Braineet Crowdsourcing (ITONICS) vs. IdeaScale

Well Suited: Post ideas by business topics or internal topics, Manage ideas Less appropriate:

It is best used for employee engagement, team building, etc.

• Ideation Platform
• Challenges Organization
• Crowdsourcing

• IdeaScale allows open and quick interaction.
• Campaign moderation is a breeze.
• Creation of the campaigns is very simple.

• The reporting platform needs improvement to make it easier to show results directly from the system.
• It takes time and effort to get traffic in the tool.

When looking for an ideation platform we compared Braineet with Hype, Viima, and other players in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Most of the competitors' solutions felt quite rigid in their way of managing innovation. Moreover, the pricing of those solutions was often quite high Braineet provides a good middle point in terms of feature and pricing while allowing the greatest freedom at the early stage for the participants.

The customization, privacy options and review stages were specific to Ideascale compared to some of the others. I also found that some of the other companies were too complex in the build up.

• Ideascale was launched recently so no concrete ROI yet
• Supports driving innovation as a discipline internally and externally