Explorance Blue vs Rally Analytics Platform

Explorance Blue is a paid web platform for collecting, analysing and distributing feedback insights across higher education and employee programmes. It supports employee engagement, course evaluation, onboarding, exit, 360-degree review, student engagement and campus surveys. Blue can import data, tailor questions and content to each respondent, distribute surveys and insights, and validate data through its Data Integrity Gateway. Role-based reports and dashboards provide real-time results, trends and visualisations, with benchmarking, advanced reporting and data export listed. Explorance MLY adds sentiment analysis, topic categorisation, recommendations, alerts and redaction for open-ended feedback. Integrations cover LMS, HRIS, SIS and CRM systems, while respondents can be reached through portals, email, mobile and QR codes. Explorance says Blue meets WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 standards, maintains an annual SOC 2 Type II examination and supports stated privacy requirements. Hosting may use Canadian or Microsoft Azure regional data centres. Pricing is on request.

Rally Analytics Platform is a web platform that unites student data for educators. It combines assessment and screener results with student information system records such as attendance, behavior, and course grades, plus surveys about well-being and the learning environment. Rally provides continuously updating predictions of each student’s end-of-year state assessment result. Educators can create student groups, assign targeted interventions, invite colleagues to co-manage them, and track notes and progress over time. Using the Ed-Fi data standard, the platform integrates district data sources, and groups can use prepopulated district information without manual uploads or data entry. Access depends on district identity management and student information systems, with automatic role-based security and school- or district-level access options. Education Analytics describes the data pages as requiring low to no training. The product page displays SOC 2, TX-RAMP, and Ed-Fi Alliance API Consumer badges. Pricing is on request; districts and state education agencies can schedule a guided demo.