Selected Findings for Crowdicity

• Crowdicity is consistently rated as easy to use by its users.
• The United Nations uses Crowdicity.
• Proctor and Gamble uses Crowdicity.
• Crowdicity allows for users to upload media to enhance their posts and ideas.
• Crowdicity has a free trial available, but must be contacted for a price quote beyond that.

Selected Findings for Shape

• Shape is well-rated as all-in-one customer management software.
• Shape's interface is considered easy to use.
• Assent Mortgage and Star Financial use Shape.
• Shape integrates with MailChimp, Twilio, G Suite, MS Office, Stripe, Zapier, and more.
• Shape has team-based pricing at $5 a user per month or enterprise pricing at $30,000 a year.

Selected Findings for Brightidea

• Brightidea has an easy-to-use interface similar to social media platforms.
• Brightidea has performance tracking and employee engagement features.
• Brightidea's dashboards enable high-level overviews that enable upper management to monitor all aspects of their organization's performance.
• Notable customers for Brightidea include Children's Miracle Network and Merck.
• Contact Brightidea for pricing information. A demo is available.

Hype Innovation

•  The main features are API, activity dashboard, activity tracking, collaboration tools, projections, and commenting.
•  The notable features are browser-based idea portal with a personal to-do list, custom URL and branding, define innovation community as public or private, and email notification center to address the audience.
•  Hype Innovation also explicitly invite users to become part of the community, export all content to Excel, focus on social collaboration, full control over users, the highest security and operational standards as ISO 2700, and integration into Yammer activity stream.
•  Other specific features are management and evaluation of the idea pipeline, mobile-optimized, predefined automatic email notification & email reminders, register with Facebook or Yammer account.
•  The company also offers role-based access permissions to protect IP, run multiple targeted campaigns at the same time, sign up and start immediately, simple and transparent visualization of the idea process, and start page with personal activity stream.
•  The main benefits of their solution are sustainable and collaborative innovation, expertise included, and easy to use & quick to set up.
• Hype Innovation applies subscription as a pricing model starting from $69.90/month with free trial availability.
• The pricing will vary depending on the number of users that ranges from $6.99 to $2.99 per month.
•  Their notable customers are Nokia, Volkswagen, Toyota, and Bayer.

• Rated as a great package with a powerful collaboration.
• Considered as very good support with 4.6 out of 5 stars in HYPE Innovation ratings based on Capterra reviews.
•  The Hype Innovation solution is viewed as a "great for businesses who would like to engage with their employees to get the best ideas to help develop and grow the business."

• Some cases in the solution specifically the back end are clarity lacking.
• The configuration of the solution evaluated as "can be somewhat rigid from a user experience perspective."
• There is also a limit of licenses resulting in some of its users wanted a different pricing model.

Qmarkets

•  The notable features of Qmarkets are notifications, deadline tracking, competitive intelligence, analytics, best practices repository, collaboration, prediction markets, evaluation workflow, and active directory integration.
•  Qmarkets also stands out because of its idea tracking, automatic notifications, collaborative review, customizable branding, idea evaluation life cycle, prediction markets, role management, single sign-on, and third party integration.
•  It also offers idea campaigns, ideation, email templates, gamification, role-based permissions, competitive intelligence, personalized pages for users, and idea ranking.
• "Improved decision-making", "simplified generation of groundbreaking ideas", and "streamlined idea management" are among the main benefits of the Qmarkets solution.
•  The pricing of the solution is not publicly available. Consequently, clients have to direct contact the company for the solution's pricing.
•  The pricing model of the company is a quote-based plan. Clients are required to submit a request for a demo to see if the solution is suitable for their businesses.
•  Qmarkets' notable customers are Hyundai, McDonald's, Bridgestone, Ford, and Nestle.

•  The solution is viewed as "professional, vast possibilities, easy to configure."
• The solution has is a user-friendly software resulting in easy to manage.
• It also has a good user interface, the solution has excellent graphics management.

• The software is not having a good translation of some languages. Customers viewed issues with the software's language translations in Dutch and Hebrew.
• There are also issues in reporting features since it needed in fine-tuning and adjustments.
•  It has been evaluated as "more content-oriented than people-oriented."

Idea Drop

•  The software features are notifications, idea ranking, analytics, collaboration, recommendation engine, email digest, crowd source, identity cloaking, innovation pipeline management, idea push notifications & email alerts, offer up prizes and rewards to incentivize idea challenges, automatic scoring & ranking of idea popularity, native mobile apps available for iOS and Android devices, and view real-time data analytic on trending ideas.
•  Other features integrate familiar social media techniques and tools, track the status of how popular posted ideas are, track trending topics with #hashtags, dashboard-based web access to idea feeds, admin and reports, export data and reports to.csv format, maintain an archive of valuable business ideas, and trace ideas back to the originator and offer rewards.
• Achieve the brightest ideas from everyone, improve and verify ideas with images, attachments & files, and monitor individual accomplishment with profiles and innovation scores are among the benefits of the solution.
• The pricing is paid depending on the number of user bands either one-year or two-year contracts. It ranges from £1.50 to £0.50 on a one-year contract. Meanwhile, the 2-year contract ranges from £1.43 to £0.48.
•  Idea Drop notable customers are MTV, BDO, and Ericsson.

• It is considered as simple and easy to use for users.
•  It has a good dashboard, users viewed this as "clear and well organized."
• Idea Drop has great customer support and communication from their team.
• It was rated 4.8/5 stars in customer service in Capterra reviews.

• It has issues in reporting, it lacks an idea management functionality.
• In their reporting, it has features limitations. Some users wanting more for the software's reporting capabilities.
• It lacks in other integrations such as in Slack and Office 365.

Your Research Team Applied The Following Strategy

Viima

Pricing

• Viima has a free plan for up to 50 users and one board.
• It also has a Premium account option that costs $3 a month with yearly discount. The premium account comes with technical support, unlimited users, and unlimited number of boards.
• The company also offers Enterprise account where a customer has to call their support for pricing as it is tailored to users needs.

IdeaScale

Pricing

• Collect at $4,999 annually
• Engage at $12,999 annually
• Develop at $34,999 annually
• It also offers the Transform package where price is tailored to a user's needs thus they have to get in touch with the company for pricing.

Idea Spotlight

Pricing

• Pricing is only available on request

Ideawake

• Ideawake is an innovation management platform capable of capturing and organizing ideas from employees and customers.
• Its most notable features include gamification, crowd voting, participation control, and incentive programs.
• Ideawake claims that its customers see an average financial impact of over $1 million within six months of using the software.
• The company adopts a four-tier pricing structure with actual pricing available only on request.
• Some of Ideawake’s customers include HP, Baker Hughes, US Bank, and Aurora Health Care.
• The software has received an average score of 4.87/5 on GetApp. It was mainly praised for its ease of use, flexibility to create unique workflows and responsive support to customer issues.
• However, it also received some criticisms for generating unrefined ideas, the presence of bugs during roll out, and the lack of options to classify ideas by viability or other attributes.

MindMeister

• MindMeister is a tool that allows individuals and teams to generate, capture and share ideas visually.
• Its most notable features include the use of templates, presentation tools, and mobile app support.
• MindMeister claims that its mind mapping process can increase productivity by 23% on average.
• The company adopts a four-tier pricing: free, $4,99, $8.25, and $12.49 monthly. Higher tier plans unlock key features such as unlimited mind maps, collaboration with team members, and organized sub-groups.
• Some of MindMeister’s customers include SAP, Electronic Arts, Oracle, and CNN.
• The software has received an average score of 8.4/10 on TrustRadius. It was mainly praised for its ease of use, effective visual representation of ideas and for having Google Drive integration.
• However, it also received some criticisms for being overly restrictive for the free version, having problems with larger mind-maps, and the lack of choice for templates.