--- title: Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews meta\_title: 'Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 214 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Brightidea Innovation Management works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 214 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Brightidea Innovation Management but has limited features. Are you part of the Brightidea Innovation Management team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/brightidea-innovation-management/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! With over 2 million users world wide and $15+ billion in recorded business impact, Brightidea is ranked as the #1 Idea Management Platform globally and is the market leader in innovation management and Hackathon software and services. Here at Brightidea, we believe that innovation is too important to be left to chance, and that every individual deserves an opportunity to have their voice heard. Our focus is not only giving organizations the ability to readily crowdsource ideas and build on strategic plans, but also back every idea with complex data points to help you track, manage, and prioritize ideas to ensure the best ideas always win. We are designed to fit any size, scale, or level of maturity when it comes to idea or innovation management. Brightidea helps you harness the power of ideas to help you foster a culture of innovation within the company. Most recently, we've added the Whiteboard. Brightidea Whiteboard gives your team a place to brainstorm in your own infinite space via a browser. Create stickies for new ideas, upload images, draw with dynamic pen and marker tools, emote with rich reactions, leverage smart tools like timers to keep your meetings on track, and utilize all of your favorite idea and innovation management templates. Wherever you're at in your innovation journey, our platform & people will help you get to the next level. * * * Seller [Brightidea](https://www.g2.com/sellers/brightidea) Discussions [Brightidea Innovation Management Community](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Omari Starks Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 24 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Ideanote](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ideanote") Ideanote 4.7/5(286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ideanote/reviews) [ ![Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software") Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software 4.5/5(43) ](https://www.g2.com/products/qmarkets-impact-driven-innovation-software/reviews) [ ![Aha!](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aha!") 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After having administered our main innovation intake portal for a while, the many scoring and idea management tools were simple to deploy for different uses, like tracking project statuses, assigning accountability to leaders, and moving ideas through management workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Customized reports, task management, and file management are areas in which I struggled using Brightidea, but the customer success team was always ready to find solutions. This included support for integration with PowerBI through an API for more control over reporting on ideas and their statuses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Brightidea provides a repository for ideas from across our organization, accessible anytime of the day and from anywhere our employees are located. This is a crucial feature for us since two-thirds of the workforce is in field operations and we operate 24 hours a day. Much of the benefit we have seen from Brightidea is in Continuous Improvement focused on process and tools, which aligns with corporate targets in increased efficiency and cost savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic MN Mary N. IT Consultant Consumer Goods Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/12/2024 "An Incredible And Outstanding Tool For Managing And Organizing Ideas." 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea is a powerful and advanced tool for managing and organizing ideas. I like the fact that Brightidea is user friendly with variety of features and great customer support. With it, it's very easy and quick to submit and collaborate on ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Since I started using Brightidea until today i haven't encountered any challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? I like the ability to customize the different interfaces for our different focus areas which has been so helpful in organizing ideas across the organization. Getting started with Brightidea is extremely easy and straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education") AP Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/3/2020 "Bringing people together, opening line of sight" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? I like how BI allows all in our organization to meet on one social media style site where conversations can happen in a line of sight to everyone else. It flattens the field to allow all ideas and comments to happen. It's a great space to host hackathons, design challenges and other innovations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? It takes a lot to learn and run challenges, but it's getting easier. Pipelines are tricky from the back-end sometimes. The new Whiteboard feature could be cool with some UX fixes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brightidea Innovation Management: Ensure you have the culture up front to use such a platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? District and site based concerns. Brainstorming, idea submissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/8/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller KG Kevin G. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/25/2023 "Robust Idea Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? The BrightIdea platform has been a major boost to our firm as to how we can promote the concept of ideation and innovation. It is an incredibly easy to use platform for our staff with fantastic customer support, and we can easily customize it to suit our needs. We have only rolled it out to our staff for a little over a month now, but we have amazing feedback from our users about it already! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Some of the interface for the setup is a bit clunky and confusing, and not everything can be customized easily unless you know HTML coding to dive into the details. I love the unlimited user feature for our staff, but the per user pricing on the admin side could be a bit more flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Having a central platform for our staff to submit ideas and collaborate with others on innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller SB Spencer B. IT Manager Management Consulting Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/7/2024 "Great and amazing platform for collaboration and ideation." 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? What i like best about this great platform is how it is simple and easy to learn and manage. It makes it extremely easy to submit and collaborate on ideas. It helps our company to rank innovative ideas to implement for sparkathon and other similar recognition. Simple and easy to implement, learn and manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? I love Brightidea 99%. I have been using it for quite a long time and i haven't yet experienced any challenges. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Brightidea has a very responsive and great customer support which has built a mutually beneficial relationship with us. The templates are pretty straightforward once you figure them out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Industrial Automation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Industrial Automation") II Verified User in Industrial Automation Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/27/2023 "Innovation Process partners" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Collaborative solution provider. Listens to organization needs and works to develop a roadmap not just sell a package. Good Quick Start information and great training support which is essential given the wide range of customiztion available which can be intimidating. Customer support began with highly technical and business support members on the call to ask and answer question and to guide us to the right level of support needed quickly rather than starting with sales and escallting. Our needs were communicated internally at Bright Idea helping us to move more quickly and efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Initially, we felt like Brightidea was to large and complex for our needs. We had to go do some comparative product analysis before we could apprecitate Bright Idea. It would have been helpful to have had some competitor analysis info up front. IT support / integration was a little bumpy and was passed around a while. To be fair, our IT support availability may have contributed to delays. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We haven't rolled out yet, however our key problems are: 1) Corportate memory or ideas and quantifying Ideation efforts; 2) Lack of standard process for rating and follow through; 3) the need for transparency for idea processing to enhance participation. We belive that the flexibility of the ideation capture, standardizing our process pipeling, and the adding transparency to idea rating, stakeholder review, and selection process will enhance our Innovation efforts considerably. Brighidea IdeaBox will give us the tools to build, benchmark/quantify, and improve our Innovation efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Omari Starks of Brightidea Innovation... [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/brightidea-innovation-management-review-8931862/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Brightidea! We are glad to hear that our collaborative approach and training support have been beneficial for your organization. We appreciate your feedback about the initial complexity and will take your suggestions into consideration for future improvements. We look forward to supporting your innovation efforts as you continue to utilize Brightidea. Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller EH Erin H. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/26/2023 "Simple and effective for all kinds of ideation and collaboration!" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? We're a large company with a wide variety of needs. Brightidea gives us the capability to cull new ideas from across the corporation in a way we wouldn't be able to do otherwise. For the administrators, it's a simple tool to learn and manage, and for users, Brightidea makes it easy to submit and collaborate on ideas. For us, it's great to have a resource we can turn to to answer the question: "I have an idea for x, what do I do with that?" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The downsides to me, specifically, pertain more to the admin-side of the tool. There are definitely glitches we've grown accustomed to work around because it's almost easier that way, like adding pictures to a challenge page, header graphic dimensions, or changing font size/text/color in a Rich Text box, etc. I also seem to run into the same conversation with other admins and challenge sponsors about running excel reports, e.g. report options being kind of all over the place/having to know where to look, having to pull multiple reports for all the data you want/need and then compile them together, etc. A lot of our initiatives rely on the reporting and it makes for a less hands-off experience for the admin when they have to keep pulling reports and piece-mealing things for challenge sponsors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We're able to crowdsource ideas virtually across our company, reaching a larger audience than we could've pre-Brightidea. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Semiconductors](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Semiconductors") IS Verified User in Semiconductors Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/2/2023 "Brightidea is now an integral part of our global innovation ecosystem!" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Easy to spin up new initiatives - even for non-SW engineers. Democratizes ideation. Several niche options depedning on the type of event. Very successful tool to host hackathons - team formation, ideation, documention, assessment. Fantastic customer support - shout out to Justin Gonzalez who has been our go to person for the past 3 years! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Their blog feature could definitely use an upgrade! Some limitations to advanced yet easy web page creation (sharepoint pages are cooler now. BI still needs CSS knowledge to hack into the page for advanced setup). Mobile app has some catching up to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Democratizing ideation across our global sites in a very large organization. Helps us ideation past silos. Aids us in evaluating events like Hackathons and Engineering conferences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller PS Patrik S. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/15/2024 "Amazing opportunity how to create and experience innovations together" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? I like the best the fact that Brightidea is user-friendly tool with huge number of great features and also the customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Maybe some details regarding widget creation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? - changing mindset by focusing on identification of customers unmet needs - to share Innovative products, technology ideas or competitive products by showing their unique benefits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Construction](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Construction") AC Verified User in Construction Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/17/2023 "Great platform for crowdsourcing new ideas" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea is easy for all of our employees to use, from posting ideas to voting and commenting on ideas. Single sign-on integrates Brightidea with our tech stack seamlessly. Behind the curtain, Brightidea helps me manage ideas through whatever pipeline I choose to configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Posting images to the Brightidea file library is a little cumbersome. It would be nice to be able to drag and drop images directly into challenges or blog posts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Brightidea gives all employees an equal voice in our innovation efforts. Great ideas don't always come from the corner office. In our construction industry, we cannot afford to miss the voice of our professional craftsmen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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