Best Innovation Software

Revolutionizing Innovation One Idea at a Time SenseIP changes how people innovate. It is an AI-powered platform that helps inventors, startups, and R&D teams protect new ideas quickly. From the first spark to a fully drafted patent, SenseIP guides innovators to validate, refine, and file their inventions in minutes. The platform simplifies every step. It supports idea development, prior art research, freedom to operate checks, patent drafting, patent filing, and portfolio management. Users need no legal background. They face no tedious process. SenseIP delivers clear, fast, accessible IP protection that matches the pace of innovation. No expensive lawyers are needed.

Ninox is your solution for organizing and managing complex data in a structured and efficient way. With its highly flexible user interface, you can analyze, process, and evaluate any type of data. Additionally, the Ninox API enables seamless integration with services like Google for enhanced functionality. Designed to work across all platforms, Ninox is available via native apps for macOS, iOS, and Android, as well as through any web browser. The platform empowers users to build custom applications using templates, drag-and-drop formulas, and scripting tools. Its intuitive visual editor simplifies the creation of triggers, fields, and custom forms. With real-time syncing, Ninox ensures a smooth and consistent experience, whether you're working on a single device or switching between multiple devices.

B-Line is an all-in-one facility management platform that leverages AI and IoT technologies to automate visitor management, access control, amenity booking, smart controls, and AI assistance for multiple buildings under one platform, offering a comprehensive solution for asset managers and operators of all building types, without ripping or replacing existing infrastructure. Product Services - Visitor management - Room, desk, amenity booking - Digital access, digital wallet, smart badges, digital IDs - AI-Assistant for 24/7 agentic customer and staff support - IoT device integration and energy management platform - Real-time monitoring of building occupancy, security, and safety - Occupancy-based smart controls for existing HVAC and lighting control systems - Work orders, occupant survey, and feedback system - Evacuation and emergency management

DirectSuggest's award-winning employee suggestion box app streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.

Idea management software that makes it easier for organizations to collect, evaluate, and implement targeted and actionable ideas from their employees, customers, and partners. With fast onboarding, easy-to-use features, opportunities for live collaboration across departments and locations, and offline programs for employee-driven innovation, we guarantee high engagement and a serious return on your innovation efforts.

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.

Aha! is the world's #1 product development software. We help more than 1 million product builders go from discovery to delivery and bring their strategy to life. Our suite of tools includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Knowledge, Aha! Teamwork, and Aha! Develop. Aha! Roadmaps Set plans based on strategy, resources, and what customers value most. Aha! Discovery Jump-start customer interviews and discover key product insights. Aha! Ideas Engage with customers more deeply to better understand what they will pay for. Aha! Whiteboards Product teams deserve a whiteboarding tool that is tailored to their needs. Aha! Knowledge Centralize product information so that internal teams and customers can easily access the resources they need. Aha! Teamwork Manage projects your way while staying aligned with key objectives. Aha! Develop Connect to the roadmap, optimize your workload, and streamline development workflows.

#1 Idea- and Innovation Management Platform. Collect, develop, and implement the greatest ideas from workers and customers. Ideanote leads to more successful innovation, business success, engaged workers, and happy customers. Instantly create idea collections, manage ideas better, and track innovation impact. Businesses of all sizes - from Roche to Pleo - trust Ideanote to accelerate their innovation. COLLECT IDEAS. Launch goal-driven idea collections where you solve challenges together. ENGAGE PEOPLE. With Ideanote, you can be where your people are and make innovation simple and engaging or everyone. MANAGE IDEAS. Prioritize incoming ideas and take the best to action faster with a fully stacked end-to-end idea management suite. top innovators, track your impact, and easily communicate your innovation success with a platform that tracks your performance from day one. AUTOMATE INNOVATION. Seamlessly automate your innovation with 100+ integrations and custom workflows.

Drive business success through employee ideas with Sideways 6, the revolutionary idea management software native to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Interact and Workplace by Meta. Running ideas programs at scale can be difficult to execute with impact. Our solution makes it easy for companies to gather and organize employee ideas ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. Our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (£12m saved and 101k hours saved by Balfour Beatty in 2022 alone), productivity (Nestle ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase in employee engagement at DXC). Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach.

ITONICS is the leading operating system to drive innovation from strategy to execution and generate predictable results at scale. Unlike traditional innovation management software, the ITONICS Innovation OS connects foresight and ideation activities to your strategic goals and portfolio execution in an all-in-one solution. Trusted by more than 500 companies worldwide, ITONICS is the only innovation management software in the world to be recognized by Gartner in 4 different innovation categories in their 2024 Hype Cycle for Innovation Practices. With more than 150 employees worldwide, we support innovation leaders such as adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens and KPMG.

Speed up innovation and continuous improvement by 3x in 30 days. Unifize is a software platform that makes innovation, quality, and CI processes collaborative. This helps manufacturing companies bring better products to life, faster. Whether you start with a single solution or deploy Unifize across all functions, you can be sure it works well in your environment. The templates are infinitely customizable and eliminate silos by connecting your processes together. Unifize is the only PLM tool that focuses on bringing teams together in a real-time collaborative environment to solve problems and manage critical innovation processes. If you're looking to upgrade to a complete quality suite, look no further. Unifize is the only eQMS that makes every quality process collaborative and easy to follow. Stop paying lip service to your APQP/PPAP processes. Bring teams together in a dedicated real-time conversation for every record.

Agorize is a leader in innovation management software fueled by a community of 10 million startups & innovators, and a team of experts. We’ve been awarded as a leader with ‘best-estimated RoI’ by G2 and have helped enterprise companies launch 7000+ innovation programs, turning transformational ideas into tangible outcomes. Agorize IDEA BOX: Collect, assess and develop the best ideas from your ecosystem of employees, customers, partners, and more. Agorize INNOVATION: Identify and develop innovative solutions for your business leveraging the ideas of startups, students and innovators. Agorize HACKATHONS: Engage developers across the world on important problem statements. Agorize AWARDS: Reward and celebrate innovative talent in your organization. "Instead of the usual 24 months to launch a product, we released our new product in unprecedented speed: 9 months!" - PepsiCo Global Talent Management Director

The Nosco idea and innovation management platform helps your company to ensure the continuous inflow of high-quality ideas to your innovation pipeline. Whether you start with one internal idea campaign, multiple campaigns, open innovation, hackathons or innovation challenges - the platform enables organisations to scale innovation efforts. From idea conception to investment and incubation, the Nosco platform along with experienced consultants' knowledge can be used to rally organisations around core strategic challenges.

An innovation management platform for intrapreneurship and startup accelerator programs. It enables to engage stakeholders in e-learning, idea generation, business modeling, online mentoring, and peer-collaboration. The platform is used by Google, Bayer, the United Nations, EY, Bosch, BT, etc. It hosts the largest online impact accelerator network (e.g. Yunus & Youth, Rockstart, Berkeley University, the British Council, etc.) as well as a network of 1500+ social ventures from 116 countries.

Influence and change how your business stays competitive by using the SAP Innovation Management solution to collect and validate ideas anytime and anywhere and turn the best ones into valuable assets. Research and develop local and global idea campaigns that foster innovation engagement through shared ideas and experiences. Set up an innovation office to discover and exploit the secret to innovation effectiveness with better knowledge management. Interact, collaborate, and participate in the innovation R&D processes anywhere, anytime, and with any mobile device. Single, context-aware search box for ideas, campaigns, users, and organizations. Follow the setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.

Accelerating growth and improving profitability begins with good ideas and ends with solid execution. Minitab Engage is the only solution specifically designed to help organizations build improvement and innovation programs, execute them with the help of problem-solving tools and proven project management methodologies, then track key performance metrics in real-time to demonstrate ROI. Foster the best ideas and encourage workforce engagement by inviting everyone in your organization to submit their ideas wherever and whenever they arise, using the fully customizable idea form. Idea forms prompt submitters to score their ideas according to criteria important to your organization, including alignment with critical business initiatives, before automatically calculating weighted benefit, effort, and risk ratings for you, giving you everything you need to evaluate and prioritize emerging innovation and improvement opportunities.

MENTORAS is an AI-powered innovation management platform that guides users from idea to market with smart, structured support. Built on the Sokrates Method, it asks the right questions to spark deeper thinking and unlock hidden potential. Designed for startups, enterprises, researchers, consultants, and policymakers, MENTORAS simplifies ideation with its Interactive Idea Wizard, assembles ideal teams using AI-driven competency matching, and speeds up development through rapid prototyping and crowdsourced feedback. It ensures data-driven decisions with market analytics and protects intellectual property with blockchain-based security. By integrating top AI models like OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude, MENTORAS adapts to any industry and scales as you grow. From ideation to validation and launch, it delivers an end-to-end, collaborative, and secure innovation journey tailored for today’s fast-moving market demands.

Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights.

IBM Garage™ is an end-to-end model for accelerating digital transformation. It helps you generate innovative ideas and equips you with the practices, technologies and expertise to rapidly turn those ideas into business value. When you work with IBM Garage you bring customer pain points into focus. You empower your team to take manageable risks. You adopt leading technologies, speed up product development and measure the value of everything you do. We support you in your business goals, whether that’s helping you respond quickly to disruption or guiding your full-scale transformation. IBM Garage clients experience 10 times more innovative ideas, 67% faster speed to outcomes, 6 times as many projects into production and 102% ROI. IBM Garage is the place where innovation and transformation come together. IBM Garage charts your transformation journey with an iterative framework that guides you from ideation, to build, to scale.

Find innovative startups to invest in and collaborate with. Manage the entire lifecycle of your startup program, end to end, in one place. Kick-start startup competitions and empower brilliant entrepreneurs to solve society’s biggest challenges. Identify trends and innovations. Radically improve your innovation process via partnering with startups. Host startup competitions for your students and alumni. Attract talented entrepreneurs to join your university via startup programs. Spend less time going through attachments and form entries and more time designing and providing great opportunities for startups. Collect more submissions hassle-free. Manage submission and create evaluation workflows. Select the worthiest winners for your scholarship. Make the right decisions about submissions. Select the most qualified participants. Get analysis on all aspect of submissions for each phase. Understand your participants' data & demographics.

The KICKBOX Intrapreneurship Program is an employee-driven innovation program based on a methodology used by over 1'000 successful companies, including Adobe and 3M. The program works bottom-up by tapping into the collective knowledge of your employees and supports them to transform raw ideas into actionable solutions. Get started with a combination of a scalable online platform, a proven methodology, and access to professional services and strategic support. This will make innovation within your company measurable and transparent while engaging with your employees and educating them using gamified elements.