# edison365 Reviews **Vendor:** Edison 365 **Category:** [Idea Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/idea-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About edison365 edison365 is an end-to-end business strategy, innovation, projects and portfolio management platform built on Microsoft. Through a series of sophisticated features, global organizations take the guesswork out of transformative decision-making and make impactful steps toward success, all in one user-friendly solution. Whether it’s project and portfolio management, resource allocation, or analyzing and implementing new ideas with triage reports, workflows, and robust Gantt Charts, powerful customization helps teams reach their goals and maximize potential. ## edison365 Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of data capture** and its effective integration with Power BI for reporting. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy report generation** in edison365, benefiting from streamlined data capture and Power BI integration. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of data capture** and its strong reporting capabilities with Power BI integration. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of data capture** , enhancing reporting capabilities and reducing reliance on spreadsheets. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users feel the **beginner difficulty** is evident due to rushed training and uninspiring learning resources. (1 reviews) - Users feel the **learning curve is steep** due to rushed training and unengaging resources for understanding Edison365. (1 reviews) ## edison365 Reviews ### 1. Easy Data Capture, but Rushed Power BI Training and Mediocre Learning Content **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2026 **What do you like best about edison365?** We like that data is easy to capture and helps people avoid using spreadsheets. We also like the potential it offers for reporting to Power BI. **What do you dislike about edison365?** This answer has more to do with our Edison365 experience and not the features of the tool itself. Training on how to use the platform and how it connects to PowerBI was rushed. The videos that are shared when a question is asked are just alright, and the webinars are boring. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, it is causing more problems than solving problems. But, we anticipate a more dynamic and contemporary portfolio reporting for all stakeholders involved. ### 2. Happy to work with them 365 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Federico C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2024 **What do you like best about edison365?** What I liked most is its holistic vision of integration of all phases of the end to end, its ease of use, configuration, number of features and the human team behind it. **What do you dislike about edison365?** It's lack of its own reporting module and connections with other reporting tools. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problem of not having a complete vision of all the company's projects and the loss of traceability between the different phases of the initiative cycle. ### 3. Good software to funnel your ideas **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2024 **What do you like best about edison365?** Good software when you want to collect ideas in 1 place **What do you dislike about edison365?** The visual aspect - oldfashion look. The operational aspect - not very intuitive **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ideas spread all over the group in different entities ### 4. Medtronic Supplier Cost Out Project Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2023 **What do you like best about edison365?** Ease of use, intuitive functionality, professional look to portal and great service from the Edison365 team. **What do you dislike about edison365?** Having to use External and Internal portal, which causes an extra step in our overall governance process. Although, I believe this will be going away with new, upcoming release. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is driving a single source for supplier-submitted cost-out ideas as well as a direct communication with suppliers on progress of ideas that we never had before. It is also allowing us to connect to PowerBi for metrics we pitch to leadership regarding KPI's. ### 5. More than handy **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2023 **What do you like best about edison365?** Edison365 gives insight and tools to control your projects as projectleader and management. **What do you dislike about edison365?** Edison365 tends to be slow, a little buggy and not so visually attractive, which makes the user experience decrease **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives insight in projects we didn't have before and it is a tool for projectmanagers to keerp control of their own projects ### 6. Great platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2022 **What do you like best about edison365?** The ideation platform itself has been good, the help from the Support Team (Harry and Paul) was fantastic. **What do you dislike about edison365?** A number of times there were difficulties getting in contact with someone via phone. It would just ring and then say no one is available and cut off. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** How to make our company better for all and the ideation platform is helping us to achieve this. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! We're happy to hear that you've found the ideation platform useful, and have passed on the feedback about the phone to our teams. ### 7. Innovation Management Platform to manage your idea pipeline and track progress **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** The user interface is clear and intuitive. The way of tracking idea pipeline is accessible for all users. It allows creating multiple innovation challenges on separate templates to shape the process according to the needs of the organization. The platform allows you to define various metrics for the assessment process, which is easy and clear for the users and reviewers at the ideation stage. Different modules of the E365 suite allow tracking not only the early stage of innovation but also some of the aspects from the POC/MVP stage. E365 Projects module is configurable to the needs of the organization - users are able to follow various attributes of the project. The reporting capabilities of E365 are also a great advantage - the PowerBI dashboards allow to presentation of the results of the innovation track in multiple dimensions. **What do you dislike about edison365?** If your idea pipeline is dynamic and it is growing really fast the daily data maintenance in E365 may be time-consuming from the perspective of user activities like assigning the reviewers to the assessment process. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** E365 suite helps me to track the innovation ideas pipeline across the organization using different attributes and goals. Once you recognize all needs and requirements from your organization it really helps to keep the data consistent and clear. One of the key benefits of the platforms is the reporting functionality used by PowerBI - shaping the reports and visualizing the data in accordance with the needs. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your review! We're pleased to hear that the Suite is helping you to track your organization's innovation ideas pipeline. ### 8. A beautiful user experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher P. | Commercial Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** edison365 is easy to use and easy to set up. It comes with a configuration that can work out of the box and get you up and running super quickly. You can use it on any device, and you can be sure about its security as it enables single sign-on through Microsoft 365. All data are stored in your tenant and Azure subscription (if using gamificaiton features). **What do you dislike about edison365?** It would be good if the conversation feature from edison365OpenInnovation was available in ediosn365ideas. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to capture ideas that are then used for new propositions, as part of our product development process. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your review, Christopher! It's good to hear you found it easy to use and set up. ### 9. edison365 ticks all the boxes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon S. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** joined-up innovation, project execution, and portfolio management that works with my existing O365 environment accessed through an intuitive user interface **What do you dislike about edison365?** PSR approval workflow would be useful however we delivered this with PowerAutomate using edison365s out of box integration to the PowerPlatform **Recommendations to others considering edison365:** edison365 are the industry leaders when it comes to easy-to-use Innovation and Project Delivery that integrates to your existing O365 envornment **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simplified onboarding and user experience, improved team collaboration, greater transparency regarding time, cost and scope across the portfolio and real-time, up to date reporting to generate packs for the various governance groups **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thanks for your feedback, Simon! It's good to hear that the software has worked well with your existing O365 environment. ### 10. Excellent platform to connect different services for fulfilling everchanging business needs. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Noor F. | Technical Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Easy to customize according to different business requirements along with its capacity to integrate with Power Platform, Azure, and other Microsoft 365 services that result in excellent customer satisfaction. **What do you dislike about edison365?** If it is possible to improve in the UI and make it little more lively without sacrificing functionality and performance it is currently offering would be a good change. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Edison365 provides excellent functionality on Project management and Idea management. The value edison365 brings in incorporating all components of the whole ecosystem is worthwhile to utilize the product. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for taking the time to review us, Noor! It's good to see you're finding it easy to customize the software to your needs. ### 11. Easy, insightful and focus on outcomes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Magnus H. | Chairman Of The Education Boards for Sharepoint and FrontEnd Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Easy to learn and use, yet feature-rich enough for both new and seasoned as well as small and large organisations. Collaboration that works and helps focusing on outcomes across teams. **What do you dislike about edison365?** Edison365 is supereasy to configure and the interface so straightforward that you start to ask yourself why not other softwares you use could be like edison365. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We realize benefits with edison365 from end-to-end collaboration from ideas over business case to realization and value generation in our product and services pipeline. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thanks for taking the time to leave a review, Magnus! It's great to read that you've found the tool useful for collaboration, and easy to set up. ### 12. all in one yet the best and easy way of setup. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vijith P. | Security Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** All in one setup, with a lot of advanced functionalities and ease of usage. setting up and getting ready to run is fast and users can get onboard with it and start using it without any prior training since its integrating with microsoft365, **What do you dislike about edison365?** there is nothing to dislike about it and if I came across something will definitely add it here, now I don't have anything coming up on my mind to add here. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** we have many customers from different time zones, getting feedback and improving next time is our key way of growth. since we tried all excel or other possible options already and nothing turned out to be good. edison365 helped integrate all together and more easy to use. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Hi Vijith, thank you for sharing your experience of using our software - we're happy to hear that you found it easy to use! ### 13. Innovation together with Edison365 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sonja B. | Programmamanager I&A, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Using Edison365 makes it possible to bring in ideas for our organisation quickly for all the employees. **What do you dislike about edison365?** All employees can vote for the idea they like most, but you can't see what you have voted **Recommendations to others considering edison365:** Edison365 is very easy to use and gives innovation a face within the organization. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Edison365 we can show the organization which ideas have been brought in and how they are voted on. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you very much for your review, Sonja! We're happy to hear that the tool has been useful for bringing in ideas within your organization. ### 14. Easy to use and a great user experience! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris A. | Business Development Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Straightforward and really effective way to manage ideas, business cases and projects across an organization and extremely easy to use for all employees. Quick to set up, and onboarding users is very easy, helped by an intuitive interface. **What do you dislike about edison365?** I cannot think of anything the moment - really looking forward to seeing the future roadmap of enhancements coming to life! **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to capture ideas used for new propositions as part of our product development process. edison365 is used as an end-to-end collaboration tool, from ideas to business case to realisation and value generation in our product and services pipeline. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thanks for your feedback, Chris! We're looking forward to the future too, and are pleased to hear you've found the software useful. ### 15. edison365 - The Best of the Best for end to end Ideas to project delivery **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sue T. | Industry Consultant **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about edison365?** Ease of Use, UI/UX, Configurability - appeals to all sections of our customers **What do you dislike about edison365?** there are no downsides. It could incorporate the whole Portfolio Management concept with a hierarchy of Portfolio to Programme to Project **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Transparency and visibility of the required outcomes for projects from the BUsness Case that they came from **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for the kind words, Sue! We're happy to hear you've had a great experience with the software ### 16. edison365 is a Game Changer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** edison365 is so easy to use. Everyone in the organization can participate in idea creation. And, it's so easy to promote ideas to business cases, and then projects. **What do you dislike about edison365?** There really aren't any downsides to using edison365. The only downside would be overthinking it. Its easy to get started with edison365 ideas, and grow into other modules. **Recommendations to others considering edison365:** Start with edison365 ideas and then grow into edison365 Business Case **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our customers can see all of our ideas in one place. And, they can assign financial values to those ideas, and rate them against one another. What is really nice is that you can then execute on those ideas and put them in motion. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your review - it's great to hear you've enjoyed using edison365ideas! ### 17. Edison365 a friendly platform adaptable to your management needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Friendly, intuitive and interactive format with other commonly used platforms. It integrates in a pleasant and easy-to-use environment resources that allow teamwork and the transmission and analysis of ideas. **What do you dislike about edison365?** It requires a learning time to master the administration of the tool. This can discourage people who are not fond of computer news. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm just starting out but I think it will be very useful for the quality management and risk and opportunity analysis of my university. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your kind words, we're happy to hear the software has been useful for your university. ### 18. Great tool to support innovation and portfolio management within your organization **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ruud P. | Member Advisory Board & Seminar, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** It's flexibilty to support different approaches and easy to configure the system. Best compliments was that staff told us that they could use the ideation app without any training as it was that easy!! Brilliant **What do you dislike about edison365?** It's full power is within a Microsoft 365 environment. So get it when M365 is your core platform! **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gathering ideas, managing ideas towards the portfolio and some portfolio elements (which projects are we running at the same time) **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for taking the time to review us, Ruud, we're happy to hear that your employees have found the ideation software easy to use! ### 19. End-to-end solution set **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike T. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** The entire suite is great. Ideas streamlines our innovation process with a minimum of IT support. Business case helps further clarify what ideas should get approved. Projects helps us manage the work. Datastore is great for aggregating and reporting project information to improve decision manking. **What do you dislike about edison365?** Perhaps consolidating all the products into single Db platform. That maybe coming soon? **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** End-to-end innovation to project execution. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thanks for your review, Mike! It's good to read that you've enjoyed using the Suite. ### 20. Focus on easy of use, yet allowing complex processes to be configured with ease **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Ease of use, attractive look and feel, easy to configure, made for big and small devices, support for multiple languages, basic settings help keep it simple. Yet, you can also configure the system to support complex processes. It is relatively easy to connect to the data, which is stored in Microsoft 365, with for example Power BI or Power Automate. **What do you dislike about edison365?** There are some bugs and translation issues; once reported, they are usually fixed within a few weeks. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Idea gathering, idea selection and follow-up with business cases and/or projects. Little to no training required. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your kind words! We're glad to hear you've found the software useful. ### 21. edison365 and Microsoft Power **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Theo V. | Sr Business Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** It's alignment to the Microsoft Power Platform in combination with it's practical 'build for purpose.' **What do you dislike about edison365?** The lack of advanced resource management and portfolio management analysis functions. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of project management information & Project Status Report. I have realised more insight, control and purpose in the active management of projects and programs for my customers. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thanks, Theo - it's great you've found the Power Platform alignment useful! ### 22. This is superb app, like Microsoft but with interactive features for collaboration with your team. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adi M. | Instructional Technologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** The features is preaty damn usefull. Collaboration makes it easy. And sure, preaty much easy to use as well. **What do you dislike about edison365?** I need more accesable across platform, like Android and iOS. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I collaborate to build portfolio with my team, this platform is useful. In one app you can do anything, like data visualization, create a progress and timeline. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Hi Adi, thank you for your kind words, we're happy to hear that you enjoyed using our software! ### 23. Edison365 Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Love this tool for project delivery and innovations solutions, this is a great software that delivers in all parts of the organization from strategizing to implementation **What do you dislike about edison365?** Within the platform and in order to get the best of it I think some of the controls might require additional learning of the tool and how to use them, but mostly all are intuitive **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** When asked to contribute ideas at the organization level at any time of the day you can access the tool and send easy feedback (evaluation) all across the team **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Hi, thank you for your kind words. We're happy to hear that you're enjoying edison365! ### 24. Great tool to triage ideas and foster continuous improvement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Being hosted in Office 365 makes it really easy to integrate into your systems. **What do you dislike about edison365?** The tool is not designed for managing Intellectual Property, but they implemented some good features to tackle that aspect. **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing Innovation Challenges internally. **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your feedback! We're happy to hear that the tool is helping you run innovation challenges. ### 25. Edison365 - NoBrainer for companies using Microsoft 365 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lex v. | Director / Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2021 **What do you like best about edison365?** Built on top of and integration with Microsoft 365. Supports lifecyce from idea to realization **What do you dislike about edison365?** Integration with Teams should be improved **What problems is edison365 solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving each person within the organization a voice with edison365ideas **Official Response from edison365 Team:** > Thank you for your kind words, Lex! ## edison365 Discussions - [What is edison365 used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-edison365-used-for) - [View edison365 pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/edison365/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+08%3A54%3A01+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=214470ba-075f-4918-a789-7be3402616e9&secure%5Btoken%5D=e2dc04ca4be338f1aa3d930701a1d7c7ff522e0c2e703843b62468c2a14db492&format=llm_user) ## edison365 Features **Tasks** - Creation & Assignment - Due Dates - Task Prioritization - To-Do Lists - Dependencies - Mass Updates - Drag & Drop - Recurring Tasks **Feedback** - Ranking - Commenting **Platform Basics - Hackathon Software** - Collaboration - Registration - Workflow **Projects** - Planning - Project Map - GANTT - Calendar View - Views - Project Budgeting - Issue Tracking - Templates - Time & Expense - Methodologies **Idea Sources** - External Idea Generation - Internal Idea Generation **Ideation - Hackathon Software** - Idea submission - Idea crowdsourcing **Resource Management** - Resource Definiton - Capacity - Scheduling **Idea Collection** - Idea Campaigns - Forums - Suggestion Box **Analytics - Hackathon Software** - Dashboards **Project Monitoring** - Baselining / KPIs - Resource Allocation - Dashboards **Integrations** - Gamification - Project Planning **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Agentic AI - Idea Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction **Agentic AI - Project Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top edison365 Alternatives - [Ideanote](https://www.g2.com/products/ideanote/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (283 reviews) - [Aha!](https://www.g2.com/products/aha/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (355 reviews) - [Coda](https://www.g2.com/products/superhuman-coda/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (475 reviews)