--- description: Review of Planview IdeaPlace Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice Ireland. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Planview IdeaPlace | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice IE --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Innovation Management Software](/directory/4164/innovation/software) > [Planview IdeaPlace](/software/334776/spigit) # Planview IdeaPlace Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/334776/spigit Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/334776/spigit?page=2) > Most innovation programs don't fail because the ideas are bad. Employees submit ideas through email, Slack, or spreadsheets, but without a structured evaluation process, ideas stall with no owner, no timeline, and no budget commitment, and participation quietly dies once people notice nothing happens with what they submit. Reviewing every idea manually creates evaluation bottlenecks and lets the loudest voice win instead of the best idea. Cross-functional ideas get lost in departmental silos because there's no way to route them to the people with relevant expertise. And when leadership asks which innovation investments actually paid off, most programs can't answer, because there's no structured data connecting ideas to outcomes. Planview IdeaPlace is innovation management software built to solve these problems directly. It runs structured, time-bound challenges to capture, evaluate, and prioritize ideas from employees, partners, or external audiences, applying natural language processing, crowd-based ranking, and expert review to narrow large idea volumes to those with the highest implementation potential. Challenge management replaces ad hoc idea collection with a repeatable process: configurable templates, an admin panel with customizable idea capture forms, layouts, widgets, and workflow stages, and TeamTap, which lets users create and run challenges without admin access or templates. Challenges support mobile participation and can extend to external audiences through social media credential access, so programs aren't limited to whoever happens to be in the room. Evaluation solves the bottleneck-and-bias problem directly. Smart idea consolidation uses natural language processing to remove duplicate submissions and narrow large idea pools automatically. Pairwise idea ranking uses a bias-free branching algorithm so the best idea wins on merit rather than visibility, crowd predictions estimate revenue, cost, and delivery time, and structured expert review adds quantitative and qualitative scoring at the end. Idea workflow automation advances ideas based on configurable scoring thresholds, so program teams aren't manually reviewing every submission. Collaboration features address the cross-functional silo problem: commenting, voting, moderator roles built around focus, catalyst, and connector functions, and @ mentions route strong ideas to the people with relevant expertise before expert review even begins. Engagement gamification, including badges, points, and reputation scores, along with user skill and interest profiles for targeting challenges by expertise, help sustain participation once a program is running. Guides and tutorials, including in-app help, videos, and walkthroughs, help new participants and program teams get oriented without a separate training exercise. Innovation analytics solve the ROI-measurement problem: embedded Microsoft Power BI dashboards track idea progress, cost to impact, speed to market, and employee engagement, with OData connectivity extending data into Tableau, Excel, and other BI tools, so leadership gets a real answer when asked what the program delivered. Native connectors, Idea to Portfolio, Idea to Project, and Idea to Delivery Teams, close the execution gap by moving selected ideas directly into Planview Portfolios, Planview AdaptiveWork, and Planview ProjectPlace as structured records ready for funding, resourcing, or delivery, without manual re-entry, so a selected idea doesn't quietly disappear the moment someone has to type it into a different system. > > Verdict: Rated **4.4/5** by 49 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.4/5** | 49 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Planview - **Founded**: 2000 ## Commercial Context - **Pricing Details**: Pricing information is available on inquiry. - **Target Audience**: 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese - **Available Countries**: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Activity/News Feed - Approval Workflow - Brainstorming - Collaboration Tools - Commenting/Notes - Communication Management - Configurable Workflow - Content Management - Crowdsourcing - Data Visualisation - Discussions/Forums - Engagement Tracking - Evaluation Management - Feedback Management - Gamification - Idea Management - Idea Ranking - Ideation - Innovation Management - Mind Maps ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Innovation Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4164/innovation/software) ## Related Categories - [Innovation Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4164/innovation/software) - [Idea Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4500/idea-management/software) - [Product Roadmap Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4554/product-roadmap/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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On a positive note about the new ui, I do like the graduation criteria change on the admin panel > > It provides significant savings for our internal efforts and also is a huge generator of opportunity pipeline. ----- ### "Driving our Innovation Program" — 5.0/5 > **Jim** | *3 October 2016* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Ease of use for the capture of ideas, collaboration and synthesizing of top ideas. > > **Cons**: Would like a more BPM oriented workflow with decision criteria, rules and different paths > > We are using Spigit's tool, having called it "Idea Stream" to drive innovation across our teams that support our clients. They use this tool to "Innovate For" and Innovate With" our clients. In less than 6 months we have launched over 200 challenges that have created over 5K ideas. We are now moving forward across our teams to implement and transform these idea into results. ----- ### "Overall a good experience with a very supportive team" — 3.0/5 > **Yi Hoo** | *2 May 2018* | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: How it allows the whole organization to be able to collaborate and helps us to grow a culture of innovation > > **Cons**: backend still abit clunky and difficult to use and pricing is not very flexible. mobile version also needs to be better improved ----- ### "Best Cloud Based Idea Management Platform" — 5.0/5 > **Mohammed** | *28 August 2018* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: - Ease of use - Easy to manage and modify - Administration - Functionality > > **Cons**: One minor thing related to Arabic language where right to left is not supported > > I have to be completely honest when I say they have the best team to support your Innovation strategy and goals along side an amazing platform for ideas management ----- ### "Very easy to use for our employees to enter in ideas and collaborate as well." — 4.0/5 > **Rachel** | *11 June 2018* | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10 > > **Pros**: Employees find it easy to use, can generate reports quickly, review forms for an idea, and ideas can move from one challenge to another. > > **Cons**: We continue to make the workflow portion of the software better. Working together with Spigit we have been able to come up with ways to use the software to benefit our company. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/334776/spigit?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/334776/spigit) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data