--- description: Review of Blue Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Blue | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [HR Analytics Software](/directory/3566/hr-analytics/software) > [Blue](/software/30201/blue-360-degree-feedback) # Blue Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/30201/blue-360-degree-feedback Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/30201/blue-360-degree-feedback?page=2) > Power your skills assessment, competency assessment, and talent review processes with Blue and connect the dots across your talent landscape. Key features include: AUTOMATION - advanced integration capabilities with your organization's HRIS, Portal, and SSO. FLEXIBILITY - handle your most complex 360 degree feedback use cases. ANALYTICS - provide powerful reports and insights to all roles and levels in your organization, quickly. EFFICIENCY - centralize your 360 degree evaluation process, including monitoring participation, resetting submissions, changing rater assignments, etc. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 50 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 50 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.8/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Explorance - **Location**: Montreal, Canada - **Founded**: 2003 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 7,500.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate - **Pricing Details**: Flexible pricing models depending on the particular use case and budgetary requirements, contact for full quote. - **Target Audience**: 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Chromebook (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese - **Available Countries**: Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and 10 more ## Features - 360 Degree Feedback - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Action Management - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Notifications - Anonymous Feedback - Approval Process Control - Assessment Management - Benchmarking - CRM - Communication Management - Competency Management - Continuous Feedback - Customisable Branding - Customisable Forms - Customizable Questions - Customizable Reports - Customizable Templates - Dashboard ## Integrations (11 total) - BambooHR - Brightspace - Cornerstone HR - Microsoft SQL Server - Microsoft SharePoint - Moodle - SAP HANA Cloud - SAP SuccessFactors HCM - Workday HCM - Workday Workforce Management - Zendesk Suite ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [HR Analytics Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3566/hr-analytics/software) ## Related Categories - [HR Analytics Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/3566/hr-analytics/software) - [Performance Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/323/performance-review-software/software) - [Survey Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4503/survey/software) - [360 Degree Feedback Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/2081/360-degree-feedback/software) - [Talent Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/371/talent-management-software/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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This is a serious issue when it comes to the time I may choose to block the course of the students who do not respond to the evaluations, and when some of them see the course blocked and they respond the survey, I takes me again to be informed and synchronize manually, which I think it could be automated, because in case I am busy in other tasks, It can be a challenge for the students who filled the evaluations to get access on the Canvas page (for my case as we use Canvas). > > Actually, The overall experience is very good. In my Organization, we have managed to receive enough feedback from the students and we make changes to the course as well as the teacher based on the feedback received from our students. ----- ### "Exceeding expectations and solving business needs" — 5.0/5 > **Matthew** | *15 October 2021* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: This software allowed us to transition from paper based to electronic reviews. It provided a large community of experienced users from which to learn best practices. It created a safe, reliable platform to maximize our evaluation process. > > **Cons**: when a subject changes their evaluation dates, they are not reflected in all the related data tables. dynamic dates do update when reminder emails are sent. course questions vs. instructor questions and how to configure in reports. ----- ### "Blue is a multi-dimensional course evaluation tool that can be scaled to work for any institution." — 5.0/5 > **Carley** | *17 April 2018* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The customizable solution will adapt to any institution's need... even to different scenarios within the same institution. The automatic report generation at the end of the survey was a must-have for us. > > **Cons**: Difficult to set up for the first time... even with the help of the trainers. It takes a lot of time. The additional company trainings are expensive, and after two years, our team doesn't feel like we are capable of building new reports on our own. > > Ability to schedule automatic report openings and closings based on dynamic date rules--like open at 60% of the semester and close reports at 90% of semester. ----- ### "great product - great company" — 5.0/5 > **candace** | *3 November 2021* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Blue has a lot of features and integrates well with our other systems. > > **Cons**: Blue is somewhat complicated to administer. > > Blue is a great product - eXplorance is a great company. ----- ### "Higher Ed review of Blue - +10 years and still going\!" — 5.0/5 > **Greg** | *19 October 2021* | Higher Education | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I've been a blue user for 10+ years and work with the product almost daily. We use it primarily for student surveys such as Student Satisfaction, Course Evaluations, and Graduate Outcomes. We also use Blue to collect information from other stakeholders (i.e. Industry, Employees, Employers, Alumni, etc). Creating surveys is easy and intuitive for my small research team. We typically do not have any down-time with this product besides the occasional maintenance shutdown to our onsite hosted environment. > > **Cons**: Blue is a great product for surveying stakeholders at our institution however the way they deploy features to only certain blue products makes using the software challenging. A feature available in a course evaluation survey for example may not be available in another survey 'product'. I find this challenging as I've often had to recreate complete projects in order to take advantage of certain project/reporting features. The products should be seamless and integrated across all surveys in blue... For example, DRA - Dynamic Report Access is a great feature for dynamically assigning reports to a role (vs. an individual user), however is not available for use with a standard survey. > > Overall I've had a positive experience working with Blue. Their support team is fairly knowledgeable and hands-on. Their development team is also fairly responsive to 'feature requests' which is great. My team uses the product almost daily where it satisfies most (if not all) of our survey requirements. I've enjoyed seeing Blue evolve over the past 10+ years and look forward to working with it in the future. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/30201/blue-360-degree-feedback?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/30201/blue-360-degree-feedback) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data