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Evalueserve Researchstream vs. Planview IdeaPlace

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Researchstream

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AEvalueserve, a multinational headquartered in Switzerland, offers Researchstream, a research approval workflow management platform supporting requests and submissions, reporting, document repository and knowledge management, and feedback.N/A

    Planview IdeaPlace

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Planview IdeaPlace is an innovation management product that enables organizations to run structured, time-bound challenges to generate, evaluate, and prioritize ideas from employees, partners, or the public. IdeaPlace applies natural language processing, crowd-based ranking, and expert review to narrow large volumes of ideas to those with the highest implementation potential. Selected ideas flow directly into Planview Portfolios, Planview AdaptiveWork, or Planview ProjectPlace for…N/A
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    ResearchstreamPlanview IdeaPlace
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ResearchstreamPlanview IdeaPlace
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    ResearchstreamPlanview IdeaPlace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ResearchstreamPlanview IdeaPlace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Evalueserve
    Evalueserve Researchstream is very helpful for creating presentation slides that require a lot of time to create but where all of the necessary data and information for the slide can be found on the internet. The service is also very helpful for industry research that requires consulting many different sources and compiling and synthesizing the information. Evalueserve Researchstream is much less appropriate for creating any materials that require confidential information to be shared as the team is not under an NDA and thus cannot be made privy to such information.
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    Planview
    If you have a community with more than 100 active users, and you're looking for ideas around operational improvements that can be acted on in a 6-12 month window, Spigit will work great, and it's one of the best options out there. If you're trying to customize the platform much, you should plan on paying Spigit's service group to do that for you, because it's not easy to do yourself. If you're looking for ideas that will take more than about a year to implement, Spigit is as good as anyone else because that's a really tough thing to do in an innovation community!
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    Pros
    Evalueserve
    • Deadlines are almost always met on time.
    • The team replies promptly to emails.
    • The team offers up alternative solutions if the exact details of a request cannot be fulfilled.
    • The team proactively communicates if a request cannot be met in full or will take longer than the deadline initially set by the requestor.
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    Planview
    • Acknowledges and supports the culture around the problem and market it is trying to serve. Just using the platform won't solve our problem, we need a cultural shift and Spigit has helped support that process.
    • Customer service - just overall amazing service. Responses are very quickly turned around, they've gone the extra mile many, many times. They are also very open to platform improvements and take feedback very seriously.
    • As the system administrator, I feel their platform incorporates a great balance of templates, out-of-the-box formatting, etc., and customizable content. In a nutshell, we are able to do what we want but we don't have to spend forever to do it. We can use what they have or we can add in our own design.
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    Cons
    Evalueserve
    • The final product sent to me was, at times, lacking enough detail or appeared hastily done.
    • The databases and information platforms the Evalueserve Researchstream team has access to are limited, which limited the scope of what I could request and diminished the usefulness of what was sent to me.
    • The Evalueserve Researchstream portal is not the most intuitive or easy to use. If I had not received a tutorial by an Evalueserve Researchstream team member, I would have struggled to understand how to properly uses the services offered by the Company.
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    Planview
    • There are many ways to configure the solution. Some features make more sense to use at times and should be hidden from users at other times. It would be nice if Spigit had pre-defined configuration templates that reflect the experience and knowledge of their current customer's experience using the software and not just a 1 size fits all base configuration. The good news is with a little experience, these configurations can be created as saved templates.
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    Usability
    Evalueserve
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    Planview
    This rating was given because, Planview is an establish platform used within the organisation for number of years, therefore is a well known platform by the wider business community. Reusing Planview was ease due to user familiarity with the platform, so use of Planview IdeaPlace was logical and reduce the learning curve for users.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Evalueserve
    My company ran a trial with Evalueserve Researchstream. During that trial, those at my company, including myself, used Evalueserve's services and were pleased with the product and helpfulness of their team. We also knew Evalueserve Researchstream had a record of helping similar, quality firms in the areas we wanted to use Evalueserve Researchstream for. So, my company moved forward with Evalueserve Researchstream, particularly in light of the fact my company did not find any other direct competitors offering the specific services it needed Evalueserve Researchstream for. My company, however, does use other services, including, but not limited to, Bloomberg and Refinitiv Eikon, for research, insights, and analysis to supplement Evalueserve Researchstream.
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    Planview
    Most platforms had a nice UI, this wasn't the differentiator. What it came down to was mostly around we don't know what we'll need in the future:
    • Market leadership: on stable ground, not going anywhere
    • Thought leadership: improving the software, inspiring new ways to use it
    • Highly configurable platform: supports use cases we don't know we even need right now
    • Strong services if you need them: always there if you run into trouble or are short staffed
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    Return on Investment
    Evalueserve
    • Evalueserve Researchstream has saved junior staff at my company an immense amount of time that would have otherwise been spent on repetitive, lower-value tasks, which has helped with junior work-life balance
    • Evalueserve Researchstream has allowed for more time and focus to be spent on higher value-add and revenue-generating activities
    • Evalueserve Researchstream has given my firm an increased capacity to explore new markets and verticals for growth; the initial screening that the Evalueserve Researchstream team carries out is a helpful component of my company's analysis of such new areas
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    Planview
    • Firstly, it is hard to define or describe an ROI for an innovation project (and tool) that is in its experimental phase... But a positive is the impact in the overall engagement of employees, especially in overpopulated structures where it is not easy to "become visible, and the smart ones wait for a chance like this platform.
    • Where a clear and strong sponsorship is in place, this platform can stimulate ideas that can potentially have a great impact in services improvement
    • Based on our specific limits in engaging top management, we still cannot see a speed in products or processes improvement.
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    Planview IdeaPlace Screenshots

    Screenshot of View IdeasScreenshot of Crowd PredictionsScreenshot of Pairwise Idea Ranking & VotingScreenshot of New Ideation ChallengeScreenshot of Idea DetailsScreenshot of Challenge Overview