--- 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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What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Sharing all our innovation projects to the whole organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite MD Macie D. Senior Program Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/3/2021 "Adobe Women-in-Technology & Reserach Fellowship application review, scoring and selections" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? BrightIdea offered a scalable and repeatable process for reviewing, evaluating, selecting, and placement of Women-in-Technology and Fellowship applicants. --\>Reviewers can view ALL applications in a centralized location, complete evaluations on assigned applicants, and track applicants' progress through the selection process. --\> Program organizers can centralize ALL applications in a protected environment, automate reviewer assignments/follow-ups, centralize reviewer data and report on volunteer and applicant progress. --\>Non-reviewers interested in WIT/Fellowship talent pool were able to access application materials as well as review data to aid in potential internship placements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? BrightIdea's limitations include: (1) exporting combined scores if there are 1 or more steps with score cards (2) load balancing reviwers when using categories (3) importing selection options for submission form creation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Problem: Gap in application review portal given sunset of the old solution Solution: BrightIdea is familiar to our audience as it’s the tool used for other notable programs at Adobe Problem: High effort in organizing applicant review data yielding low visibility of applicant progression Solution: BrightIdea (SSO) provides a centralized location achieving effortless accessibility for participating reviewers to look over application profiles, complete applicant assessments within BrightIdea, including a comment feature. “Status” provides an at-a-glance update on the progression of each applicant, and “comments” allowing for more detailed information beyond the evaluation fields. Problem: Highly manual transition from program applications to intern candidate pipeline Solution: BrightIdea offers robust filtering capabilities which allow anyone granted access to the environment the ability to review CVs of Finalists and Winners based on specific GEO, technology areas, and degree types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller JV Jose Luis V. Innovation Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/5/2022 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Very good" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? the way to mannage ideas is really usefull because you can use different scorecards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The way to configure the sites design is really difficult Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brightidea Innovation Management: That is a very usefull platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? improving innovation in my company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Semiconductors](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Semiconductors") AS Verified User in Semiconductors Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/28/2021 "Great experience launching 2 innovation campaigns/challenges within my business unit" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? 1. Prompt customer service for queries with detailed and very helpful responses 2. User-friendly interface for the admin, without the need of IT support 3. Very user-friendly interface for idea submitters and SMEs/reviewers for evaluation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? 1. Inability to duplicate a previous initiative 2. Formatting problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Culture building activities for an internal customer initiative to spark the innovation spirit within employees at all levels and job duties and responsibilities. We were able to collect 60 ideas from an organization of about 200 people; and 110 ideas from an organization of about 1150 people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/29/2022 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/7/2021 "Looks great, but backend needs some work" 3/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? I like how easy it is to set up challenges. The pre-made templates are easy to work with. It is a good way for people without programming experience to get user-friendly sites up and running relatively quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? We have had MANY issues with importing users. There is no rollback option for a database. It is extremely easy with the current import system to alter our whole user base, sometimes with disastrous consequences. I estimatee I have spent at least 10 hours fixing mistakes after data imports. Also, there is a lack of functional reporting features for analytics. Often, I would have to create custom python scripts to extract the data I wanted (or Brightidea support would do it for me). I know this does not affect everyone, but for those with a technical background, the backend is extremely frustrating, to the point where I've dissuaded others from using certain features because of the manual labor involved with getting reporting data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? I mainly use Brightidea for running hackathons. The project submission and voting features have saved a lot of development time. Brightidea has helped with expanding a culture of hackathons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Justin Parnell of Brightidea Innovation... [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/brightidea-innovation-management-review-5045223/official_response/edit) We greatly appreciate your feedback, and we welcome/encourage you to share any and all ideas on how we can make your experience and the product better by submitting those ideas to our Customer IdeaSpace: https://bi.brightidea.com/ideas We have already submitted this idea for you, and you can follow along to see the progress of this idea as we incorporate it into our roadmap. We will also have your CSM discuss how active directory sync might be helpful for your user management needs. [See how Brightidea Innovation... improved](https://bi.brightidea.com/ideas/D24798?idea_count=2466) Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/27/2021 "Supportive partnership and great idea management tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea as a tool delivered on everything we were looking for, a flexible and intuitive idea management platform that could grow alongside the company. The support with any small technical faults has been fantastic and every issue gets addressed promptly through their support system. It is a bit of a learning curve for admin users initially, however, once you dedicate spending time using it you do feel like there are no obstacles to what you want to achieve. I'm also excited to learn more about their latest whiteboard feature and it's great that they are constantly looking to improve their software with useful updates. In terms of the consulting partnership, we used a few consultants but ended up with a fantastic consultant Veronika and we greatly appreciated Brightidea being flexible and working with us to ensure we got quality advice. Our Success Manager Justin has been a joy to work with and his consistent support has been essential to maintaining a good relationship with us in this new space of innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The only frustrations have been certain features not working with EU data hosting but this has now been developed so no complaints at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Our main problem was not having anywhere to consistently capture ideas across the business. Brightidea provided a transparent platform for anyone at any level to submit their ideas to our initiatives. The benefits are transparency of feedback, 24/7 access, being a one stop shop for ideas, and enabling evaluators to review ideas efficiently using the built-in tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") AB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/10/2022 "CFG and BI Partnership" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Flexibility of idea mgmt platform and variety of services offered. Also appreciate the white glove professional services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? There are a lot of great features and much to learn about the platform, can feel overwhelming at times. But the oartners at the company made learning easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? How might we streamline the collection of ideas and prioritize? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/23/2022 "Project Manager" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? The customizable intake form is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Currently hoping to figure out an easier way to access the prioritization rankings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We finally have a single source for tracking our continuous improvement program and see better performance in the implementation and execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Utilities](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Utilities") AU Verified User in Utilities Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/15/2021 "Great Product / Great Service" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? 1) The platform is really easy to use and navigate for both challenge creators and employees/users. After training, we've been able to set up multiple challenges and add content. Users are able to visit their "innovation hub" if numerous challenges are running simultaneously or our company can provide a direct link to a specific challenge. The app has also been useful for employees that work in the field or travel a lot. Ease of use is a big plus. 2) The customer service is unparallel. The Brightidea email support is super quick and helpful. The success managers meet with you every other week and provide insights on planned upgrades, resources and talk through what you have going on. They are so helpful and always just an email or call away. Shout out to Fran (she's the best!)! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? I have no dislikes. Brightidea has a place for customers to suggest changes or new ideas for the platform and they are always making improvements. One of our suggestions was more dashboard metrics that can be shared outside of those with admin rights. If you have a challenge sponsor, having a way for them to see the dashboard metrics on the site would be helpful. The metrics can be exported to a static report though. Overall, no complaints. Their service trumps any small issue you may have and they will work with you to find a solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Our company is leveraging the Brighidea platform to source ideas from our employees on topics such as customer service, marketing, process improvements, and sustainability. The platform helps employees have a central place to go for innovation challenges while helping the innovation team sort and evaluate ideas and communicate idea outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/22/2021 "Bright Idea" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Very friendly & knowledgable customer support. CSMs are actually useful and provide product roadmaps, helpful ideas and bring SMEs on the call as needed. App is simple to use and easy to administrate. They use the product for their customer feature requests site to allow customers to recommend the next thing to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The only thing i dislike is the lack of logging on the administrative side to see which admin changed something. probably can be viewed from a webgateway instead. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? we use it for ideation in our innovation space, our yearly planning and as a communication medium to allow associates to bubble up what we should answer next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about Brightidea Innovation Management? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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