Ideami

Ideami is a cloud-based platform for collaborative ideation and idea management. It is designed to help teams capture ideas from employees, customers, and partners, organize them, and guide them through evaluation and execution. The platform supports cross-functional collaboration by enabling idea submission, discussion, voting, and tagging.

Key features include idea submission with threaded discussions, upvoting and ranking, tagging and categorization, and an end-to-end lifecycle that moves ideas from submission to review, prioritization, and implementation. It provides board views such as Kanban, configurable workflows, decision logs, and analytics dashboards that track engagement, conversion, and pipeline health. It also offers integrations via APIs and connectors with popular collaboration and project-management tools, file attachments, and role-based access control.

Usage and impact: Ideami is used by product teams, innovation labs, and R&D departments to collect diverse input, align ideas with strategic objectives, and inform roadmaps. By centralizing input, it aims to improve transparency and reduce idea loss. Critics note that successful use depends on governance, clear criteria for evaluation, and sustained participation; otherwise ideas may accumulate without progress.

Governance and history: Ideami is offered as a software-as-a-service product with multiple pricing tiers. It has undergone several releases adding features such as AI-assisted ideation, search enhancements, and expanded integrations. The platform emphasizes security, data ownership, and compliance to common standards in enterprise environments.

See also: idea management, collaborative software, product management platforms.