# HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) Reviews **Vendor:** Viima Solutions **Category:** [Idea Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/idea-management) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) HYPE Boards is an agile innovation tool designed to decentralize and accelerate innovation across your organization. Built for agility and intuitive use, HYPE Boards empowers teams to innovate at the speed of change. Our platform streamlines idea collection, automates workflows, and supports the validation of hypotheses, all within one user-friendly interface. Whether you're hosting brainstorming sessions, running workshops, working on incremental improvements or want to iterate on your next big idea by testing assumptions, HYPE Boards equips your team to drive innovation faster and more effectively. HYPE Boards shines in its ability to support bottom-up innovation, making it perfect for organizations eager to speed up their innovation processes. HYPE Boards breaks down silos and creates a dynamic, transparent environment where every team member can contribute to meaningful innovation, no matter their role or location, shaping a true culture of innovation. What sets HYPE Boards apart is our dedication to empowering teams through flexibility, accessibility and transparency. Our easy-to-set-up boards enhance communication and collaboration, integrating effortlessly with the other tools in the HYPE Suite, as well as the likes of Microsoft Teams and Jira, while maintaining the flexibility to visualize your processes in the most engaging ways, through Kanban boards, fun colorful bubbles or structured lists. HYPE Boards makes it simple to stay organized and on top of every aspect of your innovation initiatives. ## HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) Reviews ### 1. The path to innovation is in your hands with Viima. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leung Jun C. | Ingeniero de software., Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2022 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I like Viima for its inspiring and easy to use platform. Excellent visual effects that distinguish it from many other platforms. The ability to derive analyzes of the examined concepts in order to have a broader perspective on the success of the innovative processes of the The ability to create multiple boards has helped smaller teams run internal events. The guides and materials available on the website are a valuable and important advantage for users and especially for client administrators. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Some features can't really be customized. One example is the idea impact assessment, which contains only monetary or qualitative metrics. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can customize my needs not only for innovation and new business models, but also to drive efficiency in our core business. The application is very intuitive and easy to customize according to our needs. I can use it for several different purposes simultaneously, for example continuous ideation, brainstorming, organizational culture development, etc. And setting it up for new use cases is really fast. ### 2. The fastest way to innovate. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leong Jun K. | Software Test Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2022 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I like Viima because it allows me to collect ideas from various stakeholders and direct them towards innovation. I can involve the entire team in the development of the service, which also gives us transparency from the first idea to the implementation of the benefits. The app promotes communication between teams by allowing them to comment, reply, and rank each other's ideas. You can also spot duplicate posts or other related content, which encourages our team members to connect and work on ideas together. Customer service is always great and offers quick responses. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Since ideas are not meant to be updated and followed on Viima, getting others to do so can be a challenge. They could filter the status of the ideation process based on a specific time period on the Statistics page. When an idea has been in "New" status for a predetermined number of days, they could send push notifications to category owners. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Viima's free basic plan has capabilities often only seen in the pricey Enterprise editions of rival services. ### 3. With the ability to expand and concretize ideas. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rosemarie P. | Digital Marketing Specialists , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2022 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I like it Viima's easy-to-use visual interface allows us to communicate, discuss and work together with clients and other team members on ideas. You can rank the ideas and choose the best ones to advance our programs. Able to explore and refine ideas with your team at work. To identify and eliminate bottlenecks, you can evaluate your innovation process. You can identify patterns in your data and determine which concepts to pay more attention to. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Although the fields option is customizable, not all fields are yet. It is not very intuitive, so I would like Viima to improve the interface to extract statistical data from the concepts created in the application. For external management to collect data for the rest of the organization, a more improvised method of data extraction can be developed. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Viima makes it easy to explore ideas with your team and refine them. Viima provides you with the resources you need to sort through your ideas and choose the best ones to forward. Ideas can be categorized and team members automatically receive notifications. You can design your framework for innovation as well as your methodical procedure. ### 4. To compile, expand and implement our ideas. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adika S. | Digital Marketing Specialists, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2022 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I like Viima, it allows us to create change plans for our organizational structure, we can innovate, collaborate, visualize and evaluate the data in search of viable solutions. We can see the current state of the effort and the changes that are taking place thanks to the dashboards. You can analyze the comments left by consumers and buyers. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** The export procedure might be strengthened. Adapting various features of Viima to the needs of the company was a challenge, but we appreciated the constant attention and detail of customer service. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before you implement any of the team members' suggestions, you can rank them, comment on them, and group them by priority. A global perspective on the success of creative processes with viable options can be obtained by extracting an analysis of all the ideas evaluated. It allows us to identify failures that were ignored or underestimated. ### 5. To transform ideas into new products. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taufik R. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2022 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I like that Viima allows you to manage transparent and accessible ideas for your company, it gives you the ability to: Collect suggestions from employees, customers and other interested parties. Prioritize your ideas and choose the best ones to move forward. Together with your team, develop and refine concepts. Examine your innovation process for bottlenecks and work to eliminate them. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I have no objections to Viima, it's still a viable alternative to consider. **Recommendations to others considering HYPE Boards (formerly Viima):** I recommend Vima because it makes collecting, developing, and managing ideas simple and enjoyable. Both internal and external thoughts can be used. You can create use case dashboards tailored to the needs of individual employees, customers, and teams. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can collect and manage ideas from a variety of sources, as well as enlist the help of employees to develop and implement initiatives. Ideas can be tagged, using hashtags to filter and rate them. On the go, add thoughts, send photos and join the conversation with the mobile version. Notify users about interesting actions through push notifications. It allows internal or external stakeholders to participate in campaigns and ideation contests. You can rate ideas using metrics that you set yourself, you can do this multiple times throughout the process. ### 6. fantastic platform to create and convert innovative ideas. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ezequiel M. | Director of Technology and Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2022 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** It is one of the best tools to create all our ideas in a dynamic and very innovative way, it is very easy to use and allows us to collect all the ideas to be able to create a single completely personalized one and carry out an analysis of the process of all our ideas. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** there are no functions that we dislike, it is incredible to be able to manage and share ideas to improve the experience of the clients, through Viima we can evaluate all the ideas that the clients offer us to create continuous improvements in the innovation of our products. **Recommendations to others considering HYPE Boards (formerly Viima):** It is a very simple platform, it increases the workflow and creates dynamic content for our organization, it has very intuitive and fun functionalities. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have continuously improved our workflow and the innovation of our products, this has allowed us to maintain the satisfaction of our clients, Viima has worked in a flexible, easy and professional way. ### 7. Excellent means for developing innovations based on the ideas of one's own employees **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David R. | Trainee in Digital Business Solutions, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Viima is an excellent way for company members to share their ideas for improving the company's cultural, logistical, and/or technical performance. These ideas can then be commented on by all employees and put to a vote, receiving constant feedback and evaluation from their colleagues and going through various phases at the discretion of the administrators. Thanks to this system, ideas can be consolidated, improved, and evaluated at every project phase up to final implementation, providing a central database for all innovative processes in the company's various departments. The point system, based on interactions and the development of proposed ideas, allows employees to track their ideas while the company can promote its own "gamification" systems to encourage innovation through the use of the application. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Sometimes the interface for extracting statistical data from the ideas developed in the program is not intuitive. It would be a good idea to develop a more direct way of data extraction for external management to be able to collect data for the rest of the company. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since the introduction of the program and its presentation to the company's employees, we have been able to start developing technical and organizational improvements in various departments, thus receiving suggestions for improving our internal processes or acquiring new tools to meet our requirements. With Viima, we can identify our needs much faster and take appropriate actions by recording all innovations and the processes behind them until their implementation. ### 8. Transparency to the whole process, from idea to benefits realization **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Minna V. | Requirement Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** To scale the service development, our organization needs certain amount of structure and common agile ways of working. Viima is now helping us with that. With Viima we can collect lots of insights and ideas from the whole organization; from drivers, operations, sales, customer service, etc. We do not only engage the whole organization to service development, but we now also have transparency to the whole process; from idea to benefits realization. And most importantly, with Jira integration we can easily move validated and prioritized ideas from Viima to our development backlog in Jira. Ideas that improve customer experience and support our strategic goals. We have received lots of feedback from all over our organization and the overall user experience has been very positive. Employees feel that the platform is user-friendly, visual, and it allows us to customize most of the fields if needed. And if we have questions, we can usually find an answer from Viima Knowledge Base. If not, we send a question to Viima support and they provide us an answer quite fast. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I like all features. However, some minor things could be improved - eg. Customer Experience could be taken into account in "Impact Assessment". It would also be good if on "Statistics" page the status of the ideation process could be filtered based on a certain time period. But I am sure that Viima has already thought about these and these features will be improved at some point. **Recommendations to others considering HYPE Boards (formerly Viima):** Viima works for many different use cases and engages employees. It is easy to use and is an amazing tool with integration to Jira. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a very large organization and lots of ideas. With Viima we can collect ideas, different business and customer needs from different sources and parts of organization to one centralized place. Even though we have lots of ideas, those are still being reviewed and moving forward in the process. Viima enables us to have multiple boards for different needs. Those boards are owned by dedicated teams who will make sure that all ideas are being commented and evaluated. The best ideas are then moved to our Portfolio board. That provides full transparency to our service development. The whole organization can follow how ideas are progressing; from idea all the way to benefits realization. ### 9. Ideamanagement with User interaction **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric T. | Business Development Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** With Viima you can discuss your employees' ideas with everyone in your company on an ideation board. That helps in developing the ideas to a new level. The look of the boards is modern and appealing with several possible configuration settings. An included gamification approach helps in activating more user interaction. The friendly and competent sales team supports you when there are questions or needs. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** You need an open and discussion-friendly company culture if you want to use Viima and its social media-like approach to develop the ideas on a constructive basis. Even with many configuration settings, there could be some more that could be implemented in the future. A general point should be kept in mind: Idea management is a lot about personal interaction. The discussion is very helpful but does not replace your colleagues or the ideamanagement meeting each other to share their thoughts and discuss them in person. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We could strengthen our internal communication and interaction between departments with Viima after the Rollout a half year ago. In this short period of time we could already collect a lot of ideas and put them into practice. ### 10. Incredibly useful tool for collecting and prioritising innovation ideas **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Viima is an incredibly useful tool for collecting and prioritising innovation ideas, and for a large organisation, can really streamline the crowdsourcing process and save time. The platform is very intuitive and user-friendly and with the option to customise many of the fields. The platform not only supports the collection of ideas but has the potential to enhance collaboration across the organisation and reduce duplication. The tool encourages dialogue between teams with the ability to ‘comment’ and ‘like’ and ‘rank’ other people’s ideas, and can identify duplicate entries or similar content - prompting users to connect and collaborate with each other on ideas. It is easy to create and customise boards for specific innovation challenges, with the ability to restrict access to specific users. Customer support is always fantastic, with very quick response times. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Whilst many of the fields are customisable, not all fields can be tailored. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Viima platform provides a mechanism for employees to submit innovative ideas to improve outcomes for people living with and affected by cancer. We use the platform to collect, prioritise, evaluate and provide feedback on potential innovation initiatives, and identify appropriate propositions to test and develop further. ### 11. Viima is engaging, usable, and powerful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Excellent visualization and team engagement. The activity was easy to configure and administer and the interface was extremely easy for our participants to master. We were very pleased with the volume and depth of the comments and the degree to which participants revisited the pool of ideas to add more input. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** No downsides. I love the tool. I am looking forward to exploring the Microsoft Teams integration and seeing what's in store in terms of visualization and idea management. We used Viima for idea gathering and I would like to help our organization move beyond that to evaluation, management, selection, and eventual integration with our strategic planning and project management processes. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a large community that has grown weary of surveys and other traditional efforts to generate ideas. Participation rates have been very low and Viima offers a much more visible, social, and engaging experience that aligns well with our busy, asynchronous lives. Most recently, we used Viima during our Future of Learning Week to engage the entire community in ideation around several technologies and practices identified as critical to the future of learning. Compared to the in-person events we facilitated that week, our Viima board drew significantly more unique participants and contributions. ### 12. Extremely easy to use and engages employees to participate in continuous development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Viima is really easy to use, fun, engaging, and enables collecting ideas from all over the organization so that everyone can participate in ideation and continuous development. Also from the admin side its easy to setup and manage. In addition, their support team has always been really helpful. Overall a great tool. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** We have identified some minor features that would be nice to have. For example, to send automatic reminders to category owners when an idea has been in status "New" for X days. But otherwise, there are no significant downsides to Viima. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Viima helps us to collect development ideas from a vast amount of people across the organization. And it's not just collecting ideas - because of the social aspect people can comment on other's ideas to develop them further. ### 13. Easy to use and helpful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** It has been an excellent experience so far. We were able to build our board almost exactly how we envisioned it. Very easy to use for all user levels. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** You cannot customize some features. An example is alert emails should go to the idea Admins but instead we have to let our executive team knows there are new ideas. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Viima for our Innovation portal. We have had numerous ideas collected in Viima, and had three different challenges for teams to innovate. The benefit to Viima is we can hold an idea from being implemented until there is a need for it, without losing sight of the idea by putting the idea into a different category. ### 14. Powerful, but Simple to Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marc B. | Beheerder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** The user experience. Viima is easy to set up and easy to handle. I like the pricing model, it's fair. The app works fine and makes it easy to drop one's idea into Viima, wherever you are. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** I'm not a fan of the ball-design that represent ideas, but as other people are totally fine with this (I asked them), so am I. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Idea generation with people working remote. Result is great ideas, because people start building upon other person's ideas. ### 15. Board available to all staff for my department to provide any idea for improvement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Helene M. | Global Manager,Trial Operation Optimizations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Very easy to use, visual is also great and people used it on an onhoing basis **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** Analysis feature are limited due to my account **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** centralized location where people can provide feedback on an ongoing basis ### 16. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** It is very visual, which makes its use very intuitive. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** It takes a little time to load your workflows but the one-time effort is worth it. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Viima, you can hear the entire organization and it facilitates and promotes communication between our offices throughout the country. ### 17. Immersive, Integrated and Straightforward **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick B. | General Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2018 **What do you like best about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** The Viima interface is really immersive and presents all ideas in the simplest possible way. All the information you need is in one place and you don't have to click through numerous different screens to get to the answer you are looking for. The interfaces is really super impressive! The transitions and how different modules on the platform flow into each other make it a lot of fun to use. **What do you dislike about HYPE Boards (formerly Viima)?** My biggest disappointment with the Viima platform is the fact that they do not offer a fully on-premises solution which limits the type of data that can be placed on the platform in a security conscious industry, cloud-averse defense industry. **Recommendations to others considering HYPE Boards (formerly Viima):** This company is really amazing to work with. They have an awesome support team and a really great marketing department that works overtime to get things done just the way you need them to be. Niclas and the team went all out to make sure that all the questions we had were answered. They were open and honest about their product offering with regards to our requirements and proved to be a really great vendor. **What problems is HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) solving and how is that benefiting you?** Viima enables the gathering of ideas from employees in a central place and makes those ideas visible to others, allowing different ideas to feed off each other and form a massive "snowball" of ideas the will just keeps on gathering momentum. Viima allows us to categorise the ideas we get in and see the statuses of each idea individually. ## HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) Discussions - [What do you mean by innovation management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-do-you-mean-by-innovation-management) - 1 comment - [What is idea management software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-idea-management-software) - 1 comment - [What is innovation software?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-innovation-software) - 1 comment - [View HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/hype-boards-formerly-viima/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+13%3A45%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=f208715e-9c90-4767-b397-19ae250ef82e&secure%5Btoken%5D=277bc12b19a958787511a0fc0933cca4007f62a56ef9d7f7a2deaa69750e99ab&format=llm_user) ## HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) Features **Analytics** - Analytics **Feedback** - Ranking - Commenting **Execution** - Team Collaboration - Project Management - Task Management **Idea Sources** - External Idea Generation - Internal Idea Generation **Roadmapping** - Roadmaps - Timelines **Idea Collection** - Idea Campaigns - Surveys - Forums - Suggestion Box - Mind Mapping **Integrations** - Gamification - Project Planning **Agentic AI - Idea Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Natural Language Interaction ## Top HYPE Boards (formerly Viima) Alternatives - [Brightidea Innovation Management](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (211 reviews) - [Ideanote](https://www.g2.com/products/ideanote/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (283 reviews) - [Miro](https://www.g2.com/products/miro/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (12,806 reviews)