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DATA QUADRANT REPORT
EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT REPORT
Idea Management

What is Idea Management Software?

Idea Management software is a platform for organizations to gather ideas from employees and to evaluate them to manage innovation more efficiently. The platform allows product marketers and engineers to quickly gather ideas, provide opportunities for employee collaboration, and respond to decisions around product development, marketing, or strategy.

Common Features

  • Idea Capture
  • Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
  • Role-Based Access
  • Social Collaboration
  • Advanced Search and Filtering
  • Idea Approval Workflow
  • Mobile
  • Idea Funnel
  • Notifications
  • Idea Scoring / Evaluation
  • Idea Segmentation
  • News Feed
  • Multiple Language Support
  • Data Export and Import
  • Application Integration

Our Methodology

8.1

Composite Score

Vendors are ranked by the composite score, which is comprised of feature, capability, relationship, and overall satisfaction scores while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

8.1

CX Score

The CX score is comprised of the emotional footprint metrics, balanced by metrics related to the overall value of the software, while factoring in the volume and recency of reviews.

Data Quadrant

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited from a proprietary online survey engine.

Leaders

Products that resonate strongest in the market, balancing features with a great user experience.

Product Innovators

Products that emphasize product features, gaining strong recommendations from their customers.

Service Stars

Products that emphasize a good user experience and build strong relationships with customers.

Challengers

Products that are strong performers in some areas and trail in others. Often up-and-coming vendors.

Emotional Footprint

SoftwareReviews collects user insights that help organizations more effectively choose software that meets their needs, measure business value, and improve selection.

Rankings, results, and positioning on SoftwareReviews reports are based entirely on end-user feedback solicited by a proprietary online survey engine.

Champions

Products that resonate highly with users at an emotional level. Users have specific emotional views towards these products like love, trust, and effectiveness.

Relationship Builders

Products that are bulletproof and focus on fulfilling core needs with steady support, not the latest feature.

Value Players

Products that succeed on cost and service effectiveness with users.

Contenders

Products seen as good in some areas and trailing in others. Users look to these for innovation at the edge but aren't fully committed.

Top Idea Management Software

2024 Data Quadrant Awards

2025 Emotional Footprint Awards

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Data Quadrant Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards highlight software products that excel in terms of features, vendor capabilities, and customer relationships, earning them the highest overall rankings.

At SoftwareReviews, we take pride in recognizing excellence. Each year, we present the Emotional Footprint Awards to top-performing software products based solely on authentic user reviews, without any paid placements or analyst opinions. These awards shine a spotlight on software vendors who excel in crafting and nurturing strong customer relationships.

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IdeaScale

Data Quadrant Champion
8.4
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Ideanote

Data Quadrant Champion
8.2
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HYPE Innovation

8.0
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Planview IdeaPlace

7.8
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Productboard

7.7
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Sideways 6

7.7
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Brightidea Idea Box

7.5
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HYPE Innovation

Emotional Footprint Champion
8.3
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IdeaScale

8.1
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Productboard

8.0
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Sideways 6

7.8
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Brightidea Idea Box

7.7
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Planview IdeaPlace

7.7
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Idea Management  Data Quadrant
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Top Idea Management Software 2025

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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HYPE Innovation
HYPE Innovation
HYPE Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
8.9 /10
66 Reviews
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HYPE Innovation joins forces with Planbox, bolstering leadership in strategic innovation management. HYPE Innovation offers dedicated software and consulting for a broad range of innovation management use cases. We’re here to help you create your own innovation strategy, build a roadmap, and give you the tools to track your success. Beyond our innovation management solutions, our vast client community is a buzzing network of innovation professionals where you can find invaluable advice from your peers.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Friendly Negotiation
Badge Winner
Brightidea Idea Box
Brightidea Idea Box
Brightidea

Brightidea Idea Box

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
24 Reviews
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Brightidea’s turn-key Idea Box is ready to go from day one. The streamlined interface makes participation easy and the mobile app facilitates collaboration anywhere at any time. ROI and business impact are easily tracked through a robust analytics engine that leads to informed insight. With an always-on digital suggestion box for collecting ideas, your workforce is empowered to submit ideas when and where it is convenient for them, at their desks or on the go.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Effective Service
  • Caring
Planview IdeaPlace
Planview IdeaPlace
Planview

Planview IdeaPlace

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10
25 Reviews
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Join the 6M+ employees at 500+ enterprise companies that are using Planview IdeaPlace (formerly Planview Spigit) to bring the power of collective intelligence to every business challenge.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Includes Product Enhancements
  • Appreciates Incumbent Status
  • Reliable
IdeaScale
IdeaScale
IdeaScale

IdeaScale

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
32 Reviews
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IdeaScale is an innovation management solution that links organizations to people with ideas. Those ideas can change the world – not just your business. Find ideas to aid in digital transformation, to face the age of automation, to fight climate change, inequality and beyond. Connect to the ideas that matter and start co-creating the future.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Fair
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Badge Winner
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Productboard
Productboard
ProductBoard Inc

Productboard

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10
18 Reviews
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Productboard helps product managers understand what customers need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around the roadmap. It is a customer-centric product management platform. It's comprehensive, flexible, and built on an open platform to meet the needs of today’s product organizations.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Sideways 6
Sideways 6
Interact

Sideways 6

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10
14 Reviews
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Sideways 6 is idea and innovation management software that works alongside your collaboration tools, sparking ideas in places where they happen naturally. Sideways 6 allows you to source ideas from anywhere. It collects ideas by leveraging tools your employees already use such as Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook. With Sideways 6, turn ideas into projects and manage them all the way through to delivery.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Respectful
  • Generous Negotitation
  • Transparent

Products below are ineligible for awards due to insufficient recent reviews

Ideanote
Ideanote
Ideanote

Ideanote

Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
20 Reviews
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Ideanote - a modern way of collecting, sharing and evaluating ideas. An Idea Management Platform designed to make your organisation more agile, creative and valuable. Ideanote is an Innovation-Led Growth Platform. Continuously collect, develop and act on the best ideas from employees and customers without any of the busywork. Ideanote's all-in-one platform makes it easy to deliver efficient idea management at scale and unify your teams and customers around your innovation as your greatest lever for growth.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Badge Winner
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Canny
Canny
Canny

Canny

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10
5 Reviews
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Canny helps small to large businesses collect, analyze, prioritize and track user feedback to make informed product decisions. Feedback is captured and organized in one place so it’s easy to pull insights. Canny’s feature set includes public or private feedback boards, scoring features to see priority, public changelog, and more. Canny can be added to existing workflows using integrations like Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce, Jira, Github, Slack, and more.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Tempo Strategic Roadmaps
Tempo Strategic Roadmaps
Tempo

Tempo Strategic Roadmaps

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10
5 Reviews
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The roadmapping tool designed for high-performing teams. Capture customer feedback. Prioritize what to build next. And use boardroom-ready roadmaps to communicate your strategy.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Ideawake
Ideawake
Ideawake

Ideawake

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10
8 Reviews
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Ideawake is an innovation management platform that captures and organizes the collective intelligence of employees and customers. Users are given the chance to collaborate on challenges and questions inside the organization, and throw their support behind the ideas they see as the most profitable or attractive based on their knowledge and experience.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
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