Spider Impact vs StrategyBlocks

Spider Impact brings organizational performance information together to help track progress against strategic goals and inform decisions. It supports KPIs, balanced scorecards, earned value management, reports, alerts, dashboards, strategy maps, and initiative tracking. Impact Assistant takes questions in plain language and responds with answers and charts. Data can be imported from spreadsheets, SQL databases, and modern web APIs; online forms support manual entry. Spider Impact says it connects to over 5,000 web applications through web service connections, native integrations, or Zapier. Organizations can use Spider’s hosted cloud service or run the software on premises in their own data centers. The company says the product serves businesses across industries, governments, and nonprofits, and provides support, training, webinars, and educational videos. Its 30-day trial includes an introductory demo, login credentials after the demo, and ongoing guidance. There is no free plan, and pricing is on request. Screen exports require 10 or more user licenses, while sharing dashboards, strategy maps, and forms with non-users requires 25 or more users.

StrategyBlocks is a web-based SaaS platform for strategic planning, management, mapping, and execution. It breaks high-level objectives into tactics and links strategy elements to metrics, connecting strategic vision with work across departments and business units through cascading visual blocks. Strategic Health combines measures such as progress and KPIs to represent a block's current state. The platform also includes strategic risk management for structured and subjective execution data.

Users can create and bookmark dashboard views refreshed through company-wide contributions. Calendar Integration provides event links for key due dates on blocks assigned to a user. Metric actuals and targets can be uploaded from another source, including Google Docs Spreadsheets. Security groups restrict access to blocks, metrics, and risks in a strategic plan. The maker identifies StrategyBlocks as ISO/IEC 27001 certified and describes it as an enterprise strategic management platform, including for CEOs and other executives. A subscription allows one person to access the product, so additional people require additional subscriptions. Pricing includes a 30-day trial and Premium 1 - 50 Staff at $750 a year.