SOLUTION COMPARISON

Qvidian vs Responsive

Picking the best RFP and proposal automation software is no easy task, but when it comes to Qvidian vs Responsive, Qvidian makes the choice easy.

Qvidian’s industry leading-software outperforms the competition, offering a solid Responsive alternative, with powerful automation, generative AI, content management, and collaboration features that get work done.

When choosing the best software for your organization focus on a solution with plenty of industry experience, a great suite of features, and the powerful integrations you’ll need to save time on every response.

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With nearly 50 years of industry experience, we know the features professionals need to get work done, save time, and win more business better than our competitors.

	Comparison Comparison	Responsive
	Customizable rich document creation Customizable rich document creation With flexible templates, customizable variables and fields, and the ability to add rich media and custom branding to your online documents, including PDFs, Qvidian has the tools you need to create standout documents in minutes.
	Intuitive and powerful workflows Intuitive and powerful workflows Build your own workflow with our intuitive document builder interface and craft custom assembly and approval workflows with Qvidian.
	Advanced analytics Advanced analytics Qvidian’s advanced analytics offer real-time insights to maximize sales and proposal effectiveness, so your content can outshine the rest.
	CRM, E-signature, API, and CPQ integrations CRM, E-signature, API, and CPQ integrations Connect Qvidian to your CRM and CPQ, establish an E-signature workflow, or connect with our custom API to best integrate your company’s existing technology.
	AI text generation AI text generation Generate new text in seconds from existing content using powerful generative AI features that outperforms our competition.
	Complete versioning Complete versioning Track all changes made to your documents and get a complete audit history with built-in versioning.

Why choose Qvidian?

Qvidian helps teams across industries create standout proposals and RFP responses quickly, shorten sales cycles, and win more.

With an unmatched nearly 50 years of industry experience Qvidian offers more than superior sales content automation. Our software has been built by professional, technical, and educational service teams full of proposal writing and process experts.
Qvidian helps enterprise and mid-market companies save valuable time and win more business. Recognized by G2 as a leader in the enterprise and mid-market spaces, Qvidian has the flexible tools and features companies need to win more.
Qvidian’s powerful automation and generative AI features, have been built to work with an organization’s content to consistently deliver accurate, compliant, and responsive proposals that get results and win business.

What they say about Qvidian

Best Proposal Management Software on the Market.

Verified user

Kirk G.

Over the last few years, I’ve been contacted by several competing proposal management software companies with claims of a better product at a better price. In pretty much every case, I’ve found that after a short conversation the software is more expensive and does not have the robust functionality that Qvidian has. If there’s a better (or even similar) product on the market, I haven’t seen it. Qvidian speeds our time of response and automates many processes that would otherwise be manual.

Key RFP Tool

Verified user

Qvidian is the major tool on which our RFP team relies on when answering to client questions. We use it as a knowledge database but also as a tool to create our RFP template forms. It is easy to use, fast and it completely meets our expectations and needs. Qvidian saves me a lot of time because with it I can prepare in a few minutes a brand new RFP template ready to use. In this way, I can concentrate on filling in the content with company and product specific information. Qvidian helps me improve my productivity and results.

Positive Experience and Longevity with Product

Verified user

Marsha F.

It is easy to get RFP and proposals done quickly with Qvidian. It is also easy to maintain content on our end, which is integral to getting out things quickly. The software helps with both - easy to update and maintain content and easy to create prop...

I have been working with the qvidian product for around 20 years and rely on it

Verified user

David B.

The tool is highly configurable and can adapt to meet my needs for the production of just about any kind of document.

Qvidian is a great system for proposal automation.

Verified user

Joseph L.

Qvidian has a robust set of features to help with most parts of the proposal/RFP/content management workflows. They have been steadily working to improve the user interface for the different functions, which is helping make it more intuitive gradual...

An essential and really intuitive tool for RFP and DDQ completion

Verified user

There are two ultimate highlights of Qvidian: firstly, the Library and its ease of use and searchability, and secondly the intuitive interface of the Qvidian platform. The Library has become a go-to source of intellectual capital within our business, enabling self-service of information by myriad end users who would formerly burden individual SMEs directly with repetitive queries. As our business has evolved and grown we are seeing ever-more complex RfPs and the Library is an essential resource to enable a small RfP team complete a first draft of the response; we are typically able to complete at least 75% of an RfP with a response from the Library, then use the in-built workflow collaboration / participation tools to engage with SMEs to complete the rest with minimal off-platform admin (email or messaging). The user interface is super intuitive and has recently received a stylish and minimalist revamp. In fact, the initial user dashboard and Library interfaces are so intuitive that we have cases where staff have been able to participate in RfPs and search the Library just through exploring on their own and without any training.

Top companies trust Qvidian above others

How to choose the best RFP Automation software

Search for a software that contains all of the features you’re looking for. Pay particular attention to the features you will use daily such as content management, automation, and branding capabilities.

It’s not enough for an automation software to contain simple automation features, you should invest in a software that uses both machine learning and generative AI to automatically highlight and suggest relevant content, revise and rewrite existing content, and identify the most effective content that wins deals.

Additionally, focus on software with a robust central content library like Qvidian’s. You’ll want granular control over how your content is structured, organized, tracked, and used throughout your organization if you want to save time on every response.
You need software that supports virtual collaboration. In-application workflows and comment threads go a long way. Also, look for software that allows you to work together in real-time through Office 365, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint Additionally, you will want to ask yourself: how easily can you collaborate with others, and what visibility do you have into the finished proposal? Many proposal software solutions limit your view to only one question at a time. But when you are limited in this way, how can you ensure that you are answering RFPs in one consistent tone? Instead, you want a software solution that gives you insight into the entire, completed proposal, no matter who you are, or where you are at, in creating a proposal.
The best proposal software will integrate with the tools you are already using to drive success. For example, the browsers the software supports, an effective integration with Microsoft Office, and working seamlessly with Salesforce are a few of the integrations that are going to play a critical role in choosing a software. Make sure that the software you are evaluating works flawlessly with your existing tech stack. If your organization uses Microsoft Office, for example, be sure to verify the software integrates with Word and Excel. This way, authorized content managers can edit and format content with the full power of Office at their fingertips, instead of trying to use a watered-down editor that’s built into the software.
Choose an RFP automation software that’s backed by a company with an extensive history of providing top-notch customer service. With nearly 50 years of experience and a service and support staff boasting an average tenure of 10+ years, Qvidian’s commitment to our customers is unwavering. With 24/7 customer support via phone, email, and online chat, users can get assistance whenever they need it.
Your RFP automation software should be useful for more than just responding to RFPs. Pick a software, like Qvidian, that helps with you with all types of sales content including DDQs, Security Questionnaires, Sales Proposals and Presentations, RFQs, RFIs, statements of work, and so much more!

Integrations with products you use daily

Qvidian works with products your team already uses, streamlining your workflow and making it even easier to win business.

Salesforce

Integrate directly with your organization’s Salesforce CRM to start proposals directly from Salesforce, or update and Sync Qvidian data from Salesforce with just one click.

Microsoft Word

Craft and edit branded custom-branded templates in minutes using proposal content libraries and RFP draft automation in Word.

Microsoft Excel

Get the full power of Microsoft Excel at your fingertips for macros, protected worksheets, conditional cells, calculations, and beyond.

Microsoft PowerPoint

Effortlessly find and insert key content into sales presentations and PowerPoint proposals while matching source or destination formatting.