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Sales Engineer
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

The ability to task out questions and answers to other individuals across my company (or even external partners) really facilitates successful collaboration. I can make sure that certain teams (like marketing or security, for example) are routinely reviewing content that is old or in need of an update with a few clicks. I can identify which responses have received the most attention and determine why that is.

Things are always changing and so it's nice to have the product also being proactively engaged in outreach.

I also love how responsive the support and account teams have been. I am in sales and constantly on the phone, responding to questions and leading product calls. I understand the need for organization and responsiveness. I'm happy to say that my account manager works very closely with me to enable our success. She always answers my questions and will hop on a call to help me out when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

I do wish the uploading process had an undo button. Having said that, any time I've had product feedback, the RFP 360 team has been very interested in hearing my opinions and have even offered to loop me in for further ideas. The product has changed remarkably in the 1.5 years that I've used it, so very little for me to complain about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Responsive, formerly RFPIO:

Assess what your business problems and hurdles are. Document how long it takes you to create and respond to an RFP. Look into the hours invested from other teams. Consult with them to figure out what their specific pain points are. It will be good to have that to document change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

RFP 360 has allowed us to bring structure to an otherwise cumbersome and disorganized process. Before purchasing the tool, RFPs were incredibly tedious and required a duplication of labor from the part of many. Everyone answered the same questions using old responses. The best responses were scattered across a number of different documents, with no way of identifying which ones were which.

I think most strategically, RFP360 has allowed for better collaboration and has fostered healthier relationships between the commercial team and product/security/professional services teams. All too often, these teams have been looped in at the 11th hour to respond to an RFP. Now, these responses can be stored and re-accessed. Experts can be looped in for more bespoke requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natalie Berigan of Responsive, formerly RFPIO

Sean, thanks for the detailed feedback! We're thrilled to hear your experience from the past year-and-a-half with us has been so positive and influential on your organization.

Partnering with people like you is what makes our work so rewarding.

Responsive, formerly RFPIO Overview

What is Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is the global leader in strategic response management software, transforming how organizations share and exchange critical information. Our commitment to product innovation and customer success empowers companies to accelerate growth, mitigate risk and improve the employee experience by leveraging intelligent technologies to quickly and accurately manage RFPs, RFIs, security questionnaires (VSQs), due diligence questionnaires (DDQs), risk assessments and all other complex information requests (RFXs). With Responsive, frontline teams deliver superior responses by automating the completion of questionnaires, documents and spreadsheets while collaborating with stakeholders, improving processes with data insights, and quickly accessing approved content across popular business applications.

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Responsive is a cloud-based RFP software that eliminates the friction often associated with responding to Requests for Proposal (RFPs), through a no-nonsense set-up, simple and intuitive user interface, and robust integrations with Salesforce and Slack.


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Year Founded
2016
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Frisco, Texas
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Description

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is the global leader in strategic response management software, transforming how organizations share and exchange critical information. Our commitment to product innovation and customer success empowers companies to accelerate growth, mitigate risk and improve the employee experience by leveraging intelligent technologies to quickly and accurately manage RFPs, RFIs, security questionnaires (VSQs), due diligence questionnaires (DDQs), risk assessments and all other complex information requests (RFXs). With Responsive, frontline teams deliver superior responses by automating the completion of questionnaires, documents and spreadsheets while collaborating with stakeholders, improving processes with data insights, and quickly accessing approved content across popular business applications.


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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good."
Everything. It performs as promised and delivers.
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Paulo G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
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"Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is a tremendous toll with an amazing team"
Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is a very convenient and intuitive tool. It is easy to use and it provides an array of features to help and smooth our ...
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Uche O.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Top Tier Platform for navigating complex questionnaires"
I love the AI bot that you can ask anything

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PG
Pre-Sales
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is a very convenient and intuitive tool. It is easy to use and it provides an array of features to help and smooth our work. I have been using it on a daily basis due to the high volume of RFPs/RFIs and don't want to imagine this work without Responsive (formerly RFPIO).

I am also pleasantly surprised by the level of knowledge any customer support person has. The Team is always available and they can quickly spot the challenge I am facing and give the reason why. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

So far, 5 months later, nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Responsive (formerly RFPIO) is solving time to deliver.

Before Responsive (formerly RFPIO), we used to spend days working on a a RFP - and by this, I mean a team of 2 to 3 people. Now... we have 1 person that can assign tasks to other individuals. Collaboration is more efficient and on-time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Grant and Proposal Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

We purchased only the library and it's fantastic to have all of our content searchable, in a google-like way. It's also easy to use, intuitive searching features. We formerly had documents scattered throughout our drives and no one could find anything and we continually reinvented the wheel.

Our customer support rep Maddie was fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

The cost - it's not an inexpensive product (library only) but it's worth it. we use Responsive nearly every day for our proposals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

we formerly had our proposals and grant applications scattered in various folders and had to rely on those with institutional knowledge to recall what proposal contained relevant language. Now, we can search Responsive and have numerous seats available so staff can search it on their own rather than relying on the proposal team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP
Manager, Proposals
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Response from Eddy Brotemarkle of Responsive, formerly RFPIO
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Thanks for your review, Jack!

It's so great that your team is able to manage the entire process all in one place—that IS huge!

As you mentioned, anyone can use Responsive with just 15 minutes of training—but you're right, there is so much more you can do with Responsive, beyond what you'll learn in basic training.

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Presales Consultant WMS
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

Its best feature is its powerful functionality for importing and working with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents to generate RFP question sets. It makes what could be a very slow and cumbersome process streamlined and relatively easy, with practice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

Over time, duplicate questions and answers make their way into the repository and when I am cleaning them up there is no way to flag a question or answer duplicate as 'ignore' for the duration of my deduplication session. This is frustrating as there are always questions or answers that do not need to be deduplicated e.g., a similar answer for two differently tagged products, and they still show as needing deduplication in the results list and I have to manually skip past them. A way to hide a question or answer from the list whilst working on them would be brilliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work in a large organisation and RFPs can be very large with specific sections needing answers from subject matter experts located around the globe. Being able to import an RFP into Responsive allows me to assign specific questions to the people that need to answer them. This is a huge help in completing the RFPs on time.

Having a centralised repository of information used to answer RFPs is also a massive help in completing RFPs.

Responsive's ability to return relevant answers to the keywords I search with makes completing RFP questions much easier than it would be if I had to manually locate the answers from a large repository of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Product Security Governance Lead
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

The content library and collaborative option (multiple people working on the same project doc at the same time). There have been recent improvements made to the tool where the quality of the answer recommendations have been improved. The tool also offers an additional AI-related features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

While the tool works quite well when one uploads excel files, one may face issues if they upload excels with macros. Additionaly, there have been some issues when it comes to uploading files in WORD or PDF formats (we have been working with the Responsive team to get this issue solved). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

When we used to receive questionnaires as part of supplier assessment from our customers, we would have to involve mutiple stakeholders in a very painstaking manner, as different teams would work differently and this caused delays plus more effort & coordination on our part. Also, excel files with Q&As would have to be maintained which was very inefficient.

Because of Responsive, we are able to avoid the above mentioned issues because of its collaborative features and content library features.

Now we have multiple teams (working on different topics) leveraging the tool and they are able to create segmentation within the tool itself (in terms of content library, access rights) so that the work of one team doesn't interfere with the others. This has been very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PK
Director
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

the tool has been a huge timesaver for us, easy compliance matrices, starter content for writers. It has definitely provided a more efficient less stressful approach to writing proposals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

i would like a voice driven capability- example: upload file xyz from my downloaded files folder, analyze the file and find me representative past performance that we have and which partners we used for similar efforts.

Also, a way for us to rank partners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a collect of small businesses, we have limited resources and time. It has really changed the way we are able to respond more effectively and efficiently. we save an estimated 30%-35% per proposal and 70% for sources sought efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DM
Vice President, Business Development
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

- Simple interface

- Powerful editing tools

- Content library segmentation, authors and ownership are easy and effective

- Convenient content review tools

- Helpful staff / customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

- Has trouble with complexly formatted RFI documents. Mapping the RFI into the system to prepare your response can be very tricky and time-consuming. I'm not sure that any competitor has solved this though. It's largely a function of the illogical formatting that is used by clients in the build-out of these assessment tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralizing the RFI response process. Creation of a library for all content, as well as the tools necessary to delineate content updates to the applicable subject matter experts. Review and content update alerts are convenient and create accountability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HH
Digital Sales Enablement Manager
Insurance
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

The best part of RFPio is the ability to collaborate in real-time with other users at the company. It allows SMEs from across the nation or even the globe to bring the best answers together. And... those answers can be inputted directly in a live answer library that everyone can use.

If that wasn't enough, the user interface is clean and easy to navigate. This truly is the new age of RFPs and has revolutionized how our company tackles proposals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

Any user would be hard-pressed to find anything to dislike about this product. After two years of using it, I can't think of any downfalls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Responsive, formerly RFPIO:

Just do it! You will not regret it.

One thing that was helpful for our company was interviewing SMEs within our organization prior to onboarding teammates so that we can a library of great new content that our folks could immediately pull upon entry to the RFPIO platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prior to RFPIO, we were re-creating the wheel and spending time, energy and resources doing it. With RFPIO, we saw an immediate uptick in our sales team's engagement in RFPs, better win ratios and incredible time savings. The analytics don't lie and the results are incredibly impressive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Rhea Nair of Responsive, formerly RFPIO

Hi Hope! Thanks for the 5-star review! We are glad you loved working with RFPIO and it helped you collaborate and organize your tasks faster!

Looking forward to hearing more good things as you continue on your RFPIO journey :)

HZ
Senior SaaS Cloud Technologist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

This is a great tool that enables me to quickly complete my projects and to easily identify the right answers for my RFP questions

It is versatile, has a really nice touch and feel, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

I am looking forward to see how the Library Information is curated and well kept.

Being a replacement for Qvidian, the previously tool used, I would like to have more autonomous and AI embedded features that would make my work faster and flawless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Answer RFP questions faster and with fewer mistakes

I would love to see that the product management team has the option to curate the content more often and quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SR
Associate Customer Success Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

It is the protocol for any organization to have a certified vendors with certified security compliance. This will be provided by vendor security team or pre-sales team who will be connecting to their clients or often called as leads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Responsive, formerly RFPIO?

while I do not see any downside to RFPIO, they can reduce no of screen or pages to create one ticket. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Responsive, formerly RFPIO solving and how is that benefiting you?

Traditionally, reaching out to concerned team via email is tedious process as we do not know who is authorized to provide such delicate information. RFPIO helps in creating ticketing system based on the requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.