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Brightidea

Innovation management software for collecting, evaluating and tracking ideas across an org

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Brightidea is an enterprise innovation management platform that helps organizations capture ideas, run crowdsourcing and hackathon initiatives, track experiments, engage external partners through open innovation, and drive company-wide transformation. It centralizes these activities on a single configurable platform, allowing teams to manage a portfolio of innovation programs and move ideas from submission through evaluation and implementation.

The platform comprises six products: Whiteboard for brainstorming and data-driven idea selection, Idea Box for capturing and tracking ideas across the organization, Program for running structured crowdsourcing challenges, Hackathon for coordinating hackathon events, Lab for nurturing and funding experimental projects, and Ecosystem for connecting with external resources such as accelerators and venture partners. Transformation supports cultural, digital, and organizational change initiatives. Integrations include Microsoft Teams, Slack, Jira, Asana, ServiceNow, Zapier, ChatGPT for generative AI content development, Power BI, Google Analytics, Azure Active Directory, and webhooks. The platform is hosted on AWS with SSO, HTTPS and AES-256 encryption, and SOC 2 compliance.

Brightidea is designed for enterprise innovation teams and organizations managing multiple innovation programs at scale. A free trial is available for Whiteboard, and a demo can be requested for the full platform.

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