Microsoft Forms alternative: More than just creating surveys

Microsoft Forms collects responses. easyfeedback turns them into insights.

Microsoft Forms is a handy solution if you want to create forms or simple surveys. However, when feedback is to form the basis for decisions, simply collecting responses is often not enough.

easyfeedback helps you to automatically analyse feedback, identify patterns and highlight relevant signals – so that data can be turned into concrete actions.

Microsoft Forms or easyfeedback – what’s the difference?

Both solutions help to collect feedback. The key difference lies in what happens next.

Microsoft Forms focuses on creating forms and collecting responses. The data is analysed using simple charts or by exporting it, for example to Excel.

easyfeedback goes one step further. Our platform automatically analyses incoming feedback, summarises insights and helps you identify relevant trends at an early stage. This turns responses into actionable insights for better decision-making.

Identifying organisational signals and determining appropriate actions

When Microsoft Forms is a good choice

Microsoft Forms is particularly suitable if you:

  • want to create a form or survey quickly
  • work within Microsoft 365
  • want to carry out simple internal polls
  • want to create quizzes or short feedback surveys

 

For these use cases, Microsoft Forms is a straightforward and easily accessible solution.

When businesses need more than just a survey tool

As the number of surveys increases, so do the demands. Rather than simply analysing individual results, the aim is to identify trends, interpret feedback correctly and derive appropriate actions from it. This is exactly where easyfeedback comes in. Our platform helps companies to:

  • automatically analyse feedback,
  • summarise open-ended responses using AI,
  • identify recurring themes and patterns,
  • highlight areas for action, and
    make decisions based on sound data.

 

After all, problems rarely arise out of the blue. They are often foreshadowed by subtle signals in the feedback.

Microsoft Forms vs. easyfeedback

Microsoft Forms

easyfeedback

Create forms and surveys

Providing professional support for feedback processes

Collect responses

Gain insights

Charts and raw data

AI-powered analysis and summaries

Manual interpretation

Automatic recognition of patterns and themes

General form tool

Designed specifically for feedback and survey processes

Data protection depending on the Microsoft 365 environment

German provider offering hosting in Germany

Basic survey functions

Anonymous surveys for honest feedback

For simple forms

For employee, customer, seminar and 360° feedback

Detect what matters before it escalates.

Feedback becomes signals

Feedback rarely provides just a few isolated answers. It reveals sentiments, trends and changes – often long before they turn into real problems. easyfeedback helps you to highlight these signals.

Understand Early On How Employees Perceive Leadership, Collaboration, and Culture

Workforce Signals

Staff send signals

Gain an early understanding of how staff perceive leadership, collaboration and culture.

Identify What Makes Customers Satisfied and What Risks Exist for Customer Churn

Customer Signals

Customers send signals

Identify what makes customers happy and what risks there are of customer churn.

Make Your Self Image and Others' Perception of You Visible, and Develop Your Leadership Skills in a Targeted Manner

Leadership Perspectives

Managers send signals

Highlight the gap between how people see themselves and how others see them, and provide targeted development for managers.

Understand Whether Your Actions Are Achieving Your Goals and What Factors Influence Success

Learning Signals

Participants send signals

Find out whether your measures are achieving their objectives and which factors influence their success.

AI supports the next step

AI supports the analysis

Open-ended responses often contain the most valuable insights – yet they are the most time-consuming to analyse.

easyfeedback’s AI-powered analysis helps you summarise extensive free-text responses, automatically group recurring themes, identify sentiments, highlight key insights and derive recommendations for action.

This saves you time and gives you a quicker overview of what really matters.

Make use of our best practice survey templates

Designed for professional feedback processes

easyfeedback supports companies with a wide variety of feedback processes:

  • Employee surveys
  • Customer surveys
  • Feedback on seminars and events
  • 360° feedback
  • Pulse surveys
  • NPS surveys

 

All these use cases are based on the same platform and can be managed and analysed centrally.

since

2010

on the market

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2 Mio.

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340 Mio.

participants

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customers

GDPR

100%

compliant

Understand what lies behind your feedback

Don’t just collect answers – gain insights that will really help your organisation move forward.

Frequently asked questions about comparing with Microsoft Forms

Would you like to know whether easyfeedback could be a viable option for you? We’d be happy to offer you a live demo or answer any questions you may have.
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If you mainly want to create forms or short surveys, Microsoft Forms is a suitable solution. However, if feedback is to be analysed regularly and used as a basis for decision-making, easyfeedback offers significantly more comprehensive analysis and evaluation options.

Yes. As well as complex feedback processes, you can, of course, also create and publish traditional online surveys.

Yes. easyfeedback was developed for professional use and helps organisations conduct surveys in compliance with data protection regulations, in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR.

easyfeedback is suitable for businesses of all sizes that wish to systematically collect and analyse feedback and use it to identify specific actions.