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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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.
95 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
93 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+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?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Workflow Capabilities
Multi Tenancy
Communication Manager
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
Collaboration Channels
Ideation
Application Integration
Analytics and Reporting
Polls & Voting
Implementation Management
Idea Ranking & Evaluation
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Vendor Support
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Breadth of Features
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
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IdeaScale Reviews
Rakshit S.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2025
Driving Collaborative Innovation for Designs
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
It focus on structured innovation and idea management. IdeaScale is specifically designed to gather, organize and prioritize ideas from multiple sources. It helps in product design, where there is need for evaluation and future development.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favourite aspect of this product is its crowdsourcing and voting feature. It allows me to put forward concepts. It helps in identifying the design solutions have practical value, speeding up the process of turning concepts into prototypes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The major drawback is that it is generalized for engineering specific needs. It lacks in built-in integrations with design tools like CAD or PLM systems.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend it for design teams and organization where there is a encouragement for innovation and structured brainstorming across department.
Pros
- Inspires Innovation
- Caring
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
Tribhuvan S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Structured streamline idea
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
Its structured innovation lifecycle and systematic workflows management. Unlike casual feedback tools that just collect suggestions, Idea scale enables organization to define custom stages, making it the process measurable ,auditable and engineer ready.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Its ability to filter high quality feasible ideas using evolution criteria like cost, impact and effort . Idea vetting using scoring matrices or decision panels, which helps prioritize what's realistic given technical constraints.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Limited technical depth during submission, workflows logic is not scriptable and UI customizations are minimal.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I will suggest to setup custom idea evaluation stages to access technical feasibility. Secondly product is quite good , but cross functional reviews are highly encouraged.
Pros
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
- Saves Time
Prashant U.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Innovation management and process Integrity
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
It distinguishes itself from other similar platforms through its disciplined workflows, role-specific moderation permissions and clear visibility into each phase of the innovation pipelines. In contrast to the throw a suggestion in-a-box mentality or rudimentary survey tools, it orchestrates every step for concept capture through evolution and eventual closure , ensuring we can examine system performance upholds process rigor and assign clear accountability.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I appreciate its ability to configure custom workflows stages whether we are label them ideation, triage or deployment and dictate who can progress ideas from one phase to the next.
What do you dislike most about this product?
connectors to external platforms such as Jira, slack or pipeline orchestration tools could use a polish, the integration tends to feel like a reluctant hand off rather than a fluid link.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would highly recommend it , but considering pricing on the other side, we must analyze our team strength and the usage and it is quite challenging for small firm to implement as a big amount is associated with it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing