Clear Impact vs Microsoft Outcome Management

Clear Impact combines performance management software, training, and consulting for mission-driven organizations measuring progress and community impact. Its Suite links Compyle for data collection, Scorecard for performance measurement, and Showcase for public dashboards. Compyle handles participant and case management, custom forms, surveys, analytics, and longitudinal records. Scorecard supports strategic planning, collaboration, and Results-Based Accountability planning, with an API for exchanging data with other applications; access requires an instance administrator and API key. Showcase combines Compyle and Scorecard data with narrative, images, video, and selected external sources, including UN Statistics (SDGs) and City Health Dashboard. Compyle data can flow into Scorecard, and Scorecard results can be published to Showcase. The free plan includes up to 10 measures, 10 participant records, and 3 user accounts. Listed paid plans include Premium Showcase at $3,000 a year, Premium Scorecard and Compyle at $5,000 a year each, Premium Suite at $12,000 a year, and Network & funder at $39,000 a year.

Microsoft Outcome Management is a free, open-source template app for nonprofits, built on Microsoft Power Platform. It helps teams set program goals and indicators, measure results, and aggregate impact across programs, projects, and activities. Users can maintain individual and organizational constituent records, including participants and stakeholders, with demographic, relationship, contact, and communication-preference details. The app follows work from strategic objectives through stakeholder measurement and supports outputs, outcomes, results, and indicator values recorded as baseline, actual, or target measurements over time. Its foundation is the open-source Common Data Model for Nonprofits, intended to support interoperability and data transparency. The maker describes connections with other applications through Power Platform data flow. Deployment requires installing that data model first, then building and importing the solution into Dataverse with .NET and Power Platform CLI. The listed build requirements include .NET SDK 4.6.2 or later, current .NET and Power Platform CLI, Node.js 18.18.0 or later, and suitable Dataverse permissions. Platforms are web and API.