Brightidea Innovation Cloud

What differentiates Brightidea Innovation Cloud from other similar products?

Implementation

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Heuristic system

What do you dislike most about this product?

Color scheme of gray black and white

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Get leadership team on board with initial MVP

What differentiates Brightidea Innovation Cloud from other similar products?

Brightidea is truly looking at the entire process of idea management and offer many different products to help organizations manage their ideas. While their entire product would be fairly expensive, even just one piece of their product, "Pitch," made for an amazing experience that helped our organization surface over 100 new ideas from

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The hands-on implementation support from their Innovation Consultant. Their willingness to meet us where we were and truly get behind our innovation efforts made the implementation of Brightidea and the running of our first Innovation competition an astounding success!

What do you dislike most about this product?

During the sales process it was not made clear to me that the various parts of the product were sold separately. I thought we'd be able to pick the option that worked best for us, not be locked into one from the outset. We made it work and work well for us, but that was confusing initially. I also wish there were an easier way to send an email to all users manually. You can set conditions for messages to go out, but sometimes, especially when there's a limited scope to the product, it would be nice to just send a message to all users.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Buy the implementation and training support from their Innovation Consultants. Working with a dedicated innovation consultant to help us set up our first innovation competition and walk us through the process allowed us to go from signing a contract, implementing the product, and then running our first innovation competition all within 6 months. We would never have been able to pull it off without their help.

What differentiates Brightidea Innovation Cloud from other similar products?

All features are available from the start, easy to use and allows for some degree of customisation without coding knowledge. The pipeline feature is extremely powerful and easy to manage and allows you to get a full overview of your activities at a single glance.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The pipeline and how it can be configured to run more than just innovation activities, which allows other areas of the company to also leverage the use of Brightidea and making it more visible.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some of the reporting features provide inconsistent data and there is no way to reset them to get the most accurate information.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Consider what are some additional company activities that's can be managed with the software in order to get more people on board the decision to acquire it, and definitely get the professional training package in order to start using the platform as fast as possible.