Planview IdeaPlace Reviews

Name: Planview IdeaPlace
Brand: Planview
Rating: 4.3 (8 reviews)

Vendor: Planview

4.3 out of 5

8 reviews
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What is Planview IdeaPlace?

Planview IdeaPlace empowers teams with tools for crowdsourcing, idea prioritization, and integration with existing infrastructures, enhancing accessibility and global collaboration.

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Planview IdeaPlace is the #1 ranked solution in top Innovation Management Software. PeerSpot users give Planview IdeaPlace an average rating of 8.6 out of 10. Planview IdeaPlace is most commonly compared to BrightIdea Innovation Suite: Planview IdeaPlace vs BrightIdea Innovation Suite.

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reviewer1695180

Innovation Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Spigit helps you to prioritize and select the best ideas, although that is dependent on the organization's criteria for what the best idea is. Spigit could possibly improve the idea review process or the administrative panel for reviewing ideas. It's not strong. Most of it is done manually by pulling down and reviewing reports. Other platforms are doing it through pipelines and funnels that are all automated. But it does help us get to the best idea within an initiative or a challenge. If we set criteria by saying, for example, "We're looking for the one that has the most votes and comments," we're doing things to motivate employees to get socialized and to get buy-in on their ideas. Prioritizing ideas works on the front end but not as much on the back end.

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Nick Tso

Sr. Manager of Strategy at Sutter Health

The thing that has been most valuable is the access, so that people are able to leverage the platform no matter where they are physically located in our system. Also, the backend algorithm helps us filter the ideas or comments that carry the most weight to the top so that management has a more manageable list of focus-items to go through. The dashboards and reporting are helpful from an administration standpoint, for us to really know what's going on within a challenge. They help give us a snapshot of what the high-level themes are that are coming out, as well as monitor engagements so that we can push additional communications if need be, if engagement isn't quite where we want it to be. The customized reports really allow us to tailor the use case exactly for individual sponsors. What the platform and the customized reports are getting at is providing one solution where a number of different stakeholders can engage in a very customized way and get the feedback they're looking for. The flexibility that the platform and the reports provide is part of the value that we're seeing in our organization. The insights and analytics capabilities — the dashboard views as well as the reports — are pretty critical for us to be able to measure whether what we were trying to get out of the challenge is actually received. We can track it on an ongoing basis during the challenge to make sure that we're trending in the right direction and, if not, we can make some pivots to improve things. We also look at them to assess the overall success of the challenge. In addition, the workflow on the backend is customizable from the beginning. We understood the levers that we could pull in order to adjust the workflow to match exactly what we are trying to do. And it is very flexible. From the very beginning this wasn't a problem because we designed for exactly what we wanted.

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Kori Patrick

Technical Manager, Innovation R&D at Enbridge Gas

It does enable us to consolidate duplicate responses from employees, but it is difficult sometimes. We are running a challenge right now with two ideas that are pretty close and duplicate. Once they're out there and a significant amount of people have voted on them, it's hard to consolidate or merge them. The merge feature is not very clear, so it basically hides one of the ideas, removing and archiving it. I don't know if that's the best way to do it. I would want to make the secondary idea still visible, but put it under as a possible subidea to the parent idea. That is something they need to figure out a bit better. I would like it to have the ability to close out ideas a bit more intuitively. On a lot of our challenges, we have ideas that were submitted. With the winning ideas, people can select those as winning, while with the other ideas, all you can do in the tool is close them out and set them as closed, which I haven't done a lot of. So, people have ideas which are sitting there that weren't selected as winners and they often wonder six months later whatever happened to them. Even without going into project management, there should be a better way to close this out better. I'm trying to figure out ways to use this tool when doing face-to-face type sessions. E.g., how can we interact with a group of people rather than having them all bring their laptops. Maybe there are mobile solutions or having people sit down as a team. We haven't learned to do this autonomously yet. I know Spigit provides a service where they can come in and do some of this ability. I am just learning about the Insights dashboard. Prior to this, I was struggling to gather data. While I can get a lot of data within an individual challenge, getting data across all the challenges or a certain selected amount of challenges, I'm still learning how to do that. They could have an easier way to do analytics across the entire database.

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Planview IdeaPlace mindshare

As of April 2026, the mindshare of Planview IdeaPlace in the Innovation Management Software category stands at 29.3%, up from 16.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Innovation Management Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Planview IdeaPlace	29.3%
BrightIdea Innovation Suite	23.9%
Qmarkets	20.7%
Other	26.099999999999994%

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Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Apr 28, 2026	Download

Valuable Features

"It has increased innovation efficiency and has helped cut our time to market for new ideas."
"The fully customizable, dynamic platform enables you to get the right feedback earlier on, so in the future you can save real dollars while engaging your employees throughout the entirety of the process."
"From that standpoint of participation, Spigit has proven its value."

Room for Improvement

"My six out of 10 rating is based, in part, on knowing what else is out there in the market."
"The backend configuration could be a little bit easier. It was a little bit cumbersome to a layman to understand how to design some of the customized functionality on the backend from a programming standpoint."
"It does enable us to consolidate duplicate responses from employees, but it is difficult sometimes."

Pricing

"Planview could drop the price for Spigit. I've done two market assessments and I think that they're overpriced pretty considerably right now."
"We have a tiered annual licensing fee."
"The yearly licensing cost is $55,000."

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Planview IdeaPlace provides an efficient platform for teams to collaborate and innovate through features like crowdsourcing and voting, enabling rapid feedback. Its customizable workflows and dashboards offer insights into engagement and challenge success. While praised for facilitating global contributions, there is room for enhancement in mobile experience, report generation, and analytics. Challenge timeline settings can be tedious, and managing duplicate ideas remains an issue. Organizations leverage its capabilities to foster innovation, improve processes, and align business strategies with team-driven ideas.

What are the key features of Planview IdeaPlace?

Crowdsourcing: Encourages team collaboration by gathering diverse ideas.
Voting Abilities: Collects instant feedback for quick idea validation.
Integration: Seamlessly interacts with existing systems to enhance usability.
Customizable Workflows: Adapts to unique organizational needs with tailored processes.
Comprehensive Analytics: Prioritizes ideas and measures engagement success effectively.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Global Collaboration: Facilitates contributions from a worldwide workforce for enriched innovation.
Improved Engagement: Increases team involvement through streamlined feedback and participation.
Efficiency in Decision-Making: Enhances decision-making with clear insights from valuable data.
Enhanced Client Relationships: Strengthens client connections through effective idea management.
Creative Culture: Fosters an environment of innovation and efficient process improvement.

Planview IdeaPlace is implemented across industries to support process improvements and drive innovation. Teams from different sectors use its platform to host challenges, align goals with business strategies, and empower employees to voice ideas, leading to a positive cultural impact and improved client engagement.

Planview IdeaPlace was previously known as Planview Spigit, Spigit.

Planview IdeaPlace customers

Pfizer, UnitedHealth Group, Citi, AT&T, Cambia Health, Siemens, Veridian Credit Union, Polaris, UNHCR, CCA Global

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Planview IdeaPlace Reviews Summary
Author info	Rating	Review Summary
Innovation Consultant at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees	3.0	We use Spigit for innovation challenges, appreciating its crowdsourcing and collaboration. However, the manual idea review, bugs, and high pricing are concerns. Planview's focus on other products and slow improvements make it less competitive, leading us to rate it 6/10.
Sr. Manager of Strategy at Sutter Health	5.0	We use Planview Spigit to engage 55,000+ employees, getting real-time feedback to cut time to market and save costs. It's intuitive, offers valuable analytics, and increased innovation efficiency. While backend setup could be easier, it's a powerful and scalable tool for us.
Technical Manager, Innovation R&D at Enbridge Gas	4.0	I use Spigit for ideation, idea collection, and prioritization, which has fostered innovation and engagement. Its stability and reporting are good. However, I find managing duplicate ideas, closing non-winning ideas, and cross-challenge analytics challenging.
Manager of Innovation at Ameren Corporation	5.0	We find Spigit excellent for fostering innovation and empowering employees, especially front-line workers. Its flexibility, great reporting, and excellent support make it a valuable tool that significantly improves engagement and accelerates problem-solving across our organization.
Innovation Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees	3.5	I find this solution invaluable for crowdsourcing ideas and enhancing communication among my 1,800 teammates, particularly its voting feature for prioritizing initiatives. However, I am frustrated by its archaic reports and difficult modification tools.
Lead Intellectual Property Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees	5.0	I use Spigit for continuous improvement, significantly improving efficiency by gathering and prioritizing diverse global input. It's stable, scalable, and easy to set up, though the challenge timeline configuration is tedious. Overall, I rate it a 10/10.
Business Analyst at American Express	4.5	We implemented Spigit to boost employee engagement and crowdsource ideas for process improvement, leading to greater efficiencies and better client experiences. We've exceeded participation goals, finding it reliable and easy to use. I'd appreciate more custom reporting functionality.
Sr Innovation Coordinator at Advance Auto Parts, Inc.	4.0	We use Spigit to crowdsource ideas from our large team, bridging silos and fostering innovation. It gives employees a voice and provides analytics. However, the admin UI, mobile experience, and post-update stability need improvement, despite excellent customer service.

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
BrightIdea Innovation Suite	0.0	23.9%	0%	0 interviews Add to research
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