--- title: Planview IdeaPlace Reviews meta_title: 'Planview IdeaPlace Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 61 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Planview IdeaPlace works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 61 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Planview IdeaPlace Reviews **Vendor:** Planview **Category:** [Idea Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/idea-management) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About Planview IdeaPlace Planview IdeaPlace is an innovation management software solution that helps organizations run structured, time-bound challenges to capture, evaluate, and prioritize ideas from employees, partners, or external audiences. It applies natural language processing, crowd-based ranking, and expert review to narrow large volumes of ideas down to those with the highest implementation potential. IdeaPlace connects selected ideas directly into Planview Portfolios, Planview AdaptiveWork, or Planview ProjectPlace for funding, resourcing, and execution, rather than functioning as a standalone idea collection tool. It is designed for innovation leaders running enterprise innovation programs who need a governed, repeatable process in place of ad hoc idea collection through email, spreadsheets, or one-off events. Main capabilities include: • Challenge management, including challenge templates, configurable idea capture forms, and TeamTap, which lets users create and run challenges without administrator access • Idea evaluation tools such as pairwise ranking, crowd predictions, and expert review, along with NLP-based idea consolidation that removes duplicate submissions and narrows large idea pools • Innovation analytics through embedded Power BI dashboards that track idea progress, cost to impact, speed to market, and employee engagement, with OData connectivity to Tableau, Excel, and other BI tools • Program engagement features, including gamification such as badges, points, and reputation scores, social activity tools, and personalized user experiences based on skills and interests • Native integrations, including Idea to Portfolio, Idea to Project, and Idea to Delivery Teams, that move selected ideas directly into Planview Portfolios, AdaptiveWork, and ProjectPlace without manual re-entry Each challenge in IdeaPlace follows a defined lifecycle, from soft launch through ideation, expert review, pairwise ranking, and selection, with defined roles for administrators, challenge sponsors, moderators, experts, and participants. ## Planview IdeaPlace Reviews ### 1. Great tool for capturing ideas from the crowd **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** Love the openness for my entire organization, and find the pairwise tool to be great! **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** Needs a better engine for validating ideas **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** Catching the creativity of my company ### 2. Good software to deploy innovation challenge **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** I like that has a very good idea maduration process, sometimes is hard to have a department focused on reviewing all the ideas. With this process more people participates and it is easier for administrators. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** In general the platform is easy to use (from an administrator perspective), but there are some things that are predetermined and you cant change. **Recommendations to others considering Planview IdeaPlace:** It is easy to use, but have good contact with company so you dont have mistakes in your challenge execution **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** Idea challenge, all idea generation and reviewing process. ### 3. Best In Class Innovation Software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christine K. | Strategic Innovation, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** The ability to customize for many use cases **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** No bulk action to approve tasks. Too many clicks to approve one task. **Recommendations to others considering Planview IdeaPlace:** Would like to see use cases setting up the dashboards. Would also like SSO to work when getting to dashboards **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** allows us to capture ideas to fund that our own employees will work on with hopes to transfer to a sponsor ### 4. Innovation platform and innovation consulting go together at Spigit **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** Spigit provides you with one single approach along with a underlying technology at once. The team can help you with designing your innovation challenge or a program, designing your website, providing you with all tools to manage idea applications along the whole cycle, etc. Along with all great services, the Spigit team always engages with you as part of your team and provides unique tips related to your program. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** As any platform, Spigit still working on adding new functionalities. Sometimes, you need to find ways around, but you always get solutions. **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** Idea Sourcing, Idea Application management, innovation program management ### 5. Software is great but professional services are outstanding! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** I like the ease of use and the ability to customize it to our needs. Our users also love the interace and I get comments constantly about how easy it is to use. In a world of corporate red tape, Spigit makes one thing simple - ideation. I also liked working with the professional services team. They were extremely helpful in not only setting up the site but making me think differently about innovation. They are truly innovation experts! **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** I dislike that sometimes it's hard to set up a new challenge format. Because the system is so advanced, there are so many different features, sometimes it's hard to set up a brand new, simple challenge. I went to trianing as well, it's just that the system can do so many different things, I want to be sure I'm not missing a step when settting up a new challenge. **Recommendations to others considering Planview IdeaPlace:** Have a full time posiiton or two depending on size and how many challenges you want to implement. In order to do multiple challenges consurrently, you need a dedicated internal resource. **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to look for new ways across our different product lines to create complimentary offerings or brand new offerings to meet our customer's needs. We have gotten a lot of collaboration amongst teams that don't normally work together. It's helping bring things full circle and making the best utilization of the resources we already have. ### 6. My 3 year experience with Spigit **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2016 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** What I like about the Spigit tool is the idea of having challenges to compel the competitive and innovative spirit, in addition it helps to foster a collaborative environment, as people share their ideas, others offer suggestions to improve and that the Spigit tool gets the general population involved in voting for ideas. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** I work in a busy environment, and it was hard to get people to go in and just view the ideas out there, to offer opinions and ask questions. When we had challenges, then we had people looking, but when we had a general challenge open (it never closed), it was difficult to get anyone to go in and review ideas. This in itself it not a fault with the Spigit tool, rather the way we were using the Spigit tool. I'm not so sure about the Insights reporting tool, we just started using it, and it's not very intuitive. In time through use, we'll probably get used to it. **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Spigit to help build a culture of Innovation in our group (CQN). After three years of using the tool and implementing the CQN Innovation program, we have a culture of innovation now, where more innovations are celebrated and highlighted, and through increased visibility through News letters, presentations to senior management, a quarterly innovation shark tank, and even a live shark tank we've saved millions of dollars in productivity and cost avoidance, and shared and adapted innovations cross groups. ### 7. Good platform, now lets make it great! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** Easy to use with an intuitive user interface design for participants. Given that is based on social-media it feels and becomes really collaborative. Creating new challenges is relatively easy. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** Needs some improvement in the admin experience. Although the support is great, there are still many issues to be solved and features to be improve. Managing the widgets is quite tedious if you're not really familiar with the exact names of the ones you're looking for. The search field needs some improvement and the insights tool is quite tedious to create new reports (it is really time consuming). Tasks should be supported on the mobile version. **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increase in participation during the problem solving/ideation phases. We've been currently using Spigit for almost a year now, just using the challenge based feature. We've tackled different business problems, from environmental ones to production or strategic ones. ### 8. Good application **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2017 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** Ease of use and support of the system is very good **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** Price of service agreement and some specifications **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have realized more Efficient processes ### 9. Challenges are very easy to start up. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2017 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** The ease of configuring a challenge and the settings for sites can be reproducible. You can save a lot of time by creating templates and reusing the existing configurations. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** There are many different APIs. Be great to have one with a lot of services and calls. API has a latency. **Recommendations to others considering Planview IdeaPlace:** Very fast to set up a challenge and easy to use. **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increase the culture of innovation and allow our employees to better communicate with each other. Allow for transparency through the process. ### 10. Innovation Management with Spigit **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paolo D. | Collaborative Improvement | HR Learning & Development, Banking, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** Top platform, extensive experience in the innovation management field A structured Innovation funnel and dedicated features (ie pairwise, predictions, idea market, ...). Cross-industry experience and support. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** Not the right tool to build on the original idea into a real project. Not easy to highlight important comments on a discussion ("bulding blocks"). Not enough gamification. **Recommendations to others considering Planview IdeaPlace:** One of the best software, great support in implementation and ongoing **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** Improvement issues and innovation management. Dozens of improvement projects launched Culture of innovation begi nto be widespread and involve all employees ### 11. Spigit has helped enhance our innovative culture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin E. | Accelerated Talent Development Program - Data Analyst, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2016 **What do you like best about Planview IdeaPlace?** I like the consultative approach that the Spigit team takes. **What do you dislike about Planview IdeaPlace?** The site navigation needs a bit of an overhaul. It is not very intuitive, but once you find everything, it becomes easier. There needs to be more flexibility with the challenge set up. Reporting needs to be enhanced. It is a bit clunky when building a new report. **What problems is Planview IdeaPlace solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used to have an ideation program. 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