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Planview IdeaPlace Innovation and Ideation Management

Enterprise-grade innovation and ideation management for crowd-driven ideas

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Planview IdeaPlace Innovation and Ideation Management Overview

  • Updated February 28, 2026

Planview IdeaPlace is an enterprise innovation and ideation management platform designed to capture, evaluate, and advance ideas at scale. It enables organizations to engage employees and external contributors through structured challenges, crowd voting, and advanced analytics.

With strong portfolio integrations and AI-driven trend analysis, it connects ideation directly to execution and measurable business outcomes.

Key Features

  • Unified Innovation Ecosystem: Centralizes enterprise and lean innovation activities into a single system of record.
  • Democratized Ideation: Engages employees and external contributors through open challenges and social collaboration.
  • Idea-to-Execution Management: Connects approved ideas directly to portfolios, projects, and delivery teams.
  • Advanced Analytics & NLP: Uses natural language processing to surface trends, sentiment, and duplicate ideas.
  • Collaborative Decision Making: Applies voting, predictions, and pairwise ranking to prioritize high-impact ideas.
  • Enterprise Integrations: Integrates with Planview Portfolios, AdaptiveWork, ProjectPlace, Power BI, and Tableau.

Price

Plan Price Featured
Enterprise Custom Quote (Contact Sales) Unlimited ideation challenges, Advanced analytics and NLP, Portfolio and execution integrations

Price details: https://www.planview.com/products-solutions/products/ideaplace/

Pros

Competitor

Pros
HYPE Innovation Compared to HYPE Innovation, Planview IdeaPlace offers deeper native connections to portfolio and execution management. This makes it easier for large enterprises to move ideas into funded initiatives. Its analytics and NLP-driven trend detection are also more mature for organizations managing thousands of ideas.
Brightidea Planview IdeaPlace provides stronger enterprise governance and integration with strategic portfolio management than Brightidea. It is better suited for complex organizations that need structured workflows, executive reporting, and direct alignment between innovation programs and strategic outcomes.
Aha! While Aha! focuses on product roadmapping, Planview IdeaPlace excels in large-scale ideation and crowd engagement. It supports broader innovation use cases beyond product teams, making it more effective for company-wide innovation initiatives and employee-driven idea programs.
Miro Unlike Miro’s freeform collaboration approach, Planview IdeaPlace provides structured ideation, evaluation, and prioritization. This structure helps enterprises manage idea volume, apply governance, and generate measurable innovation metrics rather than informal brainstorming outputs.
MindMeister Compared to MindMeister’s visual mind mapping, Planview IdeaPlace supports end-to-end innovation management. It is more suitable for organizations that need workflow automation, analytics, and executive reporting instead of lightweight ideation visuals.

Cons

Competitor

Cons
HYPE Innovation Compared to HYPE Innovation, Planview IdeaPlace can feel more complex to configure initially. Organizations without existing Planview products may face a longer onboarding period before realizing full value from integrations and advanced analytics.
Brightidea Planview IdeaPlace is typically more expensive and enterprise-focused than Brightidea. Smaller teams may find the breadth of features unnecessary, leading to higher costs and administrative overhead than lighter-weight innovation platforms.
Aha! For product-centric teams, Planview IdeaPlace lacks the deep roadmapping and product strategy tools that Aha! specializes in. Product managers may need additional tools to complement IdeaPlace for roadmap visualization.
Miro Compared to Miro, Planview IdeaPlace is less flexible for spontaneous visual collaboration. Teams looking for quick, informal brainstorming may find IdeaPlace more structured and less intuitive for early-stage creative sessions.
MindMeister MindMeister offers a simpler and faster learning curve for basic ideation. Planview IdeaPlace requires more training and change management, which can slow adoption in organizations without strong innovation governance.

Verified Customer Reviews

  • Gartner Review (Rating: 4.3/5): An application engineer called Planview IdeaPlace “the most efficient tool to classify ideas” and credited its intuitive interface with helping centralize feedback and streamline product roadmaps through strong customization and flexibility. Another manager highlighted the scale of the solution and “brilliant” support, though one reviewer noted administrative support needs improvement.
  • Capterra Review (Rating: 4.4/5): One reviewer loved the tool’s “very intuitive, nice clean interface” and said it feels incredibly easy to use and quick to learn, giving features a 5.0 rating.
  • Software Advice Review (Rating: 4.4/5): Teams deployed Planview IdeaPlace across global clients and launched over 200 challenges that generated more than 5,000 ideas in under six months, crediting its ease of use for capturing and synthesizing top ideas. High marks for value and customer support appear frequently, yet some users disliked changes to the “Idea Stages” page in the new UI, described the backend as clunky, and requested a more BPM-oriented workflow with clearer decision rules.
  • G2 Review (Rating: 4/5): Feedback highlights ease of use and strong collaboration features that make idea sharing and team engagement straightforward across departments.