Brightidea vs. Pollen8

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Brightidea
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
BrightIdea aims to be the #1 Platform in Customer Reported Business Outcomes from Innovation. According to the vendor, customers generate better ideas with Brightidea, and achieve the highest dollar amount of innovation outcomes (PWC Independent Assurance Report 2017). BrightIdea helps companies engage employees at scale, collaborate on novel solutions, and foster a culture of innovation.N/A
Pollen8
Score 0.0 out of 10
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The Pollen8 Platform is an Saas solution that helps large organisations surface, select, manage and measure the right ideas and problems from their people in order to grow, adapt and evolve. The platform provides tools and resources that support each stage of the innovation process and the various parties involved, which allows for the systematic and sustainable development of profitable new ventures. The platform provides a toolkit to help the user review & prioritise the ideas…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Brightidea
I believe Brightidea is a great tool for any business where collaboration is encouraged and open innovation is a priority. It enables cross functional teams and audiences to share ideas and connect on topics they may not normally collaborate on
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Pollen8
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Pros
Brightidea
  • Provides a canvas to create whatever is needed to engage the audience in the open innovation session. such as allowing video/picture inserts, custom design, document inserts, etc).
  • Allows users the ability to easily share their ideas and/or comments, while also building on others ideas.
  • Enabling an end to end experience for the user to offer ideas or share thoughts, allows voting and competition, prioritizes ideas based on popularity from audience, and provides the ability to track implementation/ROI of top ideas.
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Pollen8
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Cons
Brightidea
  • The backend project management portion could be easier to utilize and connect idea from inception to execution.
  • In a large organization having multiple approvers and viewers of the prioritized ideas can be challenging.
  • Would love to see a robust report and measurment tool that connects the full story of the idea.
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Pollen8
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Return on Investment
Brightidea
  • Within the 1st year we had over 20,000 unique users sign on and participate in an idea challenge.
  • Significant cost savings opportunities identified, while also gaining client advocates and repeat business.
  • Increase efficiency and effectiveness, and improve quality, while reducing cycle times.
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ScreenShots

Brightidea Screenshots

Screenshot of New idea boards to support your innovation lab.Screenshot of Explore our 15 innovation apps to help you achieve any innovation activity you want to run.

Pollen8 Screenshots

Screenshot of The Discovery Centre introduces users to your innovation programme, setting the scene to ensure ideas are aligned to your business objectives. Administrators have access to a built-in content management system supporting customisation of content & branding across each programme. Run multiple programmes in parallel, targeting different audiences, objectives, or business divisions.Screenshot of Guide your innovators through a bespoke idea application journey supported by our online education tools: Create modular, multi-step application processes to suit each innovation programme, provide different communities with targeted messages around specific challenges, provide one-to-one support using live chat facilities.
Enable idea owners to add team members for collaboration. Capture key information on each idea to enable consistent assessment, and create a database of innovation activity across your organisation.Screenshot of Summary view of all ideas in your innovation portfolio, providing you with an understanding of how each idea is progressing and how your innovation portfolio is balanced across different investment stages, technologies, and business sectors.

Drill down into the performance of a single idea or view ideas grouped by key characteristics. Build an audit trail for each idea to understand how it develops over time, highlighting peak performers and systematic bottlenecks.Screenshot of Publish collections of shortlisted ideas and discover the most popular ideas. Gather feedback and allow teams to form across the organisation, working together to solve the most impactful problems.Screenshot of Administration & configuration capabilities built into the web-based software include: 

Customisation of the branding & content on a per-programme basis, including Discovery Centre content.

Configurable application steps for idea capture including conditional logic to adapt the process based on user input.

Flexible idea selection workflow to support different requirements across programmes.

Analytics dashboard to track engagement levels throughout each programme.

“Flight deck” to view all work-in-progress applications.

User management tools to control who has access to different levels of functionality across each programme.