ECDYS OpenLab

ECDYS OpenLab is an open innovation platform that, according to the vendor, facilitates collaboration and idea realization for large communities. It is designed to cater to companies of all sizes and is utilized by professionals in various fields such as innovation management, R&D, product management, marketing, and strategy. The platform offers a customizable interface that can be tailored to match each company's branding. Non-technical users can easily customize the platform using its advanced configuration interface, as claimed by the vendor. Additionally, the platform provides the flexibility to integrate different modules, allowing users to utilize the desired functionalities.

According to the vendor, ECDYS OpenLab optimizes the utilization of user contributions through its powerful semantic engine. The platform automatically clusters contributions and extracts verbatims and word clouds. Semantic analysis is employed to identify emerging concepts from user contributions. Users' contributions are organized and classified for their exploitation and future use.

The platform, as claimed by the vendor, provides optimal support for various innovation approaches such as co-creation, open innovation, intrapreneurship, and ecosystems. It enables the design of customized innovation paths, structured as a process with animation sequences. ECDYS OpenLab offers a range of collaborative tools to facilitate idea collection, concept generation, experimentation, and decision-making, according to the vendor.

According to the vendor, the discovery feature allows users to share content and explore specific topics. Users can share resources, articles, videos, and other relevant content to stimulate reflection and idea exchange. This feature aims to foster the emergence of new ideas and promote creativity within the community.

ECDYS OpenLab, according to the vendor, facilitates idea generation by maximizing user creativity. Various tools such as comment threads, voting, surveys, and collaborative debates are available to encourage users to share their ideas. Ideas can be classified and evaluated based on different criteria to facilitate their subsequent selection.

The platform, according to the vendor, enables the selection of the best ideas and their further development using collaborative business modeling tools. Users can collaborate to develop more concrete concepts and enrich them with additional information. This step allows the transition from ideation to a more refined concept and prepares for future implementation.

ECDYS OpenLab, according to the vendor, facilitates the experimentation of developed concepts through interaction with the community. Users can conduct proof of concepts (P.O.C) and obtain user feedback to validate or adjust their concepts. This step allows for testing the viability and feasibility of concepts before their actual implementation.