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Idea Management Software

Idea Management

What is Idea Management Software?

Idea Management software is a platform for organizations to gather ideas from employees and to evaluate them to manage innovation more efficiently. The platform allows product marketers and engineers to quickly gather ideas, provide opportunities for employee collaboration, and respond to decisions around product development, marketing, or strategy.

Common Features

  • Idea Capture
  • Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
  • Role-Based Access
  • Social Collaboration
  • Advanced Search and Filtering
  • Idea Approval Workflow
  • Mobile
  • Idea Funnel
  • Notifications
  • Idea Scoring / Evaluation
  • Idea Segmentation
  • News Feed
  • Multiple Language Support
  • Data Export and Import
  • Application Integration
  • Customizable Branding
  • Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Top Idea Management Software

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Next Award: Sep 2025

Top Idea Management Software 2024

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Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10

Miro is a fast, free, and simple-to-use online whiteboard built to help you collaborate with others any time, anywhere. Miro is the online collaborative whiteboard platform that enables distributed teams to work effectively together, from running brainstorming sessions and workshops to planning projects, from designing new products and services to facilitating agile ceremonies.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Saves Time
  • Client Friendly Policies
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IdeaScale

IdeaScale

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10

IdeaScale is an innovation management solution that links organizations to people with ideas. Those ideas can change the world – not just your business. Find ideas to aid in digital transformation, to face the age of automation, to fight climate change, inequality and beyond. Connect to the ideas that matter and start co-creating the future.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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Ideanote

Ideanote

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Ideanote - a modern way of collecting, sharing and evaluating ideas. An Idea Management Platform designed to make your organisation more agile, creative and valuable. Ideanote is an Innovation-Led Growth Platform. Continuously collect, develop and act on the best ideas from employees and customers without any of the busywork. Ideanote's all-in-one platform makes it easy to deliver efficient idea management at scale and unify your teams and customers around your innovation as your greatest lever for growth.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
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HYPE Innovation

Viima

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Viima helps you go from ideas to innovations, every step of the way. It's an all-in-one innovation platform that scales with your needs. With Viima, our customers can make more innovation happen by managing it in a systematic way. Harness the tacit knowledge hidden in the organization, capture the creative ideas of the employees and have people from all around the organization collaborate and develop ideas further together.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
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Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Join the 6M+ employees at 500+ enterprise companies that are using Planview IdeaPlace (formerly Planview Spigit) to bring the power of collective intelligence to every business challenge.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Respectful
ProductBoard Inc

Productboard

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

Productboard helps product managers understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around the roadmap. It is a customer-centric product management platform. It's comprehensive, flexible, and built on an open platform to meet the needs of today’s product organizations.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Sideways 6 Ltd

Sideways 6

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Sideways 6 is idea and innovation management software that works alongside your collaboration tools, sparking ideas in places where they happen naturally. Sideways 6 allows you to source ideas from anywhere. It collects ideas by leveraging tools your employees already use such as Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook. With Sideways 6, turn ideas into projects and manage them all the way through to delivery.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Respectful
  • Generous Negotitation
  • Transparent
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.5 /10

Brightidea’s turn-key Idea Box is ready to go from day one. The streamlined interface makes participation easy and the mobile app facilitates collaboration anywhere at any time. ROI and business impact are easily tracked through a robust analytics engine that leads to informed insight. With an always-on digital suggestion box for collecting ideas, your workforce is empowered to submit ideas when and where it is convenient for them, at their desks or on the go.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Effective Service
  • Caring

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Ideawake

Ideawake

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Ideawake is an innovation management platform that captures and organizes the collective intelligence of employees and customers. Users are given the chance to collaborate on challenges and questions inside the organization, and throw their support behind the ideas they see as the most profitable or attractive based on their knowledge and experience.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Canny helps small to large businesses collect, analyze, prioritize and track user feedback to make informed product decisions. Feedback is captured and organized in one place so it’s easy to pull insights. Canny’s feature set includes public or private feedback boards, scoring features to see priority, public changelog, and more. Canny can be added to existing workflows using integrations like Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce, Jira, Github, Slack, and more.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing