable platform. Love that it stores old projects and vendor responses to make response times faster and more efficient. ### 4. Used as a seller, to communicate with buyers on their RFP **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2024 **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. **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. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive is helping me solve the problem of tracking RFP questions/answers and presenting it to buyer's in a clean, organized way. It's helped me and my SE team easily respond to RFPs, track what questions we have and have not answered, and track the status of the RFPs. ### 5. Olive has saved us so much on consultants **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2022 **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. **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. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive has facilitated consensus when selecting a vendor/product in a group. It makes the process open and transparent, and has made selection committee members happier with the selection process **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > We like working with you too anon, thanks for your review and feedback! ### 6. Olive for requirements gathering **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **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. **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. **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. ### 7. Ease of Use and Functionality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dax K U. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Olive?** Ease of use, Olive was simple to navigate and making sure that they took the time to help me understand managing the tool. **What do you dislike about Olive?** A lot of the questions felt form filled, I didn't feel that I got a true scope of work for the client. It got 90% of the way there though. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing me to fill out RFPs ### 8. I wish every org used Olive! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shelle P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Olive?** It was the most well organized, intuitive platform I have ever used for an RFP and I have been doing this for 15 years. **What do you dislike about Olive?** What I dislike is that I wish more customers were using your solution. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** It drives effeciencies for both the customer and the submitter of the RFP response. ### 9. A whole vendor selection team at your service, that comes with a great platform. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Corban W. | Director of Product Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** I love the assistance the Olive team provides. We leverage them every chance we get. They take on some of the least desirable tasks, like informing candidates their tech was not selected or isn't moving to the following evaluation phase. They also reach out anonymously to ALLLL potential vendors in the space, ensuring our selection process is comprehensive and thorough. **What do you dislike about Olive?** I have very few complaints about Olive. The only thing that comes to mind is the platform is still a little immature. There are a few common features that are difficult to find/use. Other than that, I have no complaints. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** It finds all the potential vendors for a particular business need. This makes our vendor selection process far more thorough than we have had in the past. Additionally, they dramatically reduce the communications between my team and all these vendors. We only engage with those who make the shortlist. This prevents a lot of emails and distractions. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > We're thrilled to hear that you leverage our team's assistance and find value in our thorough vendor selection process. We take your feedback about the platform's usability into consideration. You may have recently noticed some improvements and we plan to make more in the future! ### 10. Smooth Experience for all Parties **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** I like how easy it was to find and add different vendors for our project that were already loaded in Olive. It was also very helpful to have a selection of RFI "Requirements" (features and functionality in our case) in the system to choose from. These Requirements were specific to the product we were sourcing, meaning the Requirements were relevant and shed light on some considerations that were otherwise not on our radar. The vendors provided feedback that Olive was the most user-friendly RFI process they've ever encountered. Simply send a link, vendors create an account, answer the Requirements fields, and then compare the responses from each vendor. The scoring and weighting were great, although I learned some lessons from the first round of usage to improve the outcome for the next round. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Some vendors struggled to access the RFI when clicking the link provided to them. However, our rep was always quick to assist them, and it wasn't a huge deal. It would be nice to have a single video demonstrating everything A-Z from setup through comparison to better understand the bigger picture and flow before diving in. Having more guidance or examples around setting up the weighting and scoring would also be helpful. I'd also like to be able to customize reporting options. For instance, it'd be nice to be able to download, email and/or print the completed Requirements lists of a couple/few vendor responses in one document to summarize the differences between top contendors. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive helped us narrow down our tech options more effiently than if we were to do so in a more manual fashion with Excel. It also enabled greater transparency and collaboration between our project teams and vendors. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > We're glad to hear that you found Olive easy to use and that it helped streamline your vendor selection process. We appreciate your feedback about the struggles some vendors faced and will work on providing more comprehensive guidance and support resources. Thank you for sharing your experience! ### 11. Awesome tool to simplify complicated submission processes. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Olive?** How simple the tool is to use. It makes my job easier. **What do you dislike about Olive?** For my use case there is nothing to dislike about Olive. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having the ability to add textual information into their system and to have it reformett and structure my responses into the RFP format is huge. ### 12. Best tool for stakeholder and vendor collaboration in selecting technology solutions. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive AI really helps get things started if you don't know where to begin, especially for stakeholders looking to figure out their own requirements. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Would like more discovery and post-selection automation. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speeding up the process of souring enterprise technologies and having that audit trail to support decisions. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks so much for your review and feedback! ### 13. ERP selection for complex business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive provides an all-in-one-place, easily shareable, collaborative environment to support software selection through requirements definition and evaluation of alternative solutions. **What do you dislike about Olive?** The small shortcomings I identified early in my use have mostly been addressed by the responsive customer success team and developers. I would like to see them continue to expand the knowledge base. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive provides a collaborative environment so that all 18 members of the project team, as well as candidate vendors, have access to the same information. A less obvious benefit to the single shared environment is that team members from various business functional areas can see each other's requirements and identify opportunities to enhance their own in a complimentary way. ### 14. Olive brings together all aspects of facilitating an RFP in an easy and efficient manner. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** I like that all parties involved in the RFP process has only one location to access. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Periodically the software takes a while to load when going from page to page or doesn't load at all. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive is allowing us to run multiple RFPs at one time profiiently. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > We're glad to hear that you find Olive to be an easy and efficient solution for RFP facilitation, and apologize for the inconvenience caused by the software loading issues. Our team is constantly working to improve the performance of Olive. Thanks for your feedback! ### 15. Great for comparing products and services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Being able to compare many options at once, and to have a team with visibility and editing permissions to help narrow the choices was a huge time saver. I also like the suggested requirements based on project type to help build out the Request for Information form (what Olive calls Requirements). **What do you dislike about Olive?** It's still evolving so there are some features that would be helpful and that I anticipate being available as time goes on. For example, you can print the RFI (Requirements) responses per vendor, but cannot print a view that compares two or more line by line. That view is visible online, though. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us narrow down options for a digital learning platform, of which there are over a thousand today. It really sped up that process and made it more of a team/collaborative endeavor. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > We're glad to hear that Olive has been helpful in comparing options and collaborating with your team. We appreciate your feedback about the features you'd like to see, and we're continuously working on improving the platform. Thank you for sharing your experience! ### 16. HRIS Search Made Easy! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive made selecting all the criteria we sought in our new HRIS system easy. It helped us narrow down the top software that had most, if not all, of what we were looking for. Olive made it so my team could put in their input to get a well-rounded system. **What do you dislike about Olive?** As great as Olive is, it takes some time to review their questionnaires when narrowing down what you want from a new system. Perhaps making the questionnaires shorter would make them more efficient. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive is helping us select a new HRIS system for my HR team. It's a useful all-in-one product comparison to see if it matches exactly what we seek. It definitely saves a ton of time. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thank you for your positive review of Olive! It's great to hear that it made selecting an HRIS system easy and saved your team time. Your feedback about the length of the questionnaires is duly noted, and we appreciate your understanding that it may be more related to the person creating them rather than the product itself. We will take that into consideration for our product documentation! ### 17. A great way to manage RFPs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarah W. | Director of Digital Analytics, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive lets us organize our thoughts before contacting companies and then collects their responses. It's very easy for all stakeholders to go through the questions and make decisions. **What do you dislike about Olive?** The sheer amount of data available in Olive can be overwhelming to stakeholders who are new to the RFP process. It would be great if there were a stripped-down view available. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a small company trying to manage a large CDP RFP project. That responsibility falls on one person, so Olive is allowing her to manage the process, keep everything organized, and share with others. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Hi Sarah thanks so much for your review and feedback. We love your idea of a stripped-down view! ### 18. Fast and Easy to Use; Olive For the Win **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony M. | Business Owner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive reduces the discovery time on the most compatible partners in particular segments. **What do you dislike about Olive?** I have been a user for a couple of years and dont really have a downside to mention. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We utilized Olive to help us decide on partners for HR, Marketing and Technology toolsets. In many cases we came in with an idea of who we wanted to partner with and the information provided to us properly steered us in a different direction that we would have never even known about. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thank you for your feedback! We're glad to hear that Olive has been a valuable tool for you in making informed decisions about potential partners. ### 19. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Massive time saver compared to traditional methods. They have a top-notch support staff who will always help out where needed. **What do you dislike about Olive?** We started utilizing Olive about a year ago. There were some awkward portions and things that didn't flow well. Many of them have since been corrected. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive allows us to do away with 1,000 spreadsheets of requirements, issues, wishlists, and keep them all in an easy-to-use and organize format that surveys and rankings can be performed on. ### 20. The new standard in enterprise software selection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris R. | Director Of Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive helps us to stay organized in our software selection processes. With features that allow us to capture key requirements, survey our SMEs, and stay consistent with our vendor communication, it is a tool we expect to use in all of our software selection needs. **What do you dislike about Olive?** There's nothing to dislike about Olive. As a growing startup in this space, they have opportunities to continue to enhance the product, but this is something that, in my conversations with them, they absolutely understand, and they are making improvements all the time. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive helps us manage our software selections and provides critical reporting capabilities for executives to help them see why certain solutions are selected. It helps us operate efficiently and without the need for expensive outside consultants. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Chris, thank you for your review, we're very happy you are happy! ### 21. Olive for Requirements Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Excellent approach to large (or small) product selection matching requirements to features. The product is easy to use / super intuitive. We have scaled it from small tool selection through to large enterprise application selection **What do you dislike about Olive?** I can't think of anything off the top of my head **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Product research and vendor selection ### 22. User Friendly Evaluation Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** Used Olive for an RFP. Very easy to collaborate with my team to set up vendor questions and rank importance individually. Vendor responses were trackable and able to be ranked individually by each team member to help identify top vendor candidates. **What do you dislike about Olive?** It takes a little time to get categories and questions set up when you first start a project, but a great tool once you have what you need entered. Offering some frequently used questions could help speed up the process. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive helped my team work together to identify questions that needed more details and helped prevent any miscommunications that can occur when team members could not all be on calls with each vendor. By sending out our question list to each vendor, we could ensure that the information we were getting back from the vendors could be comparable. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks so much for your review and valuable feedback regarding FAQ, I'll pass your feedback along to the appropriate teams! Aine ### 23. Olive made our entire vendor vetting and RFI process far more organized and efficient. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emma A. | Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** The ability to both rank criteria based on priority and then score individually on each vendor. **What do you dislike about Olive?** The auto-save for question responses posed some difficulty when we were interacting with vendors in Olive. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive quickly groups sets of data (must-haves, rankings, etc) and presents them in a way that is easy to compare across all vendor responses. Previously, we had completed this manually in excel sheets. Olive's ability to calculate total scores and present that side-by-side comparison has been a game changer, saving us both time and employee resources. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks for your review and valuable feedback Emma! I have passed it along to the Product Team. ### 24. So great! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** I love olive; it is super useful. I love that I can easily review new software. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Sometimes it can be hard to select which features to use; there are so many! **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We love using olive to find new solutions and managing business software requirements goals. We are more productive. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > We're glad to hear that you find Olive super useful for reviewing new software! We understand that having many features can be overwhelming, but we're constantly working on improving the user experience. Thank you for your feedback! ### 25. Great Product for Vendor Selection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive exceeded my expectations with all the embedded tools to use on the requirement gathering and vendor selection portion. **What do you dislike about Olive?** The user support portion could use a little effort. More knowledge base resources. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive helped us with our RFP process. It aided us in the requirements gathering, vendor scoring and vendor selection. We were also able to utilize vendor communication. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks for your review! We are happy you are happy! ### 26. Great Platform for every organization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick T. | Head of IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** I like how it is a self-service platform that empowers my team and me to evaluate and find SaaS providers based on my requirements. The self-service nature of the platform ensures that they can move as fast or as slow as I'm willing to move. **What do you dislike about Olive?** The more tedious part of the platform is collecting and inputting all the requirements. I wish there was a way to improve that process. They do have a great library of requirements to pull from, but I still, wish there was a way to "magically" circumvent the requirements collection process/step. **Recommendations to others considering Olive:** Work with their product team! **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** In short, contracts. Every organization is dealing with 10's, if not hundreds of contracts. Finding vendors, evaluating vendors, doing trials, proofs of concept, etc. They streamline and simplify this whole process. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks so much for your review and feedback. We are glad we can help you make the process less painful! While we work on the magic, maybe you can vote for some feature ideas in our ideas portal below! ### 27. ERP+ selection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John A. | Adjunct Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** Good organization of the elements needed for software selection, with follow-on support (details) for package implementaton. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Help pages need to be built out further and kept current with evolving software. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive is handling all the administrative tasks involved with software package selection. Provides good collaboration among members of a sizable team. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Hi John, thank you for your review and valuable feedback regarding the Help pages. I am happy to report that they are being worked on currently! Aine ### 28. Olive is great for finding software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan M. P. | Manager Digital HR Product Management, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** I like how we can write our own product requirements. We can use the system to compare vendors against our product requirements. **What do you dislike about Olive?** It takes a little while to figure out the whole system, but that can be said about most systems. Their licensing could be better. You need admin licenses to do most things we would consider project manager responsibilities. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do a lot of software vendor searches and usually keep our requirements in excel. This system lets us store them in a more professional system. The system also lets us send the requirements to vendors and have them fill out whether or not they can meet the requirement. Less work for us. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Hi Bryan, thank you for your review and valuable feedback around licensing. If you have any other ideas about how Olive can better fit your needs, go ahead and drop them into our ideas portal! ### 29. Revolutionary product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Skip K. | Principal, Independent & SMB Consulting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** This company has put together an amazing product that helps streamline the entire RFP and RFI process and is highly interactive as well as collaborative. **What do you dislike about Olive?** I have yet to have a downside. Anytime that I see that there is a missing or needed feature or function, the Olive team is quick to react and implement. **Recommendations to others considering Olive:** Before doing your next RFP, make sure you check out this product. You will find the features that are contained within are second to none and provide a whole new level of completeness to the project without adding extra work. It should greatly reduce the amount of time and headaches that you have to go through. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product removes the complications of your standard RFP process, making it more efficient and effective. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks Skip! We love that you are happy! Feel free to add any more of your genius features or functions to our ideas portal below! ### 30. Great tool for RFPs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** What is most helpful about Olive is that it keeps things structured and organized, and also that it provides visibility and collaboration tools. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Not sure. The one RFP I used Olive for was pretty smooth. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Olive as a respondent to an RFP. Typically, RFPs are Word, Excel or other static document formats that are not easy to work with. I wish more organizations used Olive to issue RPFs- it's a great tool for the issuer and the respondents. **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Hi there, thanks you for your review! ### 31. Customer experience has been very favorable. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morris H. | Director of Finance Transformation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** Love the organization's adaptability to meet customer needs. **What do you dislike about Olive?** the bug issues that are faced occasionally. However, the team is usually pretty quick to respond. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** the tool has provided consistency amongst our vendor selection projects **Official Response from Aine McDonnell:** > Thanks Morris, we love hearing your feedback! ### 32. Seamless RFP/RFQ Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Olive?** Easy to use platform, intuitive, allowing great two way communication. **What do you dislike about Olive?** There was not anything I did not like about this platform **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Olive helped to streamline the RFP process, removing confusing and non-intuitive Excel spreadsheets. ### 33. Simple process, responsive staff **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Olive?** It is very easy to bring a consistent approach to IT procurement, especially software procurement, quickly and easily. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Olive is still a young offering, with some rough edges here and there, but the Olive team is super responsive to requests/suggestions, which makes these easy to deal with. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're bringing a consistent, transparent approach to our IT procurement projects. Olive reduces costs, increases confidence that we're buying the right products, and ensures we're dealing with vendors fairly. ### 34. Used Olive to select multiple technology partners - Highly Recommended **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tariq C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Olive?** -The Olive platform is simple and easy to use. - Project based requirements library to help the business teams get started - Help remove personal bias by making requirements based solution analysis extremely simple and easy to track. - Allows for collaboration across multiple stakeholder groups - The overall partnership from the Olive team in truly wanting to understand the business problem before jumping into solutions. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Not all vendors are willing to put in the time to respond to your requirements **Recommendations to others considering Olive:** I would recommend atleast trying them out. We used them once and then make back for multiple projects. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Simplifying the RFP process. - Shortening the time to implementation by helping the business document and finalize requirements in a collaborative environment - Remove bias from the vendor selection process ### 35. Game Changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brianne H. | Owner, Hospitality, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Olive?** Olive makes product discovery and comparison projects a breeze. Whether you're collaborating with a group or working on your own, you can keep all of your notes and priorities organized and communicate with your vendors to get quick feedback. Once all of your info it's compiled beautifully with easy to read summaries and match comparisons. My clients are constantly impressed by Olive. **What do you dislike about Olive?** Nothing that I can think of. As with all software, there is constant development, but the Olive team is always responsive to feedback and quick with feature requests. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work with companies to help build tech stacks including various vendors which can often get confusing. Olive puts everything in a clean professional format that allows us to quickly make educated decisions for their businesses. ### 36. Simple and centralized platform for easily conducting software evaluations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Olive?** Online platform, where stakeholders and vendors can access the information they need to see in the software evaluation project. Reduces the amount of phone calls and emails **What do you dislike about Olive?** If you are not performing evaluation projects all the time, it is somewhat expensive to continue paying monthly **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Olive reduces the time spent communicating to vendors via phone calls and emails, which reduces the duration of the evaluation. It clearly tells you which vendors match the list of requirements best. Also provide stakeholders the ability to login and view all the information thereby also reducing phone calls and emails inquiring on status. ### 37. Game changer! The most convenient, way to digitize and implement solutions. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Olive?** Evaluation and the app is designed a very user friendly way, you won’t worry about teaching anyone to use it. **What do you dislike about Olive?** I can’t really find a dislike yet! It’s been a pleasant experience **Recommendations to others considering Olive:** -Ask teams to take ownership -Evaluating is very important -have a digitizing plan meaning plan per department. **What problems is Olive solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are digitizing our whole company by implementing solutions to increase efficiency and have a ready remote environment. - [View Olive pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/olive-technologies-olive/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+11%3A13%3A46+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b63e3272-74c1-4941-b358-a24269981980&secure%5Btoken%5D=cd49618909deddec1d9a3e1b2c05ad4c53dce910dfbb9a6b286503762bf7f6f1&format=llm_user) ## Olive Features **RFP Generation** - Customizable Templates - RFX - Versioning - Questions Library - Document Templates **Supplier Marketplace** - Library - Catalog Management - Real-Time Data - Workflow Management - Supply Chain Management - Template Management - Contract/License Management - Bid Management - Requisition Management - Project Management - Purchase Order Management - Global Sourcing Management - Spend Management - Auction Management - Invoice Management - Budget Management - Vendor Management - Supplier Management - Audit Management - Document Management - Procurement Management - Rfx Management - Supplier Risk Management - Performance Management - Compliance Management **Requirements Authoring and Structure - Requirements Management** - Structured Requirements Authoring - Hierarchical Requirements Organization **Compliance and Governance - Requirement Management** - Regulated Industry Standards Support **Administration** - Requirements Listing - Centralized Information - Traceability **RFP Distribution** - Due Date Tracking - Analysis - Selection - Progress Tracking - Milestone Tracking - Time & Expense Tracking - Status Tracking **Collaboration and Review - Requirements Management** - Review and Approval Workflows - Role-Based Access Control **Communication** - Stakeholder Communication - Internal Communication Enablement **Submissions** - Collaboration - Knowledge Base - Review - Reporting - Document Review **Data Collection** - Spend - Customizable Reports **Role-Based Access Co - Requirements Management** - Baselining **Procedural** - Automated Creation & Testing **RFP Response** - Bid Management - Content Library - Access - Automation - Export - Import - Knowledge Library - Compliance Management - Purchase Order Management - Audit Management - Supplier Management - Workflow Management - Content Management - Requirements Management - Vendor Management - Document Management - Requisition Management - Contact Management - User Management - Inventory Management - Template Management - Task Management - Catalog Management **Project Management** - Activity Dashboard **Traceability - Requirements Management** - Bidirectional Traceability - Impact Analysis - Traceability Matrix Generation **Agentic AI - RFP** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Third-Party Integrations **Agentic AI - Strategic Sourcing** - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Third-Party Integrations - ERP integration **AI Traceability - Requirements Management** - Suspect Link Detection **Additional Functionality** - Approval Process Control - Collaboration Tools - Reporting & Statistics - Generative AI - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Order Tracking - Inventory Control - Budgeting/Forecasting - AI Copilot - Real-Time Analytics - Spend Analysis - Multi-Currency - Audit Trail - Real-Time Reporting - Activity Tracking - Search/Filter - Spend Control - Data Import/Export - Alerts/Notifications - Invoice Processing - Receiving - Document Storage - Quotes/Estimates - Supplier Web Portal - Supplier Qualification - RFP Creation - Reminders - Self Service Portal - Purchasing & Receiving - Risk Assessment **Additional Functionality** - Alerts/Notifications - API - Version Control - Collaboration Tools - Projections - RFP Responding - Approval Process Control - Proposal Generation - Electronic Signature - AI Copilot - Activity Dashboard - Access Controls/Permissions - Automatic Formatting - RFP Creation - Audit Trail - Customizable Reports - Document Storage - Generative AI - Configurable Workflow - Quotes/Estimates **Integration - Requirements Management** - ALM and Project Management Tool Integration **Change Management and Version Control - Requirements Management** - Complete Audit Trail **Additional Functionality** - Document Management - Requirements Review - Data Visualization - File Management - Stakeholder Defined Attributes - AI Copilot - Access Controls/Permissions - Lifecycle Management - Document Storage - Communication Management - Compliance Management - Application Management - Collaboration Tools - Real-Time Data - Version Control - Status Tracking - Commenting/Notes - Customizable Fields - Task Progress Tracking - Projections - Real-Time Updates - Bug Tracking - Project Workflow - Activity Tracking - Workflow Management - Prioritization - Project Tracking - To-Do List - API - Activity Dashboard - Customizable Templates - Assessment Management - Generative AI - Change Management - Configurable Workflow - Agile Methodologies - Customizable Reports - Reporting/Analytics - Budgeting/Forecasting - Third-Party Integrations - Task Management - Template Management - @mentions - Task Planning - Drag & Drop - Progress Tracking - Project Planning - Multiple Projects - Data Import/Export ## Top Olive Alternatives - [Responsive, formerly RFPIO](https://www.g2.com/products/responsive-formerly-rfpio/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,300 reviews) - [G2 Marketing Solutions](https://www.g2.com/products/g2/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (5,373 reviews) - [Loopio](https://www.g2.com/products/loopio/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (804 reviews)