IdeaScale Customer Reviews 2025 | Innovation Management

IdeaScale

Composite Score

7.9 /10

CX Score

8.4 /10

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What is IdeaScale?

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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IdeaScale Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+100 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love IdeaScale?

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100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Workflow Capabilities

Communication Manager

Ideation

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Multi Tenancy

Polls & Voting

Trend Management

Collaboration Channels

Implementation Management

Idea Ranking & Evaluation

Application Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

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IdeaScale Reviews

Shreya R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Submitted Jun 2025

Scalable innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?

IdeaScale has a well documented RESTful API sonwe should have no issues integrating IdeaScale with other tools, whether that be for reporting or in specific techniques like for instance, Jira, Slack and Microsoft Teams. Importantly IdeaScale incorporates community participation at its votinv, gamification, collaborative commenting which encourage any organization to drive much higher participation than other more rigid platforms like to Brightidea or spigit.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It allows non technical users to configure intelligent without needing the assistance of IT generally. This not only helps reduce developer load but also hekps to facilitate adoption by more users in the same organization. And of course the quick set up time for launching new idea challenges support fast moving agile framework.

What do you dislike most about this product?

First of all the navigation through the platform is not easy, so a training is needed, also costing plays a crucial part.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

We must evaluate its costing and the team strength.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Mei T.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Innovation and Challenges in Idea Management.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?

IdeaScale is notable for its emphasis on group involvement and adaptability to various industries.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like the ease of collecting and prioritizing ideas within a community of users.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Because of its UI and learning curve, it may be difficult for novice users to understand.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I advise To promote creativity in businesses, IdeaScale facilitates the collection, management, and analysis of ideas.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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92 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

91 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+100 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love IdeaScale?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Workflow Capabilities​ The vendor provides configurable, rules-based workflow capabilities based on applicant disposition (such as lead, enrolled, rejected etc.).​

Communication Manager Ability of the software to seamlessly facilitate stakeholder discussion, and role-based access revolving the project.

Ideation Ability of the solution to support the ideation process where users generate ideas and solutions through sessions, challenges or posed problem questions.

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing System recommends automated similar ideas, idea clustering, automated personalized user recommendations on content, and more.

Multi Tenancy Software works in tandem with hosting system and the management of the multiple systems running in the same environment with appropriate levels of segregation.

Polls & Voting Ability to select which users contributors can vote on what motion.

Trend Management Ability to collect and monitor research on micro, macro or industry trends.

Collaboration Channels Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time e.g. discussion channels.

Implementation Management Ability of the software to assist end-to-end process of the project life cycle and implementation of ideas through project tracking or integration.

Idea Ranking & Evaluation Capability of the software enables user to rank each idea based on the score it receives for various factors or criteria and consolidate findings.

Application Integration Includes functional and data integration with common applications such as CRM, CSM, ERP, email, etc.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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IdeaScale Reviews

Shreya R.

Scalable innovation

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Mei T.

Innovation and Challenges in Idea Management.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Feature Ratings

Workflow Capabilities

Communication Manager

Ideation

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Multi Tenancy

Polls & Voting

Trend Management

Collaboration Channels

Implementation Management

Idea Ranking & Evaluation

Application Integration

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training