Braineet Crowdsourcing (ITONICS) vs. IdeaScale

Braineet is very well suited for organizations looking to create a centralized repository of ideas to enable participants to share, comment, and like each other ideas. the platform is very flexible in the early stage of the ideation phase and enables participants to share quite freely their idea. Then in the later stage, the module of project management enables tighter control over their evolution. The feature of challenging provides an efficient mechanism to involve more the organization while the creation of space enables the onboarding of external sources.

Ideascale is well suited for open innovation, private campaigns and sharing of knowledge across multiple organizations and boundaries.

• 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.

IdeaScale is the first Ideation tool I came across.

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