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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ideanote

    Score9.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Ideanote is an all-in-one innovation platform that promises to help teams and businesses around the world capture, develop, prioritize and act on more of the right ideas. According to the vendor, key benefits include: Capture ideas with structure by launching powerful goal-oriented idea collections in seconds. Collaborate across teams with a streamlined process that makes sure you get the most out of every idea. Grow your community…

    $49

    per month

    Projector PSA

    Score1.1 out of 10
    N/AProjector's cloud-based Professional Services Automation (PSA) software helps project-based services organizations track time and expenses, invoice clients, schedule resources, and manage projects. Its three modules span a more comprehensive set of uses than typical project management software. The Accounting module helps the user track time and expenses and manage invoices and billing. Also it syncs with the company's accounting systems as a sub-ledger. The Resource Scheduling module matches…

    $15

    per user

    Pricing
    IdeanoteProjector PSA
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Team Edition
    $15
    per user
    Professional Edition
    $25
    per user
    Enterprise Edition
    $30
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IdeanoteProjector PSA
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsWe believe in fair and transparent pricing. Capture ideas for free with our Free plan or choose one of our paid plans for less than the price of one coffee per employee. It's cheaper than not listening to ideas.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    IdeanoteProjector PSA
    Considered Both Products
    Ideanote
    No answer on this topic
    Projector PSA
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IdeanoteProjector PSA
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Ideanote and Projector PSA
    Feature
    Ideanote
    -
    Ratings
    Projector PSA
    7.4
    11 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.510 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.511 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings5.82 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings5.23 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.57 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings3.77 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.511 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings5.23 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Ideanote and Projector PSA
    Feature
    Ideanote
    -
    Ratings
    Projector PSA
    7.9
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IdeanoteProjector PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IdeanoteProjector PSA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ideanote
    Best suited: In focused, facilitator driven idea noting or discussion session. Less suited: There is no force factor to get users to come back to the mission or page once the session is over. There is no what happens next driver for Missions.
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    We think Projector PSA is a great tool to track and manage people in a professional service environment like management consulting. This system is easy to set up, easy to understand and should easily suit the needs of smaller and medium sized firms. It may be less appropriate for firms that rely very heavily on project management through another system (like MS Project) or firms that rely very heavily on a sales pipeline tracking system. While still very much possible to use, you would (I believe) have to do some re-keying between systems
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    Pros
    Ideanote
    • It is not overloaded. Clear to finish the things in mind.
    • It is flexible to the Team and the upcoming crowd
    • The design is very impressive and we love it
    • So we can link simple to it from our page
    • In my opinion it is an alternative to this normal roadmap
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    • Projector is a very well designed tool for project management. It has allowed us to eliminate a number of auxiliary tools for project timelines and WBS for the vast majority of our projects.
    • Time and expense entry is intuitive and quick for our staff.
    • Our forecasting and resource management capability has improved greatly with Projector and allows us to grow our team efficiently with minimal additional administrative burden.
    • Reporting is extremely robust. It does require some time to really get a handle on the full functionality of the reporting tool, but once you do, you can get almost any kind of report you want out of the system!
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    Cons
    Ideanote
    • More videos in terms of tutorials and use cases.
    • Success stories of how companies used Ideanote to supercharge their innovation.
    • The new Zapier integration is a good step but I would like to see more native integrations with popular SaaS products.
    • Expensive - if not for finding it in an AppSumo deal it would have been hard to afford.
    Incentivized
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    Projector PSA
    • Release management process needs to be improved. Currently no facility is provided to test the impact of new releases in a sand-box. This introduces business risk if there are interfaces into Projector PSA as part of it's use in the business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ideanote
    No answers on this topic
    Projector PSA
    We have been using this tool for a year now and find our use of it continually evolves and broadens. We are also very excited about the overhaul that's under way and feel many of the improvements being put in place will help make us that much more effective and efficient. The Projector team is also very responsive and collaborative in terms of user feedback and improvement suggestions, which helps us know they will work hard to help us get what we need out of the tool.
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    Usability
    Ideanote
    No answers on this topic
    Projector PSA
    Desktop interface feels complex to new users.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ideanote
    No answers on this topic
    Projector PSA
    In 5 years of use we have never experienced an unscheduled outage.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ideanote
    None. This is the only idea and innovation management software I use for our internal processes and we soon plan to use this for our future lined-up services.We have tried GERU in the past but that is a visual mapping software and does not really help in managing proper communication between guests and internal team members.
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    Projector PSA
    We did pursue Quick Arrow another tool that was similar. We found that be in inflexible in use. Projector allows a lot of flexibility in setup. Our organization has very specific business processes and we were able to set up Projector to work with those processes. Several other systems we tried were not as flexible in allowing set up to our needs.
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    Return on Investment
    Ideanote
    • Ideas are well tracked and centralized in one place.
    • We can prioritize ideas and take immediate actions on them.
    • Our team members are recognized for contributing improvement ideas and hence our team is encouraged to think outside the box about business challenges.
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    Projector PSA
    • Even in the small time that I stayed to see Projector PSA reporting I saw ROI projections become more realistic. There was real data to analyze that proved we were spending way too much and charging way too less on some projects.
    • Although employees were not used at entering their hours, this single reporting improved operations management and validated employees concerns that more people were needed to manage workload
    • Project proposals were more realistic because they were driven by real data.
    • Decision making overall for the department became more efficient and effective
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Ideanote Screenshots

    Screenshot of Collect ideas.Screenshot of Engage people.Screenshot of Manage ideas.Screenshot of Measure impact.Screenshot of Automate innovation.

    Projector PSA Screenshots

    Screenshot of Employee Dashboards help resources stay on task by displaying schedules and alerts.