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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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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100 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+93 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
- Fair
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
- Generous Negotitation
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
Idea Capture
Idea Segmentation
Advanced Search and Filtering
Application Integration
Idea Funnel
Social Collaboration
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
News Feed
Multiple Language Support
Idea Approval Workflow
Data Export and Import
Vendor Capability Ratings
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
Ease of Customization
Breadth of Features
Vendor Support
Ease of IT Administration
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IdeaScale Reviews
Snehasis P.
- Role: Finance
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Worth the price. Excellent product.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
IdeaScale stands out with its user-friendly platform for crowdsourced innovation, advanced analytics for idea evaluation, seamless integrations, customizable workflows, and focus on fostering collaborative problem-solving across diverse organizations.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's interface and it's functionalities.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The price is little higher but the functionalities are worth the price
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
I would recommend them to give it a try and see for themselves
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Inspires Innovation
Aayushman S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2026
Structured Innovation That Scales
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
From my perspective, different is that most tools let me collect ideas and IdeaScale goes further by trying to manage the entire lifecycle of an idea. They heavily bulit around crowdsourced innovation car scale and I am not just collecting feedback from a small team I can open it up to employees, customers or even public communities and let them submit, vote and refine idea collaboratively thats make differentiates idea scale form others.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite aspect about IdeaScale how it's makes innovation feels less like a one off activity and more like a continuous system that's really helps me and there lots of let's me collect ideas but they usually end up as a static list that nobody revisits.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I dislike one thing when my ideas get approved , moving it into actual project often require exporting it into another tool or system.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
From my perspective, You have to clear your goals in IdeaScale shines when you're trying to crowdsource ideas at scale and create a structured Innovation process. In your workflow you must plan before you launch and define the stages and idea should go through submission, discussion, evaluation and approval and important thing make sure the team knows how to engage at each stage. without a defined process, the platform can feel chaotic.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
Cons
- Less Friendly Negotiation
DR.GODFREY B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2025
Easy way to collaborate
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
IdeaScale delivers a real-time whiteboard option that has a simplified dashboard.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It's ability to illustrate concepts and it's great tool to make simplified notes and sharing among other members.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is no much dislike.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The ease of demonstrating ideas to team members using IdeaScale.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Effective Service
- Helps Innovate
