Axon Ivy Ideation Management Platform vs IdeaGist

Axon Ivy Ideation Management Platform manages employee ideas from submission through jury evaluation to implementation of winning proposals. Its digital workflow supports brainstorming, evaluation, defining prizes and bonuses, and recognizing successful ideas. Axon Ivy highlights fair and transparent evaluation criteria, and its product page reports a 400% increase in employee engagement. The ideation functions sit within a broader platform for automating, controlling, and executing business processes and building custom applications, portals, and interfaces. Integration options include REST and SOAP web services, external APIs, OpenAPI, and standard connectors for SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft; Axon Ivy says there are more than 80 ready-made connectors. Deployment can be in the cloud or a customer's own data center, including container-based deployment. Governance features include role and permission management, traceability of changes and decisions, and policy enforcement. Axon Ivy describes data sovereignty options that include keeping data in Switzerland and the EU. A free Designer environment and tutorials are available, while pricing is on request.

IdeaGist is a collaboration platform for people developing ideas and people interested in new ideas. Its virtual incubator offers an incubation process, tools, templates, learning resources and expert help for early-stage ideas. Users can form a team or work in stealth mode. Community features include idea management, profiles, social connections, friend invitations, global community membership and incubation applications. The On-Demand business offering provides a private community with company branding, team management and access to the global community. Its unlimited-user offer applies to companies with 1,000 employees or fewer and their full-time or contract employees. IdeaGist lists access through Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows, along with mobile and desktop apps. The free Basic Plan includes 100 Gist Points per month; premium profiles and custom profile URLs are unavailable, though other paid features can be bought with points. Smart costs $9.99 per month and includes 10 Gist Points, three out-of-network messages and unlimited ideas, social connections, friend invites and opportunity responses. On-Demand costs $1,999.00 once for 12 months and includes five incubation packages; additional packages cost $499 each.