Ally

RATING:

4.6

(37)

About Ally

Ally is a cloud-based solution, which assists companies of all sizes with goal-setting and business performance management. Key features include predefined templates, customizable reporting, data import/export, activity dashboard, workflow management and progress tracking. The Ally platform enables administrators to adopt a framework to measure objectives and key results (OKRs), import existing OKRs and send invites to team members. It allows managers to visualize alignment and dependencies via charts, assign weights to key results and create approval-workflows. Additionally, users can compare progress between multiple quarters, add comments on OKRs, configure alerts or reminders and share reports. Ally comes with a REST API, which facilitates integration wi...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2021
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Ally Pricing

Growth: $7/month per user when billed annually, or $9.50/month per user billed monthly. -Ability to cascade OKRs from company level to teams and individuals -Visual dashboard of company, team, and individual OKRs -Bi-directional Slack integration -Approval workflow process to support changes to OKRs -Standard data integrations -Standard support and help portal Enterprise: Contact us for pricing All features of Growth, plus: -Unlimited levels in the OKR hierarchy. -Advanced OKR features -SAML SSO (OneLogin, Okta, Active Directory, Generic SAML 2.x) -Premium data integrations (Jira, Salesforce, Tableau, etc) -Personalized OKR coaching -Advanced features (custom fields, dependencies, Private OKRs, etc) -Advanced support - 24/7 Support & Dedicated Rep -HRIS integrations (Workday, UltiPro, Oracle and SuccessFactors)

Starting price: 

$7.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

Ally OKRs dashboard
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Ally Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Ally

1 - 5 of 37 Reviews

User Profile

Mariel

Verified reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2021

Managing OKRs through Ally

Ally supports our business strategy.

PROS

Seamless integrations and more are constantly becoming available.

CONS

Reports and dashboards are good. The mobile app is excellent.

Vendor Response

Hi Mariel, Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it! We're so glad you've found success with using Ally.io to support your business strategy! Thanks again, Marilyn at Ally.io

Replied March 2021

Siddharth

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2020

Best tool to track OKRs

PROS

%age tracking on task level and overall picture on where we are, is what I like the most.

CONS

The pricing is on a higher side, it could have been lowered, as at this price, we might not be able to get it adopted for whole org.

Reason for choosing Ally

the UX and the view of ally was simpler yet offering better solution than most of it's competitor.

Reasons for switching to Ally

Tracking on ally was way easier compared to sheets, on org level, team level and individual level

Vendor Response

Hi Siddharth, Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it! We're glad you're finding Ally.io helpful. Thanks again, Marilyn at Ally.io

Replied July 2020

Bruce

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

2

EASE OF USE

1

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

Weird UI

We are supposed to be tracking our entire company OKRs with this tool. I find that I hate the UI so much and am so mystified by it that I start avoiding the weekly update OKR task

PROS

I like having a tool to manage the OKR process. I like the check-ins, teams, sub-teams, individual and team OKRs

CONS

Weird UI, I am constantly struggling with it. It needs to be significantly easier to setup and manage OKRs, users and team branches in the tool

Vendor Response

Hi Bruce, Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it. We'll pass along your input regarding the UI to our product team and work on improving this! Thanks again, Marilyn at Ally.io

Replied July 2020

Taylor

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed March 2020

Ally overall has been great with just minor dislikes

PROS

The ease of use and setup of Ally has been great. Being able to connect to both Salesforce and Tableau has been one of the biggest benefits along with checking in through Slack. The customer service team is very responsive and helpful with questions and have been a pleasure to work with so far.

CONS

The software we were using had a better dashboard display to easily show the top company Objectives. This was beneficial for company meetings. Our CEO struggles with this part of Ally but it is really the only issue we have had.

Reasons for switching to Ally

They were bought and not going to be using the same format.

Wassim

Computer & Network Security, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2022

Ally: A result-oriented platform for OKR

Very promising experience.

PROS

I supported the HR department in my institution to deploy Ally and configure it. KPI monitoring was a main objective on the list and we were amazed by how simplistic and facilitated Ally supports in this. We surely had to set the performance indicators and the formulas for assessing each. All the rest was done autonomously by Ally in terms of identifying the statistical events affecting those key performance indicators and calculating their values dynamically as things change from one semi-quarter to the other. Ally was very convenient in calculating the actual and expected progress and to display it graphically in association to each individual task. This was a major relief to the owner of the OKR. Moreover the actual progress can by dynamically updated due to events such as a check-in to the OKR or by adding Key Results to an objective. The main support that Ally can help in here is identifying measurable and actionable tasks and subtasks of goals and align it with the 5-year or 10-year vision of the corporation. This wasn't easy to do manually as most of the times the thinking phase surpasses the action phase which renders the strategic planning ineffective. Goal management is basically the main strength in Ally which unifies the management irrespective of the type of business of clients. Generalizing the Goal concept is what we really like in this software.

CONS

Customization of the different components seem a bit tricky and complicated but to be fair it get much easier to do with some getting used to after getting acquainted with the different naming schemes and semantics.

Reasons for switching to Ally

The much more goal and result-oriented approach